Everton exchange land-lease contracts for Bramley-Moore Dock site

Apparently, they are described as "the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm in the world" in this wiki link.

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A step up from dealing with someone in a Manchester bedsit, I s'pose.

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Place yer bets for who on TW will be the first curmudgeon to grumble about it.

A new era awaits (Once we cadge a few hundred million – go 'ead Bill!)

I know we're all running out of patience, however, Mr Moshiri is clearly committing to our future and we all need to support him in the best interests of the club. The priority is to stay in the Premier League and to do that we need to stop letting in goals and get ourselves organised.

Sean Dyche can do this for us over, say, the next 3 years and then we can look for a continental coach to develop a more progressive football style. At present, let's not kid ourselves, we are bad and survival is key.

Our neighbor's stadium expansion has moved forward with ease. Meanwhile we don't have a manager and play the worst football in the league. Happy days indeed.

Now we have the 200-year lease, planning permission should be relatively easy as it opens up and initiates a vast development wanted by most parties. Finance, supported and backed by the Council, must be a shoe in.

Thank God Moshiri is the driving force in this and not the "World's Greatest Evertonian"...

"The new stadium is as much a pipe dream as Kings Dock was."

"Forget any notion of a shiney new stadium – that isn't going to happen."

"Even the Phantom stadium move appears to have been forgotten about..."

"If I could put money on the new stadium not going ahead as we were told, I would do so. It's a sure-fire winning bet."

"Look no further than the imaginary new stadium to see progress under Moshiri."

"I was concerned about the lack of movement on the stadium a few months ago but now I think we all know that's gone."

And of course...

"Huge dollops of humble pie will soon be served. None of it consumed by me either."

I said a lot of us Evertonians are skeptical it will ever get built. But he seemed certain it would and the fans will like it. Didn't matter how hard I pressed him he wouldn't tell me anything about it.

Good post. The haste to jump on the negativity bandwagon is bewildering.

How fans genuinely believe Moshiri has invested his money to stay in a dilapidated stadium defies logic.

I'm sure Mr Dyche would jump at that brief. Here's a 3-year deal, no longer. Get us organised and stop leaking goals... simples.

Then we will bin you for a newer model. Thanks for making is organised and good luck the doors that way. Next...

Silva resigned yet?

It's okay, see you all in the New Stadium, no it looks a sure-fire goer... Well, my money is still on it not happening.

This news is just old rehashed stuff we heard a year ago. I will believe it when I sit down in it.

Peel may know.

Indeed this is a move forward to a next phase, but the project is still subject to the uncertainties of "securing funding." Anyone looked at pundits' views of the future of the UK economy recently?

To end on a cheap shot: doubtless the money will be "ring-fenced" when the time comes.

Sceptical? Damn right I am!! And I'll not be eating any humble pie until I'm sitting in a shinny bowl on the Mersey.

Planning Permission should be straightforward but as for funding and stadium design?

Isn't it?
Surely??
Anyone???

Hello!?!

It was beyond Bill to get us a fitting new home, this is the test of Moshiri. Can you deliver the energising you alluded to Farhad? I am very hopeful. Good luck!

It's a heck of an exaggeration to say our neighbour's extension and Spurs' new ground are progressing with ease. Both were discussed and planned in depth over a number of years in the same way as any other civil engineering project of that size.

These things don't happen as quickly as we all would like. Today's announcement is very good news.

And if you don't think this announcement of a real estate purchase, not planning permission or funding or any of that, was strategically planned on the day where we will all be reminded of the fact that we were knocked out of Europe with matches yet to be played, well I have a bridge to sell you too.

Honestly, we have no manager, have to waste our time on a Europa League match that we've already been eliminated from, but we should celebrate the fact that Moshiri bought real estate? This reminds me of people celebrating when he bought the Liver Building.

"Spurs new stadium moving along with ease"?

You may want to revisit that one, do a little research and see just how painstaking this venture has been for them. Yes, they can see light at the end of the tunnel now, but in comparison, progress on the docks is moving like an express train.

Also, RS only decided to put lippy on the bulldog that is Anfield after years of leading their moronic fans up the garden path with stories of a super stadium in Stanley Park.

Moshiri doesn't seem to do football, he may not even do football stadiums... but he probably knows a man who can.

These things take years; this is looking promising

"Happy"? – Not allowed on here mate.

