New Everton Stadium

[GwladysBlue]

What minute of the podcast is that?

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...s/new-everton-stadium-plans-defended-14471158

Asked about his views on capacity, Anderson concluded: “I would like to see it around the 60,000 mark. Somewhere in between the 58-60,000 that mark, for me, is rightly being ambitious.”

 

[neil999]

Only just started listening mate. All I've heard so far from Anderson is I did this, I did that, and I did this other thing!

he's normally so shy and unassuming!

 

[davek]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...s/new-everton-stadium-plans-defended-14471158

Asked about his views on capacity, Anderson concluded: “I would like to see it around the 60,000 mark. Somewhere in between the 58-60,000 that mark, for me, is rightly being ambitious.”

That loan deal over 25 years sounds horrendous. As the esk said: it's hard to understand how Everton have got themselves tied into this length of loan after the Prudential long term loan fiasco.

So Everton will pay £7M minimum per year in interest, so £175M - likely to be higher than that.

 

[davek]

The number of committees and scrutiny panels Anderson says this has to go through even before PP is applied for is head spinning.

On design Anderson seems to be suggesting a design that be in keeping with the dockland, so a Lucas Oil brickwork type of design?

 

[Market trader]

Someone reported here, after the business breakfast, that Anderson had said the loan would be a variable interest rate loan, rather than a loan at a fixed rate. Is that correct? I ask as we bought a house in 1979 when inflation was high and when the bankrate was at 17% and our mortgage rate at 19%, and moved in the mid 1980s having to pay a higher price, inevitably. The interest rate stayed at or above 10% into the 1990s, peaking again at 15% around 1990. As you may imagine, times were hard in the Market Trader family. Could it happen again? I don't know but I hope not.

 

[Bud McBlokeski]

On design Anderson seems to be suggesting a design that be in keeping with the dockland, so a Lucas Oil brickwork type of design?

I kind of hope so as that stadium looks fantastic.

 

[davek]

That's alarming what Anderson indicates - in answer to if he's shouldering too much personally the responsibility of selling the idea of BMD and whether the club can do more he - says that the club are reserved and dont want to get involved in selling the project around the city and to fans because of past failed projects. No wonder they cant find funding outside local government with that attitude. That's just terrible.

Also concerning was Anderson's view that delays from negotiating with UNESCO or changes in the borrowing requirements from central government (due to be reviewed in 12 months) could end this.

Between that and the hurdles at council level and then the PP process opening it to public scrutiny we're miles off on this.

 

[davek]

I kind of hope so as that stadium looks fantastic.

Looks bland to me, but it's in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

 

[mahermi1]

Looks bland to me, but it's in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

Same here bland and old fashioned, I look at images of Spurs new ground or even Bayerns Munich's and go sick at the thought. Oh well to each their own.

 

[davek]

Same here bland and old fashioned, I look at images of Spurs new ground or even Bayerns Munich's and go sick at the thought. Oh well to each their own.

It'll be driven by UNESCO if it is that style.

 

[jinkyali]

It'll be driven by UNESCO if it is that style.

Do you work ?

 

[MrGrumpy]

Literally everything was/is wrong with the WHU situation.

What can we learn from them? Pretty much only how to better sell season tickets initially so groups of people literally transpose into the equivalent part of the new stadium if they want to.

Their model is incomparable in every other way. They've moved away from their home, we're moving more central. They can't customise something they don't own. Plus the stadium is always going to be woefully inadequate for football. It wasn't designed for it and they can't retrofit it with smart technology so they're just going to have to put up with it.

An it’s Hilarious, don’t like West Ham

 

[kev]

Do you work ?

Bit personal that mate, and his employment history is both irelevant and off topic. I'm sure we're all more interested in the work of Dan Meis.

 

[MrGrumpy]

It'll be driven by UNESCO if it is that style.

He also said, that it will happen and we should have a spade in the ground by next summer, an it will pass easily as they done this before with other projects, stop being so doom and gloom

 

[Moomin]

Do you work ?

Will Mahrez be playing for us at our ground?