New Everton Stadium

[toffee66]

We’ve been mainly lousy for 30 years.

We’ve also needed a new stadium for that long.

I grew up with Goodison but it is past time to let it go.

Our struggles this year are nothing to do with BMD. We’ve invested far more on the team than on the ground move since Moshiri arrived. He tried your plan A TT. He messed it up.

If we go down it is because we bought utter dross for big fees on big wages and when we came up against FFP restrictions we could not sell the dross. The stadium spend did not touch FFP this year as once we had planning it was excluded.

We might well go down this year. That might even leave BMD a half-built monument to failure as some fear but if so BMD will not be the cause of that failure, merely a victim of it.

 

[arch stanton]

Davek has layed everyone off. Site is now permanently shut.

God bless.

dock is full of water again.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Even when/if the stadium gets completed what difference will it make? We'll still be run by utter morons and a shiny new ground won't change that. Its all just cosmetics. Us having a state of art stadium on the docks when we're run by such idiots is like sprinkling glitter over a turd and pretending that it doesn't stink and isn't a turd anymore!

 

[Johnnytotal]

I have huge concerns about our finances if we go down. This is the worst time. Saying its the best time makes no sense

Goodison is the only good thing we have and its about to go. There is nothing to celebrate in leaving Goodison

We've won nothing for nearly 30 years

While playing AT GOODISON.....christ

 

[John BCN]

Some good news in this article (along with the usual other worrying information in there). Apparently Moshiri divested himself of half of his USM shares 18 months ago. The 5% stake he has left is probably worth very little now but presumably he should be sitting on plenty of cash from the previous sale.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/justin...-hurt-the-club-and-its-owner/?sh=766d4b5a6107

 

[Jamiednm]

Even when/if the stadium gets completed what difference will it make? We'll still be run by utter morons and a shiny new ground won't change that. Its all just cosmetics. Us having a state of art stadium on the docks when we're run by such idiots is like sprinkling glitter over a turd and pretending that it doesn't stink and isn't a turd anymore!

It’ll finally make Everton attractive for a multi-billionaire to buy.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

It’ll finally make Everton attractive for a multi-billionaire to buy.

In theory sure, but if the morons that are currently running the club continue to drive us into the ground then said multi-billionaire will be buying a mediocre championship club. Worrying about the new stadium while we sleepwalk towards a potential Sunderland type scenario is like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned around him!

 

[Mrtallywacker]

dock is full of water again.

He filled it with all the pi55 Moshiri and Usmanov have taken.

God bless.

 

[Tom Hughes]

We've won nothing for nearly 30 years

While playing AT GOODISON.....christ

I'm not sure the correlation means anything..... especially when you consider that in that same period GOODISON has also pretty much had the least spent on it of practically all stadia in the entire Prem and Football League decending from the best stadium in the country to an antique in the process. The legacy of the club's forefathers right up to Moores was that Goodison required easily the least spent to be fully compliant with the Taylor report and yield a 40k capacity. We had been run on a laissez faire then bargain basement basis for decades before Moshiri...... and the club simply did the bare minimum, chasing hair brained stadium for nothing schemes to avoid addressing the issues. The billionaire accountant (anyone else ever heard of billionaire accountants?), resplendent in his easy-come easy-go Russian cash then just chucked cash at a club like some kind of absent landlord ticking boxes. In the meantime he's converted some of that debt into new equity. BMD is another box ticker.... it seems to have it all.... but we're yet to see the financial model.

 

[WA Toffee]

Ambition is shown by building a competitive team, not by bricks and mortar. Our ambition has been non existent in recent years because they have refused repeatedly to overhaul the abject squad. Now we are in a position where all our past mistakes have caught up with us.

You don't focus on a stadium when you are failing on the pitch, unless you don't care enough about winning.

We have spent $500M on the squad in the last few years. How can you come to the conclusion that is not showing any ambition ?

 

[ToffeeTim]

We have spent $500M on the squad in the last few years. How can you come to the conclusion that is not showing any ambition ?

Ambition would involve moving on players who aren't good enough. Something we have repeatedly refused to do.

 

[Moderatelywarmwater]

Ambition is shown by building a competitive team, not by bricks and mortar. Our ambition has been non existent in recent years because they have refused repeatedly to overhaul the abject squad. Now we are in a position where all our past mistakes have caught up with us.

You don't focus on a stadium when you are failing on the pitch, unless you don't care enough about winning.

Oh it has to be both. The problem is that te stadium was utterly ignored file 30 odd years and has fallen into disrepair

 

[WA Toffee]

Ambition would involve moving on players who aren't good enough. Something we have repeatedly refused to do.

Have we though? Or is it that we have just bought the wrong players to replace the players we have moved on?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

There's no negative to the new stadium, the support will remain whatever league it may be in.

 

[Tom Hughes]

Oh it has to be both. The problem is that te stadium was utterly ignored file 30 odd years and has fallen into disrepair

Which part of the stadium is in disrepair? As far as I'm aware there are no outstanding maintenance issues.