Everton are gearing up for the new Premier League season — and with David Moyes back in the dugout, there’s a belief the club can take meaningful steps forward. To gauge the mood among the fanbase, we spoke to Will Rooney of LiverpoolWorld, who says there’s cautious optimism that Moyes can guide Everton into a more ambitious chapter without losing the grit that defines them.
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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