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According to the Mail, he's been told he can go as Moyes needs a transfer budget. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport/footba...n.html?ITO=1490

I've recently been listening to these again.. I have to say that Debaser is my favourite!

There was an official store in the arcade a few years ago but it was closed down, Birkenhead is the only store to have made a profit out of the lot and was the only one kept open.

Have a look at this www.engrish.com - do it when there's no one else around!

Russia's success so far has apparently made a lot of Russians look at football with interest. The size of that country, they could be a new force to be reckoned with

I think they closed half their stores because of the credit crunch but I don't think they're going bust

There is a rumour doing the rounds that Everton have agreed to lease a new store in the Liverpool One shopping centre. It's supposedly on the upper level's South John Street, next door but one to the LFC Store (but it's less than half the size apparently) The green store in the attached image.

http://www.premiershiplatest.com/news/new-...e--5511357.html Still ongoing..

Kind of... It's not been in the local press but Kenwright also said it at the AGM. He also said Everton would take another look at Scotland Road.

Interesting videos on this website: http://www.neaztec.com There big downloads (70mb each, 210mb in total )but worth a watch

It's from a subscription only magazine called Estate Gazette. I found Ian Ross' comments interesting about the Labour government, it sounds as if he knows it is a flawed application but hopes they turn a blind eye to it because it's from a Labour council.

Political football Pitch battle: Everton FC's plan to relocate to a new stadium at retail-led regeneration scheme Destination Kirkby is facing opposition from Liverpool city council and local residents' groups. Own-goals, tearful walk-offs, rapid swerves and breathtaking changes of fortune - nothing Everton Football Club does on the pitch can match the painful drama of the club's efforts to build itself a new stadium. A decade after efforts first began to replace its aging ground at Goodison Park in the north of the city, the football club is still years from moving into a new home. Plans for a stadium at Liverpool's Kings Dock on the southern side of the city centre collapsed in 2003. Second time round, and now councillors in the Merseyside borough of Knowsley have given the go-ahead to proposals for a 55,000-seat Everton stadium as part of the long-awaited regeneration of Kirkby town centre. Everton wants its new home off Cherryfield Drive to be finished for the start of the 2010-11 season. The £400m Destination Kirkby project is intended to create a stadium that is linked to a 50-shop retail scheme and a Tesco Extra superstore, totalling more than 500,000 sq ft, on a site at the edge of Kirkby town centre. And with Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, being an avid Everton fan, it might be thought that the development was unstoppable. But to fulfil this plan, a barrage of objections will have to be overcome - including those of Liverpool council and local residents' groups. Problems have been mounting since the planning application was lodged in January. Liverpool council announced that it regarded the scheme as a threat to Grosvenor's Liverpool One, and declared that the scale of the stadium development was "not appropriate to the role and function" of Kirkby, a town of around 40,000 people. Other local councils in the conurbation agreed. For their part, Everton FC's bosses have responded to the objections by saying that any delays could be fatal to the plan. Much to the club's chagrin, Knowsley council's Liberal Democrat opposition leader has been calling for locals - many of whom would not welcome a massive stadium on their doorstep - to be given a referendum. Lib Dem leader Ian Smith says: "We should push for this planning application to be called in and go to the Secretary of State. I'm sure the club would be genuinely concerned by that, but Everton, like the rest of us, should be concerned too about the residents of Kirkby. The real concern is about increased traffic and potentially anti-social behaviour that a stadium in the middle of a dense residential area will bring." Ian Ross, Everton FC's head of external affairs, is hopeful that a call-in will not be imposed. He says: "The plan could still get called in, but I'm hoping that, with backing from a Labour council and support from the local Labour MP, a Labour government might see it as not worth calling it in. But a delay of a year while we have a public inquiry could kill this." Unlike the failed Kings Dock stadium plan, Ross says that funding issues will not be allowed to derail the project. "All parties know exactly what they must provide financially," he says. "If we can get planning permission and avoid a government call-in, all three parties are comfortable with the finance. Last time, the Kings Dock plans were spectacular - in retrospect, perhaps too spectacular - and the cost rose all the time. Eventually, it just became financially unviable, and Everton carried the can for that failure. We went away and learned a great deal. This time, developing Kirkby is attractive to Tesco, and the council is anxious to regenerate a town that hasn't changed much since the 1960s." Everton FC insists, however, that if it is forced to choose between a new stadium and having the necessary funds to invest in its players, the players will win - and the Kirkby plan will be off. "The primary concern," Ross says, "has to be to look after the team, and if you go back to the all-seater stadium developments of 20 years ago, you'll see that some teams paid a heavy price for investing in their stadiums and neglecting their squads. We won't do that." He adds: "We spent two years talking to Liverpool council about a site in the city, and it couldn't come up with anything that could be made financially viable because we couldn't attract a retail partner." Ross says that if planning permission isn't granted - or comes too late - Everton will reconsider the redevelopment of Goodison Park. For now, with tempers fraught and local opinion polarised, the risk of a call-in is high. And if the scheme is called in, its delicate mathematics could be placed under unsupportable pressure. Everton could be staying at Goodison Park for some years yet. What is planned The £400m Destination Kirkby scheme is a retail-led, mixeduse regeneration led by Tesco and Everton Football Club. The scheme includes 50 shops, a 55,000-seat stadium for Everton FC and a Tesco Extra store. The plans to revitalise Kirkby town centre were originally submitted to Knowsley council in January. These plans were amended in April. A later amendment has reduced the retail space planned by almost one-third, from 775,000 sq ft to 540,000 sq ft. The Tesco store is 110,000 sq ft. In April, Tesco bought the land north of Cherryfield Drive earmarked for most of the retail element in a £65m deal with Development Securities. The consortium says that the deal ensures that the whole of Kirkby town centre is included in the regeneration plans. Destination Kirkby - adding it up Despite the confidence emanating from Everton FC, the economics of the Kirkby project are finely balanced, so much so that the latest efforts to placate critics by reducing the retail element by 25% could put viability at risk. BothTK Maxx and Marks & Spencer have said they would not be interested in a smaller scheme. Sheena Ramsey, chief executive at Knowsley council, says that the economics of the scheme are precarious but do-able - just. "The recent reduction in floorspace does not endanger the financial viability of the scheme, but it makes it very, very tight," she says. "We are hoping that this scheme will attract other commercial opportunities - for instance, creating office space. "As for a plan B, we would hope we could encourage other investors into the area if the stadium plan isn't a success. It would be disappointing, but we have raised the profile of the site and raised expectations and aspirations." Everton FC is expected to find £78m of development funding. The sale of Goodison Park isnot expected to be much of amoney-spinner. Estimates of its value vary between £7m and £9m. Everton's contribution will be added to a £52m sum from the Tesco-led retail development. In 2007, Everton plc made an after-tax loss of £9.4m, if player trading is included. The club made a loss of £505,000 on normalnon-player trading activities. Fixed assets were listed as £26.5m, with debts of £53m.

