The Tesco Arena

[Cormack74]

It does not look that bad tbh. What is the projected capacity ?

55k apparently. About 25k bigger than they need.

[Kenneth]

You know they'd never fill in the corners.

[REDSCOUSER]

Anything over ten would be a waste.

55k apparently. About 25k bigger than they need.

Ta mate, they'll never get more than 40 max.

[Marshy]

By all means have a good laugh at them on here but if you bump into evertonians during the voting period then don't do or say anything that will provoke them into voting 'no'.

[tomasjj]

the new main stand for the blue****e

Kenwright: "I will have 4 of those, please. Any discounts goin'?"

[James]

Apparently they are adopting the Tesco 'One In Front' slogan - no matter where you sit in the stadium they promise you will only ever have 'One In Front'.

[Le Chef]

Looks like that carcraft showroom on the tv ads

[reddragon]

surely they won't bother to put them lights on during a champions league game - it'll be too far away to be a car park for Anfield

there was an evertonian
twenty years ago
handing out the leaflets
saying howard he must go
they got up a petition
and twenty thousand signed
you two-faced everton *******s
you're the ****e of merseyside
LAUGH AT EVERTON
LAUGH AT EVERTON
LAUGH AT EVERTON
LAUGH AT EVERTON
LAUGH AT EVERTON
LAUGH AT EVERTON
you two-faced everton *******s
you're the ****e of merseyside

[Revo]

By all means have a good laugh at them on here but if you bump into evertonians during the voting period then don't do or say anything that will provoke them into voting 'no'.

i hope they stay in goodison cos they deserve that ****hole every other week, it matches their ambition.

[reddragon]

i hope they stay in goodison cos they deserve that ****hole every other week, it matches their ambition.

I hope they stay there cos i like looking down the hill at their shed every home game. I'm hoping the Kop in the new stadium will give us a view hehe

[Zambian_Red]

I thought Gollum made it up?

He needs his head examined, since he has been in charge what has he won let alone what the hell have they won in the last decade.

Oh they made it in the CL but apparently got knocked the ****ed out in the qualifying round. I really hope this season we can get the double over them and i would love it if we meet them in a cup final and beat them again. Memories of 86'

[Iceman]

I thought " Lovee" made it up

they are all delusional, Gollum still talks about "When we qualified for the Champions league"

They didnt..................They qualified for the 3rd round qualifier............. got ****ed over............dropped into the uefa cup and got ****ed over in the qualifier for that too

[Redneck]

LOL Champions League footy!! Feckin' dreaming!

What a ****e site ... not even ASP

[Boogs]

Taken from BBC. Well worth a read just to laugh at the bitters

Everton chief executive Keith Wyness went straight for the hard sell as he tried to win over fans to the idea of quitting Goodison Park for a new stadium in Kirkby.

Labelling a link-up with supermarket giant Tesco and Knowsley council to provide a new 50,000-capacity home as "the deal of the century" is some boast... particularly as the century has 93 years to go.

Everton's proposed move to Kirkby is a thorny issue among many fans reluctant to move outside the Liverpool city boundaries.

It may only be four miles from their current home, but symbolically they believe it will mark a seminal moment in Everton's history.

Cards on the table here. I believe Everton do need a new ground, and despite statements from Liverpool City Council about sites offered to the club, specifics have been in very short supply.

Goodison Park is an old place, the home of a 100 memories, but in modern terms it is crumbling old dog track.

And, again despite various claims, serious suggestions of how it can be rebuilt are also thin on the ground.

Wyness paints a glorious picture of a new home that will leave Everton with relatively few debts and provide the manager, whoever it may be at the time of the proposed move in 2010, with an extra £10m in transfer funds every year which will be the equivelant of £1m in today's economy.

And boy do they need those funds desperatly.

Wyness confirmed any stadium money will not eat into cash for team-building, balls and cones, which is a good job seeing as Everton are hardly among the Premiership's big spenders as it is.

Everton are currently being outshone financially in the transfer market by Wigan, Sunderland, Fulham and pretty much everyone else with a shred of ambition.

Not so much in the players they have signed, but with the intent they have shown and the amount of money they appear to have.

Quite why Everton appear to be so short of cash while most other clubs seem to be drowning in it is a mystery.

Word is that boss David Moyes has a mere £6m left in his transfer pot - despite only paying out £4m for Phil Jagielka and recouping £1m of that from Sheffield United for Gary Naysmith.

Everton also received a reported £2.75m from Fulham for Simon Davies in January, so there has not been much flashing of the cash from chairman Bill Kenwright up to now.

And as rich men queue down the street to invest in Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Portsmouth and even championship clubs like Southampton, Everton currently appear the investors' version of Kryptonite.

Planet Hollywood mogul Robert Earl bought out rebel director Paul Gregg's shares last October, but the only thing he has brought to Goodison Park so far is his old mate Sylvester Stallone, who had his latest film to plug.

Other than allowing Kenwright to rid himself of Gregg, he offers nothing to Everton's financial firepower in the transfer marker.

A new 50,000-capacity ground will help that situation, with investors presumably put off if they have to earmark millions to build a new ground.

Now we come to the matter of the ballot that will be held among Everton fans, but even that raises questions.

Everton have already confirmed the result will not be totally binding on the club.

And Wyness admits: "There is no Plan B. There is no other option."

This, on its own, is quite a worrying admission for Everton fans from Wyness.

So what will the question actually be? The footballing version of do you want to live or die?

Loaded, that one.

He also states attendance numbers will go down if Everton stay at Goodison Park.

Why?

If I was a fan I would be asking how he reaches that conclusion.

Everton's fans have proved magnificently loyal through some fairly shoddy episodes, including Kenwright's courting of the much-anticipated investment from the Fortress Sports Fund.

The same Fund that disappeared in embarrassing fashion when those involved failed to produce any cash.

So why will attendances drop if the club stays at Goodison?

If Everton are flourishing supporters turn up. If Everton aren't flourishing supporters turn up.

I would also ask how the figure of an extra £10m in transfer funds would be generated every season by a new stadium.

This is because £10m actually doesn't sound that much in the modern market.

I firmly believe Everton are right to move, but I also do not blame some fans for being cynical when words such as "deal of the century" are fired in their direction.

They have heard such things before.

[reddragon]

crumbling old dog track


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