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Everton "special" Talksport 9:00pm Monday 10th Aug 2015

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Heathcliff said:
This is guesswork as well. But here goes. If the club could arrange some sort of lease deal with the council on the land and if the club could get top dollar on what property it owns currently as well as cashing in on a couple of the young first teamers and sell the naming rights and then siphons off a couple of tens of millions from the new tv deal to add all that up and have 50% of a new build (and then build the 55k dream venue) and then guarantee payments against the remainder could that be a means to an end?
We dont sell out games not because of ticket prices but because some of the specs in the ground are quite frankly a running joke. Whats the point goin-the-game if you cant-see-the-game.

Itd be great to have a full breakdown of current corporate take up at Goodison and what the waiting list is like if there is one. Fact is the premier league circus comes to town with all the same sides every other ground gets so the interest and the capacity for business write offs is there like it is for the glitterati.

Having a load of history is great and its a sign of pedigree and community pride. Its making the new history that today wants to be part of.
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Get top dollar for the property we own? We don't own property, all we have is goodison which has a tonne of debt against it,
Is there proof of naming rights working in this country let alone bringing in significant money,
Sell off some of the players, along with taking 10's of millions out of the tv deal will see us drop like a stone
 
Where are all the media reports on this from last night by the way? I haven't seen a single one yet...
 

Moomin said:
I wonder if the Echo will bother reporting about it today, or ignore it.

No doubt the clubs media will be speaking to "Friends" of Everton to get some stories in the media.
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I'd imagine Everton are writing their piece on it as we speak, some good news story to take the pressure off.
 
The Echo took a real kicking on that piece last night. Pretty much the only thing that stood out for me was the Everton fans ringing in to say that The Echo was looking the other way while we were being mugged.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Originally they floated in 1991 I believe. It was a route a few clubs went down back then, with Newcastle also floating, and I think Spurs too. Those two were less successful than United though as they were less well run as clubs.

I think at the time, the main reason for doing so was to help comply with the Taylor Report. The Premier League was born a year later so it was clear at the time that clubs were thinking seriously about ways to increase their revenue.

Of course, United won that first Premier League, whilst we languished in the bottom half.
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Mention of the Taylor Report makes me sad.

There is the genesis of our current distressed state.

When that report came out, Goodison Park was the most modern ground in the country.

Heck, we has escalators in the Top Balcony since circa 1970, unheard off in this country at that time.

We had seats on all four sides of the ground, a rarity even as late as 1990.

Anyone remember the state of Stamford Bridge when we played there in the Cup in '91.....the day Tony Cottee missed a penno and we lost 1-0?

It was ramshackle.

Then came the Taylor Report and the diktat that all grounds in the English top flight become all seater.

I remember a national newspaper publishing a league table of how much the contemporary First Division/Premier League clubs would need to spend to modernise their grounds.

And I glowed with pride as my beloved EFC sat proudly at the very bottom of that table.

In other words, there it was in black and white......Goodison Park was the safest, most modern ground in England.

And it needed less money spent on it to comply with Taylor than any other ground.

So the Everton board sat in its laurels as per, tweaking a few things here and there to make us all seater.

Whilst the other major clubs were obliged to fetch in bulldozers and undertake major work.

And just like when one starts a project on one room in one's house, the rest of these club's grounds looked tired so more work was commenced to modernise the rest of it.

And by the time anyone at Everton took notice, all these grounds were making our once palatial home look like the run down pile of a faded aristocrat without the money to upkeep and improve it.

Goodison had become Woodison by the turn of the century and I am afraid the die was cast.
 


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