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New Anfield Boss....WELCOME TO ANFIELD...

Fenway Sports Group (FSG) and Liverpool Football Club announced that Brendan Rodgers has been appointed as the club's new Manager, after signing a contract.
Rodgers, 39, is regarded as being at the forefront of a new generation of football coaches, an excellent tactician and motivator with a progressive philosophy. After an extensive two-week process where many highly-qualified candidates were carefully considered, Liverpool's ownership group identified Rodgers as the single outstanding candidate to implement their long-term vision.
At Liverpool, Rodgers' primary focus will be the first team but he'll also work extensively in collaboration with the new football operations structure as the team adheres to the continental football Sporting Director model. Further details on this structure will be provided in due course.
Rodgers joins the Reds after a hugely successful spell at Swansea City; where he won them promotion to the Barclay's Premier League in his first full season in-charge. He then further defied the odds by securing a mid-table finish in England's top flight, playing a brand of football praised for its fluidity and entertaining, attacking nature.
New Manager Brendan Rodgers says he can't wait to get started at Anfield:
"I'm blessed to be given this opportunity.  I want to thank John Henry, Tom Werner and FSG for the opportunity to manage such a great club.  I'm really excited and I can't wait to get started on this incredible project going forward.  I promise to dedicate my life to fight for this club and defend the great principles of Liverpool Football Club on and off the field."
Liverpool's Principal Owner John Henry says they've got the man they want:
"Fenway Sports Group is committed to building for the long-term. Brendan Rodgers' appointment today as manager of Liverpool Football Club is one of the most important steps we will take in building the kind of club on and off the pitch supporters can be excited about.
"Brendan's comprehensive football philosophy is perfectly aligned with those at the club and those soon to join the club.  He was the first choice unanimously among them and he had no hesitation at all in embracing exactly what we want to try to build at Liverpool.
"We do not expect miracles overnight nor should anyone else.  But we firmly believe that the direction the club is heading in will lead to Premier League championships.  We will embrace the unconventional, build the right way and together set a bold, exciting course for this historic club."
Chairman Tom Werner says the fans can look forward to some exciting times ahead:
"The style of football Brendan is associated with is exactly what we want to see at Anfield.
"Aggressive, attacking play; Swansea were a revelation last season with their brand of entertaining football.
"But it's not just what he has achieved in the last two years that has impressed us; he has dedicated his career to coaching, has studied the game all over Europe and he is the perfect person to take this club forward.
Rodgers extensive coaching background began in 1995, when at just 22 years of age he became Academy manager for Reading. His talent and enthusiasm drew admirers and in 2004 Jose Mourinho swooped to secure his services for Chelsea, as they went on to dominate the Premier League for the next two campaigns.
The Northern Irishman was soon to be given the opportunity to manage outright, being appointed manager of Watford and then subsequently Reading, where his professional journey began.
Throughout his coaching career, Rodgers travelled Europe and visited clubs such as Valencia, Sevilla and Barcelona as well as clubs in the Netherlands to exchange ideas on football philosophy and to learn from some of the best teams and managers in the game.
Managing Director Ian Ayre says he is an impressive character:
"When you meet Brendan you can't help but be inspired by his knowledge, passion and vision for the game.
"The experience he has for such a young age shows we are getting someone at the very top of their profession.
"He and our owners both have a clear plan of how to bring success on the pitch and he will have the full support of everyone at Liverpool Football Club while he strives to achieve that."

New Anfield Redevelop Proposal

I have looked at two options for the redevelopment of Anfield. The first is based on an adaptation of Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion and the second is an original design. Westfalenstadion is a relatively straightforward design, which nonetheless has great presence and atmosphere whereas the ‘original design’ is bolder.

Both options retain all but all of the existing capacity, to which is added corporate boxes, hospitality suites and sufficient capacity to take each to 60,000. There are options to go bigger than that, but these may not be needed.

Building in phases gives the club considerable flexibility to adjust plans if and when circumstances change and the cost of adding 15,000 seats is anticipated to be significantly less than building 60,000 new seats. Retaining the value of the existing 45,000 capacity would be a compelling financial driver to stay at Anfield, which already earns in the order of £45m a year.

Clearly corporate and hospitality income are vital components and these are included in the designs. With the same facilities as a new stadium, Anfield can earn as much for less investment with:

• 60,000 capacity, with scope for further expansion in future phases
• up to 150no. boxes
• up to an additional 45,000sqm of hospitality facilities
• larger playing surface
• unobstructed sightlines
• keeps the history but looks ‘as-new’
• keeps the intimidating atmosphere of Anfield
• maintains matchday income throughout the construction period
• can maintain commitments to community regeneration
• releases Stanley Park for complementary use.

StevieH http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/ff-football-forum/95618-anfield-new-anfield-9.html

New Liverpool Boot Room Team

The new Liverpool coaching staff... direct from Swansea

New Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has lured three of his Swansea City backroom team to Anfield. Graham Clutton runs the rule over who's who...

