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I couldn't agree more. The Van Dijk and Lemar money must buy you a fair bit of steel and concrete, although I'm sure an financial 'expert' will tell me the money for the ground and the money for players are two entirely different things. Maybe because it suits my convenience, as an occasional attender who doesn't know loads of lads who go and can sort me out with tickets, I'd prefer the additional capacity to buying some centre back who hasn't kicked a ball for 8 months and might turn out to be shit. Having experienced the relatively primitive conditions of the Anfield Road now and again, not to mention the purely aesthetic need, as it currently looks like a League One stand attached to one end of a Premier League ground, it's surely almost time to get moving on this.
I appreciate an extra few thousand seats won't bring in the £ of the main stand corporates, but it would help to ease the ticketing problems a little. I would have thought that we continued to fill the ground each week last season with the additional capacity would indicate that we'd most likely fill an expanded Anfield Road too.
I know some regard having an up-to-date stadium as nothing more than dick swinging versus other clubs, but I do believe it adds to the prestige of the club, as well as just looking nice and bringing in some additional revenue. The costs which just a few years ago sounded vast now appear tiny when set against the pool of cash the Premier League clubs wallow in, and it was after all a big part of the FSG pitch back in 2010, so 7 years isn't too impatient, is it?
On a more practical note, if I take my young un to the Etihad many more times for an accessible hit of live Premier League action it might send her off on a lifetime of following the wrong team!