Have you spoken with any City fans about that?

The article mentions only Hill Dickinson Stadium as a revenue generator for Everton’s future. It is one of two, and in the long term much the smaller of the two at the quoted £60M–£80M annually. The other would be worldwide commercial revenue, to be generated by sponsorships and partnerships (like our new deals with Pepsi and Budweiser) and merchandising (of which Everton does very little). That’s where the bulk of the growth must come from if the club is to double or triple its revenues in coming years to move into the SCR realm of Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal.

NFL? Poor comparison. NFL is a franchise model. In the last 20 years, 13 different teams have won the Super Bowl. And nobody gets relegated.

It’s not worth the trouble, David. You can’t just scroll down and read the comments in chronological order anymore. Now you have to click on “show more replies” to open up the replies to each comment, and then try to juggle what order they were posted in. It’s a pain in the ass.

front line means Barry from eastenders . .

Hopefully with more experience some of that ‘quantity’ will e exchanged for ‘quality’

Sham sponshorship

Or the fact that 70% of contributors have left in the last 10 days And the other 30% can’t be arsed apart from the odd comment.

While I don’t think Moyes will do it, keeping defensive shape and staying compact 1st half may help the front line subs. Whether the ones that start will have enough in the tank, or still can charge their back line after defending like that, don’t know.

It’s definitely the new comment system ,100% Absolute mess. No thread No cohesion to the discussion “Oh we had to do it😭😭😭 cos someone held us to ransom, and we couldn’t have continued with a gun to our head, Mess

Exactly, don’t count our chickens.

I know what you mean, Pedro. I’m finding Brennan Johnson a difficult player to get to like. And he doesn’t get that much playing time from Craig Bellamy, who I don’t like either. Any chance you could click on Account (upper right) and add your last name to the Display Name it shows there in your settings? Thanks!

Hi Kevin, and thanks for joining us! We’ve made a number of changes recently and we’ve set up a few articles dealing with these. Ideally, people would post about the changes on one of those articles… but at times it’s like herding cats! Back in the day, I would move off-topic posts to more relevant articles but I can no longer do this with the new system. An alternative approach would be for me to copy each offending post and put it the right place, inside a comment of my own as a quote, along a reply, but this would lose the clarity of who is writing what — and it add to my workload! So please, folks, post on topic, and post about the changes on this thread: https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/26-27/news/toffeeweb-comment-system-update/ ps: Make sure you Subscribe to the ToffeeWeb Talk YouTube Channel.

Don’t know if it’s the lack of PL football, or just apathy over the whole city, psr, deductions, scr or the new comment system, but I’d expect alot more interaction on such a good piece by Michael.

I have just joined TW I may be missing something, but I have clicked on the article about “Man City/Pickford v Trafford/Norgaard return And the only comments I see relate to the recent changes?

Hi Jeff, thanks for popping back in. Yes, both Harry and I have been pushing Arena to include this as an option — and to set it as the defaut sort order instead of this ridiculous ‘Best’ business. Incredibly, it’s not already built in to the Arena software. They initially sounded encouraging but the tune has now changed somewhat: “The Comment System is a shared product used by many partners, so changes like these need to be reviewed by our Product and Engineering teams first. They assess feasibility and impact on everyone. If a request is approved, it’s prioritized in our roadmap alongside other work. That takes time, and I’d rather be upfront about it than promise turnaround times we can’t meet.” In short: Don’t hold your breath!

Eric, ‘Uncle Paddy’ didn’t explain the fundamental difference between a radius and diameter? The area the ball is successfully played into is much more restricted than even a quarter of the pitch if you go by a 20 metre radius from the (oppositions) goal, with anything behind the goal obviously excluded if the pass is successful. It’s a decent stat to tell you something about a player patently trying to break open an opposition defence.

dave – remember the teary ones immortal words ‘we’ve had good times’ and another one of his greatest hits was ‘another chairman said to me what would everton do ? ‘ the list went on and on…i saw in the independent yesterday arsene wenger raised suspicion of etihad giving city 900m sponsorship compared to arsenals deal with emirates

sorry Eric it’s from my youtube account and you need to be logged in – it’s great, that goal and a ton of stuff on the afterwards

I have to agree with you Ajay. I was reading this on my phone the other night and was thinking to myself, this must have been copied and pasted from another article because I’ve never witnessed Michael, write anything as good as this before! If Michael, can start writing with such quality then surely David Moyes, can do likewise and finally win us a cup🤞😂

I don’t like Johnson’s body language. He gives the impression that he would rather be somewhere else.

