Finance guru: Liverpool to make ‘landmark’ announcement after £80m spent
Liverpool could see their matchday income rise by as much as £15million per season thanks to their latest stadium expansion project.
That is the view of finance expert Doctor Dan Plumley, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the addition of 7,000 seats to the Anfield Road stand.
The development, which the Liverpool ECHO reported earlier this month (8 July) will cost £80m in total, will see capacity at Anfield rise to 61,015.
As relayed by the club’s media team last Thursday (21 July), the stand’s new 300-tonne roof has now been lowered into place.
Plumley claims that the Merseysiders could announce “landmark” annual matchday income of £100m after the new stand opens in the summer of 2024.
“It’s a crude metric but if we look at the average ticket price, that’s about £50,” the Sheffield Hallam University expert told Football Insider’s Adam Williams.
“If you times that by 7,000, you end up with about £350,000 per matchday. Liverpool are probably going to have in the region of 25 home matchday, so we’re getting to about £9m.
“You can probably stretch that a little bit further with hospitality and corporate seats. It might mean then that they are pushing £10m to £15m per season, which would see them push towards that £100m mark.
“That is a landmark that Man United, Arsenal and Spurs have all reached in recent seasons. It puts them with the potential of getting in that bracket.”
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