*Shakes head* Everton again.

[Harry Squatter]

Fat Joe is an Evertonian too but must get told by other Kopites to hold Everton back or he will get banned from Sayers and Gregg's. Maybe he can put the £89,000 he owes towards Everton's new ground.

 

AOT, you are right about that, fur coat, no knickers and student flats.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Cheeky twats. Sell Lukaku, Stones and Barkley and there's almost £100m to put towards a new ground, plus any cash from the TV deal.

 

 

Is the correct answer. I dare say the way they sell they'd get closer to 150m for them.  That's half a stadium right there but they wont do that because they don't sell their best players that's Kopite behaviour.

 

They want the new stadium handed to them for free under the banner "it's helping the area but if we profit from this without spending a penny as well then it's a cross we shall bare" well it would've helped the area if we'd built one in WHP but the army of evertonian dog walkers spat their dummies out over that and IIRC Fat Joe agreed. 

[Lee909]

Haven't they already got some dodgy deal with the council and there training ground. Cheeky fucking bastards. Got nothing to do with the shareholders wanting to see there shares increase 150% with the council setting them up for a foreign takeover by handing them the keys to a new stadium

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

They have got a fucking cheek. The council have bent over backwards for them for years and only their own financial inadequacy has stopped them getting an unwarranted new ground.

The biggest lie the Evertonian ever told is that they are hard done to by the Council and the Echo.

They've been saving the TV money as has been mentioned, and they will sell players for big bucks too.

 

Ifithadnabinfordacounciltaxweednevaavaground

[Russ Atmosphere]

Think they'll have to sell all those players this summer, maybe also Coleman. They've done well getting that team together and keeping it together to now but can envisage a house of cards scenario this summer, and whoever owns the club sitting on all those funds won't be able to have the pauper argument with the council.

[Anubis]

They can fuck off. front line services in this city are being cut to the bone or dispensed with, and these cunts are demanding money for a new stadium.

[Harry Squatter]

Arsenal had to endure years of selling their best players, I know they were in the Champions League but the land they bought was probably more expensive and they had to fund or part fund a new waste disposal site as the stadium was built on the local tip. Also, several bridges had to be bought and placed over railway tracks.

 

Everton have 3 or more players they could sell to raise the money to build on cheaper land with no real building headaches.

[Trumo]

Every city councillor is a Kopite. Everyone who voted for them did so with the motivation to hold back Everton. There are no Kopites in Liverpool.

 

Must be the only local authority run by an entirely different country.

[Redder Lurtz]

Why can't they raise their funds privately. You know, like any normal club would. Fucking spongers.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Let's take a bit of green land that loads of people use and build a new stadium on it. Let's beg to the council to help fund that stadium, despite the fact that said council is having to cut essential services to people due to funding issues.

 

The (don't give a shit about the) People's Club.....

[deiseach]

Must be the only local authority run by an entirely different country.

Something something Oslo something.

[Harry Squatter]

According to some of my blue friends Liverpool City Council bent over backwards for LFC so should now help them build a ground.

[halewood pete]

Another false dawn ,it's a fucking embarrassment.a club with no money and no ambition.long may it last.

[Harry Squatter]

Everton's only ambition is to not be like Liverpool.

[Barrington Womble]

One in work said with a straight face that Liverpool should bid for the Commonwealth games like Manchester did and they should be allowed to move in afterwards.

Why would they not think that? It's worked for shitty and West ham.

[El Dangerous]

Everton are the equivalent of those smack heads hanging around bus and train stations asking everyone for 50p to get home.

[Mook]

Everton are the equivalent of those smack heads hanging around bus and train stations asking everyone for 50p to get home.

Dangerous analogy that, next time i get stopped by one i'll be tempted to twat him 5 times in the face and then stand there laughing at him for the next 123 years.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

They can fuck off. front line services in this city are being cut to the bone or dispensed with, and these cunts are demanding money for a new stadium.

Some soft cow phoned in to Radio Merseyside today to say that she thinks that the Council should stump up the dough for a new 50,000 seater for the not-many-people's club.  The presenter (not unreasonably) asked why they should hand over millions to a private company.  All she could come back with was "why not?  Why not?"

 

Presumably, she's missed the news for the last decade or so.

[raininblood]

When did Liverpool get given £25 million of Liverpool city councils money then? this comes from some prick on the Echo comments section !

[an tha]

Bitter mate of mine who is usually relatively balanced came out with the 'council bends over backwards for liverpool but won't do anything for everton' line...when pressed as to how he couldn't provide a cogent argument just some shite about 'stanley park and your new stand'

[Paulie Dangerously]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/24/everton-stadium-endangered-council-spending-cuts

 

The mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has rejected Everton claims that the city council has stalled its latest stadium project and insisted an authority facing severe spending cuts cannot finance a scheme costing over £300m.

