Completely disagree with this.
Investment in the ground and making sure we have the capacity to alleviate the current ticketing issues, whilst capitalising on our current standing, seems pretty important to me. I'd imagine it's the same for anyone who struggles to get tickets for themselves or their kids.
Personally I think we should be able to do both. Klopp is choosing not to buy at the moment. I don't think it's a money choice. FSG are choosing not tell us whether they are investing in ground expansion or not. Maybe they are revising plans to increase capacity to 65k. Maybe they are planning on doing nothing.
If it was down to choice of ARE versus another front 3 player for 60M then I'd choose the ARE every day of the week. Can understand if it's not because you don't go the game or have yourself boxed off with a ST though.
I agree with you, in principle, that ARE should be a priority and that there are no indications that they cannot "afford" to redevelop it. What I would say though is that I would not be surprised if they have held off for any/all of the following:
1) Brexit uncertainty - how will this affect both prices of materials (imported steel for example) and also people's ability to afford tickets (this would lead to a sub-topic over ticket prices and how little, relative to our other income they are so why not change the pricing to be affordable - whatever that means as it is different for everyone)
2) Council negotiations regarding expansion and future - how much can we expand to now, can we expand further in future with minimal trouble, current and future transport link planning, do we build a tunnel over AR or does that road effectively go
3) Availability of working capital - we are not particularly cash rich, judging by the last accounts, although significantly higher cash balance than in 2017. T Debtors is £60m higher but we lose most of that income to the increased T Creds. Bank O/draft and loans are down c. £30m though so it shows we are doing something right. To finance this, we are probably looking at a similar loan to what was taken for the main stand with FSG loaning the money at a low interest rate - see Brexit effects on bank interest rates as there can be issues if loans are provided by related parties and not at a market rate. The fact is that there was some backlash by people when the first accounts post Main Stand came out showing that they were charging interest, although that may have been confined to places like here and not actually fed back to them. We also don't know if they are in a position to loan the money (although I have no doubt they are).
4) Spurs and their stadium - they have seen that Spurs had a nightmare with theirs and the spiralling costs may have left them a bit nervous and wanting to see that the construction industry is settled and that Spurs was a one off.
That all said, I believe Peter McGurk wrote a while back in the stadium thread that the current planning permission (or something to that effect) expired in September of this year so I would think we will hear something soon. I think they are probably overcautious, relative to what we want as fans, but odds are that they will come good on the ARE sooner than later.