Matthew Shaw

Thu 12 January 2023 19:10, UK

Everton club sources have defended Farhad Moshiri after he appeared to share vital news on the Bramley-Moore Dock stadium site, according to the Liverpool ECHO.

The controversial owner insisted that the new stadium will cost up to £760million, far more than the £505million figure that most people will have seen during construction.

Sources admit that construction costs have not changed, but Moshiri was in fact talking about the project all in, from the design and planning to the building today.

Writing in his latest column for the Liverpool ECHO, Dave Powell shared the latest after what has turned out to be quite a day of bombshells for the Toffees.

“In the interview Moshiri, who has been Everton owner since 2016, spoke of the Everton Stadium development on the banks of the River Mersey, describing it as a ‘£760m’ project, a figure that is some £260m more than the £505m figure for construction that has long been suggested by club officials,” he wrote.

“Club sources claim that the figure Moshiri quoted is inclusive of every facet of the stadium, from design and planning to construction and even including the potential for further ancillary developments related to the stadium, which began its process after Moshiri took over in 2016, it being seen as vital in order for Everton to compete in the future and not get left behind commercially.

“Club sources also state the cost of construction has not changed and that the contract signed last year with construction firm Laing O’Rourke, who have been tasked with the build, has not altered and the cost certainty over the project remains as it did.”

Joke.

What is happening at this football club?

Everton are quickly becoming a laughing stock, and there is only one man behind all of that and he is sitting pretty at the very top of Goodison Park.

When Everton fans called for him to move on and sell the club, the last thing that anyone expected was for him to come out and speak the way he did on national radio.

Jim White has done the same with Moshiri countless numbers of times on talkSPORT, and yet he keeps falling into that very same trap of spouting rubbish every time.

With the true cost of the project now out in the open and above £750million, let’s hope there are no more hidden secrets with the financing still needing to be found.

The sooner that happens and everything can be green-lighted, the better for this football club, but it appears as though something from the circus is only a couple of minutes around the corner at Everton.