Global search underway for stadium funding

Sounds like things are right on track.

I'm not worried, it will happen and worst case we have the potential to experience some glory whilst still playing at Goodison Park — what better way to say goodbye to the most magnificent stadium ever built, with League, FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League trophies in the cabinets!!!

I'm off!

Understandably, a lot has also been said about funding. Like all developments of this size and nature, the funding is complex. We have a number of options available to us. Liverpool City Council is one of those options and there are other opportunities we are exploring too. Any deal we do will be the best deal for Everton Football Club.

Well worth a read.

It seemed like a win-win for the club and the council but maybe they are squeezing us too much. The fact we are looking elsewhere maybe designed to sharpen their minds and relent on their demands.

Chong cheeches the council a lesson, says the deal has gone “up in smoke”...

Taxi.

We are now at Phase Two and it will be a while, for the reasons quoted, before we reach "shovel ready" stage.

But it is no longer a mythical nor mystical dream. It is a reality, at Phase Two in its development and execution.

Seriously though, acquiring the site doesn't necessarily mean that a stadium will be built on it. Mind you, that could be me hoping somebody will realise how much cheaper redeveloping Goodison Park would be!

1. Fortress Sports Fund
2. Arteta Money
3. Tescos at Kikby
4. Sylvester Stallone

Right – I'm out of ideas.

Now we appear to be going cap in hand to possible investors to fund what is fast becoming a white elephant with cost overruns probably running into the millions eventually, making the feasability of a new stadium null and void. Just saying.

Returning to the stadium issue, I am with Hugh (#17) on this one: the site is in the bag, the City Council appear to want it to happen, and the fans are clearly enthralled by the prospect of being down by the river.

This particular part of Liverpool, although encompassing a World Heritage site, had been in many decades of neglect, and with complimentary infrastructural improvements, this will be a great asset to the club, the city, and the region.

The mystery to me is why the financing wasn't in place beforehand. It's like if I wanted to build a mansion, and I bought a patch of land for it to be built, and bought office space next door so I could look at it, then, having done both, I said "I wonder if a bank will lend me money to build the actual house?"

I would drain the dock off, tank it, sink the stadium into it, and create an underground car park with what was left over.

Back to the funding – Usmanov once said his Arsenal shares were a "long-term investment for his family". He now has 5 or 6 hundred million pounds available which was earmarked for his family. Surely he must at least have looked at funding the stadium as a long-term investment option?

You're not alone in thinking that the “Three Graces” are a fairly recent marketing ploy. When I first heard it mentioned in regard to the Pier Head, I didn't have a clue what they were on about. Bullshit.

They were given that moniker after the Canova statue of the real Three Graces from Greek mythology, and here my memory fails me, which enjoyed a blast of publicity for some reason, maybe it was loaned to the Walker Art Gallery, whatever, but soon after the Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Building became the Three Graces. That's how I recall things.

The planning application needs to be right first time; refusals and referrals will add years and millions on to the project, massively important to get this right.

Most projects of this size will be funded through borrowing; it's a rare event for one person regardless of billionaire status to completely fund this type of development.

Funding is a guesstimate until the application is approved, so although the feelers are out, it probably will be the last piece of the jigsaw.

Wanted: lobotomised financial backers who will let us keep all the TV cash and build a Stadium for a share of what's left.

Signed: Moshri & Kenwright.

I would imagine the ground will have to have all the road links in place so that all the traffic required can access the site. I don't think everything needed to build the Big Mac Double Stadium will go in and out through the Dock Gate which was built for a horse and cart. Over to the Council to get cracking.

Anyway if it was up before that tart, her granny and the dog, it would appear the dog would probably cock it's leg over the stadium if it is operated by red necks.

Like much of the city centre, it's a very different place today.

And, oh boy oh boy, we are doing things the hard way.

Only times I went to the Pier Head was to have a night on the Royal Iris, go to New Brighton, or I fell asleep on the bus home.