A look ahead to their new stadium’s build.
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00:00 Well, looking at Everton's new ground, obviously a lot's gone on since the plans to get it done and obviously it's still in progress now.
00:09 What are your thoughts on having this new ground for Everton, the club and for the city as well?
00:14 It could be really positive for them in quite a dark spell of their club's history really.
00:19 Yeah, it's a game changer to be honest with you. I think I was on the way to the match, the Brighton game, and I was on the train and you got past it.
00:28 When you're going past the ground, everyone just turns around to look at it.
00:32 Just because it's going up with a rate of knots every time you see it.
00:36 It's evolved that little bit there and you see the pictures and the drone videos coming out and it looks unbelievable as you say.
00:43 Custom Park, a fantastic old stadium, but Everton need to upgrade and they need to move into the 21st century.
00:50 What it will offer is it's going to be a top class facility. It will bring a lot more revenue into the club in terms of commercially, what they can sell tickets for etc.
01:01 We already know it's been chosen to host games at Euro 2028 and then maybe Everton are going to be looking at this and thinking can we get concerts in Anfields?
01:11 You're going to be closer to the city centre, closer to hotels etc.
01:14 Is that going to be more appealing for tourists and what does that bring commercially for Everton?
01:20 It will be sad for a lot of fans to be leaving Custom Park. A lot of memories there to be quite honest with you.
01:26 I think a lot of people will agree that change is needed now.
01:30 How that part of the city is developed now, that northern part of the city centre, just coming into the Sands Hills, Kirkdale area.
01:43 How that develops now will be really interesting to see because that's been me growing up.
01:49 There hasn't been a lot really going on around there so that's all positive definitely.