This Is Why Anfield CANNOT Be Expanded Further
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- After the completion of phase two of Anfield's overall expansion plan, with the first phase having been the expansion of the Main Stand, Anfield's capacity stands at 61,276.
This sees the club's owners fulfil a promise they made upon purchasing the club in 2010: to provide Liverpool FC with a 60,000-seater stadium.
Now, some supporters are eager for more expansion, but here we explain why such expansion is not only unlikely but also not possible for many of the claimed solutions that have been put forward.
Ultimately, further expansion is not practical or financially logical.
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I understand the logistics and risk assessment behind not expanding now. However I as a Liverpool fan would love to see Anfield become a 80,000 seater stadium. YNWA from a Caribbean red (Trinidad and Tobago)
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@@mztop5 literally seen houses outside anfield with the liverbird on the door lad. logic doesnt add up
Yer ma @@mztop5
Excellent informative video but we must be clear that Liverpool really needs a minimum studio of 75,000 people Anfield is getting too small
This wasn’t always going to be the issue with staying at Anfield and not moving. The work on the 2 new stands has been great but you now have 2 big modern stands now and 2 outdated ones. If not full expansion the Kop and Kenny Dalglish stand certainly need some sort of redeployment or refurbishment.
Liverpool simply have to demolish and rebuild the Kop which will require Liverpool buying out the shops and church on the opposite side of the Walton Breck Road and then that road will need to be relocated so a bigger taller Kop stand can be built holding a minimum 20,000seats that matches the architecture and height of the New Anfield Road Stand. You could tunnel over the Walton Breck Road or relocate it, but Liverpool needtwo progress and develop Anfield is Stage 3 redevelopment of the ground to hold at least 70,000 fans and this really needs to be progressed and completed in the next 10 to 12 years.This also will need to see other infrastructure developments around the ground to be made with ideally some sort of rail link to Anfield Lime Street or a tram link..There also is a chronic need for more Car Parking facilities around Anfield with maybe a multi 5 or 6 story car park built on the current Stanley Park Car Park .
I think the Kop redevelopment is a necessity for the club to acheive and progress and will be the easier stand to enlarge rather than the Sir Kenny Stand but ultimately Liverpool need to redevelop the Kop on the next decade and the Sir Kenny the decade (2040's) to turn Anfield into a 80,000 capacity Stadium .If not possible then the club to progress and maintain its postion alongside ,the Mancs,and the other top European clubs will need to look at building that 80,000 seater stadium in Stanley Park and then return Anfield into a memorial park as a green space replacement for the loss of Stanley Parks Green space. Liverpool simply have to develop and play in a 80,000 seater home stadium and this should be the objective of the next 20 year plan by the club
I look at how far we fell behind United due to their expansion all them years ago, then I look at how modern clubs are expanding their stadiums due to popularity of the EPL and the ever expanding population, then I look at rivals and champions league competition, and it's very clear to me that to keep pace, to stay competitive, we need to expand at least 70 - 75k stadium.
I know the logistics are against, but ultimately I'm sure all things are already being considered and I wouldn't rule out new ownership rebuilding a new stadium away from Anfield should they not be able to expand further, personal I'd hate liverpool to move away.
If I was a betting man, I still believe in further expansions will happen
Skerries Road can be bought up and the SKD stand can mirror the main stand. The Kop will be much harder. Transport will for sure dictate any future builds.
Houses were bought up in the past and can be again.
"Skerries Road can be bought up"
Honestly, it's disgusting and extremely crass how someone can just think of turfing residents from homes they own.
@@thisisanfield that would be eviction. Offering a fair price or above market value is completely different. Stop trying to sensationalise a rational comment for effect, it's embarrassing.
Airports etc buy up property all the time. People are not always forced to sell.
