Liverpool are considering upgrading their stadium expansion plans to take the capacity at Anfield beyond 60,000 as a September deadline looms on an existing planning application.

The club has outline planning permission to add 4,000 seats to the Anfield Road end of their stadium, but that expires in four months. However, Liverpool are not tied to the current sketched proposals.

Owners Fenway Sports Group have been mulling over whether to push on with those plans or refine them. There are increasing indications they will go for the latter, enabling the time limit on the current planning application to elapse before starting afresh and submitting fresh designs.

That would create the potential to submit a grander vision.

FSG have been looking at all the options for the last few years, preparing further feasibility studies to determine the economic viability of a larger stadium, while also mindful of the consequences on the infrastructure and the surrounding area. That is a key consideration given traffic and public transport pressure on a match-day and has made previous planning applications a laborious process.