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Why? Is stadium size so important you would happily watch the club in the Championship as long as the stadium is 65k? I would think most fans want to watch a good team on the pitch rather than count seats.

So you have to buy the pro version, can't go with the regular replica then?

Location, location, location though. Give me an iconic Liverpool waterfront stadium over a larger/generic inland construction every day of the week. You can't put a price on the exposure this stadium will bring, the fact we've got Euro's games...

Well, d'oh. But it could have been built somewhere else. Less iconic for sure but people would have gotten their 60k+ stadium.

Why do you have to buy the pro shirt? Replica is cheaper.

Money spent on filling the dock + all the preservation work would have probably paid for those extra seats.

Tbf. You can build a 60k seater for much cheaper than our 52k stadium. You just have to forego location, design and quality. I know what I'd rather have.

I do like that they tried something different for this historic season. Decades from now when you see that shirt you know exactly what season it was on.

American owners are also used to city footing most of the bill which is absolutely ridiculous. Country of capitalism and tax dollars are used to subsidise a private company to that tune.

Yep, almost certainly it's written in the contract that sponsor must be on the replica shirts as well.

If you have tens of millions of overseas fans you can fill a big stadium even with those prices since ticket price is really not the issue for them. Like, what might % of overseas fans at Old Trafford be?

I guess Drico from the internet knows stadium financing better than Dan Meis.

We actually get a far bigger slice than our global fanbase is. For instance, season before City and Arsenal got 175m while we got 132 million despite those clubs have many times more fans. Even Sheffield U who finished last got over 100 million...

But that was reality. Under Kenwright we were moving to Kirkby next to a Tesco. Moshiri was the owner and this was the way he was able to finance it. And there is no proof that a bigger stadium would have made financial sense. Some people just...

Where would you have built it out of realistic options then?