@@thisisanfield Sometimes hard decisions have to made for the good of the many over the needs of a few. I know people who had homes in the way of HS2, one person ended up getting divorced and losing everything because of all the stress of it... and now they have cancelled it (from Bham to Mcr) so it happens. So you pretending that these things harsh as they are do not happen does not mean it will not happen. Money talks... if it didnt, the Kemlyn would not have been expanded and obvs the New Main, and there were houses being the Annie for a long while until there were not. History dictates what is most likely to happen
@@thisisanfield what the hell do you think happened with the redeveloped Main stand ? Nobody said tear the while street down and just throw everyone out, people would be given alot of money and alternative living accommodation. Stop pretending you have the moral high ground ,if you feel that way don't bother supporting the club as we all the history of how the club has treated property in the area hasn't been the most moralistic
@@P1984-z5i well said! 👍 Subscribed to this channel for years, if I had of known it was run by a clown I may not have bothered. Genuinely cannot believe how narrow minded someone can be.
this is a shame because Old Trafford is going to be rebuilt with a higher capacity and long term we can't lose ground on the others
I love what they’ve done with Anfield but we do need a min 80,000 capacity stadium. You’d think that before expanding they would have looked at expanding the entire ground and modernising it. The stadium is in a terrible location. Wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years we decided to go and build a new stadium elsewhere
The club are actively slowly acquiring the property behind both stands so to say its not in the pipeline to expand further is a load of nonsense.
Yes it's not going to be in the near future because a lot of issues to do so need to be addressed first.
The main ones are obviously transport and the acquisition of all the property behind the stands, both are achievable but will take time.
The kop I believe will be next, that road can be slightly diverted and would not need to be closed to achieve this either. The new road can be built and then joined each end once ready, it's not an uncommon way of doing major roadworks, it's done like this in the UK and this would be no different.
The kop expansion would not add a lot more to the capacity possibly around 3k-4k extra, the main reason to expand and redo it will be adding better facilities within the stand, possibly even bigger museum and restaurant for vip ticket's, this would make it more financially viable other than just additional seats.
I was going to say something very similar, I 100% agree with this. I believe the company that is buying the property is separate from Liverpool FC and is from the Isle of Wight (I’m not 100% on the location) but receives large donations from FSG. This is all 100% legal and normal practice. YNWA 100% they are expanding further!
Liverpool city council just released there plans for that road behind the kop that they are upgrading it. So no it’s not getting moved. As for the club buying houses that’s just pure speculation
@DCC114 sorry where does it say it's not being moved? All that's been announced is improvements to that road and others around the area, there has been no plans as in drawings to show the final development so although you might be correct you can also still be wrong.
Even if it's not done just now it does not mean it can't further down the line either, it could easily be a phased reduction in traffic on this road as they are also implementing 20mph along it in certain parts.
Again you can't say for sure it can't or won't be during this stage or further down the line once property is acquired and transport infrastructure has been addressed, which you are talking years from now.
"that road can be slightly diverted and would not need to be closed to achieve this either."
We'd love to know how you think this is the case?
@@thisisanfield he did say tbf to him… he’s mentioning it as part of a possible future development
Let’s face it long term Liverpool really do need a new stadium one that isn’t limited and hemmed in. It should be 75k capacity with further expansion of 80k plus.
You only have to look at Super clubs like Real Madrid with their 85K stadium and Camp Nou, which will have a capacity of 105k.
If Man U expand it is is said to be 100k.
If this was the case, they should have saved their money on the last 2 expansions and gone ahead with the Stanley Park plan. It will be about 20 years before they even consider this. This isn't football manager where you can just build a new stadium to maximise attendance and ticket revenue. When you've already spent a lot on 2 stadium expansions and you're already bringing in 61,000 a match, it doesn't make financial sense to build a completely new stadium. The increase in ticket sales isn't worth it. It's bigger than the Emirates ffs.
@@thebeast3279 I know. It’s not going to happen. Hicks and Gillette intended to move and almost bankrupted the club in the process.
I am just saying in an ideal world. But we don’t live in one.
@@thebeast3279FSG would never build a new stadium due to costs!
Cheaper option was to extend 2 stands.
