Stadium Naming Rights?

[Shaggy]

What about the Anfield Akabusi Stadium?

The Anfield 'Awooga' Stadium

[spud_gun]

The Anfield 'Awooga' Stadium

'Awooga' was The Fashanu's word.

Akabussi never once uttered it.

[Shaggy]

'Awooga' was The Fashanu's word.

Akabussi never once uttered it.

I know. So?!

[animal magic]

THE construction firm which is already building Grosvenor's Liverpool One project is favourite to win the contract to build Liverpool FC's new Stanley Park stadium.

Laing O'Rourke said it was in talks with the Premiership club - on the day the club agreed a sale to two American sports moguls in a £450m deal.

A source at the firm last night said: "We are in discussions with the club about the build. We are in talks, but no contract has been signed." Multi-millionaires George Gillett and Tom Hicks yesterday became the new owners of the club.

Work on the new ground could commence within weeks.

Rick Parry, chief executive of Liverpool, said the pair "made clear their intention to move as quickly as practicable on the financing and construction of our proposed new stadium at Stanley Park".

He added: "This has been an important time for the club. We now have the right partners for the future. I am absolutely certain we have now ended up in the right place, with owners who will help the club succeed and prosper."


Laing O'Rourke also built the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which was opened in October 1999. It took two years to build and has a retractable roof.


Laing O'Rourke Building North is the division that would undertake the building of the Stanley Park stadium, if its bid is successful. The division is currently building Grosvenor's £920m shopping complex in Paradise Street, known as Liverpool One, as well as the new stand at Aintree Racecourse.


Other Laing O'Rourke divisions have built the new Ascot Racecourse, the Snow Centre in Dubai and the Cardiff International Sports Centre.


Based in Dartford, Kent, Laing O'Rourke is the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK. The company has offices in Germany, India, Australia and United Arab Emirates, with over 23,000 employees worldwide. Led by chairman and chief executive, Ray O'Rourke, the business has grown rapidly since the merger of Laing and R.O'Rourke & Son Ltd in 2001.

[Dhav]

We could go down the Aston Villa route. Their new owner has said that Villa Park will NEVER be renamed, but he is looking at maybe selling off naming rights to the stands. (The McDonald's Main Stand, Coca-Cola Kop etc).

Obviously we'd get less money than for the overall stadium naming rights, but this way we'd still have OUR stadium. Sort of.

Something to think about.

What's the point of naming the stands? That surely can;t be as lucrative as selling stadium nameing rights. Not only that but Villa Park is not exactly a historic or particularly great ground. In fact it reminds me of the Tsirio Stadium in Limassol.

[cadmium]

'Awooga' was The Fashanu's word.

Akabussi never once uttered it.

it's still funny though

[cadmium]

The Anfield 'Awooga' Stadium

excellent

[Fiddy]

Why bother? I don't get the question. Because we'd get money for it by allowing some corporate nob to associate their company's name with the name Anfield.

I meant why bother having 'Anfield' as part of the name. I just think it would sound stupid, sound like we were deperately clinging onto the past, and would also be a disservice to the old Anfield. There should be only one IMO. And no other team has done a similar thing...a new stadium is a new stadium, and at the end of the day as someone else basically said 'what's in a name anyway?'

[Bari]

What if Liverpool went down the route of the FA Cup and have the stadium called

'x' sponsors of Anfield rather that 'x' arena/stadium/bowl/dome

[Bari]

'what's in a name anyway?'

History

[anfieldanfield]

History

And soul.

[Fiddy]

What if Liverpool went down the route of the FA Cup and have the stadium called

'x' sponsors of Anfield rather that 'x' arena/stadium/bowl/dome

But it ISN'T BLOODY ANFIELD IS IT?!!

[Fiddy]

History

the history rests with Liverpool FC, which obviously includes Anfield seeing as it's been our ground for so long.

the future is with Liverpool FC and the NEW stadium.

See what I did there?

[Bari]

But it ISN'T BLOODY ANFIELD IS IT?!!

I know - same area however but You get the idea thou

Better than having a new sponsor every 10/15 years and getting used to saying i'm going to 'x' stadium one year then going to the same place and saying i'm going to 'y' stadium,when in reality the first company that sponsors any team stadium, that name sticks due to natural habit

[Fiddy]

I know - same area however but You get the idea thou

Better than having a new sponsor every 10/15 years and getting used to saying i'm going to 'x' stadium one year then going to the same place and saying i'm going to 'y' stadium,when in reality the first company that sponsors any team stadium, that name sticks due to natural habit

I see your point, but you'd be surprised how quickly people get used to a new name. People will slowly identify more with the team than with the actual name of the ground. It will be 'I'm going to see Liverpool' rather than 'I'm going to Anfield'