These are my own thoughts not propaganda, once you add realisim into the mix. I've already said that Goodison would never make the same amount of money that BM would - even with a bigger capacity and you'd hope naming rights will end up paying (in the end) half of the build cost anyhow so we are not much different there. We'd have built the 2nd tier on the PE and thereafter the financials would not have made sense. Except to you.
"Except to me?" You mean except to the vast majority of larger clubs who have all redeveloped their existing sites precisely because of "the financials" you claim favours BMD? The club has been taken to the precipice by this shower and the decision-makers have all either been sacked or are doing a runner before its even built.... and you're claiming its financial prudence? Seriously?
Only Arsenal have built a whole new 50k+ stadium on a new site, (because they had no choice as Highbury was listed and more tightly restricted by listed properties all around). Only them and Spurs have built a whole new 50k+ stadium from scratch, chiefly because their massive high-end corporate capacity helped cross-subsidise the bulk of the build. A funding lever that both dwarf BMD's many times over.
I gave you rough rounded-up costings of getting GP upto similar or significantly higher capacity a while ago...... using cost per seat figures from other projects. You never came back. For obvious reasons!
For a small fraction of the cost of BMD, GP could've been expanded to a greater capacity than BMD if required and it wouldn't have been a crude facelift at all. That much reduced cost would've enabled the addition of significantly more and higher value corporate too, including far more boxes and/or exclusive corporate tiers. We all know that we need far more corporate than the current offering, but just over 400 box seats at BMD is absolutely tiny compared to all of the larger clubs and even many of the minnows. It also has to be remembered that the club needs a lot of cheap capacity too. A large proportion of our fanbase struggle to afford the current ticket prices, nevermind 20-30% hikes that may cost-out many of our current regulars. The cost of BMD and the relatively small high-end corporate capacity means that general admission prices must rise significantly too, because there is little or no cross subsidy when you only have 20 boxes and predominately corporate lite premium seats.
I've asked repeatedly what the projected income at BMD will be..... and no-one knows, even at this stage? That's farcical, and also very telling. Spurs and Arsenal showed their projections in the planning stage and had no problems generating the financial packages under their own fiscal steam as a result, no sugar daddy required, and in Spurs case, even no naming rights. We just had a massive money-laundering property development strategy, with the Russian hoping to wash his cash by dipping his toe into a lucrative Canary Wharf type Liverpool waters scheme..... securing zero enabling funding in the process! The financial plan accompanying it was at best token and collapsed before the dock was even filled. With no takers from ANY financial instutions at any point! We plodded on regardless!
Our only hope now is that Moshiri/ Usmanov take the full hit for the debt to date and our out-of-the-pot and into-the-fire new shark-investment ambulance-chasing owners can somehow fund the remainder to attract some real wealth, who can absorb any remaining debt. Hopefully while not completely sinking the club without trace in the process.... Oh, and that Dyche can somehow keep the team's collective head above water on a zero-net-spend budget in the meantime! Apart from those minor details.... as you say, the financials are brilliant!
I'm fairly regularly in the Bramley Moore watching the progress as keenly as any of you, (if anyone ever wants to discuss over a pint, upstairs offers far better views btw, if you ever get the chance). That doesn't mean I have to swallow the hard sell about "yellow walls" nor happy clap the same propagandist nonsense about GP, which was disproved decades ago.
Hopefully we'll survive this whole episode without having to hit the "big reset", whatever that means! Was that last line too "doom-mongering" for some of the more sensitive souls....? haha.