£115 million - main stand
£80 million - are stand which was a mess due to contractor going bust but we went with cheaper option!
Klopp’s deep runs into CL final’s have generated £100 million + just for getting into the final
@@sukhjotesingh9613 and £50m on a training centre so in fairness to FSG we've spent about £250m on infrastructure which is not an amount to be sniffed at. Everton are building a new stadium for £750m and it is 8,000 seats smaller than Anfield so the extra you would get in ticket sales probably isn't worth the cost of a new stadium.
You can't say we get £100m we otherwise wouldn't have had due to the Champions League runs because that money gets spent on transfers, salary increases and bonuses. Plus our standard budget is probably scaled with the conservative estimation that we at least reach the knockouts so it really isn't just an extra £100m.
No we don't.
Could drop Walton breck road down, tunnel under the Kop and easy enough to relocate the church, only comes down to cost. the transport links to Anfield already need expanding, getting away from the ground is so difficult cramming into the buses or walking back to Liverpool centre. Skerries road is more difficult, again comes down to cost on buying the houses and whether the residents would be willing to leave, which they understandably probably wouldn’t.
All sounds possible and feasible but at the end of the day it comes down to cost and this sounds wildly expensive for a smaller return on investment giving Kop would traditionally but local fans. FSG aren't going to invest massive into something that will take a long time to pay off and see their own share prize rise sadly. They want maximum return in shortest time frame
Even without expansion, I'd like to see a direct Merseyrail connection. It would have to be underground, with large capacity entrances and exits.
As an Anfield resident I would love a Merseyrail connection into the city centre, but how is it going to be built, how much will it cost and how long will it take to build? Tunnelling is expensive, and especially under a city with lots of infrastructure above and below ground. If money were available I wouldn't expect it to be ready for 10-15 years. Better option is to reintroduce passenger traffic to the Bootle Docks branch line that crosses Utting Avenue on a bridge. A station built across the road on a new bridge would be a short walk to the ground.
It's a short walk and good exercise to/from Anfield and Sandhills plenty of fans do it no complaints so no need for a train station right outside the stadium
@@timdarby1969That's a fairly long walk. Almost a mile and takes 20 minutes to the corner of the stadium. I don't know if that would count as adequate mass transit for planning purposes.
@@tomhoworth1685 Utting Avenue is admittedly a less than ideal solution and wouldn't support the public transport needs of an expanded stadium, but would be a step towards improving the current poor situation. The only other way of getting rail to Anfield is in a horrendously expensive tunnel.
@@timdarby1969 or a tram down the road, which also has problems.
It's a major A road... yet they are going to slap a 20mph speed limit on, narrow it and add loads of traffic calming to it. It's hardly the M62
Really good analysis fella. 👍🏻
I don’t understand this Small Town Liverpool mindset of “No Further Development.” We all gripe about Man City taking over… How exactly do Liverpool win the longterm war by staying the exact same? How.
United will rebuild Old Trafford, Madrid has a 100,000 seat brand new stadium, Barcelona 100,000 new stadium, Everton brand new *larger* stadium… Bayern Munich (whom we SHOULD see as our model club to keep up with) have a new 75,000 seat stadium… So HOW exactly do Liverpool in 2024 keep up with the Madrids, Bayerns, Barcelonas, Citys of the globe by doing Nothing going forward? How?
Anfield absolutely needs to be a 70-75,000 seat stadium to maintain global dominance, otherwise we silently slide backwards into Mediocrity. This is crystal clear!
Exactly right - if LFC are aiming to compete with the biggest clubs in Europe, we need a stadium with a capacity that matches theirs. A bigger stadium will bring more revenue not only to the club, but the city as well.
The "Emptyhad" will be 61,000 after the current expansion though. Just thought you should know. And Everton's new stadium capacity still fall short of Anfield's.
