Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has insisted that the club are still committed to upgrading Anfield.
Newly crowned Premier League champions Liverpool were forced to delay plans to expand the capacity of their stadium to 61,000 due to the coronavirus.
The Reds have already upgraded the Main Stand in recent years, but have now turned their attention to the Anfield Road end of the ground.
Work was due to get started at the end of this year, if they received planning permission, but with the construction industry shutdown the decision was taken in April to temporarily shelve the idea, with the earliest possible date for completion now the summer of 2023.
Despite the delay, Werner has pledged to carry out the improvements.
“Yes, we are committed to that," Werner told the Athletic. "We have had a bit of a setback with the virus but we are committed to completing that at the right time,”
Werner continued regarding the effects of Covid-19 on the business: "Very challenging. Much of our revenue is attributed to matchday income. I’ve participated in many stakeholder conference calls in the past few months. Lots of challenges have been presented.
"As joyous as this moment is, it’s also been somewhat protracted due to the state of the world with COVID-19. This hasn’t been a straight line journey.
"The most important thing given the position that we started from was to do everything we possibly could to increase the revenue streams. It’s a virtuous circle.
"We haven’t ever taken a dividend. Every pound that is generated, every time we increase things in a commercial sense, it enables us to invest not just on the pitch but off it too.
"We have a new training ground in Kirkby which is nearing completion and I’m very proud of the improvements that we made at Anfield with the new Main Stand. We restored the lustre without moving it.
"We were always aware of wanting to under-promise and over-deliver."
