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Who said what?

A way off winning anything? We've been to 5 finals, a semi final and come within a whisker of winning the league within the last 5 years? Hiring Klopp, expanding the stadium and upgrading/merging the training facilities and academy is laying the foundations to be competitive.

The club is growing off the pitch and I'd hazard a guess that the plan is for progression on the pitch will follow. Unless of course hiring Klopp was a ploy to sell shirts in India?

Not going through all this again

Im shitting bricks mate

As with any owners, they are innit to make a mint, not for the love of the club. As far as owners go I'd say we could do a lot worse, we've certainly progressed and been dragged from the dark ages under them! They bought us for around £300m and now (last time I looked) we were worth about £1.7B. They'll now be looking to sell and we (Liverpool fans) are just hoping the buyers are ok. One thing is for sure though... whoever does take over next will obviously be seriously rich, otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford us in the first place. Last I heard it was an Arab Prince looking to buy a share

How are we stagnating First we hired one of the most sought after managers in the world, then last summer we expanded Anfield and this summer we are upgrading and merging our training facilities? Thats not stagnation, that's progress!

Basically the same as us mate but I'd say we are probably a few years ahead of you lot at this stage. Certainly exciting times for the blue shite though!

It isn't as significant as it used to be for sure. Someone above said we should by aiming for a stadium the size of Uniteds which is around 75k, but if we get to 60k... Is 15k less such a detriment in the grand scheme of things? I don't think so, especially when you factor in our commercial deals and general merchandise sales compared to clubs in and around us like Chelsea, City, Arsenal & Spurs. As said already, there's only a handful of clubs with a bigger fan base than ours in the world which more than makes up for 15 thousand seats

As always

55k? In the Liverpool thread it was suggested that Liverpool FC need more than a 60k seater stadium or risk being left behind, so where does a 55k stadium leave Everton?

I think we'll be under new ownership within 3 years, there's rumours rumbling already. I agree with most of what you say btw, the only thing you're wrong about is Annie Rd being premium tickets. The extra 4'800 seats were/are actually going out to the general public at standard prices which is a great thing as that means mainly scousers which would improve the atmosphere no end.

I really can't see them expanding Anfield to then move location to be fair.

Yes they added tiers but they had much more surrounding space. Even when you build upwards, it still comes outwards. It's not possible at Anfield because the surrounding area is too compact. It's all been looked into mate.

Not possible mate. Anfield can't ever be expanded to that capacity.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Anfield getting expanded, especially Annie Rd. But I'm not sure not having 4'800 extra seats would seriously hamper us that much, especially with all the money Premier League clubs get now anyway. Still, I'd much rather it expanded than not.

Think they can just re-apply? I'm not even sure 100% that it'll go ahead anyway, depends on quite a few things I think, the main 2 being weighing up whether the cost of the expansion is worth it for an extra 4,800 seats and also the length of time it would take to expand (around 2 years apparently), which would also cost millions in lost revenue due to the stand needing to be closed. It may well go ahead but it's a lot more complicated than phase one on the main stand, which obviously brings in a lot more money due to the corporate boxes etc and also the small time scale it took to build.

Planning permission has already been granted but no start date been announced yet.

New Training faculties to be merged with the youth set-up at Kirkby to bring us in line with some of the best facilities around at a cost of £50m

If the goal wasn't given you'd have been down to 10 men anyway.

Ahhhhh The year we won it. Them were the days

Well he will deny it won't he. But the evidence suggests it's true. Why else would he bench Arsenals best player (by far) in a 6 point game against a direct rival for top 4? I still don't get why Sanchez was seen smirking when Liverpool went 1 and then 2 -0 up though? Had that been a Leicester players caught doing that under Ranieri there would have been hell to pay

Heard a rumour we are going to bid £40m + £0.50p to pair him up with Coutinho, Firmino & Mane

https://metro.co.uk/2017/03/05/arsenal-players-turned-on-alexis-sanchez-after-he-walked-out-of-training-session-ahead-of-liverpool-clash-6489952/ Seems there was more to Sanchez being dropped than Arsenal fans think? Either way, he's gone.

I saw a stat that showed he runs less than any other player in the Premiere League which just enhances how good he actually is. His ability to find space in the box is uncanny and his technique is something else. Gary Neville said the other night that Ibra is literally carrying United this season and I have to say he's not far wrong. Outstanding player.