The Liverpool chairmen have released details of the accepted proposal for Liverpool’s £300 million stadium after American contracter HKS beat off Manchester based AFL to secure the deal to build the new stadium.
The earlier stadium design was also drafted by HKS, and the new stadium is very similar to that one – albeit coming in substantially cheaper.
The new stadium will have a capacity of around 71,000 and increase of more than 25,000 on the current stadium. With gaps still available within the ground at the corners the prospect of it being increased further cannot be ruled out.
The stadium is expected to cost £300 million and to open for the 2011/2012 season.
Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are believed to be putting the final touches to a £350 million refinancing package which will allow £60 million to be immediately used for the stadium project. Around £160 million of this debt will be using the club as collateral, with the other £190 million expected to be covered by Hicks and Gillett.
More images of the stadium are in this forum thread
THE REDS !
i think it will be a big step 4 the club going to this new brillant ground but no one will, well shouldn’t forget anfiled as it has been the reds own dream land. the kop is the best in europe and always will be but at the new stadium it will be brillant and with players like gerrard and torres at the club we can only sign biger and better players and progress
The new ground look sound it has a capacity of 71,000 which will give the club more revnue and it can be increased by filling in the four corners.When the ground is completed and LFC are getting bums on seats the loan should be reduced and the fund for transfers should also be better allowing LFC to compete with the big boys. Putting all this into perspective on the football front we need to improve we are not good to look at and that is not playing the Liverpool way of the past.
i’ll believe it when i see it. anyway it dosent look that much different from the last design. but what i dont like at all is the kop. what the hell is that running through it? excutive boxes? surely not, whatever it is it shouldnt be in the kop.it looks so wrong.
the stadium yes now back the manager we need world class players , Alves(the seville wing back), Garay(the racing stander Full back) Quaresma (porto winger),David Villa (Valencia striker) or Samuel Etoo
Get real, Benny. “We” will never own Liverpool again. Even our white knights, DIC, were looking for a quick profit with a sale a few years down the road. Any buyer will be looking for a return on their investment, whether through a dividend or buy-and-sell.
If we have a world-class stadium (which it looks like being) and can fill it like ManU then we have a chance of being in the world’s top rank (unlike at present). David Moores was a nice guy, with Liverpool written through him, but he and Rick Parry wasted chances to market Liverpool world-wide to produce rregular money for the manager to have for world-class players – not the couldn’t-hit-a-barn-door-type like Voronin & Kuyt.
I dont care what the stadium looks like and will not be rejoicing in either the new investment deal or stadium plans. We want those Yanks to give us back our club and ride off into the sunset like the cowboys that they are.
Stadium looks fantastic – now back the manager.
I really like the design and think it will give Liverpool another bonus compared to other teams stadiums. Nice to see something different from a classic rectangle or oval stadium.