Moyes on his first visit to new stadium

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Everton manager David Moyes on his first visit to the new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock now that they are safe in the Premier League Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK

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00:00I know you spoke last week about visiting the new stadium.

00:02Do you have to come up with a programme now?

00:04Would there be more training there through pre-season than you would do normally,

00:07just to get people used to that environment?

00:09Absolutely, Vinny.

00:10Actually, my plan was that we would go to the stadium

00:12and maybe two or three training sessions as well,

00:15but I've gone and dug the pitch up.

00:18So I think we've just grown it.

00:19We've gone and dug the pitch up there,

00:20so it looks as if I'm not going to get down to the new stadium at all at the moment,

00:23which I'm pretty disappointed in because that was my plan, hopefully, to do it.

00:29But I wasn't going to take the team down there until I really thought that we were safe

00:33and it was rightly going to be our home for a Premier League season.

00:38That's a big consideration, I suppose,

00:40getting the lads used to that environment when it comes to pre-season.

00:43Absolutely.

00:44I do think that the modern player nowadays does play.

00:48We've been in Europe for the last few years.

00:49A lot of them are international players.

00:50They play at stadiums all over.

00:52It shouldn't be something which is completely strange to them,

00:55going to a new stadium.

00:55But the point is to turn it into your home and feel comfortable

00:59and know your surroundings, I think, is really important.

01:03So I would have liked to have had a couple of training sessions on it,

01:05but it looks like that's been kiboshed.

01:07OK, thanks.

01:07All right.

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