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I'm worried they might be interested in Stonebridge Cross. Finch Farm is thankfully not on the agenda.

We are not in position to have 22 world class players. You won't have those sitting on the bench at a club this size. City, Chelsea and United can sign them if they wish, not us.

No it's not. Finch Farm would be a horrible location that would kill the club and turn it into a Championship club in ten years. The non-matchday income is key. I don't know about Anfield's non-matchday revenue, but many clubs have significant income from them and that should be the main reason to build a new stadium in the first place. If that's not important the club should just rebuild Goodison Park. And just because you think you are clever doesn't make you one. You seem to portray certain mental characteristics. Not saying you have them but you demonstrate them in your posts. BTW, if transport links are the only thing you care about why are you against a city centre stadium? Unless you imagine links are just as good to Halewood as they are to city centre, of course...

And Emirates is soooo far from the city. Transport links are irrelevant if the stadium is somewhere like Croxteth or Halewood. The club could not get non-matchday events.

Key thing for the new stadium is non-matchday revenue. And I can't see how the club could compete with the Echo arena, Anfield and other locations if the stadium is located far from the city centre. Transport links are pretty irrelevant. Building it in Croxteth or Halewood would mean the club could either just price itself much cheaper or pick up the scraps left by other places. What else could make a neutral customer pick Everton's stadium in Croxteth ahead of Anfield when he's arranging something for his business partners? Or a concert organizer, why would he pick the new Everton stadium ahead of the Echo arena?

One more article on Favre and his tactics: http://www.just-football.com/2015/03/how-borussia-moenchengladbach-became-the-bundesliga-surprise-package/

Linked with Lucien Favre (again?). Wouldn't mind, did a really good job at Mönchengladbach. Tight defensively, good counter-attacking team and style not too bad on the eye. Also good at developing youth players, Marco Reus is what he is thanks to Favre. He has the knack of making even the stars and offensive players work as part of a unit. On top of that, he had to rebuild the side after Reus, Dante and Neustäder all left. Yet they managed to finish 8th the next season and 6th the season after that (they finished 4th with Reus). Impressive considering the team were last in Bundesliga in February when he took over. He saved them and consequently took them to the CL. This is a good article: http://www.thetacticsroom.com/articles/2014/11/20/lucien-favre-is-leading-the-foals-to-water-and-it-looks-like-theyll-drink-it-too A more detailed look at his tactics: http://theinsidechannel.com/lucien-favres-tactics-at-borussia-monchengladbach/

Yep, a really poor place. What non-matchday revenue could the club make with a stadium in that location? Pretty much nothing.

Ok, what logic says that one station is just as good as all the stations in downtown? People could only come from two directions and the majority would arrive from west (when the line roughly runs west-east) fto Finch Farm. In the centre you can take pretty much any train from any connecting place and you end up there. Plus it has the railway station for longer distance travellers. And lots more bus routes. And lots more parking.

Where are the best transport links in pretty much every city? In downtown. How many stations are there in Liverpool city centre? Why is that worse than one station somewhere in the countryside where no-one can go except by public transport? You can't even build large parking lots near the stadium any more, so you can't go by car. In the city centre there are parking places. And people can walk and cycle. And come by train from every direction. Well, except for west but they can use ferries. Easily the best transport links in Liverpool. Ticks far more boxes than bloody Halewood.

Kirkby was even more seriously considered, so what's your point? And the site only ticks a trainspotter's list.

Jesus you must hate Everton. In the middle of nowhere with no pubs or anything. It would definitely kill something - the club.

Where do you build a stadium if you don't want any residential areas anywhere near it, but still has good rail links?

Oh, you want the rail thing so bad you rather Everton relocate to some shitty location so that the rail network is a must than have Everton relocate to a prime location?

Stonebridge Cross looks a shite location. My bet is city is offering it because they already spent 1.5 million on developing the site because they thought Amazon was going to build a warehouse there. When that didn't happen they were left with a tract of land no-one wants.

He's ridiculously cheap so not really a big gamble.

Good stuff, Johan!

Here's my link as promised: http://www.oneworldsports.com/stories/duncan-castles-answering-mourinhos-critics

I should still have a link to an article about him somewhere which dispells this myth. I'll see if I can find it.

It's a pure myth Mourinho doesn't give youngsters chances.

Not that I want any of them, but Big Sam is easily the best choice. He is seriously underrated. Usually has both his hands tied behind his back and yet comes up with results. Saving Sunderland was a miracle. He's also much smarter than people give credit for.

I'm not too excited about FDB. His style has some parallels with RM: http://outsideoftheboot.com/2015/07/05/tactical-philosophy-frank-de-boer/

Frank de Boer's agent says his client would love to manage Everton. http://nos.nl/artikel/2103741-frank-de-boer-zou-valencia-of-everton-geweldig-vinden.html

Had a look at Löw's club record and it doesn't make great reading. I'm sure he would be able to lure good players to Goodison but he hasn't proved he is a good club manager. International football is very different from club football.

I don't think he needs to add to his CV..