@@fromthefountofyouth Los fans locales son tan mediocres y con cero ambición, les encanta ver al resto ganar y ser superados pfffffffff
To be fair madrid and barca are tough examples to follow. Barca have been playing in the olympic stadium. Madrid have been playing in their B team stadium. What would liverpool do? Play in st helens? Tranmere? They’ll have to buy the houses and adjust the road
@@04mdsimps tienen que pensar como el equipo más grande de Inglaterra y llegar a 80000 espectadores y si no se puede hacer eso en Anfield, tienen que hacer un estadio nuevo con esa capacidad o más
Anfield WILL be expanded in the not so distant future that's why the club are buying up properties around the stadium the kop is next
Road and church equals no expansion. If it was everton corruption would find a way.
@@GL-jq6fulike anything… a church can be relocated. It’s happened all over the place many times before
Can you show some proof the club are buying up properties around the stadium?
@@konzy1983 and the road?
@@GL-jq6fu anfield road… re routed. It can all be done. Not saying it’s simple, but it can of course be done :)
Skerries road and even the roads behind it can be bought up. No need to force people to move but wait patiently and buy when they become available or offer well above market price. Even if it takes a decade or more. As for the road you wouldn't need to shut it down while building an alternate road next to it. Only one corner of the Kop is affected by the closeness of the road. Plans need to be made now with the council. Building a better Anfield and providing transport links is better for all of Liverpool.
If fsg didn't take the cheapest option bulk at the new stadium would of probably been built on Stanley park by now,but because of the regeneration of anfield with the main stand an now Annie Road both looking great i have to say.sadly i can't really see the SKD or the Kop getting new stands tbh,i can see maybe an overhaul of the older stands but not adding more seating as gutting as that is to say.
Btw i thought that once over a certain capacity I'm sure you need rail lines more policing ectectect.
YNWA
If you looked from above there is plenty of room to build a 100,000 seat stadium..no houses need knoxking down ...but the whole stadium would need to be knocked down and anfield could be rebuilt just back and at an angle
When it was a decision between developing Anfield or building a new stadium, they didn’t say develop “half” of Anfield. Also, could the kop not be made steeper to expand the number of seats, it’s a very shallow incline currently and not as steep as the new Anfield Road stand from what I can tell.
Good informative video
they could have built new as Everton have done with their fantastic new ground but instead ended up with a odd mismatch of stands
We have 2 old stands if we aren’t able to expand them we should at least redeploy & refurbishing them in a modern way internally and externally.
YNWA ❤
when the Centenial (now Kenny Daglish Stand) was built in early 90s - the club had bought a few streets of run down terraces behind the then existing Kemlyn Road stand to get the room. So the more recent moves - of buying and bulldozing housing to expand the Main Stand - wasn’t the first time
I’ve had a season ticket in the kop for nearly 40 years and the current kop never was a great build (the original kop was awe inspiring) but this is even worse with the 2 recent expansions, it’s now the smallest stand in the ground and very underwhelming.
The further expansion only possible to do after Everton move into their new stadium, because they could relocated all community who will affected with the project expansion into Stanley park thats would be easier to negotiate with Liverpool city council to granted the permission for the construction
If there was any intention of transport to Anfield then the new Anfield road stand would be the easiest choice to be expanded even more than now. So it's just not going to happen any time soon. Anyway Anfield now looks amazing with the new stand so lets just enjoy that for now!!
We can go to 69,000 without any further infrastructure changes.
Please listen to Mo Chatra podcast.
61,015 still isn’t good enough for a size of our club!
It needs to be bigger than Utd’s!
FSG went with the cheaper option as usual!
The Kop looks out of place now & is dwarfed by other 2.
Skd needs to be redone to match main stand.
Getting to final of CL generates the club £100 million +
Being in Top 4 is minimum for the owners expectations, the Liverpool we know only existed to be number 1!
Fa & carabao generate as much as winning one CL match!
Fsg don't want to spend anymore money.
They loan the money to the club & charge interest on it!
The club is under debt.
