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2 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

We've won as many games as Brighton this season by the way.

Just putting that out there.

But Brighton are brilliant and progressive!! We can’t have won as many as them. 

I dread the day we have to find a replacement for him. Nothing was getting past him tonight. 

This might be a Gary Neville video, but after tonight, the first few minutes of this video are quite emotional. It’s not just us blues who will miss Goodison Park. Nights like tonight will be special memories for us all. 
 

Give him the weekend off, but make sure he’s fit to relegate Luton next week. 

40 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

Gana.

I was really worried when he went off. These last two games he’s been phenomenal. 

Just earned himself a crack at next season for me. 

7 hours ago, patto said:

Branthwaite is not going for 100m look at half the price plus add ons

Whoever your man is on the inside, please tell him to pass on this message; “fuck off if you think less than £100m is good enough”. Thanks. 

Gomes for me, certainly at the point he went off. 
After that I’d say Gana.

Gomes being a midfielder who can pass the ball to other blue shirts, game changer. 

I can see them announcing it on the Friday night. 
If they wanted to not be a fucking shambles they would have it concluded at least a week before, or ideally, before the end of April. 
Leaving it that close to the end of the season, they could be relegating a team by press release. 

20 hours ago, Hafnia said:

Except it won't be in one hit and will be over 2 accounting periods. 

It doesn’t matter, a pay off can be spread and often is. But we tend to gardening leave rather than pay off anyway, most clubs do. 

Because Dele’s contract with Everton is up, that doesn’t mean Everton’s contract with Spurs is up. The deal will be water tight. 

23 hours ago, Hafnia said:

 

we don't need to pay him off, he just takes gardening leave.

 

The same regardless. Pay off his contract or keep paying him until his contract ends. It’ll cost us the same. 

The saddest part of all of it for me is that Bill was the saviour of the evil Peter Johnson, yet leaves with no real legacy. 
Peter Johnson delivered an FA Cup win. 
Even Moshiri will deliver a stadium. 
I don’t see anything to remember Bill for other than turning Evertonians against each other. 

1 hour ago, Palfy said:

The biggest stumbling block with 777 is that they can’t raise the money, and time’s running out for the club to avoid going into receivership, and what that could mean for the future doesn’t really bear thinking about. 

You need to chill out Palfy. All this stuff will get you too stressed. 

3 hours ago, Matt said:

Is it though if 777 are footing the bill and plan to turn that debt into equity?

If they turn the debt into equity I have no problem with that. Seems thats what the PL want them to do anyway.

2 hours ago, Newty82 said:

Away from the debt thing...I've said my piece on that. Don't want to bore you all!!!

My next concern is how any cash released from the asset (stadium) is used.

I fear that it is all too easy to release cash against it and award shareholders, while the place and club rots.

For example, Glazers at United.

Or, just like what various water companies did in the 90s when privatised. Instead of getting loans against the assets to improve them...they paid handsome dividends to shareholders. Now the water companies, facilities and systems are fucked!

There wont be cash to release against it, its being built with debt. If any cash is released it would have to settle the debt first, which would leave no cash left.

Once the stadium is built and handed over to the club, they can then refinance the debts. So we could put all of the debts into one place and with the security of the stadium we can get a lower interest rate. Now we have debts secured against an unfinished stadium there is higher risk and higher interest.

Something a bit different, you can move the camera around and have a look.

Not the highest resolution, but i'm just having a go now, its a bit of fun.

3 minutes ago, Matt said:

Could easily be converted to an events hall.

Already got a nice one down the road. 

1 hour ago, RuffRob said:

 

I also think saleable players will be sold well before there would be any thought of a stadium sale. The Stadium is (or is about to be) the Everton crown jewel. Players are always replacable.

 

Completely agree, Rob. 
Also, the stadium is costing around £760m to build (based on Moshiri’s last comments about it), it will have a similar sized debt once completed as we’ve not funded from our own money. So when it’s complete there wouldn’t really be a financial benefit to selling it. It wouldn’t really have any significant profit, and instead of repayments we would be paying rent. 
I don’t see a scenario where we sell it any time soon. 
With the land being leased from Peel, we may not even be able to sell it.