A new Anfield?

Our ever popular owners launched what is likely to be an extended PR blitz this morning by unveiling photos of our new stadium It followed much thought and consideration of two new designs from American firm HKS and Manchester based AFL but what is exactly different about the HKS chosen design from the plans that the same firm unveiled in the summer?

Well according to the official blurb it is "an improved stadium design that meets the objective of a cost-effective, supporter-friendly design." Fantastic. Added to our shiny new stadium, well no sorry, pictures of our shiny new stadium is a promise that Javier Mascherano will be signed on a permanent basis and an announcement is expected that will soon confirm that the club is £105m in new debt with the securing of the £350m refinancing deal that will release £60m for work to begin on the new stadium. One wonders where exactly is the rest of the money for the stadium going to come from...

Interesting to note also that while shiny new pictures have already been released there's no official confirmation of the loan having been secured as Tony Barrett speculates in today's Echo. BBC says the deal is all but confirmed. Two very reliable sources telling two slightly different stories. It worries me a little.

You'll have to excuse my skepticism about the whole charade that is Gillett and Hicks and the general running of our club. It's just that according to Rick Parry in 2002, we should by now be a good season and half into playing at our new home and more recently according to George Gillett we should have had the shovel in the ground around March of last year as he stated when they tookover. Now fair enough they decided to rip up the plans and start again and that is an immense photgraph up there but that's all it is, a photograph.

There's a new promise today to have the stadium up and running in time for the start of 2011/12 season. I'll believe that when they start digging up Stanley Park.

So far Gillett and Hicks have consistently lied to us, some fancy pictures isn't going to change my view of them nor I suspect will it change the view of many other supporters.