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New Everton Stadium

The Kopites will be apoplectic about this if it's true.

I would be delighted. All those blues who think that we'd not even fill 50k need to just think back to the 80's. At a time when goodison held 49k a good barometer on attendance was if the top balcony at the park end was full then we were at capacity.
This happened regular regardless of the "official" attendance being listed as 30+k, obviously a tax fiddle.

I think it was Sharp in a recent interview that said players used to go hammering on Jim Greenwoods door complaining about official figures.

It seems a lot of the players had a bonus based on matchday attendance :)
 
The 70k expansion could be some years down the line even after opening (2020/21?) and would be dependent upon many factors, not least having massive success on the pitch, selling out the 60k and having significant more demand beyond that. At the moment, it is hard to envisage but who knows where the club could be in terms of success and profile-wise in 5+ years time.
 
The 70k expansion could be some years down the line even after opening (2020/21?) and would be dependent upon many factors, not least having massive success on the pitch, selling out the 60k and having significant more demand beyond that. At the moment, it is hard to envisage but who knows where the club could be in terms of success and profile-wise in 5+ years time.
based on recent history?

Exactly the same lol

We are the kings of false dawns it seems.
 
If they build it the Welsh will come...
Don't understand why some of out supporters have a go at the Welsh support. I would suggest we have had travelling support from there for 100 years given the proximity. I'm sure plenty of them are 3rd, 4th or even 5th generation Evertonians. We've been linked by train for a long time and given the fact that Liverpool was once dubbed the capital of north Wales, I don't have a problem with it.
 

No, the point would be that if "metalthingy" became sponsors of Everton, Usmanov is in a position to influence Everton's management which is not permissible under PL rules. Two owners can have a common interest in another company as long as it's not football related.



R&W sit outside USM otherwise Moshiri could not have acquired his Everton shares. The point above though is still relevant.



I doubt they would be if Newcastle were in the PL given Ashley owns 55% of Sports Direct.

See below Esk, I know you've pointed out the biggest barrier to Usmanov getting rid of his Arsenal shares is the lack of a market for selling them. Perhaps this guy provides the solution?


Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to buy London-based Arsenal soccer team within four years.

Dangote, a Nigerian worth $10.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, announced his intention to buy the club last year. He said he needs to wait for his business prospects to improve and his investments in gas pipelines and an oil refinery to play out before making the acquisition.

“There’s no doubt” he’ll buy Arsenal and “it’s not a problem” of money, Dangote said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in New York on Wednesday. “Maybe three to four years. The issue is that we have more challenging headwinds. I need to get those out the way first and start having tailwinds. Then I’ll focus on this.”

Dangote, an Arsenal fan, has lost $4.4 billion this year, the fourth most of anyone globally, due mainly to the depreciation of Nigeria’s currency, the billionaires index shows. The bulk of his wealth is tied up in Lagos-based Dangote Cement Plc. An acquisition of the team would make him the first African owner of a team in England’s Premier League.

“It’s not about buying Arsenal and just continuing with business as usual,” he said. “It’s about buying Arsenal and turning it around. I’ve run a very successful business and I think I can also run a very successful team. Right now, with what we’re facing, over $20 billion of projects, I cannot do both.”

While Arsenal has won 13 top flight league titles in England, making it one of the country’s most successful sides, it’s last was in 2004.

Arsenal Holdings Plc, the owner, trades on the ICAP Securities & Derivatives Exchange, or ISDX, and has a market capitalization of 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion).

Stan Kroenke, worth $7 billion and owner of the National Basket Association’s Denver Nuggets, holds 67 percent of Arsenal Holdings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

https://www.energyvoice.com/other-n...2016-09-22&utm_term=Energy Voice - Newsletter
 
Don't understand why some of out supporters have a go at the Welsh support. I would suggest we have had travelling support from there for 100 years given the proximity. I'm sure plenty of them are 3rd, 4th or even 5th generation Evertonians. We've been linked by train for a long time and given the fact that Liverpool was once dubbed the capital of north Wales, I don't have a problem with it.
It's because they fornicate with sheep
 
Given Goodison has so many obstructed views (Is it about 8k or so?) and even some areas which aren't obstructed have very poor facilities and seating, we still manage to get a very healthy crowd for a side that hasn't exactly been flourishing the last few years.

A new stadium with hopefully excellent facilities, and a side with investment! I think the club need to go big straight away. 70k at least, and they could have say a top tier of one of the stands for affordable seating or not always open, or something along those lines. So for certain games when the ground may not fill out, they only charge £8 or something for that area, or £2 for kids.
 

Don't understand why some of out supporters have a go at the Welsh support. I would suggest we have had travelling support from there for 100 years given the proximity. I'm sure plenty of them are 3rd, 4th or even 5th generation Evertonians. We've been linked by train for a long time and given the fact that Liverpool was once dubbed the capital of north Wales, I don't have a problem with it.

Don't take it to heart Dr.B it's only in jest we love the Welsh, I'm a Wool and look at the stick we get,it's mainly jealousy from inbred Scousers yearning for the rolling hillside,the fresh country air and our large palatial homes.
 
think we would sell out 50k most weeks to be fair, as someone has said the restricted views across goodison are quite bad, think being honest as much as it might annoy some if we were to get a dockside stadium, I think tourists would be all over it? who wouldn't want to enjoy a match on the docks right in the centre

If there's a cruise ship in when there's a match on, it would be in our interest to have leaflets as part of the ships itinerary of things to do. Greet passengers as they disembark. That alone is a potential money spinner.
 
If there's a cruise ship in when there's a match on, it would be in our interest to have leaflets as part of the ships itinerary of things to do. Greet passengers as they disembark. That alone is a potential money spinner.

Why flyers? Everyone looks out to the city when they're arriving, why not have it advertised on a lit facade?
 

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