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A Mersey designer has come up with an incredibly ambitious vision for what Anfield would look like as the second biggest stadium in the world.

Kayla Bibby wants to see Walton Breck Road diverted so Liverpool FC can extend the Kop.

But she hasn’t just designed an enlarged Kop – she’s redesigned the entire stadium to show how it could look with a capacity of 108,000, making it Europe’s largest stadium.

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In a post on the Skyscrapercity website, Kayla – posting as Liverbird1 – shared images of what such a giant stadium could look like.

A 108,000-capacity stadium would be the second largest in the world. Only the Rungrado stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, would be bigger, with 114,000 seats.

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Kayla, a Wirral -based technician for a structural engineering firm, says Liverpool FC should take advantage of the fact that a lot of land in Walton Breck Road is currently empty and awaiting redevelopment.

The area is itself set to be transformed into a new “high street” under council plans to make the area more welcoming to residents and businesses.

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Kayla is also behind the Liverpool Underground campaign to expand the Merseyrail system and earlier this year revealed a vision for a potential “Sergeant Pepper” rail line to serve north Liverpool and Everton’s proposed Bramley Moore Dock stadium.

She said: “The Kop is ripe for expansion right now. In a couple of years it’s going to be too late and there will be new houses built on all that derelict land and we will have missed the boat to divert the road.

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“We need foresight; think about what’s required and futureproof the area for that eventuality.”

And she told the ECHO: “This would be a major amendment to an existing scheme and Your Housing Group and the landscape architects would need to make the necessary changes to their masterplans (for the new high street). But these changes would save serious money down the line, because the necessary infrastructure would already be in place to facilitate LFC’s future expansion needs.”

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Sadly this redevelopment seems unlikely to happen just yet.

Liverpool FC, which opened its new Main Stand in September, is not believed to be considering any Kop extension. Its next focus for redevelopment would be the Anfield Road end.

Meanwhile the council is pressing ahead with its plans for Walton Breck Road.

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