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New Everton Stadium

Ever stopped to wonder why it costs so much to build stadia in the UK? Wembley stadium £800m!!! You could build a new town for that, never mind a concrete bowl. And this £300m figure often quoted for a new Everton ground, again, why so much? Wasn't Sunderlands ground built for less than £100m? And haven't Rotherham or someone just built a 20,000+ new ground for a total cost of £25m. Now I know we're not comparing like with like with this example, but seriously £300m! Employing 1000 workers for a full year on average wage of £1000 a week would only give a wage bill of £50m. Even doubling that takes us to only £100m...........so £200m on materials etc!........really??? Or is it typically a case of £100m on materials and the other £100m left as profit for everyone from suppliers to designers who got their finger in the pie.

Well there's German companies which do ready made houses, seen it on Grand Designs. Reckon they'd do a stadium for about 10 million if you asked them. They'd set it up in a week. Dead efficient Germans.
 
Ever stopped to wonder why it costs so much to build stadia in the UK? Wembley stadium £800m!!! You could build a new town for that, never mind a concrete bowl. And this £300m figure often quoted for a new Everton ground, again, why so much? Wasn't Sunderlands ground built for less than £100m? And haven't Rotherham or someone just built a 20,000+ new ground for a total cost of £25m. Now I know we're not comparing like with like with this example, but seriously £300m! Employing 1000 workers for a full year on average wage of £1000 a week would only give a wage bill of £50m. Even doubling that takes us to only £100m...........so £200m on materials etc!........really??? Or is it typically a case of £100m on materials and the other £100m left as profit for everyone from suppliers to designers who got their finger in the pie.

It has long puzzled me that. Wembley and The Emirates I can kind of understand; London for one, massive for another. Also, both included tons of infrastructure, and with Arsenal, pretty sure buying land as well.

Prepared to bet a few bob that comparable stadiums in Europe and the US are nowhere near as expensive to build.
 
It has long puzzled me that. Wembley and The Emirates I can kind of understand; London for one, massive for another. Also, both included tons of infrastructure, and with Arsenal, pretty sure buying land as well.

Prepared to bet a few bob that comparable stadiums in Europe and the US are nowhere near as expensive to build.
LOL.

I see stadiums in the UK as cheap.

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/10/27/11-most-expensive-stadiums-in-the-world/

That's the most expensive stadiums in the world. Wembley sneaks into the top 5. Emirates is 10. London Olympic is in there. The rest? American. And MetLife is well over twice the cost of Emirates.

Edited to add: Ok, the Rogers Center is technically Canadian, but what's the difference?
 
LOL.

I see stadiums in the UK as cheap.

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/10/27/11-most-expensive-stadiums-in-the-world/

That's the most expensive stadiums in the world. Wembley sneaks into the top 5. Emirates is 10. London Olympic is in there. The rest? American. And MetLife is well over twice the cost of Emirates.

Edited to add: Ok, the Rogers Center is technically Canadian, but what's the difference?

Haha! Fair enough! Honestly thought the cost of building would be cheaper in the US though. Like those US stadium were massive, in the main.
 
Haha! Fair enough! Honestly thought the cost of building would be cheaper in the US though. Like those US stadium were massive, in the main.
Probably true. The most expensive stadiums in the US have things like enormous Ultra-HD screens and loads of other kooky things not related to sports. And yeah, they're pretty huge. MetLife has four locker rooms, for example, and a capacity of 82k.
 

Ever stopped to wonder why it costs so much to build stadia in the UK? Wembley stadium £800m!!! You could build a new town for that, never mind a concrete bowl. And this £300m figure often quoted for a new Everton ground, again, why so much? Wasn't Sunderlands ground built for less than £100m? And haven't Rotherham or someone just built a 20,000+ new ground for a total cost of £25m. Now I know we're not comparing like with like with this example, but seriously £300m! Employing 1000 workers for a full year on average wage of £1000 a week would only give a wage bill of £50m. Even doubling that takes us to only £100m...........so £200m on materials etc!........really??? Or is it typically a case of £100m on materials and the other £100m left as profit for everyone from suppliers to designers who got their finger in the pie.

Sunderlands ground was built in the 90's, it would cost in the region of 150 million in todays prices.

Liverpools new main stand is costing 75 million, i'm going to guess the Anfield road part will be in the region 35 million.
 
Sunderlands ground was built in the 90's, it would cost in the region of 150 million in todays prices.

Liverpools new main stand is costing 75 million, i'm going to guess the Anfield road part will be in the region 35 million.

I would say that's about how much a new ground would cost in this day and age. 300 million is a massive exaggeration, imo. The Kirkby shed was said to cost 78 million.
 

Rings a bell to be fair, would like to know what's going on with this though, there's a "save Walton Hall Park from Everton" campaign on Twitter though.
I posted this months ago but I was in a lecture at Uni and Everton's Head of Facilities Management came in to give a lecture and he said that there will be an announcement on the stadium within 6-9 months. That was in April.
 
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