London: Liverpool are aiming to strike a deal with investors before the end of the season so they can get plans for a new stadium back on track, the club's managing director was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
The Premier League club have put plans to move from Anfield to a 60,000-seat arena at Stanley Park on hold pending an injection of funds and the new stadium is a key part of a plan to boost revenue and help them compete with richer rivals.
"When I arrived we agreed with the owners that we had to look for new investors," managing director Christian Purslow said in an interview.
"There are interested parties and I would like to get it sorted out before the end of this season," he added. "Without investment there won't be a new stadium."
Purslow said the club would try to maintain the status quo if they did not manage to reach an agreement with new investors.
"That's plan B: run the club in the most responsible way possible," he told the newspaper.
"We are generating a healthy profit and meeting our obligations, while remaining competitive in the transfer market and with the wages we are paying."
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 18:52