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Sir Martin Broughton has revealed how he arranged for John W. Henry to attend a game at the Emirates Stadium to see why Liverpool shouldn’t leave their Anfield home.

Prior to Henry’s arrival at the club in 2010, the then owners of Liverpool, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, had outlined a plan to move the Reds to a new state of the art 60,000 seater stadium in Stanley Park.

But after the pair failed to secure funding for serious work to commence, and Reds CEO at the time, Rick Parry, announced that although the stadium would still be built, work would be delayed until the economic climate improved, the move never got off the ground.

And just over two years later the US pair were forced into selling the club to Henry’s Fenway Sports Group, with Henry then revealing two years into his reign that FSG would redevelop their current home instead of moving over the round.

Since then the club has redeveloped the Main Stand and announced a plan to add around 7,000 seats to the Anfield Road end in time for the 2022/23 season.

That move would take the stadium's overall capacity to around 61,000 and create the third largest ground in the Premier League, behind only Old Trafford and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

“That was the most important decision - to do that rather than go for an Emirates style stadium in Stanley Park,” Broughton told the Telegraph when asked about the improvements that FSG have made to Anfield.

“We organised a trip for John (Henry) to the Emirates for a game and the feedback was always how everyone loved the stadium except the Arsenal fans.

“They could instantly see why would you throw away ‘This is Anfield’? The Emirates in Stanley Park just did not feel right.

“If he had had to build another stadium he would have, but his determination was to do everything to stay at Anfield which was important.

“Fenway had proven they could do it with the Red Sox as previous owners had bought land next door to build a new arena. Fenway said: ‘Why would you throw away all the tradition of the Green Monster?’ The similarities were clear. They got it through and returned it to former glories. Now they have done the same at Anfield.”