Louis

We know that Deloitte and Touche said that a new stadium in Kirkby could bring in £6m a year. We also know that the tv revenue has gone up £13m for the season just finished. The car park application was also withdrawn recently.. even if Everton moved away from Goodison, it would have been used by LFC fans so would have been worth pursuing had it been cheap enough.

Pax, in my original reply to your question I said that the loan would cost £50m+ to repay, the actual number is closer to £68m.

The Telegraph's Henry Winter and Rory Smith are apparently going to write about it.

Speaking of Space Invaders, an American producer bought the rights to make a film. Seriously. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43684040/ns/today-entertainment/t/space-invaders-video-game-be-movie/

Someone on twitter asked Liverpool owner John Henry what he thought about the deal, he replied "What were the losing bids?". Says it all really. I'm warming to Henry.

It'd be okay but possibly wouldn't allow games to play at a medium visual quality - http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6470M.43075.0.html

You won't be able to get a laptop that can play higher end games for a reasonable price in my opinion. I have a desktop pc for gaming and a laptop for web browsing etc. Together they're probably cheaper than what a gaming laptop would cost.

Man City announced a £400m sponsorship deal http://www.guardian....-etihad-airways City of Manchester Stadium will now be known as Etihad Stadium too

How did you find that so quick? I was viewer number 4!

Was what he was responding to ever published in the Echo? I don't buy it, so don't know.

I can't see Yobo moving on after this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/9733764

10miles to the gallon

Yeah Stoke have lower wages than us and make up the difference in transfer fees.

Nice find, I gave it a plug on the twitter account.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2011/07/08/david-prentice-why-there-is-no-need-for-an-everton-fc-revolution-100252-29016160/2/#sitelife-commentsWidget-bottom Echo's sports editor David Prentice gives his thoughts.. he mentions buying True Blue Holdings' shares, but TBH was dissolved in 2004!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/199919/Harry-Redknapp-hunts-new-Modric/

Bailey - did you see that post on ToffeeWeb lately? http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/10-11/comment/fan/18016.html The Park End was under Peter Johnson (and Philip Carter ) so I didn't include it. King's Dock; Paul Gregg and Bill Kenwright fell out over funding of it didn't they? It was initially meant to be £30m but rising costs saw the project die with the board members unable to agree on sourcing methods. I remember Paul Gregg offered to pay the money and charge the club repayments but Bill Kenwright didn't like that proposal. I forgot all about the Fortress Sports Fund, there has never been an update from the club about it. In the end they invested in a dog food company in Ukraine or somewhere in Eastern Europe. They served their purpose anyway, they saw off Paul Gregg.

It was a summary. In 2000, the club's owners' holding company True Blue Holding were close to selling a % to a subsidiary of media company NTL. The club sanctioned spending for player acquisitions, players like Alexandersson, Pistone, Watson and Ferguson were brought in using the club's overdraft. Jeffers and Ball had to be sold as a result in order to appease the banks. By 2002, the club's overdraft with the Co-operative bank was nearing £20million. The club loaned money in a securitisation deal to pay off the overdraft leaving funds for player acquisitions. The loan taken out in 2002 was for £30million spread over 25 years. This loan costs £2.76million a year to maintain. The club's overdraft was being eaten into again, in October 2008, it was reported that Everton paid £1.5m just to maintain the facility. In the latest accounts, the overdraft stands at £5m used after a loan was taken out against future tv revenue. At the time when the AGM was called in 2007, there were only two directors, Robert Earl and Jon Woods after Keith Wyness, the club CEO and director resigned for unknown reasons, although reason enough for The Guardian to report that Robert Earl sailed to Majorca with Philip Green on his personal yacht to meet with Wyness! There needed to be three for the club to hold an AGM so they re-appointed Sir Philip Carter who had previously retired in 2004.

What do you mean Steve?

The biggest one is spending money on players before expected money was available. As a result the club had to sell players and take out a 25 year mortgage. It'll take £50m+ to pay back. The Chairman at the time, Sir Philip Carter is still a director at the club, at the time Bill Kenwright was a major shareholder having bought into the club via True Blue Holdings. Present director Jon Woods was also a director at the time. Not offering Dan Gosling a contract in writing and missing out on any possible compensation. Not having an agreement in writing with promoters Alexander Ross for the 2007 Vodacom Challenge, Alexander Ross later opted to take Spurs to South Africa instead. Everton took Alexander Ross to court where the case was dismissed, Everton missed out on a pre-season tour and also paid legal expenses of £300k because of it. The problems with the new building on the park end, publicly giving three reasons at differing times why it could not be done, only for it to transpire that Everton could not obtain permission from the Prudential (who hold the deeds to the land, due to the above mortgage being used to secure Goodison as collateral) to lease out to a third party. Pursuing the stadium in Kirkby when it became apparent that it was not what it was originally thought to be. An AGM was called where questions were asked because it had been looked at indepth by fans, and shareholders were told it'll be alright on the night. The failed project cost £3m spread over two years. This one is not a reason why Bill Kenwright should go but I found it odd that the board preferred to bring a retired octogenarian back onto the board, rather than elect a new director who in theory could offer a new dynamic to the board.

In the webchat with Phil Neville on the official site, he said that Tim Howard had a hand in designing the goalkeeper kit.

That statement has stood up for the past 9 years and will most likely continue to do so! I think you could say the same thing about squads being weakened for most of the Premier League to be honest. I believe that the 2009 FA Cup final, was this squad at its peak.

We are spending though.. just not on new acquisitions. Larger contracts are offered to existing players in order to keep them here.

The £30m loan Everton took out expires in 2027. There isn't a quick fix.

I've just seen this on twitter: "What's the difference between David Haye and my wife? When my wife trash talks, she gets a belt."