15 Aug 2026 13:07:42
Ed1 just wondering (was playing golf earlier and this was debated) with FSG maybe making their exit strategy in the long term do you think it's possible the new owners may want to build a new stadium? With a bigger capacity to increase revenue?
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{Ed001's Note - yes.
15 Aug 2026 13:43:58
I think that will definitely be the idea. We need to be able to host international games as well, and we can't do that at Anfield.
15 Aug 2026 13:55:40
I think we were banned from hosting international games because we would not allow journalists from a certain newspaper.
15 Aug 2026 14:04:13
The pitch is too small for international games.
15 Aug 2026 14:15:11
I'd love us to be able to help sort the transport issues to allow us to increase Anfield.
15 Aug 2026 14:19:25
The thoughts of leaving Anfield. ?
15 Aug 2026 14:27:21
A bigger stadium costs stupid money nowadays, which is why FSG decided not to. Matchday revenue is about £2000 per seat gross. So an extra 20,000 seats gets £40m, assuming we can sell them all at the same average cost as Anfield. We might get as much as £20m a year for stadium naming rights.
So you get about £60m in extra revenue with an 80,000 seater stadium.
The problem is the building cost per seat increases the bigger the stadium gets. You are looking at north of £2bn for an 80k seater.
Mind you, our Amit might do us a deal on the steel.
15 Aug 2026 14:33:09
It'll be about 10 years before any ground is built, and, way footy is going, don't be surprised if we build a 2nd stadium that isn't even in the city and play games there.
European Super League home games at New Anfield in Miami.
15 Aug 2026 14:33:10
Indeed, FM. Perhaps that kind of investment in infrastructure is exactly why they've looked for partners. The match day experience has come on leaps and bounds in the past decade, I really hope that we can improve access to it while retaining Anfield as our home.
15 Aug 2026 14:43:23
We weren't banned for that; the pitch is 4m shorter than the required specifications. Lack of run-off space for things like media is part of the issue, but not the reason we're ineligible.
15 Aug 2026 14:43:57
JoJo, how would it cost £2b to add 19k more seats when we just added 17k about for £200m.
We would only be adding the same sort of upgrades, apart from the Kop, would just be one complete stand like now, just a bigger.
15 Aug 2026 15:23:36
Grino, we'd need a whole new stadium on the outskirts with better transport links. We can't upgrade Anfield any more than we have done.
JoJo, I do think the land will be cheaper than those in the south, so won't be as much as £2bn.
But the quicker it is built, the cheaper it will be. There is also potential to increase sponsorship if there are more fans in the stadium, too.
But I do agree that it doesn't make much commercial sense.
{Ed001's Note - Jojo's figures are nonsense. Expansion adds a lot more boxes and other premium priced seating as well as higher priced food etc. The video of the new seating is much higher than average.
15 Aug 2026 15:26:15
I don't want to leave Anfield under any circumstances.
If that means the capacity is maxed out then so be it.
15 Aug 2026 13:52:17
Ed can I ask how you feel about the 30% sale to the new consortium.
For me, now that the news has sunk in (and I don't profess to know anything about club finances) with some of those involved, it feels a bit like dirty money for want of a better phrase.
{Ed001's Note - I agree with you. It does not feel good at all. The club is just moving further away from the fans.
15 Aug 2026 15:39:14
I hope we can find a way to stay at Anfield for the rest of my life.
Anfield and its supporters are the heart and soul of Liverpool Football Club.
15 Aug 2026 15:40:26
We must move into the City Centre Dock area, all the rail transport is there, the most important thing, the two bus hubs, the two Mersey Tunnels, shops, restaurants and pubs galore, the brand new jetty for Ocean going Cruise Liners from all over the world will be built at the Liver Bird building. What's at Anfield, home made pie shop, chip shop, 3 pubs that take ye an hour to get served, can I mind ye car, mister, otherwise they wreck it. Ye want comfort when ye go to a football match now, not ale dripping down ye back, because the Albert is full to the rafters.
Everton took 3 round robin sunday rugby league games a few weeks ago, a concert was cancelled because of noise levels early July, they took two international games away from LFC last year and this year also.
That's why Joe Johnson, a staunch Evertonian, got EFC the Bramley Dock, and gave LFC building subsidies galore to keep LFC away from the City Centre. Moore's should have gone to the Albert Dock in the late 80s, when he was chairman.
