General Meeting 09.01.2018

[ToffeeTim]

Andy Hunter says the deal is still the SPV route for what it's worth.

Basically council loans money. We pay it back with interest.

But that ain't what I've taken from the statements tonight.

 

[devogue]

Well that's kind of an apology from Moshiri

 

[wiggie]

The Council have access to funding at much cheaper rates than what Everton can borrow at. The Council borrows the money, Everton make the repayments, and we pay the Council an extra amount for them providing the service. It’s a win win. The Council actually make money, Everton save money. Anderson has also said he would welcome a similar deal for LFC over any further stadium expansion at Anfield.

At last someone talking sense

 

[CRIMHEAD]

What you said about Tottenham mainly... but you also misrepresented the situation with West Ham because they didn't get a stadium, they got a great deal on a rental not really fit for purpose.

There's obviously some potential to get state aid when a stadium is designed for one big initial event (like the Olympics) but then a football team gets use out of it after. That isn't the situation with Everton is it.

I didn't say West Ham should've made the deal, but they did get a stadium for free. That's not a misrepresentation.

I understand there's no main event for the stadium, but a new stadium could attact new events in theory so there might be some payoff downstream. There is no current venue in Liverpool that's suitable for that type of thing. But understand, there's no guarranteed payback, I got it.

 

[PhilEFC]

I’m slightly underwhelmed by this meeting. Leave more questions than answers, the blundering ballbags.

 

[ProZ]

Might get a copy for my bedroom wall

 

[Addo]

It's just appalling. Look at the 'kin state of that "legacy" image of one of the country's/Europe's famous old stadiums.

They really dont get the fact that everything they did their was an insult.

Project Design Process
There are two general phases to the development of a project design. In Phase One, the Mission defines the preliminary purpose of the proposed project and a roadmap of the analytic, and other, steps necessary to assess and complete the first phase.
Give them a PowerPoint doodle. That will do.
Ha Ha Funny really is.

 

[orly]

Re stadium images

Tremendous, unashamed fraud.

 

[AndyC]

They better hurry up and show some piccys then Andy, as you'd gone all in on tonight.

Like I say Orly, I was wrong about the designs being shown tonight, but I stand by the rest.

 

[Jack1882]

This is just what I read awhile ago, did this not happen:

"The local council, Haringey, desperately keen to keep Spurs investing £400m in a deprived area, agreed last year to reduce the club's obligations towards transport and other community improvements, originally part of planning permission for the new stadium, from £16.4m down to £0.5m. In total £41m of public money from the council and the mayor of London's office has been promised for the area around Spurs' proposed new stadium; the authorities' sense of urgency prompted by the shock of the riots that erupted in Tottenham in the summer of 2011.

Also encouraging Levy to stay was that the standard London planning requirement for housing developments – to include 50% affordable housing – was waived for Spurs, after he argued that to make the new stadium financially viable, the club needs all the money it can make from selling 285 apartments on the site of the current ground at full market rate."

This is completely normal bartering from each side... the transport infrastructure improvements are to benefit the entire area and are part of the much larger Northumberland Development which will see £2billion invested into the area surrounding White Hart Lane.

This is just a part of the negotiations for the build... it's not some special tax break. All of the £800m+ for the build is being generated by the club.

 

[Daytripper]

A dig at the those lot with "city's all ours" appeasing the twitter fam I see. Too easy for them.

 

[davek]

Farhad Moshiri: “We have a multi-year plan. There will be bumps on the road but the plan is intact and resolutely we go through that plan to achieve. All clubs have money now – four out of five pounds is TV income. So there is plenty of money. There is big investment everywhere so an enormous amount of work is needed just to keep the status quo. To move above that takes extraordinary efforts but it is efforts by me, the Board, recruitment – we should get everything right and can’t make mistakes – and also the fans, to work with us and understand where we are. I put my hand in my pocket, so I am the end of the chain but, after that, the whole process needs to make sure the investment is used rightly. I think we have taken all the steps to make sure we are efficient. We make mistakes, everyone does, and we must learn from our mistakes and avoid them. But no single setback will derail us. We are on the road and we will get there."

That is pure Sam Hammam.

What a load of old sweeping it under the carpet bollocks that statement is.

 

[Moomin]

So West Ham got a stadium for free. I thought they only paid like 2.5M in rent and taxpayers foot the bill for maintenance, no? Man City got almost 200M because of the Commonwealth games. Soooo...what did I say incorrectly?

West Ham got the Olympic stadium, that was built for the 2012 olympics and was not going to be a football stadium at first. City ground was built with the commonwealth games in mind and another year after it finished to be done as a stadium for football. They now pay rent to the council for the stadium.

Both these Stadia for major events with funding from central government to back them.

This would be at a regional level, we need more information if its not the SPV loan vehicle they claimed in March of last year.

 

[Gladystweet]

Might get a copy for my bedroom wall

They're doing duvet covers and pillow cases. Only online though, Everton that.

 

[PhilEFC]

Might get a copy for my bedroom wall

Looks like Landmark is the man to fill our left back spot then.