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I’d rather have the waterfront location than a 70k stadium out by the motorway. The capacity limit is the price we might have to pay for having one of the most iconic stadiums in the league.

So what stopped Liverpool in the 70s ?

It can be a very limited comparison. Only a few clubs had ever averaged over 50k before the current era. For instance, West Ham had never averaged over 35k in their history, now over 60k. Man City had never averaged over 42k in their History...

Nor had Liverpool till 2017. Man City first topped it in 2016. Villa & Chelsea never have.

I assume it means decisions which the league/PGMOL accept were wrong, rather than just subjectively whether we think it was right or not. Diaz definitely wasn't offside under the rules as they are though. I personally think that should be offside...

Which is pretty much what I said in my previous posts. The point however, was the issue of future-proofing was also raised. .... ie what happens if we do become massively successful in the next few years and demand does increase. Can the stadium...

There was a business case for bigger but sense went out the window spending £100m just to get out of the mud.

They fielded it to investment banks several times and employed a few people to try to secure funding before construction started and throughout the build. There was barely anything above ground when USM dropped out of the equation. Initially...

I'm not sure Moshiri ever seriously pursued market funding. I think the funding model was basically just "Usmanov." Then when that tap ran dry, it was panic borrow to survive. Like you say, it's a miracle it's been built and we're still a...

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It's a fair point to mention the "future-proofing" aspect. In the next few years, Birmingham, Villa, Newcastle, Leeds, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd may all be moving or going larger again. Can this site do the same if ever required...

Fans will not embrace a corporate-sponsored name. Most fans will simply refer to going to the ground as 'going to Bramley Moore Dock' or 'The Bramley Moore', IMO.

It's not the size of the stadium right NOW that's an issue it's the restrictions we have placed on ourselves growing further. This is EFC for the next 200 years.

Maybe they future proofed the amount of turnstiles and the size of the concourses to account for 61878 attending.

Smaller fields for the actual game but they seemingly have about a thousand coaches/players/cheerleaders cutting about on the sidelines