@@sukhjotesingh9613of Course they do they're American business people what do you expect that they pump money in for the love of the club.They don't give a crap a about the club they simply want a return on their investment like any business. That's why rebuilding the Kop(while would be amazing )is simply not feasible as there is too small a return on investment. It's too expensive to rebuild a stand behind the goal which would be 1)more expensive than Anfield Road end because of the road 2) it's traditionally a locals stand and there would be uproar if ticket prices went up and 3) because of the cheaper tickets it would take longer for the stand to repay itself and make the investment worthwhile for FSG
@@P1984-z5i not this nonsense again.
Ok, show me a football owner that cares about their club, is mega wealthy, and, isn't a crook or foreign country?
'Our owners don't care about us because they're just American billionaires. That's why we need to find ourselves a new billionaire'
Make it make sense please.
@@nichobee what are you raving about ,my argument isn't just for FSG it would apply to everyone . Can you make it make sense please?
@@P1984-z5i because you make out like FSG are some special case of uncaring football owners.
As far as billionaire owners go, FSG are fine. English football clubs have been privately owned since forever.
It would be much better for the community for the capacity to be increased and develop the surrounding area
Did you know that in 1987 they found a umderground tunnel under the Kop
It was a sewer
I love Anfield, but this is why we should have moved & build a new ground on Stanley Park. Would have given us room to develop around the ground, these owners pulled on fans heartstrings to stay & took the cheaper route to build two hospitality stands + increase the value of their asset when they sell up. It wasn't a decision made in the long term best interests of the club in my option.
LFC have been buying up houses behind the SKD and the Kop that come onto the market via a company in the Channel Islands. That would suggest they are planning to extend Anfield.
Well.. they should have of thought of that earlier.. they had the chance to move next door and build on Stanley Park but they didn't.. and instead if I remember correctly Fenway Sports said they would like to retain and develop the Anfield Stadium in similar way as how they retain their baseball team stadium, Boston Red Sox.. and when they did the expansion, they chose the design that would not allow for the corners to be filled either, and again, they had the chance to do that also.. now they've basically checkmated themselves on further expansion without a massive knockdown.. too bad.. I think like Man Utd, Liverpool could easily fill up an 80-thousand seater..
10 Properties along Walton Breck Rd have been bought by a Company based in Jersey, this company is owned by some of the LFC directors !!!
For the Kop extension i wonder would it be possible to divert the section of road outside it with an underground tunnel just for that section and then expand the Kop onto the road 🤔
It's not impossible, totally feasible to expand further n great for both atmosphere in matchday n financially going forward. I'm totally against moving into a new stadium since Anfield has a special aura
Go on, do explain how it's "totally feasible".
So why have Liverpool been buying properties in Skerries Rd?
If the Kop & SKD can't be redeveloped, Liverpool will have to build a new stadium, it's as simple as that. FSG will probably be happy for that to be the next owner's problem
Anfield needs be increased further, No excuses. Liverpool FC are competing with likes of Madrid, Barca, Bayern etc.. and need to have a very big stadium. 61,000 isn't big enough in this day and age with a global fanbase.
Yes it can. And it will.
I don’t agree with this at all, we need to find a way to increase the capacity of the ground or we risk stagnation and decline in our long term success
The kop needs to be one of the most impressive stands in world football, it looks crap now with its low roof and the two newer stands. The SKD is so old and uncomfortable that something has to be done. Personally I can't see anything happening stadium wise for at least decade unfortunately.
For 125+ years the answer is actually very easy........ Why not built an entirely new stadium (85000 +) seems fair. If money is not an issue then 100 000 seems doable.
If further expansion is not possible then remaining at Anfield was a huge mistake.
Liverpool must have been given assurances that future expansion would be possible otherwise they would be guilty of gross incompetence and stupidity and of course that is not the case.
Gutted about the news, I think to complete with the other top teams need to expand. Further.
I wonder why they didn't fill in the corners of the two new stands, that would have added thousands more seats, and also they don't need to take the kop back over the road they could take it higher, and make the seats steeper, something similar with the centenary stand.
Not happening. Explained in video why.