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Nothing ever came of FSF. They were genuinely interested in taking over but 'apparently' Bill Kenwright used it as a vehicle to get rid off Paul Gregg. There was an email doing the rounds a while ago where a club insider admitted as such. Paul Gregg's shares were later sold to a company called BCR Sports, Robert Earl is the only person who is publicly known from BCR Sports. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...ton-421028.html Another involved with BCR Sports is Sir Philip Green: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and...mp;in_page_id=3

He's wrote the exact opposite so I don't see how you can jump to that conclusion Can you explain how the failure to spend money on the new stadium decreases Moyes' transfer budget? I'm struggling with it, the only outcome I can see and I've stated it in this thread.. without the stadium Kenwright won't have a credit line from Earl to purchase players. It's a short term problem with long term benefits. Mike.. With hindsight I would have preferred Gregg (businessman) / Grantchester (billionaire Evertonian!) combination.

You're right once-a-blue, your post won't see the light of day.

I think it's irrelevent now to be honest although I have mixed feelings on it, Lerner was apparently interested because he was living near Chester at the time he was with MBNA and it was one of the closest top flight teams. According to various sources Lerner, Gaydamak and Shinawatra have all been interested. A consortium involving Paul Gregg and Lord Grantchester was turned down in 2004. In today's Daily Post there is a claim by Nick Smith in the Daily Post that the stadium being called in would restrict Moyes' funds in the transfer market. Whilst I'm not saying that the collapse of the stadium plans in Kirkby is a good thing for Moyes' immediate transfer funds (Earl and Green will walk away leaving Kenwright with no direct line to credit to fund player transfers). It geniune believe it will be better for the long term aspirations of the club. I also don't think suggesting that Moyes' will have less of funds because of the collapse of the stadium in the local press is correct especially without giving a reason.

I have no idea what the first post says!

Are you saying Cahill didn't know Carsley had left the club?

I've watched it on BBC website.. the reverse jump was awesome

http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_...-name_page.html I've heard that Robert Earl and Philip Green are not going to help Kenwright with transfer funds if the stadium plan is called in. Earl wanted to bring a casino to Kirkby apparently and Green wanted to introduce his stores to the retail park. Both are non-starters if the plan goes to a public inquiry. I can't see the Kenwright-Woods-Earl-Wyness four piece being at the club this time next year unless something dramatic happens.

I don't know how this will take off but here's an idea for a thread.. list a quote about the club.. I'll begin: "We owe a great deal to Everton. No matter where they play , and no matter how badly placed in the league table they always manage to serve up football of the highest scientific order. Everton always worship at the shrine of craft and science and never do forget the standard of play they set out to achieve." - England international Steve Bloomer, 1928

Interesting read in Martin Tyler's blog on the Sky Sports website. He mentions a former Man City player Tony Henry being in a "Frank Arnersen" role at the club. http://www.teamtalk.com/football/euro2008/...3715021,00.html After a google I found that he is also an agent/scout and once tried to sign Christiano Ronaldo for Liverpool for £4million, a week later he was at Man Utd for £12million. Apparently our head scout is a guy called Robbie Cooke. So at the very least we have three people at the Euros all scouting for Everton (Moyes is other one). Robbie Cooke Born: Rotherham Dob: 16th February 1957 Position: Head Scout Tony Henry Born: Newcastle Dob: 26th November 1957 Sporting Director/Scout

What he'sa saying is Shane Duffy has either Dodgy knees or will become an alcoholic I read Paul mcGrath's book, it was a very good read actually.

It's amazing what Steve Gibson will resort to, to get bums on seats.