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New Everton Stadium

toffee_laura said:
I take it with the hydraulic tower and the walls surrounding the dock being Grade 2 listed they have to stay? Quite like the wall around the dock and I think any stadium built there would have to be sympathetic to that and the remaining tower.
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Be a travesty to knock that wall down, its a stupid thing to say about a wall but its a fantastic sight. However, I think something will have to be done as we cant have 50,000 people plus cars etc all going through that one narrow entrance. I like the thought of keeping the tower
 
RobSpurs said:
What he's done so far looks excellent. However, he never designed anything for the LA Rams. He designed a speculative stadium to try to draw an NFL team to LA, a project which never happened and was in a different location to where the LA Rams will actually end up with their City Of Champions Stadium. And the only quotes I can find re: cost are on his own website where it says:

"The current target of $850 million makes it $300-$400 million less than any other recent NFL proposal. This is made possible by an innovative approach to building the stadium into the hill."

Well, we'll never know if that's true or not.

I would further question whether he's able to deliver stadiums within budgets as he has actually seen very few large stadiums to completion (most of the stadiums on his website are studies, or designs which were runners-up to other agencies so were never built). The Roma Stadium which is still in the approval stage will be his first "soccer" stadium with Everton's likely to be his second.

He looks an exciting choice, but his firm isn't one with a big portfolio even though he has experience working in other firms as an architect. So he's not what I'd call a safe choice. But sometimes it's worth taking risks and despite the relative sparsity of projects, he is an award-winning architect. Obviously Moshiri thinks he's worth the risk, if he's been working with him for a little while.
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He sounds perfect for us like;)
 
The Esk said:
I doubt he's tweeting without the consent of the club given the level of engagement he's entered with the fans - he's conversed with @ToffeeDoug for example.

On that basis I am relaxed about it. I think the bigger issue is as usual our own PR stance where the fans get told nothing. The lack of direction and information from the club allows speculation and leaves others to fill the void.

We have a marketing and PR 'expert' in charge of communications at the club. What I don't understand is his strategy, or even if he has one?

Leaks to Andy Hunter and implied consent of tweets by hired professionals is not the correct way of communicating in my opinion.
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As I said previously it wouldn't surprise me if the clubs official channels didn't announce anything until the players were walking out onto the pitch in the new stadium.
 

Tin-Tin said:
Be a travesty to knock that wall down, its a stupid thing to say about a wall but its a fantastic sight. However, I think something will have to be done as we cant have 50,000 people plus cars etc all going through that one narrow entrance. I like the thought of keeping the tower
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Knock a few more gaps in it with the same style towers as new gateways.
 
Only ever looked on rawk once prior to a derby, just had a little look again just to see what their general and overall reaction is to this as someone mentioned about them flapping in previous posts. Jesus wept they weren't wrong, here's just a small handful of them ...

[Poor language removed] piss myself when they announce that it's going to be in [Poor language removed] Knowsley not the Docks.

They should just put it on the industrial estate and be done with it.

Yep. They'll go for the cheapest option. Of course the cheapest is staying put, so that's probably what they'll do.

When I see a spade in the ground I will believe it

They can have the biggest shiniest diamond encrusted palace of a stadium right next to the Pier Head for all I care, they will still be bitter blue [Poor language removed] deluded nuggets wherever they build it.

How are they going to pay for a new stadium? Is Moshiri taking it out of his own pocket? Don't see how else they would manage it.

Pissing myself at the claims of 'were back' with Moshi lads spin around the docks. Your back? You've never even been there in the first place you daft [Poor language removed].

And that's just a few of them. Honestly had the biggest grin ever reading through all of that tripe, they really are bricking it. Looks like we're going to have to drain out the River Mersey first so it doesn’t overflow with kopites salty tears ... let the good times roll :D
 
Tin-Tin said:
Be a travesty to knock that wall down, its a stupid thing to say about a wall but its a fantastic sight. However, I think something will have to be done as we cant have 50,000 people plus cars etc all going through that one narrow entrance. I like the thought of keeping the tower
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Well, if we ever need help with that I've got a few ideas.
 
As a visitor, got to say that it looks very strongly like Everton will get the dockside stadium. Only piece that i haven't yet seen in place is the finance which could be the best part of half a billion. Current state of the pound won't help much, may be worth stocking up on steel before it gets even worse
 

The Esk said:
I doubt he's tweeting without the consent of the club given the level of engagement he's entered with the fans - he's conversed with @ToffeeDoug for example.
On that basis I am relaxed about it. I think the bigger issue is as usual our own PR stance where the fans get told nothing. The lack of direction and information from the club allows speculation and leaves others to fill the void.
We have a marketing and PR 'expert' in charge of communications at the club. What I don't understand is his strategy, or even if he has one?
Leaks to Andy Hunter and implied consent of tweets by hired professionals is not the correct way of communicating in my opinion.
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Yes, that last line is at the heart of it. I couldn't imagine it being done by other top clubs. They'd have their message very tightly together and maintained. Imo, when Meis started to tweet about the stadium situation he should have been closed down on that - politely. Obviously the club cant dictate to that idiot Anderson, who has his own game plan imo. Still, Meis should have an inner inhibiting voice that tells him its not right to keep on sending forth scraps of (mis)leading information.
 
blueboy1945 said:
Think you are all cynic actually mate! All will be revealed in the fullness of time no doubt. I think this time we have a very good chance of getting what we want, it would be a massive, unbelievable con job by Farhad if not, and I'm not buying that.
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It pays not to give the next flavour through the Everton door the benefit of the doubt. We have a transfer window as our single experience of him to work off. It was an atrocious one. Why ignore the facts as they presently stand? I'm not saying it cant come good or that he's a 'con man'. I'm just being realistic.
 
Visitor22 said:
As a visitor, got to say that it looks very strongly like Everton will get the dockside stadium. Only piece that i haven't yet seen in place is the finance which could be the best part of half a billion. Current state of the pound won't help much, may be worth stocking up on steel before it gets even worse
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Moshiri has a 10% stake in Metalloinvest. Specialise in steel production.
Major shareholder is one Alisher Usmanov (48%).
Just saying
 

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