All the issues you mention are issues that have been overcome before. If Utd build a 100 thousand seater our stadium revenue will be well behind if we don't improve.
if they expand the Kop then that road will probably have to be shut down totally and pedestrianised.
Anfield looks strange as the Kop which is to small makes the ground look lopsided,make no mistake other grounds will get even bigger in the future and we will be left behind,anfield needs to be minimum 72.000..YNWA
I think the Kop and possibly SKDS needs updating/renovating but other than that, Anfield should be fine for a good couple decades at least without any expansion.
Don't make me laugh, The third phase of Anfield expansion will be carried out in at least 2-3 years And FSG has done this regularly from the New main stand, continuing to the Axa training camp, then the Anfield road stand.
Of course, FSG wants to first profit from the construction of the New Anfield road stand from the proceeds from ticket sales at the stand.
Even the houses around the Sir Kenny Daglish stand have been purchased to expand the land for the construction of the new stand, as well as the houses, boarding houses and pharmacy shop behind the Kop stand.
So if you talk about no more new stands being built after the Anfield road stand, that's really a stupid statement
Works starts on the new Kenny Dalglish stand at the end of the season
No the houses behind the Kenny haven’t been purchased by the club that’s a blatant lie
@@DanielCordone9that’s a lie
@@DCC114 They have. Work is starting at the end of the season
Except, it doesn't.
Well the owners will have to make their next chess move sooner or later they can’t stay static. Chelsea, Newcastle. Manu all looks to expand or build bigger. Probably some other prem club aswell I’m not aware of will expand. Madrid, Barca, Bayern and a couple other all have bigger capacities. FSG simply won’t sit back watching other clubs overtake us for decades and do nothing. Either way they will do what’s necessary to expand anfield or they will eventually sell the club and new owner will probably have their own plans. It’s a matter of when not if
For such a definitive title, the video is full of 'could' and 'would'.
If we can't expand Anfield beyond 61,000 we shouldn't have started the project. Anfield should be an 80,000 seater, they should have built a new stadium on Stanley Park when they had the chance to do so.
Always thought you have to be a nutter to live next door to any ground in any country. I remember the residents caused a fuss 20 years ago but the club pays over the odds and it allows you to move out of anfield. Its a win win but people like to cause problems really
Compared to Bramley Moore Dock, this looks so old fashioned already… as always, Everton lead the way on Merseyside. UTFT💙💙💙
Haha. What’s this fella been drinking?!
@@konzy1983 the finest champagne darling! It’s a vintage called The Fourth Grace. 💙
@@BobTheBlue haha. Good fun mate 😀
FACT the old Kop used to hold 30 000 people
FSG delighted they’ve only to build half a stadium
If it was clear that Anfield would never increase beyond 61k why stay there and not move to Stanley Park? Why waste £200m+ on something that will never be best in class, even in its own city?
Such a shame the kop cannot be made steeper and higher and made all rail-seating.
And to think the Kop was the biggest singke tier stand of it's kind in europe at one point if not the world.
South bank wolves was as big 😅
Anfield needs to do the other two stands which if done with similar increases to others would take it to new 80k capacity. The expansion just looks 50% done to me as the other two stands just look completely out of place next to the amazing new ones. It’s a shame to leave it 50% complete and let’s be real them neighbours will have to be nicely compensated to be moved out which is fair and if clubs the size of Liverpool willing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on football players for short term success I have no idea why they can’t pay 10s of millions buying up the houses and property around which is that market value for that location to expand Anfield to 80k capacity and have it a massive club for capacity for next century or 2. FSG think of the economics and short term not fine for them financially but let’s be real if Liverpool were owned by the Arab owners they would of done it and been in planning for it 10 minutes after take over.
