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It does sound strange that only now are the council willing to publicly announce they will help Everton out with all thats needed for roads etc around their new stadium should it ever arise.
Why didn't they say this when big John was deciding if he should build new or revamp Anfield.
Not huge amounts of space will be available if Goodison is knocked down but still, scope for more manoeuvre should we have wanted to consider a new build on the the Stanley park site.


just to add, its a bit late now eh? hmmmmm!

Liverpool city council have always given me the impression of being a bit everton centric lots of the key councillors seem to be evertionians. I might be wrong but thats the impression I get. I think had we ever mooted groundshare I am sure the council would bend over backwards

Actually it's not childish at all. When an entrepreneur tries to raise money (through private equity or loan etc),one of the first questions is, how much of your own money are you investing. This is done to evaluate how much the entrpreneur believes in his project/vision. As you have been honest enough to say that you wouldn't invest if you had the money, my conclusion is that you do not believe in such a project yourself (as an investor). For somebody that passionate about a new stadium, I must say I was surprised and unless there is a fool around that is looking to give his money away or is looking for highly paid attention, there will be no stadium. This doesn't make any ecominic sense right now.

I don't get it at all. If I'd worked all my life to build a billion dollar dynasty, the first thing I'd do is throw £800m of it in to build a new american football stadium for some American city I'd never been to and had no connection with. Then pay £250k a week to lure some mercenary, over-paid primadonna to play for this city's team so they can win some shiny trophies. Then I'd set about lowering ticket prices despite soaring demand...

What the f*ck is Henry's problem?!?!

But there are people who would do that red john, Henry is not one of them a shrewd investor that he his I expect him to carefully restrict the investment in Liverpool both in the stadium and the team such he gains the optimum capital profit on sale. Which is great.....for him. Not so great for the club but never mind that eh ? What do we care ?

And vish I have just had a look at my Halifax instant access saver account I am afraid there is not a billion pounds in it. Which is why neither myself and John Henry are suitable owners for LFC.

lol... i think you mean to say "what are they smoking over there in Boston?"

I don't care really, mainly because I'm realistic. Everything does seem to be ran better, more professional/organised if you like.
Maybe they've managed my expectations, which wasn't hard after the previous owners.

Of course I'd love them to pump another 100m into players, but they're business men. Hicks and Gillet were too, but look how that turned out compared to last season.

I expect considering the increases in turnover recently there should be cash in the bank for more players in Jan. The net spend was 'ok' in the summer, but could have been higher. I suppose you could say they could only buy so many players to integrate after being resigned to losing Luis.

They're not perfect owners, but for business people they're doing pretty well. The Glaziers seem to have realised they need to speculate this summer and I'm confident FSG will invest more as it becomes clear how valuable success can be. Any gloating by manure fans ring hollow for me though, they've got the most expensive squad in history.

I guess this is why a lot of people have fallen out of love with the game. Ronaldo demanding £500k a week sums it up - do you really want your hard earned cash put toward a player like that?

Still, a new stadium would allow me to attend more games so forget all the above.

Good post.

Yeah, its sad the way the game has gone and the amount of money the players are getting. I don't want LFC to be like city, i want us to achieve success the way we should, through hard work. 1 title won in 20 years through hard work and growing a young squad is worth more to me than 5 titles in 5 years if they are bought like Chelsea and city have done.

This is why i have respect for United's titles and i still view them as our main rivals, because they won titles the right way under Ferguson, not like Chelsea or Real Madrid etc.

Ferguson certainly won them their titles, hard as that is to admit. Still, he broke the transfer record a few times - but I suppose someone has to.

I expect if you look back Liverpool did in the 80's a few times.

I fully agree with your sentiment though a lot of respect for United has probably washed away this summer. Still, got to laugh at Rooney on £300k a week..