How does Everton’s stadium move impact David Moyes’ ambitions on the pitch?

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It was a season of progress and perspective for Everton, as David Moyes returned to steer the club through a landmark campaign—their final year at Goodison Park. Grit, togetherness and crucial wins in pressure moments helped re-establish a sense of pride and purpose. We spoke to Will Rooney of LiverpoolWorld to explore what this transformational move means for the club’s future.

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00:00It was a season of progress and perspective for Everton as David Moyes returned to steer

00:08the club through a landmark campaign their final year at Goodison Park. Grit, togetherness

00:14and crucial wins in pressure moments helped re-establish a sense of pride and purpose.

00:20But now the club turns to a new era. The move to the state-of-the-art Bramley-Moore Docks

00:25Stadium will reshape Everton's identity both on and off the pitch. It's more than just

00:31a venue, it's a statement of ambition. Increased capacity, improved matchday revenue and world-class

00:37facilities offer the platform for long-term growth. Moyes and the club hierarchy know the

00:42expectations will rise with the squad rebuild underway and the new leadership structure

00:47behind the scenes. Everton want to arrive into their new home with momentum and belief.

00:53And we spoke to Will Rooney of Liverpool World to explore what this transformative move

00:59means for the club's future.

01:04Well, let's look at Everton and just on the stadium move again. Obviously, it's had a bit

01:10of a naming right situation as well with the Hill-Dickinson Stadium. So it's becoming a bit

01:15more of a clearer image of what the future holds, you know, a massive change for Everton. And

01:22we've spoken before about Goodison and the way that a bit of mediocrity sort of overshadowed

01:27it over the last, you know, 20 or so years. You know, it's obviously a fine line and so,

01:33so hard to sort of push on from being, you know, managing to survive and then going further

01:40and further at the Premier League table. But they are seemingly taking the right steps. You know,

01:44David Moyes has really, really, you know, come in and took charge and really revived Everton

01:50last season. Just on the stadium, how excited are you to go? How excited are Everton fans

01:55to go? And I'm sure the group of players are as well and Moyes as well in terms of this

02:01new modern, you know, technology that everything involved with the stadium, it's all sort of

02:06a positivity for the city as well.

02:09Yeah, and I think it'll drive Everton on and off the pitch, to be honest with you. I mean,

02:16we're talking off the pitch, revenues are going to be boosted markedly, which, which,

02:21unfortunately, Everton couldn't do much more than they were doing it at Goodison Park just

02:25because of the infrastructure. But they've built a stadium to drive them into the modern era.

02:31And, you know, whether that's inside for your regular punter, your regular matchday goal

02:38or the hospitality, which the hospitality, that is something that drives the real revenue

02:45on a matchday. The name and right you mentioned, Hill Dickinson, you know, that'll be big for

02:53Everton, multi-million pound deal, long-term deal.

02:57And I think it's right that maybe Everton, I've had a local company who was sponsoring the

03:05stadium, you know, a touch of, I don't want to, it just seems, it just seems apt, you

03:13know, but Everton are trying to keep roots to the city and rather than going out and maybe

03:19getting, I don't know, for me personally, you know, a Qatar Airways, something like that

03:26was mooters, you know, links, just wouldn't sit right with me. You want someone who's maybe

03:32got lots of city or, so that'll help in terms of revenue coming in every season. And as

03:41you say, the players, why wouldn't you want to go and play in this stadium? Because it's

03:44magnificent now, you see, the two testers entered, it's on the third one against AS

03:49Roman on the 9th of August. I think by then, all the sponsorship, et cetera, will be done

03:55around the stadium. That's sort of the last touches, which is understandable, you know,

03:59why that's getting left so late. You know, the main thing is making sure that the stadium's

04:07ready to go for the first home game, which is against Brighton. Looking to fast track

04:13Everton back to challenging for Europe, which, you know, you've got a magnificent state-of-the-art

04:21stadium. That's what it's built for, to host those sorts of nights. So that's what

04:26I'd be eyeing. And I don't want to say this season will be a transition because Everton

04:30would want to make progress, but maybe the season after then, that's when they'll have

04:35a real good goal of getting back into Europe. But David Moyes is ambitious, don't get me

04:39wrong, and if Everton were pushing for Europe this season, then it would be a massive surprise.

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