What about the £30 million to secure 1st refusal on the new Stadium naming rights.

To me. I feel optimistic. Players back. Our way with Moyes. Dislike him but…

Haaland consistently is one of the highest on missed chances. Its real life, get over it.

Didnt realise we had that much of a front line.

The running was fantastic. The passing, not so much. The 6 was deserved.

Obviously Barry is a long way from a polished finisher, but his “chances missed” include a couple of outstanding saves by goalkeepers, and he has dramatically improved his movement off the ball and his ability to get into the right positions to score. Last season he drove us crazy getting caught offside a dozen times. This season he hasn’t been called for offside once. The young man is learning his craft. I am impressed — and surprised — by his progress.

Very impressed with Harrison’s stat’s, and some were complaining about his performance against Ipswich, where he ran 12.9km?

When we get Rohl back, with Armstrong and Hackney, we could conceivably run opponents down early in matches. Then if, fucking if, Moyes manages subs properly, things could open up for the front line.

“We win under all those associated partner transactions case” sorry Steve, but what do you mean?

They fall under the Man City versus Premier League case and we win under all of those Associated Partner Transactions case, which is driving EPL rule changes.

Yes exactly City will take the EPL into either the long grass of real courts of law or challenging the very contradictory confluence of the EPL Constitution of the EPL and its very frail set of rules 👊

On the “sort by “ tab can we also have oldest please?

Bob Kerr, O’Brien played excellent against Israel on Sunday, I reckon he brought Egan back in, because his lack of game time, and only 3 days rest?

What will happen to us when the spotlight falls on Usmanov’s over sponsorship of Everton ? USM Finch Farm, Russian phone companies advertised at Goodison and I think on our shirts , don’t think these deals will go unnoticed.

Great article. Clearly sets out the context / history and the current issues. I doubt City fans will still enjoy the trophies.

They obviously think they have something to argue, a point of law rather than something in the PL rules. It may be some European competition law one lawyer said yesterday, and city know they can’t win the case at the commission or appeal, and they have wanted all along to take it to a court of law to fight it on a point there .

The Armstrong stat is excellent, not only is he composed, a great passer and looks after the ball, he’s literally out running the whole PL. Shows real desire and determination to succeed. For one so young to be leading this stat, bodes well for the future for the lad and Everton.

Thought that’s what I do with the missus on anniversary’s and birthdays 😉

That was a bad mistake I made twice but put them right and all’s well that ends well, by the way when I punch in Moores name your copywriter puts the bleedin’ apostrophe in before I get to the end of Sir John’s name, tell him I’m sorry next time your pass that photo you have of him. Tony most probably has to put up with the same problem your copywriter makes!

Hi Eric, I was hoping Arena had something that would let us post proper active links, but even that seems to be a struggle. What I have found is, if you use your mouse (or whatever) to select the full web address URL, then right-click over it, one option will be to “Goto [the link]” At least this works realy well in Google Chrome.

“ Uncle Paddy “ rings a bell – was he the Irish teacher that taught me around 1955, bit of a character, he had quaint Irish sayings that kept us amused.

£28 million? That’s a new Yerry Mina.

Thanks for the clarity, Paul. I probably jumped the gun there. I don’t know anything about politics apart from corruption. I presume Burnham would have to stay out of anything relating to Everton due to conflict of interest? I mean, Everton got shit all over and should demand answers. Not to mention league positions, etc. Surely the PM has to steer well clear? As for Manchester and not being a fan of the place or the people. It will/could affect a lot of working people. Sad, really.

Harry defines it in the article “a deep completion is defined as any non-cross pass that is successfully completed into a 20-metre radius of the opponent’s goal” Now a 20 metre radius is a 40 metre diameter according to my old maths teacher “Uncle Paddy” at De La Salle. So, as the pitch is 70 metres wide by 100 metres long (roughly) this effectively means he hoofed the ball into the oppositions half?

They didn’t seem too bothered that WE might be relegated and ultimately bankrupted and the legitimacy of remaining games then.

There’s also a problem with posted web addresses, I’m not able to copy them and the pop up appear but disappears immediately.

It WAS the fixed default ordering when the new layout became active, then changed, when Recent Comments was fixed?

Works okay for me, Eric.

Spot on Ajay, see my longer post on the unrelenting drive to accountability of the EPL rules under competition law. It will just take more time and the Governments Football Regulator.