Reg wrote:Igor Zidane wrote:metalhead wrote:There seems to be a bit of tension between the Liverpool Council and Liverpool FC around the stadium issue
Yeh and it's all to do with grants and the loss of money . Basically if LFC stay at anfield the council will not get the European grants they were promised to redevelope the anfield area . If we move to Stanley park they get the grants.
Igor,
If your comment is right, then it makes SOS's letter sound naive don't you think?
PS how's life at St Michaels?
Igor isn't right that why it doesn't make sense. No offence.
According to the council statement in the Echo -
Liverpool FC also face paying £8.2m of European Objective 1 grant funding that has already been spent renovating Stanley Park in preparation for the building of a new stadium.
Cllr Anderson said: “If Liverpool City Council has to pay the money back, Liverpool Football Club will have to pay the money back.
“Liverpool signed up to that, albeit under different owners.
So in fact if is clear the council most certainly will be resisting a redeveloped Anfield as they would have to either pay out £8.2m in grants back to the EU or pass it onto the club who possibly may fight it.