Shared Stadium Meeting.

[Bogman]

Just to all raly us, I hope Purslow's just going there to listen to what they have to say, then tell them to do one, I hope.................

 

Everton and Liverpool FC meet for stadium talks

 

LIVERPOOL FC and Everton FC were today sitting down for a top-level stadium summit with city council leaders.

 

Representatives from Liverpool university and the North West Development Agency (NWDA) were also expected to attend.

 

LFC chief executive Christian Purslow and his Everton counterpart Robert Elstone are trying to find a solution to their outdated grounds. Both were due at the meeting.

 

It is understood the clubs will be urged to let the university carry out a feasibility study into options.

 

NWDA chief executive Steve Broomhead said: "We welcome the meeting. People are beginning to look at the opportunities again. Both clubs need solutions, either singly or jointly."

 

Both Everton and Liverpool declined to comment on the meeting.

 

One option that may be examined during the meeting is the "football quarter" put forward by fans' group Keep Everton in Our City (KEIOC).

 

The KEIOC idea would see Goodison Park rebuilt – with a hotel and other developments around Stanley Park helping pay for it.

 

In a separate development Liverpool Labour leader Joe Anderson is writing to EFC and LFC to suggest they enter into a feasibility study with the council about the possibility of a shared stadium. He said the option needed ruling in or out once and for all, and that above all clarity was needed.

 

City council leader Warren Bradley has said he thinks the idea of a football quarter based around Stanley Park is a "cracking idea".

 

In the past any talk of a shared stadium has always been ruled out by Liverpool FC.

 

The club maintains it remains committed to building a new £400m, 60,000 seater ground in Stanley Park. It is understood the club is looking for £100m to get work started – but has so far struggled to raise the cash.

 

Building a new stadium is Purslow's number one priority. The lack of progress is a prime source of discontent among fans fed up with US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

 

Everton fans are equally desperate for a new home.

 

The club was forced back to the drawing board after the government rejected the £400m Tesco/Kirkby project.

 

It is understood the club is now studying the possibility of re-developing Goodison – although this has always been ruled out as unaffordable.

 

The club is also understood to be carrying out a new search for sites with the city council. But in the past none of the sites identified by the council proved affordable because of the need for "enabling" development to help off-set the cost of the stadium.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2010/03/01/everton-and-liverpool-fc-meet-for-stadium-talks-100252-25934281/3/

[Gunga Din]

we end up in a shared stadium with that shower, i'll stop going

[CarraLegend]

Doesnt sound like a shared stadium meeting really. Just sounds like a meeting that both sides are attending.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

we end up in a shared stadium with that shower, i'll stop going

it's the end of us if that happens

[Andy @ Allerton]

What a shock. Warren Bradley thinking it's a "Cracking Idea." He's certainly never mentioned it before.

[Frosty Jack]

Just to all raly us, I hope Purslow's just going there to listen to what they have to say, then tell them to do one

 

 

 

Won't!

Edited March 1, 2010 by Wyndham Lewis

[Red Kent]

It will happen. Always said that it will never go away.

[CarraLegend]

There is not a chance of it happening. If it was going to it would have been started years ago.

[sutty]

Think the current economic situation at both clubs has made the option more realistic. Certainly more realistic than I ever thought would be the case.

[Sion]

It will happen. Always said that it will never go away.

 

not a chance. too much opposition, too much difference in what each club wants

[muleskinner]

Everton want to redevelop the theatre of beams and the surrounding area and are probably going with the begging bowl.

[Falconhoof]

If Hicks and Gillet don't get £100m to reduce their own debt then they haven't a prayer of raising finance for even half of a shared stadium. Borrowing more money is a non starter for our club unless we get new investment so I don't think this is on the immediate horizon.

[Gomez]

Think the current economic situation at both clubs has made the option more realistic. Certainly more realistic than I ever thought would be the case.

 

That's the point though. Anfield has been around in various guises for well over 100 years. You'd have to expect the new stadium to have a comparative lifetime.

 

Why make a decision with such long term consequences on 'the current economic situation' which may be over in a few years.

[Sion]

The only the possible chance in the tiniest possible way this could work is we build our ground as normal and rent it to them

i'd still be horrified at the prospect.

[johngibo YPC]

So if we put our 50p in, and Everton put 25p in, who is going to pay for the rest?

[Mike]

its more about a shared space - not shared stadium

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

what colour will the seats be? Purple?

[magneto]

Twas Gillett's original plan

 

what colour will the seats be? Purple?

 

Nope, they'll paint them over every week.

 

If it's a home derby, seats all red..etc

[Falconhoof]

Meanwhile, not so far away, plans were afoot for an altogether more ambitious development....500m leisure development and stadium expansion

 

text here....

Arup and T&T to tackle Man City stadium job

26 February 2010

 

By Andrea Klettner

 

Land surrounding venue will be prepared for £500m leisure project and stadium expansion

 

Arup and Turner & Townsend have been drafted in to prepare the land around Manchester City’s stadium for a major leisure complex worth an estimated £500m.

 

A planning application lodged this month by Arup shows plans to remediate 17 acres of the former coal pit around the City of Manchester stadium. This had been earmarked for a supercasino but has been sitting empty since the project was ditched by Gordon Brown in 2007.

 

Turner & Townsend is acting as cost consultant, while engineer Arup could see its role extended to include the expansion of the 47,726-capacity stadium itself, a source close to the situation said.

 

The source said: “It looks like they’re preparing the ground to unlock the development potential around the stadium in two to three years. They’re also looking at expanding the stadium’s capacity, but the club’s Abu Dhabi owners are unlikely to want to make a big noise about it right now with millions of pounds of fees unpaid in the Middle East.”

 

It is believed Abu Dhabi United Group, the owner of Manchester City, is drawing up development plans for the project with Building Design Partnership.

 

Manchester City would not confirm or deny the rumours. It said: “The project is yet to be finalised and we will give out more information in due course.”

 

Regeneration body New East Manchester, which is overseeing the project for the council, said a tender for a developer and operator for the leisure complex had been issued.

 

Manchester council is set to approve the planning application for remediation in May 2010. The work will include removal of underground structures, treatment of excavated material and the demolition of the visitors’ centre.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3158780&channel=771&origin=bldgstudentnewsletter#ixzz0gxODAg6n

 

 

Edited March 1, 2010 by Tony Le Mesmer

[surf]

if we´re (LFC) against a shared stadium then Purslow shouldnt go on principal. if he does go that´s sending a message we might be interested if the arguments (money) are there

[Flasher]

Of course we are interested, we are fecking skint

[growler]

after being 100% against a shared stadium I am starting to see the benefits.

 

Somebody stop me....

[Flasher]

after being 100% against a shared stadium I am starting to see the benefits.

 

Somebody stop me....

 

 

There is only one possible reason for us to have a shared stadium - cost. We need new ownership so this is no longer and issue and we can build our own.

 

So, don't give up, and pray we get new ownership. Don't concede your better judgement to the reality of the current ownership, or they will win.

[floyd]

after being 100% against a shared stadium I am starting to see the benefits.

 

Somebody stop me....

[smithdown]

after being 100% against a shared stadium I am starting to see the benefits.

 

Somebody stop me....

 

 

The pitch, man. Think of the f*ckin pitch.