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Ah come on vish, you can read and comprehend better than that! You surely know I'm talking seating capacity as well as a modern stadium, since I'm talking about matching "the best of our competition".
That's my point, competition regarding seating capacity makes sense and we will most probably remainly top 3 in England, even 2nd behind United. There is no need to spend a lot to compete on modernity at the expense of other more important expenditure. Not too many Liverpool fans are happy to "2nd behind United". As I've said previously it's about ambition, and ambition for LFC fans should always be about being ahead of United in all areas including stadia. So we need to spend 100's on millions on a new stadium and then go out and spend 75m on an attacking player to sit on the bench and pay him 200k+ a week in wages without batting an eyelid. You do know that Utd are the richest club in the world and that city tried to sign messi for a deal worth 750m in the last year or so. I'd love to know where these owners are that have the ambition you mention that could get us a new flashy stadium and spend 100's of millions on players and wages to throw city of their perch.
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Ah come on vish, you can read and comprehend better than that! You surely know I'm talking seating capacity as well as a modern stadium, since I'm talking about matching "the best of our competition".
That's my point, competition regarding seating capacity makes sense and we will most probably remainly top 3 in England, even 2nd behind United. There is no need to spend a lot to compete on modernity at the expense of other more important expenditure. Not too many Liverpool fans are happy to "2nd behind United". As I've said previously it's about ambition, and ambition for LFC fans should always be about being ahead of United in all areas including stadia. We have been second to United on seating capacity as much as I can remember, so the knowledgeable fans should know this for a very long time if not forever. Do you know when our stadium had more seats than United, I don't, maybe you could help me out. Please give me a date rather than a poem though.
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Ah come on vish, you can read and comprehend better than that! You surely know I'm talking seating capacity as well as a modern stadium, since I'm talking about matching "the best of our competition".
That's my point, competition regarding seating capacity makes sense and we will most probably remainly top 3 in England, even 2nd behind United. There is no need to spend a lot to compete on modernity at the expense of other more important expenditure. Not too many Liverpool fans are happy to "2nd behind United". As I've said previously it's about ambition, and ambition for LFC fans should always be about being ahead of United in all areas including stadia. So we need to spend 100's on millions on a new stadium and then go out and spend 75m on an attacking player to sit on the bench and pay him 200k+ a week in wages without batting an eyelid. You do know that Utd are the richest club in the world and that city tried to sign messi for a deal worth 750m in the last year or so. I'd love to know where these owners are that have the ambition you mention that could get us a new flashy stadium and spend 100's of millions on players and wages to throw city of their perch. We had an opportunity to build a new stadium and that was part of FSG's promise when they came in, and we could have matched what United had in terms of capacity. However they bottle it and instead tarted up part of our existing outdated stadium - a lost opportunity. It's all about one's ambition do we compete to be the best or do we settle for "2nd" place?
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You still haven’t answered where the money for a stadium and players to compete would come from. It’s all well and good banging on about ambition. That’s the easy bit. But where does the cash for it all come from?
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So we need to spend 100's on millions on a new stadium and then go out and spend 75m on an attacking player to sit on the bench and pay him 200k+ a week in wages without batting an eyelid.
You do know that Utd are the richest club in the world and that city tried to sign messi for a deal worth 750m in the last year or so. I'd love to know where these owners are that have the ambition you mention that could get us a new flashy stadium and spend 100's of millions on players and wages to throw city of their perch. We had an opportunity to build a new stadium and that was part of FSG's promise when they came in, and we could have matched what United had in terms of capacity. However they bottle it and instead tarted up part of our existing outdated stadium - a lost opportunity. It's all about one's ambition do we compete to be the best or do we settle for "2nd" place? FSG promised to review the Stadium and decide to build a new stadium or develop Anfield, they decided to develop Anfield. I don't really see the big need for a new stadium, we wouldn't build a stadium much larger than Anfield is now, at 55,000 people, I think the one H&G planned was around 62,000? we could do that by developing the Anfield Road end and have it paid off in a few years, like we did with the Main Stand re-development. I think the only place which can pull off a new stadium is London, as London has enough corporate activities that will use the stadium, Liverpool just doesn't have the same requirement.
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Ah come on vish, you can read and comprehend better than that! You surely know I'm talking seating capacity as well as a modern stadium, since I'm talking about matching "the best of our competition".
That's my point, competition regarding seating capacity makes sense and we will most probably remainly top 3 in England, even 2nd behind United. There is no need to spend a lot to compete on modernity at the expense of other more important expenditure. Not too many Liverpool fans are happy to "2nd behind United". As I've said previously it's about ambition, and ambition for LFC fans should always be about being ahead of United in all areas including stadia. We have been second to United on seating capacity as much as I can remember, so the knowledgeable fans should know this for a very long time if not forever. Do you know when our stadium had more seats than United, I don't, maybe you could help me out. Please give me a date rather than a poem though. Man Utd in the early 90's when their ground was being redeveloped, I think it went down to about 40,000. I remember the game when Fowler hit 2 past schmeichael and the builders were watching from behind the goal. https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-premier-league-1992-1993/1/Amazing attendancies in 1992-3, only us (37,000) and Utd (35,000) broke 30,000 average attendance at home, I guess PL was not always as popular....
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Man Utd in the early 90's when their ground was being redeveloped, I think it went down to about 40,000. I remember the game when Fowler hit 2 past schmeichael and the builders were watching from behind the goal. https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-premier-league-1992-1993/1/Amazing attendancies in 1992-3, only us (37,000) and Utd (35,000) broke 30,000 average attendance at home, I guess PL was not always as popular.... If it was during a redevelopment it was very brief, it's like Spurs having the biggest capacity for more than a year at Wembley
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