I think Arab owners would soon discover that building in England is a different game entirely than in the UAE or KSA. In those countries there is a lot of desert which belongs to the ruling families. In England we have densely populated cities where people have lived for many years and have ownership rights. Furthermore we have democratically elected local authorities who take planning decisions based not solely on the business interests of the mega-wealthy but in the interests of the people who elected them. And in any case, the poor transport infrastructure in Anfield has trouble coping with the current capacity. If LFC want a bigger stadium, they need to move to a new site by a railway line and motorway.
@@timdarby1969 if they were able to get the houses and demolish them behind the main stand then they can achieve it for the sir Kenny stand too. If you have enough money to buy up them houses for them people to probably get 3x what it’s actually worth and buy another house in a nearby location better in standard and still have plenty of money left over then it is more then possible. I’m not sure you see what happens in london and how them property prices rocketed as well and that’s also from Arab money buying new builds and developments and causing crazy jumps in prices from Qatar group etc and when a new build one bedroom flat they get goes for a £700k and then someone has a 3/4 bed house in the area which is freehold what you think happens with the price of that? It ain’t like that in Liverpool yet with prices of properties but could be in 10 years time with what’s happening in inflation so best try to get them houses now while it’s still fairly cheap.
They need to ,or will get left behind like the likes of city ,United, arsenal spurs , they will all expand at some point
If they build the Kop over the road it'll be in Everton not Anfield ! 😄
Anfield looks daft half in the nineties half in the present day. There’s no way they’re redeveloping the Kop and the Kenny stand in the next thirty years. Big mistake not to rebuild on the docks when we had the chance, now everton have build a bog standard modern archetype stadium there.
With enough money it could 200,000
Anfield is simply not big enough . Impossible to get tickets
We need a new stadium.
You got one down by the docks
@@petersmith4202it’s not big enough or architecturally befitting of a truly great club like Liverpool.
This was seriously considered by John Henry when he bought LFC. He opted to do up Anfield due to its history; the consensus of the spectators/members and the Liverpool community
@@ancient1946source?
Yep, no brainer to move. Those new stands look terrible
Buy them rows of house's up an expand the kenny dalglish simple
As a business.....😂😂😂😂 there you go. As for the reasons why you can't expand the Kop, you don't know what your talking about. Have you ever been on a government Web site on the alteration of an A road? I will wager you haven't.
What we haven't got is owners with any desire or ambition.
Please don't just guess as far as the Kop is concerned mate.
The 'just move that major A road' crowd are pretty funny to be honest.
@thisisanfield major A road Hahaha this is the major A road they close for 3 hrs for every home game. You haven't done any research mate.
Just the usual doomonger click bait. You actually said nothing that everyone has heard 2-3 years ago 🤣
Good job you weren't around when they built the Mersey tunnels......."can't be done......definitely can't be done" 🤣
What about the waste land between the ground and where the Alisson mural is? Why don't we move the club shop there and knock the current one down so we can expand the Kop? Who owns that land?? The Kop looks tiny now, it isn't imposing anymore.
As explained in the video, the stanchions holding the Kop roof would need completely changing the structure of the stand, not to mention there's an A road, a pub, a church, in the way. Not remotely logical or cost efficient - basically as explained in the video.
Anfield is too small for Liverpool FC
Maybe no kop expansion
Reading some of these comments about the need to build a 80 or 100k stadium to compete with City and Real, and the ease with which some commentators write about demolishing a lovely street of houses or building in Stanley Park, shows just how much football has lost its roots. I am guessing those commentators don't live in Anfield and have little interest in the area and its residents, who are generally happy to co-exist with the stadium but want the area to be developed for their benefit too. If all LFC supporters want is a huge, souless, modern stadium where more international fans can pay high prices, find a green or brownfield site next to a railway line and a motorway.
Move away from anfield, the area is a shit hole
Manu ,99,000 soon ,chelsea new ground and lfc stuck with 2 outdated stands ,,there are 5 or 6 empty plots around ,which they can build houses 🏘 on ,so the SKD can be expanded like the main ,which will get 75,000,,we have to expand because our tight owners FSG, have been skint flint in the transfer market since 2010 ,,only 1 injury prone player brought this season, pure joke as usual 😉
Typical LFC ~ the most successful Clubs in Europe . the stadium is really a Disgrace . ..
