As per liverpoolecho recent report, it is claimed that on Saturday, when Liverpool supporters return to Anfield they will see the new £80m Anfield Road End take one step closer to being the finished article. The redevelopment continues apace with the club hopeful of opening hospitality against the Clarets to push the capacity of Anfield up to 60,000.informationguidenigeria
The report have it that some work still remains in the back rows of the upper tier and in the away end to take the capacity to 61,000, but the opening of hospitality means the club are edging nearer to completing a project originally planned to be ready at the start of the season.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaReds owners Fenway Sports Group have previously overseen the £110m construction of the current Main Stand with the experience around the ground having also been improved. But had former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett lived up to their promises, Liverpool could have been playing in a very, very different home.
Seventeen years ago today, the Reds agreed a deal with the American pair and a year later unveiled grand plans to move out of Anfield and into a 60,000 all-seater stadium on nearby Stanley Park as part of a £300m investment.JAMB Result
“It’s very exciting and I think the designs are fantastic,” said then chief executive Rick Parry. “It’s a testament to the new owners and the architects they have brought on board. The architects have understood the challenge and understood the need to make the stadium uniquely Liverpool. It will sit so well in Stanley Park and will be an integral part of it.”
The designs, drawn up by Dallas-based architects HKS, were certainly unique. All four stands were intended to be deliberately different – a step away from the uniform ‘bowl’ approach of other new stadia at the time – with a vast single tier Kop, holding almost 20,000 fans, as the centrepiece.JAMB Portal
“The whole stadium will be spectacular, but the Kop will be extra spectacular,” said Hicks. “Apart from the Kop, everything else about the stadium will be brand new. It’s futuristic, imaginative and very exciting. People who see it will think Liverpool.”NYSC PORTAL
It wasn’t a surprise, given Gillett had stated the new owners’ views of a new stadium at their opening press conference in February 2007 when he infamously declared: “The spade has to be in the ground within 60 days.”
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That was in reference to the already-existing plans, drawn up in 2003 by Manchester architects AFL, of a more traditional 60,000-seat structure on the same Stanley Park site. Initially due to be completed by 2006, the scheme was put on hold due to an inability to raise the £215m required before being reassessed and ditched by Hicks and Gillett, who wanted a grander statement.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“The construction will start as soon as practical,” added Parry. “We hope the new designs will find favour and excite the planners. Our aspiration is to be ready for 2010.”
Hicks and Gillett weren’t afraid to think big. “It’s designed to hold up to the high 70,000s,” said Hicks. “We have to go through an approval process to increase it to 75,000 or maybe up to 80,000. “That will be done during the three-year construction cycle. We want to be competitive and we have over 60,000 fans on the waiting list. We need more seats so something in the high 70,000s would be better.”
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