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• I hope you\'re right Mike and that UK follows the Americal model, but I think most additional revenue will come from new sponsorship deals....
  Eric Myles in Everton's Chief Revenue Officer describes club's stadium strategy
• Eric #32, you\'re making a blanket statement there that simply may not be true. rnrnIn the US at least, each event is negotiated, and those negotiations often include revenue sharing for the venue. It\'s not just flat rent every time.rnrnThe stadium may keep a percentage of the gate receipts gross, or a percentage above a certain attendance figure. rnrnThe same is often true of concessions, so the assumption that the caterer pays a flat fee and then hoovers up all the food and drink revenue is not necessarily true either. rnrnAnd quite often the stadium will collect on hospitality suites, parking and merchandise sales as well. rnrnWe won\'t see numbers on these deals until TFG releases its next annual financial report....
  Mike Gaynes in Everton's Chief Revenue Officer describes club's stadium strategy
• If O’Brien is at right back for the first game of next season I’ll lose my mind. I like the lad and he should be at center half next to Jarrad, or maybe in a back 3… SIGN A RIGHT BACK FFS!…. And get rid of Barry. He is the single worst player I have ever seen play for us. Those two things alone would improve us. ...
  Sean Kearns in Everton's transfer priorities this summer
• Jay #8, under PCR aren't we allowed to spend 85% of our revenue on the team? So by your figures we have an extra 10% available which is £20 million, plus 10% of any incremental value, so not a lot. We're going to have to sell to buy so the team won't really change that much. The ghost of Chairman Bill is still with us. Perversely, the PCR for UEFA is 65% (?) so we would have to reduce our costs by 10% if we'd have qualified....
  Eric Myles in Everton's transfer priorities this summer
• Francisco Moura is a LB at Porto who is now on a free. Age26. Anyone know anything about him, apart from his stats on TM....
  Jack Convery in Time to cash in — The players Everton should sell this summer
• Forget about attendances at these events, the organisers / promoters will be paying a fixed fee to the Club to rent the facility. Whether there\'s 20 or 20,000 or 200,000 the Club don\'t care, the organisers receive the ticket revenue.rnrnCatering is outsourced so again, the Club receive a rent, the caterers receive the sales revenue.rnrnEngland fixtures are a different matter if it\'s the Club promoting the event and they may even make a deal with the caterers for a percent of the sales revenue....
  Eric Myles in Everton's Chief Revenue Officer describes club's stadium strategy