In the kitchen of the house of Wirral by Joachim Zadow, the retired architect remembers the characteristics of the “Dual Stadium”, which may have welcomed the Merseyside derby on Wednesday on Wednesday if Everton and Liverpool followed their concepts in the summer of 2010.
“The concept works,” insists on Zadow, 15 years after a key role in a plan that culminated with 27 pages of its design presented to Everton before being sent to the United States for the attention of Tom Werner, recently installed as president of Liverpool after the capture of Fenway Sports Group.
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Liverpool ended up staying in Anfield through the reconstruction of two stands, while Everton’s long race has dragged, with a new location at the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
Zadow’s vision has placed the two clubs in the same Stanley Park site, with two United stadiums through a central medium of 10 degrees with an area for a hotel with a view to the locations.
The task was his time. Zadow and the other members of the organization “Mersey Stadia-Connex” idea that they had discovered an economic solution to Everton and Liverpool disorders because the clubs sought departure tactics of Goodison Park and Anfield, and the two fought financially.
During the 2009-2010 season, Everton’s movement in a new site in Kirkthrough interrupted through the British government after a public investigation in the middle of a fierce opposition. Meanwhile, Liverpool received an economic crisis leap, Royal Bank of Scotland raised doubts twice in the one -year area in the club’s ability to continue.
Liverpool challenges taxes were caused through the owners of Sirers Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose acquisition of leverage in 2007 continued through a global monetary crisis. Under this damaged dating of the stadium challenge: as Goodison, Anfield Hell on all sides through housing in terraces.
Manchester joined the club to win and his source of income from Old Trafford more than double Liverpool. Hicks and Gillett had made their own plans for a position in Stanley Park to see to fill this void, however, the promise of Hicks for a “shovel on the floor” has never been held in 60 days.
Three years later, Liverpool’s position worsened through the team’s failure to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2003. During the same month, Rafa Benítez collapsed as a manager only one season in a five -year contract.
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In such uncertainty, Zadow and the other members of the Consortium shared their proposal with the local newspaper of Liverpool Echo, without any of them making their own identity public. The resolution led to the plan described in a name as a “Siamese stadium”, as well as online speculations about the consultation of whether the dark organization was connected with an acquisition of Liverpool, with one of the rumors that extended with respect to the interest of the Chinese state.
It is now that Zadow feels that Cushty reveals his part.
“It’s as if the two clubs were trembling,” he recalls. “They were in a funny stadium in their history. What we did absolutely speculative, however, we felt that we deliver a convincing plan. If the clubs kissed him, then we would probably have come, but never reached this stadium. “
Athletics can identify Zadow’s participation through an online route. He agreed to speak after consulting Andy Heron, the group leader, who also lives in Wirral.
“It is an independent project,” explains Heron. “There is no link with a client interested in Liverpool, despite the rumors. All interested parties had links with merseyside and that brought a safe spirit. There is an aggregate of Liverpudlianos and Evertonians. We were interested in the prosperity of the two clubs and by extension, the city.
Heron had grown up from a Liverpudlian, who lived near Calderston Park in Alleron, before placing a ceiling entrepreneur and a small genuine real estate investor. “I had not worked at all like this before,” he admits, was able to deal with contracts. “I estimated that we had a chance of five % of leader somewhere. “
Heron says he grew up on a spirit of cooperation between clubs and his fans. Banners cited “Merseypride” the finals of the Cup between the groups in the 1980s as evidence of this. “He stayed with me. I hoped it still existed. “
His circle of relatives was also supporters of the Rugby League and his ties with Widnes helped open a door to Everton. Heron says that a telephone verbal exchange with a senior official has become transparent for him that there may be an opportunity because “everything was on the table” after the Kirkby Plan cave.
Heron’s idea of a “Mega Stadium” that would save Everton and Liverpool of millions of pounds. “In my opinion, it is colossal, but it is also an entrepreneurial solution for each club,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s not just an impossible dream. “
Heron knew an engineer in the design of consultations with contacts that can help him. One of them Zadow, who had established himself in the region after having moved to Liverpool of Stockport in 1960 to end a title in architectural studies. At the local level, Zadow had worked on small projects abroad, there was more, in the specific design of a suburbs on the outskirts of Jeddah, where 3,377 houses were built. He then designed a hotel in the Saudi port city.
