New Everton Stadium

[Verbal Kint]

Croker received 119 million in Government funding and it's a national stadium for Gaelic Games not any teams ground! Though Dublin play almost all their home games there.

I see the comparison be made quiet often, but it's not the same to be honest - funding etc.

I have a season ticket for the ground BTW!

Croke Park generate extra revenue by having major concerts and other sporting events in it, surely this is something that Everton could look into when designing it. A smaller scale Millennium stadium in Cardiff with retractable roof would be good.

ps. Any spare ticket for All-Ireland final this Sunday for Croker (Donegal fan in dire need)

 

[Neiler]

Croke Park generate extra revenue by having major concerts and other sporting events in it, surely this is something that Everton could look into when designing it. A smaller scale Millennium stadium in Cardiff with retractable roof would be good.

ps. Any spare ticket for All-Ireland final this Sunday for Croker (Donegal fan in dire need)

I wish I had mate, my ticket is Dublin specific, big fair play on turning us over- better team on the day, still gutted though!

On the new stadium, I think the hotel/hospitality thing isn't viable for us - just my opinion mind, I'm over in Liverpool a fair bit for games and I wouldn't stay in Walton,with all due respect to Walton and I drink in the Valley a fair bit, the action at night in town, transport links to the airport etc, then in the close season months your looking at a dead weight! That said I guess it depends on the development, it would want to be something very special to get punters away from town for pints or shoping etc! For my money anchor tenants would have to have a local market to be viable, so your looking at your Tesco's etc here again I'd say, maybe a sports store, subway and bevy centre, might be close enough to catch some of the traffic from grey skull when Norway are at home!

I'd like to emphasise here though that from everything I've read so far it seems Everton won't own this stadium, we will rent it of the council, make of that what you will : the two main examples I've seen of this are Coventry and City, the detail as always will be the most important aspect of this!

 

[AndyC]

Found this on Google lads, it's the Bernabeu but I think it'd look mint in the middle of Walton Park...

 

[marty mcfly]

Personally I think we have a good young squad who are all tied to long contracts so we wouldn't need much investment in the players especially if the youngsters come through and a few should.

We could use all the extra TV money over the the next 3 years to help the funding. That would be probably around 60m.

Then we could get a loan for the rest which would be payable from the increased revenue. If we are at that point a sugar daddy will probably buy us and pay that off anyway.

We need a new stadium and if it means a few years not going anywhere but just working on developing the players we have then fair enough.

If we beat Spurs and Liverpool to building it then it might allow us to jump them in the pecking order too especially with FFP.

It makes sense for all concerned so it might just happen.

Btw we should just hire the Germans to build it.

 

[DrEFC]

Concert-wise it'll be hard to compete with the echo.. Maybe for fairs & expo's?

 

[kithnou]

lmao...it is like 5 or so years ago remembering all the Kirkby excitement...supporters going crazy on Everton forums, posting pics of their dream stadium from world football they wish for...only then to be handed a "World Class" stadium design built "effectively free" for 50 mill.
Deja vu anyone?

 

[kithnou]

Personally I think we have a good young squad who are all tied to long contracts so we wouldn't need much investment in the players especially if the youngsters come through and a few should.

We could use all the extra TV money over the the next 3 years to help the funding. That would be probably around 60m.

Then we could get a loan for the rest which would be payable from the increased revenue.

We need a new stadium and if it means a few years not going anywhere but just working on developing the players we have then fair enough.

If we beat Spurs and Liverpool to building it then it might allow us to jump them in the pecking order too especially with FFP.

It makes sense for all concerned so it might just happen.

Btw we should just hire the Germans to build it.

No...just no

 

[AndyC]

Www.evertonfc.com/yourstadium

Again and as I stated in an earlier post... we should not get too carried away yet with regards to a new stadium... the following is a quote from the official website... with the key phrasing being in italics.

Everton and Liverpool City Council together with a number of partners have announced their intention to investigate a regeneration scheme for North Liverpool which could potentially house a new stadium for the Club.

This suggests that nothing whatsoever is cut and dried, and as such no possible timescale can be suggested at present, nor any idea of costings.

I'm not saying it won't happen, just that it's far from being a definite.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Again and as I stated in an earlier post... we should not get too carried away yet with regards to a new stadium... the following is a quote from the official website... with the key phrasing being in italics.

Everton and Liverpool City Council together with a number of partners have announced their intention to investigate a regeneration scheme for North Liverpool which could potentially house a new stadium for the Club.

This suggests that nothing whatsoever is cut and dried, and as such no possible timescale can be suggested at present, nor any idea of costings.

I'm not saying it won't happen, just that it's far from being a definite.

Yeah. Everton will buid houses into the park and plant few trees. No stadium.

 

[kithnou]

Yeah. Everton will buid houses into the park and plant few trees. No stadium.

or an "effectively free" one

 

[MickA]

Based on the Kirkby Model,
We had to sell 47,000 seats every game to generate £6m profit,
Assuming this will be pretty much the same deal, stadium capacity wise and with very little scope for additional commercial activity.
How can we possibly boost revenue by 30m,
I'm not being funny mate by the way.

You're spot on and that's what worries me about the location of the stadium. We need to utilise it as much as possible on non-match days and unless there's something unique about the project I can't see that at WHP.

I wouldn't have thought we'd have anywhere near the amount of restrictions on night events that DK was subject to but also think additional £30m of revenue from the building is extremely optomistic at best.

 

[Verbal Kint]

From my vantage point in Ireland, I can imagine there being loads of objections to a new stadium, if the planning process is Liverpool is anything like here then 1 objection can hold a project of this magnitude back years. They have also stated that it's only in the early stages, sorry to burst the bubble but a project like this is years away from completion. Infrastructure in the area, roads, housing etc etc.

Maybe Bill's intention is to have everything in place for a new stadium and then seek to sell to the club.

 

[pablo 1878]

Concert-wise it'll be hard to compete with the echo.. Maybe for fairs & expo's?

Manchester has the MEN Arena for your normal concerts holding say 15k. The City of Manchester Stadium doesn't directly compete with the MEN, instead it holds the bigger stadium concerts with the likes of Oasis, Take That, etc. playing to crowds of 50k

 

[marty mcfly]

No...just no

Care to offer a reason why not?

 

[Steve Wigan]

Manchester has the MEN Arena for your normal concerts holding say 15k. The City of Manchester Stadium doesn't directly compete with the MEN, instead it holds the bigger stadium concerts with the likes of Oasis, Take That, etc. playing to crowds of 50k

The Manchester Arena capacity has a capacity of 21,000..its the largest indoor concert arena in Europe. The City of Manchester stadium can get 60,000 in for a concert, but there are limitations on the number of concert licenses and the time of the year. Its rare for them to have more than one or two concerts a year.