Liverpool expect a major step
forward on Friday in their dreams to build a new stadium near to
Anfield in Stanley Park.
The city council's executive board will recommend leasing a section
of the park for the stadium, and if the decision is rubber-stamped,
the club could start building work early next year with the first
game possible at the beginning of the 2009-10 season.
The club will have to come up with their own part of the deal, a
privately-funded £180million to build the stadium, and they have
until the end of the month to satisfy the council that is
possible.
That will trigger £240million of public funding for the
regeneration of north Liverpool which would include improving the
infrastructure around the new stadium site. A 999-year lease to the
club for the land is being proposed.