Imagine paying double your seat price to watch that fucking dross week in week out.
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I can honestly see them getting relegated by 2030.
You heard it here first
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That’s if they last that long.
They could well be bankrupt before then looking at some of the numbers and figures being mentioned
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A repeat of Sunderland and the Stadium of Light, although relegation would surprise me.
Is it just me that thinks there’s a real trend between a stadium move and clubs struggling. Arsenal, Spurs, Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland all had/are having bad periods. Obviously there are exceptions, Athletico just won the league, Bayern just carried on as they were.
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With Bayern at least, the city/state paid about half the development costs, and they went into it only as 50% owners with 1860.
It will sink them. I have no doubts
Why? They are backed by Usmanov who is loaded… Like Abramovic levels.
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Maybe he means literally. Like in the first match there the whole thing collapses into the Mersey.
That would be the most Everton thing ever.
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And yet they just signed Begovic, Townsend and Grey for a combined fee of 1.7m.
He might be abramovich wealthy but he isn’t putting that wealth into bank rolling Everton to the extent that RA did at Chelsea
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He obviously hasn’t been to Middlesbrough then!
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Pfff… Even I’m loaded like Abramovich levels*.
I think the key difference is less Usmanov’s wealth, rather not many of Abramovich’s ‘peers’ bought a football club for political and financial insurance and invested on that basis accordingly (until pivoting to Israel in ~2017?).
*Levels from the 1980s. May be subject to currency fluctuations and vary by some variable of the price of stolen gasoline, rubber ducks and hijacked freight.
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They scraped through FFP regulations remember, thanks to a last minute donation for selling the naming rights to the stadium they haven’t built yet.
To me, it looks reminiscent of us being promised a shiny new stadium on paper. We know what happened next.
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It’s lucky they did, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to compete in Europe!
They’ve been promised a spade in the water in 40 days. 
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You missing the point! You can only sign players that are will to play for you 
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Ye but if your owner is ultra wealthy then players will play for you if you pay them enough. You watch, blueshite relegated because of the stadium
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Actually USM Holdings paid £30 million for an option to purchase the naming rights at a pre-agreed annual value and term. So it will be interesting to see what Usmanov actually ends up paying if the monstrosity ever should be built.
Another cunning ploy to avoid violating FFP regs, is treating the £400 million (interest free) Moshiri has lent the club as equity.
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Thanks
Do you think much of this shares similarities to our own battles not a million years ago?
I personally wouldn’t any club to got through that…other than City.
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No, not really. The two cowboys borrowed all the money to fund their purchase of Liverpool from a combination of banks/financial institutions at high rates of interest. When push came to shove, they didn’t have the where-with-all to repay the debt.
Moshiri, thanks to Usmanov, hasn’t borrowed the money; “he” has loaned the money to the blueshite out of “his” own pocket. And, the blueshite are (at present) under no contractual obligation to repay the loan.
Whether Moshiri (or rather Usmanov) has the stomach to stump up the £500 million for the new stadium, is a different matter.
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yes you’re right. I just see them pouring money into something without any real evidence of any improvement. I wonder how long their patience lasts.
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I heard there is a Russian company already been put forward. but a tad difficult to pronounce…
’homeofblushiteski’
Sort of fits the bill me thinks…
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