New Everton Stadium

[efcfanwirral]

Exactly even with a stadium I think we're on our own. FFP doesn't even allow a sugar daddy to come in now and buy a squad so it loses it's importance.

We either build the stadium within the next 5 years or we're playing in the championship within 10 years. That's the reality.

Now I haven't got the time to find any evidence of this, but i'm SURE that i read somewhere that stadiums (or "infrastructure") were exempt from FFP, so in theory we could spend the money if we had it (i.e. we sold Barkley and Lukaku combined for a ludicrous fee, in theory we could put that to a stadium without messing the financials up)

 

[I LOVE EVERTON]

BILLY THE PIG - GET OUT FROM EFC U R NOT WELCOME ANYMORE !

 

[Azza]

I imagine a stadium debate would be similar to the Springfield Monorail debate... Hopefully we end up with a monorail rather than a new stadium!

 

[Del]

BILLY THE PIG - GET OUT FROM EFC U R NOT WELCOME ANYMORE !

IS RIGT LAR

 

[marty mcfly]

Now I haven't got the time to find any evidence of this, but i'm SURE that i read somewhere that stadiums (or "infrastructure") were exempt from FFP, so in theory we could spend the money if we had it (i.e. we sold Barkley and Lukaku combined for a ludicrous fee, in theory we could put that to a stadium without messing the financials up)

I'm not too sure how it works. Is it like corporation tax and spread out over a number of years which in that case if we first built the stadium then a sugar daddy could fund the squad up to the amount that was spent however depending on the rules that may or may not be the case. There might even be ways to cook the books and show from an accounting point of view that the costs of the stadium occur later.

We don't need to sell anyone. The stadium would probably cost 100m or so. We could get a long term loan for a percentage of that and the TV money would do the rest. We just would have to accept that the squad wouldn't get major investment over this time but with maybe one or two new signings and our U21s who show loads of promise that might not be necessarily be the worst thing.

Of course the downside is that players once they reach a certain level will want to leave like what happened to Arsenal. If Wenger hadn't of been saving the money for the stadium Arsenal could have dominated with some of the players they had.

It's the reason why for the first time I can see it happening. We don't actually need anyone else to fund it.

 

[royvernon39]

Goodison is now down to 8th spot in terms of capacity in the Premier League.

 

[marty mcfly]

Goodison is now down to 8th spot in terms of capacity in the Premier League.

It's not just the capacity but also the corporate boxes and ability to host other events. Everton as a club has huge potential but the stadium is a noose around our necks.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Goodison is now down to 8th spot in terms of capacity in the Premier League.

But we are regularly hitting capacity, how many of the seven above us are?

 

[royvernon39]

Goodison is our spiritual home. We abandon it at huge emotional cost.

But almost as important is the fact that it can be remodelled despite what the Chairman says. The Park End has enormous potential. The Goodison Road stand can be rebuilt and even Bullens Road could be upgraded.

 

[kithnou]

...the S&M (Scottish and Messi )stadium has a nice ring to it. And after all, 'tis always a fine line 'twixt pleasure and pain

The S.J Naismith Coloseum....Home to "The People's Messi".
Privileged we are indeed...

 

[deipnosophist]

The S.J Naismith Coloseum....Home to "The People's Messi".
Privileged we are indeed...

...alternatively, home to messy people lol

 

[deipnosophist]

I imagine a stadium debate would be similar to the Springfield Monorail debate... Hopefully we end up with a monorail rather than a new stadium!

lol lol lol...I remember those monorail conversations...I think @Pat's Van was at the vanguard

 

[Pat's Van]

lol lol lol...I remember those monorail conversations...I think @Pat's Van was at the vanguard

yep, probably...

and, dare I say it.... a matchday monorail

"inner city sumo" you're thinking of, but he wanted a train

my proposal is the martinez matchday monorail, it will run the length of the east lancs every time the toffs are at home and services on board would include, wifi, darts board, peanuts and snacks, dancing girls, and monkeys trained as ticket collectors

FFS for the last time we don't need a new stadium, we just need a monorail at Goodison

close thread

 

[SingBlue]

Now I haven't got the time to find any evidence of this, but i'm SURE that i read somewhere that stadiums (or "infrastructure") were exempt from FFP, so in theory we could spend the money if we had it (i.e. we sold Barkley and Lukaku combined for a ludicrous fee, in theory we could put that to a stadium without messing the financials up)

FFP has a number of conditions, one of which relates to "allowable expenditure" - that is money spent on infrastructure development and the like which is not counted against the figures used to assess FFP compliance.

As with everything related to FFP, it's full of loopholes. Man City tried to claim their new training ground development was a £billion, and got laughed at. The RS unbelievably wrote-down £100m of expenses a couple of years ago to do with the new Stanley Park Stadium. They got away with it too, without a brick ever having been laid.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Goodison is our spiritual home. We abandon it at huge emotional cost.

But almost as important is the fact that it can be remodelled despite what the Chairman says. The Park End has enormous potential. The Goodison Road stand can be rebuilt and even Bullens Road could be upgraded.

You could also argue that Goodison is a spiritual home of Britsh football.