This site is supported by the advertisements on it, please disable your AdBlocker so we can continue to provide you with the quality content you expect.

'Anfield' for sale? Probably...

Discussion in 'General LFC Discussion' started by RedRuairi, May 15, 2009.

  1. RedRuairi

    RedRuairi
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 7, 2008
    Messages:
    1,344
    Likes Received:
    19
    This really cant be good news:

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/anfield-for-sale-probably-1739811.html

    Liverpool's main sponsor Carlsberg are ready to discuss the idea of a naming rights deal for the proposed new stadium at Anfield, as part of a renewed deal with the club.

    The Danish beer company has offered the first indication that its widely known dismay at the in-fighting between Hicks and Gillett has receded as the two have put on a more united front and that the controversial idea of a Carlsberg Anfield -- which would vastly increase their current £7m sponsorship deal -- will be on the table when discussions begin in earnest at the end of the Premier League season. "That will be part of the discussion I'm sure but there have been no decisions yet," Graham Roberts, Carlsberg UK's director of sponsorship said.

    The fact that the Carlsberg are willing to discuss the naming rights proposition reveals that the threat to the future relationship between the two partners has receded, though Roberts admitted that uncertainties surrounding the July expiry of bank deals rescheduling £350m of loans the Americans took to buy Liverpool has been a "distraction" on sponsorship talks. Carlsberg is still seeking more assurances about whether the loans will be refinanced though the prevailing view, supported by leading football financier Keith Harris this week, is that they will be.

    "We would be very interested in what happens (with the rescheduling). I'm sure that the conversations that go on between the parties will reflect that," Roberts said.

    But Carlsberg do appear to be more confident that the stadium, placed on hold by the Americans with the credit markets frozen, will actually be built. "The stadium is a big step of their progression in the future and we want to be part of that," Roberts said.
     
  2. up the pool

    up the pool
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 22, 2009
    Messages:
    5,157
    Likes Received:
    34
    carlsberg anfield my arse!!
     
  3. zamaguire

    zamaguire
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2007
    Messages:
    1,132
    Likes Received:
    79
    A great name for the new stadium.
     
  4. BretHart

    BretHart
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 30, 2009
    Messages:
    967
    Likes Received:
    1
    Well whatever our stadium is named with naming rights, if all fans or most continue to call it what we want to call it then eventually it will catch on.
    Isn't the Riverside (or wasn't it) the BT Cellnet stadium?
    If we keep calling it Anfield, no one is going to say "Carlsberg Anfield"
     
  5. justydawson

    justydawson
    Expand Collapse
    One & Only

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2008
    Messages:
    3,723
    Likes Received:
    58
    Its Anfield

    When our players walk down that tunnel what does the sign say...

    Exactly
    Close thread!
     
  6. TubbyReina

    TubbyReina
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 21, 2008
    Messages:
    837
    Likes Received:
    0
    have to agree here plus its time we get as much money towards this stadium or it never gonna happen,when we leave the original anfield it will be a sad day but it has to happen
     
  7. Podgecheco

    Podgecheco
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 5, 2009
    Messages:
    1,794
    Likes Received:
    0
    Thats exactly it man, its not gonna be "this is carslberg Anfield" its what we call it that matters
     
  8. Juan

    Juan
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2008
    Messages:
    5,970
    Likes Received:
    5
    +1. we will have to move with the times..(if they ever get round to building it:()
     
  9. StEtienne77

    StEtienne77
    Expand Collapse
    Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2009
    Messages:
    169
    Likes Received:
    0
    It will be called - Probably the Best Stadium in the World.
     

Share This Page