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Hicks: New Liverpool stadium to be bigger

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has revealed the club are planning to make their proposed new stadium bigger than first expected.

Hicks ordered a review of the club's plans for a new stadium soon after gaining control at Anfield alongside fellow American George Gillett.

Hicks admitted the new plans could see Liverpool's new home go close to 80,000 - an increase from 61,000 - capacity to make it the biggest club stadium in Britain by 2009.

"The city council's planners will receive the final plans on July 25," Hicks told the Sunday Mirror.

"The initial capacity will be the 60,000 previously approved, but the design will accommodate an eventual capacity in the high seventies."

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