Right-hand man: Colin Pascoe (left) is Brendan Rodgers' trusted assistant

Colin Pascoe
Born in Bridgend, Pascoe, 47, made more than 500 appearances for Swansea, Blackpool and Sunderland before retiring in 1996 to pursue a coaching career. He made his senior debut for Swansea against Liverpool at Anfield on his 18th birthday and went on to play 346 times for the club. He also won 10 caps for Wales. He returned to Swansea as a part-time coach under Kenny Jackett and continued under Roberto Martínez and Paolo Sousa before the arrival of Brendan Rodgers saw him elevated to assistant manager.

Chris Davies
Davies was youth team captain at Reading under Rodgers. He played for Wales at Under-17,18 and 19 levels before giving up the game to take a sport and exercise science degree at Loughborough. He spent three years at Hawkes Bay United, in New Zealand, under former Wales manager Bobby Gould. He joined Swansea in 2010 as performance analyst.

Glen Driscoll
Joined Swansea last October as performance consultant. He started his career alongside Rodgers at Reading’s academy before being headhunted by Chelsea 11 years ago. He worked at Stamford Bridge under Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9304765/The-new-Liverpool-coaching-staff...-direct-from-Swansea.html

Liverpool to Expend Anfield.....

Liverpool poised to ditch new stadium in favour of Anfield expansion

• Residents shown proposals to demolish nearby houses
• Liverpool council hopes to begin work on plan this summer

John W Henry, Liverpool's owner, has always made it clear he favours remaining at Anfield rather than building a long-planned stadium on Stanley Park. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images

 

Liverpool, having decided on Brendan Rodgers as their manager, are expected to announce within weeks they intend to stay at Anfield, not build their long-planned new stadium on Stanley Park. Under plans drawn up by Liverpool city council and revealed to local residents, houses would be demolished to enable the club to expand Anfield's main stand.

At a meeting on 15 May attended by Ian Ayre, the Liverpool managing director, residents living in neighbouring streets to Anfield were presented with three worked-up options involving knocking down rows of houses. The council's assistant director for regeneration, Mark Kitts, told the Guardian that Liverpool have confirmed, in discussions with the council, that the demolitions would meet the club's requirements.
"We have been working with the club very closely," Kitts said, "and they have said this will accommodate their needs if they stay at Anfield and refurbish the current stadium."

Kitts said homes would be given "an open market valuation" – which he suggested could be upgraded to reflect an area in better condition – plus a 10% "home loss payment" and removal costs. Liverpool will not have to negotiate directly with residents or buy their houses. Kitts said the council has the option of applying for compulsory purchase powers, to force residents to sell, if necessary. Some home-owning residents are fearful that they will not receive enough to pay for a similar home elsewhere.

Liverpool's principal physical obstacle is not enlarging Anfield's footprint – their plan is understood to involve adding an extra tier, plus corporate facilities, to the Anfield Road and main stands. Doing so, however, would block the "right to light" of those neighbouring houses. Kitts said he believed the demolitions would "solve the right to light issues".

The plans, presented to a neighbourhood "stakeholders meeting", including the Rockfield Residents Association, all propose knocking down the row of terraces closest to the main stand, on Lothair Road. The second two options, more favoured, involve demolishing two additional rows of houses – both rows on Lothair Road, and the first on the next street, Alroy. The remaining houses are planned to be refurbished: one option suggests replacing the demolished houses with a commercial development, possibly a hotel.

Liverpool are still maintaining they are keeping open both their options – to expand Anfield or proceed with the new stadium on Stanley Park. However, the demolition plan, on which Kitts said the council hopes to begin work as soon as this summer, has convinced many local people that this is to facilitate Liverpool staying at Anfield. The council still favours the new stadium but Liverpool's owners, John W Henry's Fenway Sports Group, has made it clear since it bought the club that it would prefer to enlarge Anfield, mainly because it is cheaper.

Liverpool declined to comment on the revelation of the housing demolition blueprint, saying: "The private discussions and plans that Liverpool Football Club has or may have with residents or other stakeholders are, in our opinion, exactly that: 'private'."

Last week Ayre said Liverpool would "need to convince" residents if the club were to stay at Anfield, and said: "We're having some great dialogue with them."

However, Ros Groves, chair of the neighbouring Salisbury Residents Association, said she "hit the roof" when she read that. Her group has also been presented with demolition plans, for a corner opposite the main stand and Kop, which the club could develop commercially. But she said Liverpool have held no meaningful discussions with residents.
"I cannot see how it can be called 'great dialogue' when Ian Ayre has been to one meeting with one residents group," Groves said. "Everybody can see which way this is going now. We just want Liverpool football club to be open with us." Many houses around Anfield have been blighted for years – a significant number bought by the football club and left empty, a source of great resentment among residents left coping with the area's decline.
Some who own their homes, Groves said, fear were worried that that the money they would be paid by the council who will demolish them, will would not be enough to buy a similar home elsewhere.
"Everybody wants a solution to this area's problems," Groves said. "But people who have paid off their mortgages, and long-term tenants, are very concerned about the impact on them."

Liverpool was sold in 2007, to the Americans Tom Hicks and George Gillett, specifically so that finance would be found to build the new stadium on Stanley Park. After they failed to progress the new stadium, Martin Broughton, the chairman conducting the Liverpool sale, said any buyer would "have to accept" building a new stadium. But after FSG bought Liverpool, Henry always made it clear he favoured remaining at Anfield.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/31/liverpool-new-stadium-anfield-expansion?newsfeed=true

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