LIVERPOOL face another year's delay before they get the OK for a £200m Anfield redevelopment.
And with a refurbishment of the stadium likely to take two years, the earliest Liverpool can hope to complete the construction is for the start of the 2014-15 season.
The club's American owners are in the midst of a fresh feasibility study to modernise the existing ground into a 65,000-seater stadium.
Owner John W. Henry said in November Liverpool wanted to make a final decision on the stadium "within a year", but it will take longer to get permission to build it.
Henry's Fenway Sports Group have consistently distanced themselves from the two plans already approved.
One, by Manchester based architects AFL is too old. The other Tom Hicks-inspired plan is too expensive.