Of course it will be very sad leaving ye Anfield home, I first went there when I was 8 in 1963 standing on a stool with my dad, the future is more important now than history, time waits for no man.
Of course.
15 Aug 2026 16:00:03
FSG's best decision for LFC was to not build a new, soulless, state-of-the-art arena, but to develop Anfield.
Singing Fields of Amazon Prime just doesn't fly.
15 Aug 2026 16:33:17
They'll just do what they do in American sports. Rename everything under sponsorship agreements.
Welcome to the Prime Delivery Superdome. Would you like to buy your tickets in the Jeff Bezos Celebration Stand? Perhaps you'd like to buy one of our Amazon family fun food packages? For an extra 12.99, we will also send our Prime stadium delivery staff to bring the food right to your seat? And don't forget to pick up your brand new ultra stylish we heart billionaires matchday game jersey.
15 Aug 2026 16:58:00
It would be pointless to add more seats without increasing the size of the pitch.
15 Aug 2026 17:21:13
I would agree with Ron, stay at Anfield. It's a mythical stadium known world over for that very thing. Well worth a goal start to us when the team is going well. If that means we stay at capacity, so be it.
As regards the new consortium, I'm really excited about them, I think they will move the club onwards and upwards.
Like anything, proof of the pudding will be in the eating, but I do feel they are in it to be the best in their field, as opposed to making a profit directly from the club as regards selling it in a few years.
15 Aug 2026 17:24:32
Exactly, Ron. We cannot leave Anfield. It's our heart and soul. There's things in life that are worth more than just bloody more money!
15 Aug 2026 18:55:04
I think it's inevitable we will move in order to compete - players like Barcola, good but by no means great, are over £100M - I do, however, suspect ideas about a European Super League or similar, are far from over and will resurface.
In 10 years' time we might not recognise the game as it is now, let alone how it was only a few years ago.
15 Aug 2026 19:44:20
The money men are killing the game.
15 Aug 2026 20:21:05
Anfield is an area that is still massively in need of regeneration. With the funding the city region can help access, it should be possible to further expand Anfield Stadium and put the required infrastructure in. That would benefit everyone.
15 Aug 2026 20:54:04
100% Overkill.
15 Aug 2026 21:08:55
A question for ED01 or anyone else who may know the answer: I remember RoI playing Holland in a WC or Euro qualifying game years ago. We lost btw. Anyway, That's obviously an international match. What has changed? And what does it matter if Anfield cannot host international games now or in the future? International competitions are few and far between at any rate. Anfield is legendary and I'm sorry if I may seem like I view the world through red tinted glasses but there's not another stadium like it in England imo.
We talk about the twelfth man and I believe it. Anfield and it's supporters was a huge part of LFC 4-Barca 0 and many more games. I could not contemplate a different venue for the club I couldn't care less if it held 100k + it would never ever be the same. Never.
15 Aug 2026 21:51:42
I love the modern way of thinking - this one isn't working, let's get another one ad infinitum.
How about we keep Anfield and work with the community, and local and national political bodies to look at viable options to expand the existing stadium and its surrounds and to put the necessary transport infrastructure in place to support 80,000+ match attendees (or more if you look at concerts etc).
Make the ground and surrounding area the entertainment hub for Liverpool. I am getting carried away a bit now, but why not? The club has - with the new investors - taken a giant leap in business terms and I honestly can't see the club not trying to improve their asset.
15 Aug 2026 22:33:10
Overkill, the "problem" is the local politicians so far as the football club is concerned.
Those local politicians have a job to do and they are not elected by the football club.
15 Aug 2026 22:42:21
There was talk, WDW, of making it a sports village or hub, with the universities also investing in sports science etc. I think the idea died when Everton moved, and the universities are now investing massively in their city centre master plans.
It's hard to see what additional sports teams beyond the women's team could be based in or around Anfield. There aren't any other pro sports in the city, like basketball or cricket, that would draw in fans or visitors.
With hindsight, they should have built the training facilities in Anfield rather than Kirkby. It would at least have helped redevelop some of the vacant sites in the area. The residential clearance moved at such a snail's pace, it scuppered the vision.
Whilst I'd prefer a redeveloped Anfield, a site around Brunswick probably would have made more sense commercially, although road infrastructure is limited.
16 Aug 2026 08:07:27
@Grino, you can get some really cool seats for £2bn.