staying at Anfield or moving

[Molby]

I'm wondering what the consensus is about the need to stay at Anfield as opposed to moving away from here

 

many years have passed since we first began discussing this on Koptalk and I'm pretty sure the spiritual attachment to Anfield has been somewhat eroded

 

if we had owners that actually had a plan for building a new stadium, and it was, say Central Docks or Switch Island or Speke, how would you feel?

[Mike]

Will it have wifi?

[Gomez]

As long as it is still in Liverpool I wouldn't be bothered at all.

 

The team is called Liverpool, not Anfield.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Wouldn't be happy about the club abandoning Anfield. The area would never recover, and the club has a responsibility:

(a) because it's been there for so long, and

(b) because it's partly responsible for the area having been run-down.

[Cheesecake]

Haven't the owners more or less confirmed that a new stadium is a no go because they don't have the money, can't get the money, don't want to spend the money anyway?

 

Expansion of anfield seems to be the only option. I expect this to happen sometime around 40 years from now.

[Molby]

Haven't the owners more or less confirmed that a new stadium is a no go because they don't have the money, can't get the money, don't want to spend the money anyway?

 

Expansion of anfield seems to be the only option. I expect this to happen sometime around 40 years from now.

 

 

I think it's more likely that new owners will come in or they will bring partners in; don't see them developing anything

 

and the guys may have other ideas about what to do

[Benzo-13]

Would've been great to have been on the Echo Arena site in hindsight.

Also agree with the consensus we owe the area of Anfield something considered the club has wrecked it.

 

I'm not as bothered now on a refurbishment as a decade ago. Seeing what Bayern have done is kind of an inspiration.

[aka Dus]

Bayern's stadium is miles outside the city, beside the autobahn. You can't beat a city centre location.

 

I'm pleased they are redeveloping Anfield though it's tempered by the fact it's more than 10 years since this conversation started.

[Molby]

Bayern's stadium is miles outside the city, beside the autobahn. You can't beat a city centre location.

 

I'm pleased they are redeveloping Anfield though it's tempered by the fact it's more than 10 years since this conversation started.

 

 

they're not though

[Benzo-13]

Bayern's stadium is miles outside the city, beside the autobahn. You can't beat a city centre location.

 

I'm pleased they are redeveloping Anfield though it's tempered by the fact it's more than 10 years since this conversation started.

Kinda meant with Bayern that it hasn't actually hurt the clubs identity and has actually added to it having a state of the art arena.

[Cunny]

when we are moving to the Hicks/Gillet stadium, I was of the opinion that you may as well move to a decent location in the city as move across the road.

I still think we should look to move a location with better transport links and nearer the city centre if possible.

A waterfront stadium would amazing but I'm not sure how feasible that would be. I'd have thought it is something Peel would want to encourage.

Any talk of hotel and shopping complexes in Anfield is pie in the sky.

[Ronnie#5]

I'm not as emotionally attached to Anfield as a stadium as I probably used to be, That said, KAMF has raised a fantastic point about the devastation the club has brought to the Anfield area so if we did decide to build elsewhere, it would have to involve a significant contribution to the re-development of the area before I'd even consider getting behind it.

 

For many reasons, i cant see this happening. For starters, the model for re-location is Arsenal (although Spurs are using the same model). Both clubs were/are able to help fund the move by either selling the site or redeveloping it. We simply wouldn't recoup the same level of income from such a move.

 

I think, cost wise, it makes much more sense to redevelop Anfield with a naming rights deal.

[Crazy Horse]

I find it hard to believe that (m)any other clubs have the emotional attachment to their ground that we do. Whether it's memories of European nights, the fact that Bill and Bob once stood on those touchlines, or shared remembrance of the Hillsborough tributes on the pitch - I think that we, possibly uniquely, are emotionally bonded to that pitch in a way that's almost unbreakable. I'm not a fan of moving.

[marty]

we'd simply never be the same again if we moved

[Boca]

they're not though

 

So what's with them purchasing houses around Anfield then?

 

Why are they engaging with the council on potential CPOs?

[johngibo YPC]

I want the club to stay in Anfield. I was ok with going to the park, but would now rather stay where we are, if it can be done

[Ed the Wool]

You heard something Molby?

 

I think they'll redevelop to be honest. It's too god an earner not too and they've done it before with Fenway.

[Tommy Cockles]

I find it hard to believe that (m)any other clubs have the emotional attachment to their ground that we do. Whether it's memories of European nights, the fact that Bill and Bob once stood on those touchlines, or shared remembrance of the Hillsborough tributes on the pitch - I think that we, possibly uniquely, are emotionally bonded to that pitch in a way that's almost unbreakable. I'm not a fan of moving.

 

This.

 

Anfield is one of the most iconic grounds in the world. For all sorts of reasons.

 

You don't, or shouldn't, pee all that away for a souless multiplex bowlstadion.

Edited November 18, 2013 by Tommy Cockles

[Tones]

Dont really mind either way. Worried about how far we can actually expand and develop Anfield. Would prefer the move across the road as originally planned, though i can see the argument for moving somewhere with better transport links.

[Swan Red]

in light of my increasingly infrequent visits to the city and the game I'd like to be able to find the ground

 

always preferred staying

[Molby]

You heard something Molby?

 

I think they'll redevelop to be honest. It's too god an earner not too and they've done it before with Fenway.

 

 

no, nothing new

 

watching them go at it tells me all I need to know

if they do it, it will be because there's been a major change in their situation: windfall, taking in a partner, that kind of thing

[Ant]

Switch Island makes a lot of sense actually with the transport links etc. Docks would be a good location.

 

Best location other than Anfield would be where St Johns is now, but thats not going to happen.

[smithdown]

Switch Island makes a lot of sense actually with the transport links etc. Docks would be a good location.

 

Best location other than Anfield would be where St Johns is now, but thats not going to happen.

 

Bloody hell. That would be madness.

[pipnasty]

A seafaring Anfield is still the way forward

[Sion]

 

Best location other than Anfield would be where St Johns is now, but thats not going to happen.

 

Is this some sort of sick joke