I've visited Stadiums from near & far ....eg : Arsenal, Tottenham, Benfica, Madrid , Dallas , Lakers are far far Higher Quality in Every aspect Build quality, architectural facilities , uses ..... It's truly Shocking how Badly LFC is run . sorry but LFC should have a stadium of 80 to 90k
sliding pitch .
Retractable Roof .
Train station near by .
Food stalls , restaurants, bars
how embarrassing, eyesore and ugly stadium. Knock it down and rebuilt a state of the art stadium with world class facilities.
The kenny could be increased but the kop would have to remain the same for me,
How, exactly, could the Kenny be increased?
@@thisisanfieldhouses can be bought. How did the main stand get rebuilt? Or course, it’s possible. It will happen one day. May not be for a while yet though.
Yeah, work is starting on the Kenny Dalglish stand at the end of the season. That will take it to 73500
@@DanielCordone9 lies
Are you for real? The exact same way the other stands have been increased@@thisisanfield
Hope they dont coz the kop and kenny dalglish stand are the last piece off history standing. But give it 20 years and they will be an extension. Obvs money wise the rich will want to get richer🤦🏻 soon it will be full off tourist coz football just not the same as it used to be
Just stop letting tourists in. They don’t bring atmosphere. Give it to the real fans.
without the "tourists" who bring in the money, the club is dead. So either you spend a lot of money every match day or you better keep your mouth shut.
Main problem is Liverpool locals do already have most of the stadiums tickets. But they sell them for black market money
@@jch6722 the club is dead without atmosphere..
I have been going every week for the past 20 years, the ground is at it's greatest point now in terms of development. It's complete. The Kop does not need expanding at all.
Ok
whats the point of expanding anyways? its not like they're going to lower the ticket prices or stop trying to push season ticket holders out
The point is to let more fans in haha 😊
@@konzy1983 no point in having 1 million seats in a stadium if the atmosphere is going to remain poor thanks to the owners
I totally understand that Anfield has had so many memories over the years and decided to expand the existing ground but i think it was a mistake, should have built a brand new 80,000 stadium... It's too late now, spent millions on a expansion .
Liverpool has many beggers
Your mom is one of them
*beggars
makes no sense financially.
60,000 is the sweet spot.
fans don't live in the real world where there are practical implications like cost to benefit ratio, pricing etc.
this is why liverpool have reached the 60k limit. this is why spurs are at 60k and so are arsenal with their new builds.
now, some genius will say what about man utd? they have 78k. well man utd's ground was built a long time ago when it was a lot cheaper so the issues highlighted above don't really come into play like they do in these times.
genius 2 will say but man utd are looking to build a 100k stadium. well that is only feasible IF they get either a free stadium like man city have OR there is government funding which is what catweasel over at utd is attempting with his "wembley of the north" used car salesman pitch.
a little bit of research and you'll find clubs or franchises like in the usa can build 100k stadia when there is some sort of government/state, help/interest involved. not to mention the dynamics in the usa are totally different.
otherwise, especially with football new builds and/or expansions don't make sense financially over the 60,000 mark.
It makes every sense financially given that FSG invest no money of their own and we are self sufficient.
They are however picking and choosing who gets to watch the club based on who is prepared to spend more at the at the club shop.
And Anfield has a very long list of people on their waiting list every week who miss out.
A 75,000 capacity would be far more lucrative for the club and better for the supporters.
Camp Nou 105,000 and Bernabeu 85,000...
@@crusader77_retro We're talking about premier league grounds einstein...pay attention.
As i said if you read it, the dynamics of other countries is different to the UK.
@@MarkMackintosh-nj8ui That's why Spurs didn't go over 60k? Arsenal too?
The Main Stand loan was provided by FSG which the club paid back.
Are you just making this up as you go along?
Cheap owners
The Kop could have an underpass underneath it. Just needs a bit of imagination.