Premier League: Steven Gerrard welcomes Liverpool's Anfield expansion
Liverpool Captain Steven Gerrard hopes it has "many more fantastic upcoming memories" at Anfield after the club confirmed the expansion of the stadium is set to begin.
A redevelopment of the grandstand will be the increase in capacity of Anfield by about 8,500 seats, which means that the stadium can accommodate 54 000 spectators.
Gerrard has yet to decide whether to commit to an extension of his existing Liverpool contract, which expires at the end of the season, but the 34-year-old is grateful that anfield will remain the home of the club.
Liverpool plans to leave the stadium for a new larger ground two years ago, news that the construction work would begin Monday has highlighted a commitment to long term to the arena.
Gerrard, who has spent his entire career with Liverpool, said: "this is very exciting news that we finally had the time of extending at Anfield." For me, it was all about your stay at Anfield.
"As much as I love the new stadiums, I'm more traditional and I love old stadiums as the Camp Nou and places like this, where all the history and all the memories occur.
"There were so many amazing nights and memories here, it would have been shame to leave all to do this have become apartments or houses."
"Now they are going to extend the stage, it will become even more great, better and louder." Hopefully there's many more fantastic memories to come. »
Supporters
Pattern of Reds that Brendan Rodgers believes increasing the number of supporters who can pass through the turnstiles of Anfield is key to the success of the club long term.
"It is very important. When you look across the globe and football, some of the stages contain up to 80,000 or 90,000 people, "says.
"So it is very important in trade and very important for football which is aligned and it benefits from the football club, because first there are more supporters in."
"It is essential to have another layer on top of the main stand here and that will be amazing. Obviously commercial recipes are very important in football and how that can be built upwards to compete in the future. »
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