Liverpool target new investors by end of season
Reuters - Tuesday 02 February 2010, 11:06
MADRID - Liverpool are aiming to strike a
deal with investors before the end of the season so they can get
plans for a new stadium back on track, the club's managing
director was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
The Premier League club have put plans to move from Anfield
to a 60,000-seat arena at Stanley Park on hold pending an
injection of funds and the new stadium is a key part of a plan
to boost revenue and help them compete with richer rivals.
"When I arrived we agreed with the owners that we had to
look for new investors," managing director Christian Purslow
said in an interview with Spanish sports daily As.
"There are interested parties and I would like to get it
sorted out before the end of this season," he added.
"Without
investment there won't be a new stadium."
Purslow said the club would try to maintain the status quo
if they did not manage to reach an agreement with new investors.
"That's plan B: run the club in the most responsible way
possible," he told the newspaper.
"We are generating a healthy profit and meeting our
obligations, while remaining competitive in the transfer market
and with the wages we are paying."