New stadium update...

[rushscored4]

Elisha Scott said yesterday that the plans would be revealed today but RS4 hasn't said anything and I'm thinking he might have heard from his source at AFL if anything was happening.

I've just logged on now but I sent my mate a text asking for an update earlier today. Unfortunately he's not replied yet. He got his first ever mobile for Xmas from his missus who is trying to keep tabs on him but he switches it off so she can't get hold of him!!

Perhaps RS4 has a case for constructive dismissal.

i wouldn't be supprised if the afl design is better and cheaper,but hicks is that pigheaded he'll go with his friends hks.

I hope they do go with HKS to be honest but if they do I won't get any more 'insider' information which is probably just as well really...

[Rich]

I hope they do go with HKS to be honest but if they do I won't get any more 'insider' information which is probably just as well really...

It's a curse having the Insider tag isn't it?

[Pablo]

RS4 - Why do you hope they go with HKS? Is it because it is the better design?

[shanks69]

I've just logged on now but I sent my mate a text asking for an update earlier today. Unfortunately he's not replied yet. He got his first ever mobile for Xmas from his missus who is trying to keep tabs on him but he switches it off so she can't get hold of him!!







I hope they do go with HKS to be honest but if they do I won't get any more 'insider' information which is probably just as well really...

i liked the last hks design myself,and if there new design is similar i'd be happy.i just don't want g&h to go with hks because they are a yank firm,but for the fact it's the right one.

[rushscored4]

RS4 - Why do you hope they go with HKS? Is it because it is the better design?

I prefer HKS's design from last summer to the original AFL design - who wouldn't - but I haven't yet seen the revised plans from either firm so I can't comment. My mate at AFL is very impressed with their new design (and he is a contractor so his view is impartial) but he also liked the HKS plans.

All I know is that Phil Osborne, the Creative Director at AFL, was still out in the States last Friday and they were confident of getting the nod. I'm sure which design they choose might affect (or be affected by) the outcome of the refinancing deal which is why they will probably announce both at the same time in the next two days.

[shanks69]

I prefer HKS's design from last summer to the original AFL design - who wouldn't - but I haven't yet seen the revised plans from either firm so I can't comment. My mate at AFL is very impressed with their new design (and he is a contractor so his view is impartial) but he also liked the HKS plans.

All I know is that Phil Osborne, the Creative Director at AFL, was still out in the States last Friday and they were confident of getting the nod. I'm sure which design they choose might affect (or be affected by) the outcome of the refinancing deal which is why they will probably announce both at the same time in the next two days.

am i right in thinking both firms were given a guide line of max budget of 300mil

[Alpha]

If Hicks is going around bigging up HKS, it kind of undermines your position as our AFL informant.

Topical joke poorly executed.

[wavydavy]

I bet his getting a nice back hander for letting them have the cone-tract, after all he don't give a ****.

You're obsessed aren't you?

[AFII]

From Rushian on RAWK......

Well HKS won the new "competition". Costing is £300m.

Looks like RS had right again

[sonsofthedesert]

From Rushian on RAWK......


Looks like RS had right again

Not a fact yet, wondering when we see it though, think it will all be on monday now, start the week with something positive.

[DeeGame]

Ladies & Gents i give you the new stadium:














drum roll please

























wait for it



















cheerleaders start dancing



















cue the music
















da da
















the hicks stadium

[sonsofthedesert]

Ladies & Gents i give you the new stadium:

drum roll please
wait for it
cheerleaders start dancing
cue the music
da da
the hicks stadium

Don't give them idea's.

[Steve101]

From Rushian on RAWK......


Looks like RS had right again

Rushian?? FFS he's worse than
rashid!!!!!!

[carlton]

US architects firm wins battle to design new Anfield
Jan 25 2008 EXCLUSIVE: by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post

AMERICAN firm HKS will today be announced as the architects of a new 70,000-capacity stadium for Liverpool Football Club.
Sources confirmed HKS as designers last night, while lengthy negotiations on a £350m refinancing package for co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett continued in New York.
The successful completion of the deal is almost certain to be announced this morning, when fresh pictures of the revised stadium plans are also expected to be released.
The American co-owners are hoping to use the crucial announcement as a sign of their commitment to the club after they sparked fan fury by courting Jurgen Klinsmann as a possible replacement for manager Rafael Benitez.
Dallas-based HKS – regarded as Tom Hicks’s favourite firm – revealed their original designs to widespread acclaim in the summer of 2007 but they were dropped last December because of soaring costs.
Hicks and Gillett then asked HKS and Manchester-based AFL, who were behind a previous set of plans rejected because they were “obsolete”, to create revised schemes.
Last night, a source close to negotiations told the Daily Post: “HKS have been chosen as the architects. The stadium is still the same sort of size.
“The details remain pretty much the same, but they have found a more cost-effective way of doing it.”
In December, LFC chief executive Rick Parry said: “It will have a capacity of around 70,000, be higher quality and have a substantially increased Kop which will form the centrepiece of the new plans.”
The Daily Post understands that the new designs for Stanley Park stick to that blueprint.
It is understood that there are no serious hitches with the controversial refinancing package with Royal Bank of Scotland and US investment bank Wachovia and the £350m deal is all but signed off.
Around £105m of the loan is expected to be put on the club’s books – £60m for the first instalment towards the stadium project, and £45m for working capital which has helped finance the purchase of players.
This is seen as an entirely legitimate way to operate, as those costs were associated with the running of the club.
The Daily Post understands £185m, accrued in buying the club last year, will be secured against Hicks’s and Gillett’s holding company, Kop Investment.
The terms of the agreement are also expected to see Hicks and Gillett putting in some of their own money – around £40m – supported by personal guarantees and letters of credit.
The debt could be paid off personally by Hicks and Gillett with the club paying the pair dividends each year.
It is understood that a further loan of around £300m will be required to fully fund the new stadium.
The key question now is whether the deal made by Hicks and Gillett is enough to ameliorate fans upset by the prospect of the club sinking into debt and their fears for the future of the ever-popular Benitez.

[dom9]

There's not as much excitement about the pictures of the stadium this time around is there?