New Everton Stadium

[marty mcfly]

Absolute insanity.

Look how much the likes of West Ham and Stoke are spending.

We need to increase or spending just to stay still.

Why exactly?

Our team is capable of staying mid-table even if we don't have a net positive spend in transfers for the next 5 years. Look at the age of our squad.

 

[Brennan]

Why exactly?

Our team is capable of staying mid-table even if we don't have a net positive spend in transfers for the next 5 years. Look at the age of our squad.

I suppose in your dreamworld football players will be happy to not get a wage increase also.

"I was going to ask for a wage increase as the Premier League is earning teams more and more money and even players at Stoke are on more than i am but then i thought about how you guys want to build a nice new stadium"

Said no football player ever.

 

[The Esk]

And we can't get that without a new stadium. We won't be able to keep pace but we will be able to keep around mid-table until the stadium is built and the extra revenue offsets the repayments but you are right we can't do both.

No, we need the investment to build a new stadium/redevelop Goodison, not the other way round.

We cannot build/redevelop on debt or revenue.

 

[bizzaro]

You couldn't afford it, what with your market stall going down.

If we wire your ejector seat in @Brennan to all 54999 seats and give anyone who pays £50 a go at pressing it

I reckon we can cover the cost of the stadium by half time of the first game.

We'd be cash positive thereafter.

FFP after all.

 

[marty mcfly]

No, we need the investment to build a new stadium/redevelop Goodison, not the other way round.

We cannot build/redevelop on debt or revenue.

One is feasible. The other one we've been waiting for 20 years. It's not a great solution because I would like to see us invest in the team as a fan but I'm prepared to accept it so the club isn't screwed in 10 years time.

 

[sageyefc]

Why exactly?

Our team is capable of staying mid-table even if we don't have a net positive spend in transfers for the next 5 years. Look at the age of our squad.

A few more years of mid table and half the team would want to leave

 

[The Esk]

One is feasible. The other one we've been waiting for 20 years. It's not a great solution because I would like to see us invest in the team as a fan but I'm prepared to accept it so the club isn't screwed in 10 years time.

If we fail to invest in our playing squad we will go backwards relatively compared to our peers, hence my comments about further investment required.

 

[bourneblue]

Those plans shown for the redevelopment of the Bullens rd show the structure covering the entire road, this would block the light to many residential properties and a school. It would never receive planning permission,unless those properties were purchased via CPO's. As they had to do over the park.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...blog/2013/may/06/anfield-liverpool-david-conn

 

[mrb85]

Those plans shown for the redevelopment of the Bullens rd show the structure covering the entire road, this would block the light to many residential properties and a school. It would never receive planning permission,unless those properties were purchased via CPO's. As they had to do over the park.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...blog/2013/may/06/anfield-liverpool-david-conn

So what, you'd have to buy out the properties. All the houses in that stretch could probably be bought at a generous price for less than a million or two in total!

 

[marty mcfly]

If we fail to invest in our playing squad we will go backwards relatively compared to our peers, hence my comments about further investment required.

Our squad is young enough and good enough so we could go 5 years without investment over and above what we have been doing without dropping below mid-table. That would give us the time and revenue to build a stadium.

 

[marty mcfly]

So what, you'd have to buy out the properties. All the houses in that stretch could probably be bought at a generous price for less than a million or two in total!

The price would rocket due to the residents knowing the club would need to buy them all. Among other costs I read it cost Liverpool 35m to buy the houses around the new Anfield development and took years.

 

[The Esk]

Our squad is young enough and good enough so we could go 5 years without investment over and above what we have been doing without dropping below mid-table. That would give us the time and revenue to build a stadium.

In the meantime better capitalised clubs will be investing in their playing staff - we'd be going backwards.

 

[sageyefc]

Our squad is young enough and good enough so we could go 5 years without investment over and above what we have been doing without dropping below mid-table. That would give us the time and revenue to build a stadium.

We couldnt keep them for 5 years, plus you're forgetting about wage increases with new contracts

 

[marty mcfly]

We couldnt keep them for 5 years, plus you're forgetting about wage increases with new contracts

The two things you mentioned would cancel themselves out. If we don't keep them then we would be making a decent profit which could be used to pay the increase in wages of the ones we did keep as well as buy their younger replacements.

 

[marty mcfly]

In the meantime better capitalised clubs will be investing in their playing staff - we'd be going backwards.

We would but only by a few league positions. The likes of West Brom and Sunderland aren't going to overtake us in that time. We would drop no further than mid-table. Once the stadium was built we could then start growing in a sustainable way. It would also afford us the ability to bring through the kids.