Robert Elstone, the Everton chief executive, told the club’s AGM on Monday that plans to relocate from Goodison Park to Walton Hall Park had made little progress because of fundamental issues with the council, chiefly over accessing the land and funding. Everton have proposed a wider regeneration scheme for north Liverpool, requiring funding from the council which, Elstone claimed, would make an annual return on its investment.

That prompted an immediate response from Anderson on Twitter and the mayor issued a more comprehensive rebuttal of Everton’s accusations on Tuesday. In a statement, he said: “I was disappointed that people were left with the impression that the council and other partners were not fully in support or part of a true partnership. I don’t recognise that view.

 

Everton plan for new stadium jeopardised by lack of agreement with council

 

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“Many people would love to see a new stadium, new housing, a better park and new community facilities at Walton Hall Park. Some would prefer the park to remain the way it currently is. All of which are things to consider but the facts are that: delivering what Everton FC refer to as ‘The Vision’ requires in excess of £300m which Everton cannot yet show that they – or anyone else – have available. There is no regeneration scheme in place. There is no developer in place. There is no planning application.”

Anderson claimed the council would support Everton’s project as it has Liverpool’s expansion of Anfield once those four significant factors were in place. But he stressed a council that must save £156m in the current three-year budget, following cuts of £173m in the previous budget – a cut of approximately 58% in real terms since 2010/11 – cannot help fund a new stadium for a Premier League club.

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He added: “Some people seem to be forgetting that it is not the job of the council to finance and deliver a major regeneration scheme of the type proposed, including a potential new stadium for Everton Football Club.

“Nobody should be in any doubt about the horrendous financial situation that the council is facing. Let me reiterate, we would welcome a regeneration scheme to consider but the fact is, at the moment, there isn’t one. That is why there is no real progress to report.

“As a city we have helped Everton with Finch Farm and took the controversial decision to support a regeneration project with a stadium on Walton Hall Park. As mayor I am totally committed to helping, within reason, this project if it meets the wider regeneration needs of the area or indeed any other solution the club may propose. I await sight of those plans.”

Elstone’s comments also attracted criticism from campaigners opposed to Everton’s plans for Walton Hall Park, with new homes and retail space included in the outline proposal. Chrisie Byrne, a spokesperson for Friends of Walton Hall Park, said: “Shame on the club for putting mayor Anderson in the position he is in because Liverpool is facing its worst cuts ever, vital services have been forgotten or cut or lost. People are suffering everywhere and he expects the mayor to fund millions for a new toy for Everton FC. The fans have been fantastic – what we have proposed for is for the club to stay at Goodison Park and keep their history and for us to keep our history, which is Walton Hall Park.”

Byrne accused Everton of using the council as a scapegoat for the lack of progress on Walton Hall Park. Should the scheme fall through, it will be the club’s third failed stadium project following the collapse of the Kings Dock scheme in 2003 and “Destination Kirkby” in 2009.

She added: “We all feel that they are giving up but that they need to blame somebody. The club is not taking responsibility for their failure, that’s their get-out clause. For them this is a game, for us it isn’t. It’s not only our park, it’s our lives that will be affected.”

[Redder Lurtz]

That last paragraph is outstanding.

 

"...they need to blame somebody. The club is not taking responsibility for their failure, that’s their get-out clause..."

[Russ Atmosphere]

How does it even get to the point where rich clubs can blackmail councils into freeing up park land? Cunt right off.

[Harry Squatter]

Agree that Liverpool have been twats over the last fifteen years regarding the area so maybe that's what a few Evertonians are getting at. The council probably could have done more to pressure the club into what they wanted to do regarding a new stadium. We were run like a corner shop and then had the two shyster Americans so nothing got sorted.

 

However, Liverpool have never gone to the council demanding that they put money in to help build a new ground or stand. There was a £9m grant from the North West Development Agency but that was paid back or never used because the club didn't build on Stanley Park. The majority of the stadium was also going to be built on a car park and where a sports centre was.

[deiseach]

The mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has rejected Everton claims that the city council has stalled its latest stadium project and insisted an authority facing severe spending cuts cannot finance a scheme costing over £300m.

Robert Elstone, the Everton chief executive, told the club’s AGM on Monday that plans to relocate from Goodison Park to Walton Hall Park had made little progress because of fundamental issues with the council, chiefly over accessing the land and funding. Everton have proposed a wider regeneration scheme for north Liverpool, requiring funding from the council which, Elstone claimed, would make an annual return on its investment.

 

It's a running joke in the States that sports teams provide a return on any invest made by a local authority. The reason so many of them eventually pony up the dough for new stadiums despite the horrendous cost is the threat of the franchise going elsewhere and the loss of prestige from not having an NFL/NBA team. Good luck to Everton on both counts.