New Everton Stadium

[zirc]

You know what else is a risk? Sitting their with your thumb up your arse while the rest of the league progresses.

Where is all the money going, actually? We haven't spent it on transfers. The wage bill hasn't gone up. We're not investing in any infrastructure. Stadium is not happening. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, I just want to know.

Where the [Poor language removed] has the money gone???

 

[bizzaro]

Elstone said that 'the challenges ... in building a new stadium are different to other top flight clubs, who have successfully pursued their own lucrative moves from their original grounds.'

No Robert. They aren't.

He's fooling no one. Some of us run successful businesses and know the difference in truth and reality as opposed to absolute drivel.

Livid here reading that ECHO article. He's pretty much said we're a [Poor language removed] club. In not so many words.

@davek

 

[riddick]

Id love to know if they arent going to be spending this ridiculously wealthy(and the next one too) TV deal on a stadium what, exactly, is the money going towards?

 

[zirc]

Elstone said that 'the challenges ... in building a new stadium are different to other top flight clubs, who have successfully pursued their own lucrative moves from their original grounds.'

No Robert. They aren't.

He's fooling no one. Some of us run successful businesses and know the difference in truth and reality as opposed to absolute drivel.

Livid here reading that ECHO article. He's pretty much said we're a [Poor language removed] club. In not so many words.

I believe that if Everton were not a football club but a normal company in a normal industry, there would be private equity agitating all over the shop to get these charlatans out. They are completely useless.

 

[bizzaro]

On a scale of 1/10 where 1 is severely unimpressed and 10 is hugely impressed by that ECHO article

I'm about minus 5 right now.

We're basically screwed. We may as well call it a day according to Elstone.

Frankly the finances without the stadium fall further and further behind Spurs. Newcastle. Sunderland and the rest who are renovating or increasing.

There's no other way to bridge the gap. Then we have some totally misleading statements from the top. When the market conditions for building a stadium are the best they've been for 8 YEARS.

FFS.

 

[DanEFC92]

New stadium is a pipe dream.

Redevelop Goodison.

 

[sageyefc]

New stadium is a pipe dream.

Redevelop Goodison.

But that would have the exact same problem as a new stadium, finding the money. Elstones pretty much saying there we're skint again and he cant get the financing which is frankly laughable

 

[DanEFC92]

But that would have the exact same problem as a new stadium, finding the money. Elstones pretty much saying there we're skint again and he cant get the financing which is frankly laughable

More realistic goal, though.

 

[sageyefc]

More realistic goal, though.

Would be my personal preference if it was an option.


I dont have an ounce of faith in them to do anything though, there absolute idiots

 

[DanEFC92]

Would be my personal preference if it was an option.


I dont have an ounce of faith in them to do anything though, there absolute idiots

Me either. Clowns.

In dire need of some good Everton news.

 

[nil satis]

Someone linked this on twitter the other day which is supposedly the minutes of the quarterly meeting which happened in March 2015.

http://t.co/QWfXLO82Nh

It basically says they haven't decided yet if they will proceed with the new stadium. Someone asks the time scale and they say they will have a decision in 9 months, and it also says they don't think it will provide much more income but it will future proof the club. They will sell the naming rights and the site Goodison is on to help fund it.

The Sun has nothing on these forums ,might be true, might not but lets print anyway! Yes I have bit and looked ,does any one know (and not just a stupid anti Kenwright rant) what future proofing means?

 

[bizzaro]

I have never heard anyone that knows him in a professional capacity say nothing but good things about him. Both Moyes and Roberto have nothing but praise for him and he has brought stability to the club. Its easy to write posts on this forum its extremely hard to run a top football club .That's why there are very few that do it well.

Your posting activity on this forum makes for very interesting reading.

I also find it very interesting that you pop up when the ECHO article interview gets some criticisms.

Curious that.

@davek

 

[RaleighBlue]

Lol.

Sigh.

The board is short sighted and stuck in the past. They have no ideas on how to generate revenue outside of Sky. They have failed in every aspect of progress.

It's time. Has to be the final straw, no? Between the continued failures on the stadium front, the utter balls up of the Kitbag deal, the continued poor deals we get from sticking with Chang, the complete lack of commericial presence...anywhere, and the complete failure to 'find investment' it has to be the end of the line.

It's not about sentimentality (I still quite like Bill, he seems a decent person), it's business. They've failed for over a decade. David Moyes saved this board, and if we see any success under Martinez, it will be through no action of the board.

At a certain point you have to take a leap of faith. We know what this board will get Everton - nothing. A change is needed, even if it can be a risk.

 

[nil satis]

Your posting activity on this forum makes for very interesting reading.

I also find it very interesting that you pop up when the ECHO article interview gets some criticisms.

Curious that.

@davek

Ha ha what we trying to say like?

 

[bizzaro]

Ha ha what we trying to say like?

First post was a pop at anyone criticising Kenwright...

Fact of the matter is - no stadium capacity increase = DAMAGE TO THE CLUB.

Our rivals are making progress.

We are sitting around unwilling to take a 'risk'.

Its a joke. In the real world you have to take a risk to get anywhere. That ECHO article and Elstone's comments are highly offensive as they are simply not true.

No one is stupid here. The TV money influxing into the club now and the next one is only increasing. Yet Elstone's talking like we're idiots.


*PS. Anyone on here including @davek will know I'm no Kenwright critic by default. I do tell people whats coming in football. Aston Villa being a case in point due to their finances. What I've read tonight re: Everton from our CEO is utterly inexcusable.