00:00Everton are gearing up for the new Premier League season and with David Moyes back in the dugout, there's a belief that the club can take meaningful steps forward.
00:14Moyes, renowned for his organisational skills and ability to instil resilience, has already tightened up the squad's structure and restored a sense of discipline.
00:24The Toffees are aiming to build on last season's stability and push further up the table.
00:30With the Premier League's competitive edge and fierce challenges now harder than ever, a solid roundation and particularly at home where the new atmosphere at the stadium can be a powerful weapon.
00:43To gauge the mood among the fan base, we spoke to Will Rooney of Liverpool World, who says there's cautious optimism that Moyes can guide Everton into a more ambitious chapter without losing the grit that defines them.
00:57Well, let's look at Everton and just on the stadium move again.
01:02Obviously, it's had a bit of a naming right situation as well with the Hill-Dickinson Stadium.
01:08So it's becoming a bit more of a clearer image of what the future holds, you know, a massive change for Everton.
01:16And we've spoken before about Goodison and the way that a bit of mediocrity sort of overshadowed it over the last, you know, 20 or so years.
01:25You know, it's obviously a fine line and so, so hard to sort of push on from being, you know, managing to survive and then going further and further at the Premier League table.
01:35But they are seemingly taking the right steps.
01:38You know, David Moyes has really, really come in and took charge and really revived Everton last season.
01:45Just on the stadium, how excited are you to go?
01:48How excited are Everton fans to go?
01:50And I'm sure the group of players are as well and Moyes as well in terms of this new modern technology that everything involved with the stadium,
02:00it's all sort of a positivity for the city as well.
02:02Yeah, and I think it'll drive Everton on and off the pitch, to be honest with you.
02:09I mean, we're talking off the pitch, revenues are going to be boosted markedly,
02:14which unfortunately Everton couldn't do much more than they were doing at Goodison Park just because of the infrastructure.
02:20But they've built a stadium to drive them into the modern era.
02:25And, you know, whether that's inside for the irregular punter, irregular matchday goal or the hospitality,
02:34which the hospitality, that is something that drives the real revenue on a matchday.
02:40The name and right you mentioned, Hill Dickinson, you know, that'll be big for Everton,
02:48multi-million pound deal, long-term deal.
02:51And I think it's right that maybe Everton, I've had a local company who was sponsoring the stadium,
03:01you know, a touch of, I don't want to, it just seems, it just seems apt, you know,
03:08but Everton are trying to keep roots to the city and rather than going out and maybe getting,
03:14look, I don't, for me personally, you know, a Qatar Airways, something like that was mooters,
03:21you know, links, just wouldn't sit right with me.
03:24You want someone who's maybe got loads of the city or,
03:28so that'll help in terms of revenue coming in every season.
03:34And as you say, the players, why wouldn't you want to go and play in this stadium?
03:37Because it's magnificent now, you see, the two testers entered zone,
03:42the third one against AS Roma on the 9th of August.
03:45I think by then, all the sponsorship, et cetera, will be done around the stadium.
03:51That's sort of the last touches, which is understandable, you know,
03:53why that's getting left so late.
03:56I don't think when I was assessing them, there wasn't like a real dawn and run.
04:00Like there was that time in December for Everton, this, in the latest season,
04:05albeit they actually did quite well and picked up a few points in that period.
04:09But for me, you've got to play every once, twice, haven't you?
04:13As much of a cliche as it is, I think Everton get off to a decent start,
04:18build some momentum, get a couple of wins under the belt,
04:23because the transfer window, they might be, the business might go late into the window.
04:30And if Everton has a good start, then that might just give them an extra little push,
04:38a little boost in terms of attracting players late on in the win zone.
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