Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre admits the club have to balance stadium issues with spending money on improving the squad. The Reds are looking to add 20,000 seats to their match-day capacity.
Redevelopment of Anfield and a new-build in Stanley Park are the two options open to Liverpool, but Ayre has already admitted the latter would require a marquee naming rights deal for it to make financial sense.
"We have to have the right economic model. Our sweet spot is around 60,000 to 65,000 because we don't want empty seats.
"We already have 46,000 seats and those extra 20,000 seats are not going to generate hundreds of millions.
"People are more interested in what happens on the pitch [but] it's not to say that the other things are not important.
"If it meant we were writing cheques for that rather than the team, people will ask why."
Ayre, speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress being held in the city, is quoted in the Liverpool Echo as saying Liverpool must act "in a responsible way". "It is about finding the right solution that keeps the great heritage experience and atmosphere and finding the right thing for the future. It's not so easy a challenge," he said.
