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New Everton Stadium

Abertonian said:
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-news/119953/oil-billionaire-dangote-plans-buy-arsenal-within-four-years/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EV Daily Newsletter 2016-09-22&utm_term=Energy Voice - Newsletter
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haha is that actually real?! the guy sounds completely deluded......maybe he could buy liverpool instead
 
Little Ralphy said:
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.
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70,000 would be absurd and a daft investment.

Before Martinez we were averaging around 36,000 attendance. Man City have gone from being in the second division to winning league titles and still struggled to fill their ground even before it was expanded.

It's approaching RAWK levels of delusion to suggest a 70,000 seater stadium for Everton.
 

Dr Baxter said:
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.
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Unfortunately there are a few Neanderthals that support EFC and can't see beyond the end of their street. Happy to go along thinking that to support the Blues you have to live in one of the houses surrounding Goodison. I think that's how they find their partners as well.

Luckily for EFC we live in a world where people are aloud to travel near and far and take part in different activities and pastimes.

Many people from all over the North West and hopefully beyond have a link to or adopt Everton as their club and that leads them to Goodison.

For the, less able to understand, Neanderthals this is irksom and they have difficulty dealing with 'outsiders'.
They want only themselves let in the ground - probably only the lower Gwladys would be needed....if that. They have great difficulty understanding that to watch the players we have and to support the club we love takes a lot of money and a lot of supporters. There are no longer any coats for goalposts and no rope around the pitch.

Mind you if we move to a new stadium they can still attend Goodison and watch whatever is going on there. The rest of us can then get on with supporting the team wherever in the world we come from.

I'd suggest if you get called a 'wool' or similar you should make allowance for the 'person' using the term/s as they be the Neanderthals and have great difficulty in the modern world.
 
I don't know if it's even possible and I imagine much too expensive anwyay, but I have this image of say, a basic 50,000 capacity with 4 more-or-less single tier stands with a sliding roof to be used when required to "seal-off" the stadium at this basic capacity.

The stadium is then built to a capacity of around 62,000 (or less) via 2nd tier seating for each stand (i.e the 2nd tier seating above the roof). There is then an additional glass roof enclosing the entire structure, with the "1st" roof retracted to meet demand as required for games.

We could use the "top floor" as a multi-purpose arena for all manner of uses and even have mobile dining and food outlets up there, when the 2nd tier is not required for football. With lifts to the top, it would look great illuminated at night.

Maybe that would require more of a bowl structure which I don't like in principle though. But I'm sure you (don't) get the gist!
That's my 5 minutes of pretending to be an architect / stadium designer :)
 
brieverton said:
I don't know if it's even possible and I imagine much too expensive anwyay, but I have this image of say, a basic 50,000 capacity with 4 more-or-less single tier stands with a sliding roof to be used when required to "seal-off" the stadium at this basic capacity.

The stadium is then built to a capacity of around 62,000 (or less) via 2nd tier seating for each stand (i.e the 2nd tier seating above the roof). There is then an additional glass roof enclosing the entire structure, with the "1st" roof retracted to meet demand as required for games.

We could use the "top floor" as a multi-purpose arena for all manner of uses and even have mobile dining and food outlets up there, when the 2nd tier is not required for football. With lifts to the top, it would look great illuminated at night.

Maybe that would require more of a bowl structure which I don't like in principle though. But I'm sure you (don't) get the gist!
That's my 5 minutes of pretending to be an architect / stadium designer :)
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Skip to 30mins


That said its just over 30mins long (rest is Q&A) but the final stadium design shows a development of ideas in one scheme - plus relevant to your post shows how the roof can be used for amenities/shops
 

Dr Baxter said:
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.
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alright mate, im not having a go...just saying we could actually get more support from wales which would be no bad thing
 
Brennan said:
70,000 would be absurd and a daft investment.

Before Martinez we were averaging around 36,000 attendance. Man City have gone from being in the second division to winning league titles and still struggled to fill their ground even before it was expanded.

It's approaching RAWK levels of delusion to suggest a 70,000 seater stadium for Everton.
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Absolutely agree.

45,000 would be a safe and reasonable starting point.
 

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