We love misery... in fact I think we may have invented it.

Can you recall the last time you read through a thread and felt good after it?

So celebrating news like this just seems pointless to me. Announcing the hiring of a manager would seem to be a much higher priority. It is on the pitch that matters, not the stadium that houses that pitch. And we are awful on the pitch with a serious lack of direction.

Micheal or Lyndon is the spell check thingy switched off on site? Its not working for me.

And to be honest, although Goodison is great, at one time one of the best stadiums in Britain, and has fantastic memories for us, if we're going to be in the Champions League we need a fancy new stadium to go with it.

So to me, a new stadium, an iconic one on our iconic water front, is inevitable.

Next phase, Usmanov comes in. Then we start cooking on gas.

Extension or no, Anfield remains an overblown sardine can. When our new stadium is built, it will continue the grandeur of Goodison, and the sardine can will remain in the shade.

And no, Tony (#24), you're making a fool of yourself again. It's not old news from last year. It's a new agreement securing leasehold for the land from Peel Holdings. That is progress. Not spades in the ground but we are still a long ways off that.

The custodians of EFC cannot keep hold of our players, cannot attract a manager, cannot oversee the signing of decent players. They cannot do the simplest of tasks. We have leased a piece of land in a run-down part of the city. It means nothing. It's a gesture, that's all it is.

No planning permission, no stadium design, no funding, just press releases. We all knew about the land at Bramley-Moore Dock, so what is new about this latest snippet of crap?? Yes Micheal, it's all looking well under way on the docks isn't it??

I take it you have never been down the dock road. I go down there 4 to 5 times a week. It's an absolute shithole with no infrastructure. Who will put the roads and traffic lights in? Moshiri? How about the car parks, busstops, train station, street lights, public facilities etc. There is nothing there except for a pub and derelict buildings.

If I've made a fool of myself again then so be it, but Kenwright and Moshiri are making fools of you all. I am 55 years old maybe get to see a new stadium in my life time but I doubt it will be on the Bramley-Moore location. We can't afford a striker never mind a new stadium, FFS.

Moshiri has been on board for nearly two years have we really made significant strides moving forward? Seriously ask yourself that? A bit of cladding, a lick of paint and what else has changed.

Spunked the majority of the Lukaku and Stones money on rubbish and the rest of the recruitment was funded by the increased television money. Look at our change in shirt sponsors, probably as bad as piss Chang that we had for over a decade.

Peel Holdings have now transferred Bramley-Moore Dock to EFC for a peppercorn rent. I believe it will happen and Peel will make a fortune from the associated redevelopment of the surrounding areas.

You do talk some garbage. Talk about doom and gloom.

We know the club have issues (or it appears) but I'm trusting Moshiri to deliver on Bramley-Moore Dock. Clubs don't make these statements without having some credible substance to them.

Who will build car parks, pubs, bus stops, shops in this area! The ground will attract thousands of people a year, people will come with money, the council and private sector will develop the infrastructure. Companies will throw millions at it in investment based on the surrounding land.

People like Moshiri don't accidentally end up Billionaires, they see the future and what 5, 10 or 20 years of investment will bring. Why did he buy a share of the Liver Building?

However, I appreciate these plans are nothing right now until the club is stabilized. The next two games could see us stable in the Premier League and a new manager sitting in the hot seat. Time will tell.

Enough of the gloom, it's bollox and most of us don't buy into it.

He does, however, have a sound business and financial knowledge and he also knows some very, very influential people who just happen to be extremely rich as well.

The North End of the city as been waiting like a jilted bride, for some major development to take place and get it flourishing. Liverpool Waters is the Keystone of the resurgence and Peel Holdings are not going to see the development crumble away because of any partners who are not capable of contributing to the massive regeneration about to take place.

A new international Liner terminal, a new ferry terminal and a new Isle of Man terminal, and probably a ferry service to Ireland as well. Then there is the housing development already taking place. Mr Moshiri and partners have bought the Liver Building and I don't think they've bought it because it's got a nice view.

A key part of the development is a stadium for us! All we have to do is just make sure we stay in the Premier League for this season and that should be our number one top target.

Not a big ask... is it!

A proper club with ambitions and a world wide fan base that doesn't put up with bulls hit for decades will move into a spanking 80 thousand seat stadium. We can slink back to our original home and entertain Brentford and Doncaster and the like. Easy!