Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has revealed the club are
planning to make their proposed new stadium bigger than first
expected.
Hicks ordered a review of the club's plans for a new stadium soon
after gaining control at Anfield alongside fellow American George
Gillett.
Hicks and Gillett have made the new stadium one of their top
priorities and the club are hoping to move into their new home in
2009.
The American billionaires were keen to look into ways of increasing
the 61,000 capacity of the new proposed ground at Stanley Park and
they are now set to unveil their fresh plans later this
month.
Hicks admitted the new plans could see Liverpool's new home go
close to 80,000 capacity to make it the biggest club stadium in
Britain.
"The city council's planners will receive the final plans on July
25," Hicks told the Sunday Mirror.
"The initial capacity will be the 60,000 previously approved, but
the design will accommodate an eventual capacity in the high
seventies."
