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by **Reg** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:07 pm

Toffees' investment stance > Stadium outcome will have no affect on Kenwright's plans
By Chris Burton Last updated: 4th August 2008

Everton have reiterated their desire to bring substantial investment into the club.

Reports had suggested that the Toffees would be put up for sale should they be given the go-ahead with their plans to build a new stadium in the Kikby area of Liverpool.

However, the club insist that the search for financial backing will go ahead regardless of the outcome in the 'Destination Kirkby' project.

Ian Ross, Everton's head of PR and external affairs, told the club's official website: "To suggest that Everton Football Club will suddenly and dramatically open its arms to any would-be investor or buyer should the Destination Kirkby project be given a government green light is totally mischievous and wholly misleading - simply because our chairman Bill Kenwright has made it clear at each and every AGM going back five years that he will continue to sit down and discuss the club's future with any individual or group which boats integrity and financial clout.

"Bill has often said that Premier League football has become a game not for multi-millionaires but for billionaires, and that pertinent analysis still holds true.

"Bill has never attempted to hide the fact that he, personally, does not have the funds to move his club forward to where he and the supporters want it to be and where they believe it should be - at the forefront of the English game.

"Self-evidently any club which can boast a stadium which is modern, fit for purpose and capable of expansion does represent a more attractive proposition to potential investors.

"Logic therefore dictates that if we do find a new home Everton would, as a club which has finished inside the top six on three occasions in recent years, be a more attractive proposition to investors.

"However, to suggest that there is some sort of link between confirmation of a move to Kirkby and the prospect of serious negotiations with would-be suitors is totally wrong."
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