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In 2010, Zadow was in Semi-Retiro. He admits that he is not a football fan, but he would support a team, it would be Liverpool. “I had no paintings at that time and I told myself:” What can I do so well? “” His email channel with Heron began in March of the same year and after an assembly in Heron, they agreed to verify to locate something. This implied that Zadow was in control of the manufacturing documents of plans for the stadium that Hicks and Gillett could not build.
After examining several possible sites, adding the North Liverpool docks where Everton will move later this year, Zadow learned that the only viable option for anything of this Stanley Park scale, since he already had a manufacturing plans permission. “While I stayed in the red lines, I get the idea that I had given us a chance,” said Zadow. “Once you make plans again, slow down everything. “
Using the modeling software and a representation program, Zadow presented a 60,000 seats for Liverpool and 50,000 for Everton. The latter would be multifunctional, with a closed roof and a step that took place.
They would be located in what was the parking lot of the green space, with tickets for the two placements in the Arkles lane. Everton would be north, flanked by Priory Road, bringing them closer to Goodison, while the new Anfield would be above the road from the old stadium, with a shot of 90 degrees.
Zadow regrets having visited Anfield or Goodison, but reason why there is no budget to play. Initially, he had designed a two -level KOP platform before being encouraged through some other member of the organization to be continuous.
There is space for independent changing rooms and underground museums. However, the “smart bit”, according to Zadow, the installation shared in the middle, which not only stored money, but, in theory, can stimulate a greater source of income in three hundred hotel rooms, some of which had windows with each of the locations.
“It’s logical: Everton here, Liverpool there,” says Zadow. “Fans are used to going to the same place. I would have kept the two clubs near their roots and fans, their routines. “
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Heron says that an assembly with Everton went well, but he had problems with other people in Liverpool after copies were sent to the club’s offices. When reflecting, he thinks that the moment was perhaps bad because the two owners sought to sell and that no one interested in Liverpool could have interaction at all.
This led to the concept in the echo of Liverpool, without giving too much because Heron was involved in someone who could take the concept borrowed. “The” Siamese stadium “was a media label. In fact, it was not a term we use,” Zadow said.
The report that followed was published only 3 days after its revelation for the moment in 12 months that Royal Scottish Bank was involved on the long Liverpool streak. While a Liverpool spokesman told Echo: “We are still determined to build our new stadium in Stanley Park,” an Everton -free source reported that the program was “impossible, inaccessible and not deliverable. “
Eco reports have led to a vital public response. The same month, very red, a Liverpool fanzine, directed with the title: “Could we dual and support it?” For some Evertonians, the answer not because the length of the stages, despite the position for a capacity construction, without delay puts the Everton.
In the end, for the two clubs, the same challenge has remained: who would finance all this? Peter McGurk, some other local architect who had caused plans to rebuild Anfield, reported that any new stadium would charge investors both to return to existing income. “Fans would pay more effective in banks of the banks or housing owners without more for the team,” he told Well Red.
Heron knew that even if he forced the two clubs to settle for the move, the next step would be to convince the Liverpool Municipal Council and approve a feasibility study. Meanwhile, Zadow can laugh now, but remember that some of the online comments on their design are guilty. “They said he looked ugly and made me feel horrible, but I didn’t agree! I still don’t think he looks ugly!”
Heron almost at the time of abandonment, but when Liverpool took over FSG five months later, he had a last commitment. This referred to the location of the new president of Liverpool, Tom Werner. “I sent him the proposal through the registered delivery. He signed, but we have never heard. “
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Zadow knew that the possibilities opposed him, but at least wishes to approach. “I enjoyed being a component of anything that had never been tempted before, however, an idea that he was a winner. Of course, he disappointed me that he has not finished this way. It could have been a millionaire!”
(Upper Photo: Joachim Zadow)