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Isn't that a song by Queen?

Well the Government watchdog CABE ripped the stadium design apart basically saying it was low quality. I think they'd end up commissioning a new design.

If it were to happen I could both teams buying a stake in the stadium and someone like the city council or a stadium trust owning the rest. The difficulties start when one team has financial problems and would have to sell their stake. Bayern Munich share with TSV 1860 München and there were rumours that TSV 1860 München would have sell their stake to ease their cash flow. EDIT - They did sell their stake. That's my biggest fear with a ground share, Everton selling their stake on to another party and having to rent it back as a short-term solution.

It's kind of different here because LFC were formed in EFC's wake, there's no social or religious divide between the fans and the history of the clubs are closely intertwined. I think it would work but there would be teething problems. Bristol Rovers are currently doing their own ground up and approached Bristol City to see if they could share, they were told no and now Rovers have to travel 40miles to Cheltenham to play home games. Seems a bit unfair and in situations like that I think the FA should step in.

In all honesty, I don't think it would be good enough, not even if it was on the land currently occupied by Goodison Park.

No, there's a few new people at the club now - we've appointed a new commercial manager called Peter Trembling recently so I think everything is up in the air anyway.

We could have though and been half a million richer but Kenwright chose not to because of fear of fan remarks. That's pretty much the parallel for a ground share, we'd be financially better off sharing a stadium but some fans wouldn't want it.

I've asked somebody for a proxy because I'm keen to go too (free sandwiches!!).

Amazingly I'm in agreement with Dangermouse too. The JJB deal started ok but it is no longer good for the perception of the club. The reason it was brought in was because EFC handled their merchandise in house and made a loss year on year buying and selling the wrong quantities. Keith Wyness sold the merchandising rights for £400k to JJB - his reason being we won't be making a loss anymore and we are guaranteed a profit. That in itself sounded like a great deal. The problems mainly started when JJB sold their allocation, they pretty much refused to get more stock in because they may make a loss on stock they can't sell. Once it's gone, it's gone. Keith Wyness received a bonus for negotiating the deal. Nike kit.. if we had a more high profile manufacturer (Nike/Adidas mainly) then we would sell a lot more non-kit replica clothing. You simply don't find kids wearing Umbro out of choice. Put their two favourites together i.e. Nike and Everton and you are onto an instant winner.

Will you be present at the EGM SteveO?

Hardly anyone on here was bothered about who the 'Marquee' was rented out to on non-match days. It was more money for the club (£500k per annum in fact) and the person who was responsible for the deal was not Keith Wyness however Wyness did give it the all clear. It was Everton's "head of public relations/external affairs" and Bill Kenwright who put a stop to it because they didn't want the 'bad press' even if it made financial sense.

mikkysbumfluff, this is from the same article: Everton have average gates of 35,000, an ultra-loyal fan base, grand history, a superb manager, great production line of young talent and after three top-six finishes in the past four seasons, they are statistically the closest side to the Big Four.

It generally services the debts, pays wages and pays off loans for players purchased the previous season :\

Depends on whether Liverpool will say work has began on theirs already (I've heard that it's only drainage work going on on the site and stadium construction has not started) Do you see a shared stadium as a better option to Kirkby?

Everton have offered him £25,000 a week and he's made up with that - he said Rennes can only dream of matching that kind of money. It's interesting.. he comes from some youth club called Kadji Sports Academy in Cameroon. Half of the national side has seemingly come through it. Samuel Eto'o, Éric Djemba Djemba, Benjamin Moukandjo Bilé, Aurélien Chedjou, Carlos Kameni and Georges Mandjeck (Wikipedia is wonderful).

He's nothing to do with KEIOC. He may be pro KEIOC I don't know but he has listed his reasons for not being in favour of moving to Kirkby all of which are solid. Developments have been made today, Kenwright is meeting Liverpool City Council on Tuesday

Good news all round.. Everton have a few options A. Pull out of Kirkby project because of increase in cost B. See what Liverpool City Council are offering before committing to the project C. Carry on regardless of call in and pay the increase in cost (£9-15million) They've done the right thing in choosing to speak to LCC before committing themselves.

The opening paragraph is brilliant.. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/08/...ew_no9_liv.html

Once we sold him, Motherwell received 13% of the fee. If we had sold him onto the Old firm they would have received 15%. I don't know if Everton included any when we sold him to Brum.

He was probably asked about the rumours that he was signing for Preston on loan.. "Victor is a really good player," he told Sky Sports News. "I know him really well and if Victor was here that would be absolutely fantastic for us. "But David is having enough problems himself getting players in and Victor is at the Olympics in any case, and so I don't think David will be in the position to let players out on loan until such time as he got his own squad sorted out. "Like I say it is not just Everton, most managers I speak to are saying the same thing - in that they are having difficulty bringing in the players they want to." Being on Sky Sports News is a bit of a backwards step media wise than being interviewed by ToffeeTalk.. obviously a bad time for him

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/egm-...-confirmed.html

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverp...64375-21490456/ The club are taking independent advice to see whether they should stick or twist with the proposed stadium. It'll be interesting if they make the decision before the EGM takes place.

I don't mind it actually, it is hard to navigate at first but once you're use to it it is fine. Still too many adverts for my liking though, firefox adblocker comes in handy

http://www.evertonfc.com/home/ It's been updated with some new features like free email addresses and social networking.

Personally I wouldn't until closer the time, Sky have a habit of messing around when the "big four" teams are involved.