For this current campaign, Liverpool’s matchday revenue won’t be as high as the club had anticipated.
With Buckingham Group, the construction company working on the £80m redevelopment of the Anfield Road End having collapsed into administration, and the Reds forced to engage another contractor to complete the work, landing on Preston-based Rayner Rowen, the work remains unfinished.
The saga has seen Liverpool faced, for the time being, with attendances being capped at around 50,000, some 11,000 less than what was planned for and 4,000 less than what they had last season during the period that the work was going on around the previous structure.
Liverpool new £80m Anfield Road stand expansion to be open for Man United visit
Man City know what punishment will be as PL approach point of no return
On Thursday the club announced that an important milestone had been reached, with part of the upper tier of the Anfield Road End to be open for the game with Manchester United on December 17, subject to internal emergency conditions test managed in conjunction with Liverpool City Council and a public test event, which is expected to take place during week commencing December 11.
More work is required to complete the redevelopment and have the stand fully operational, but having clarity on the partial opening of the stand points to a full opening not being too far away, meaning that the more demand for tickets can be satisfied and the club can start to make its way towards breaking a £100m barrier that only Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have so far managed to achieve.
The collapse of the Buckingham Group and subsequent delays to the completion of the redevelopment work have had a financial impact on the club, with
Read on liverpoolecho.co.uk