Everton Shareholders’ Association Chairman John Blain has provided an overview of his discussion on July 3rd with Farhad Moshiri and Bill Kenwright.
With regards to the proposed new stadium at Bramley-Moore there is huge activity going on behind the scenes with Keith Harris, who is now a full-time Club employee, being responsible for delivering the stadium on time and to budget.
The budget for the new stadium is almost £500m and the finance, that is hoped to be in place during the 3rd quarter of this year, will be secured with the best interests of the Club in mind.The planning preparations are going on in parallel and we can still expect the stadium to be ready for season 2022-23.
On the hot topic of capacity Farhad implied during the meeting that the capacity of the new stadium would be in the range 52,000 – 55,000 which, as I’m sure you would agree, is far too low for the majority of Evertonians. That said the capacity has not yet been finalised and the Club continue to review a range of capacity options in the Dan Meis designs.
You can read the full report of the meeting via the EFCSA website here.