Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has insisted a new stadium for Everton is 'closer than it's ever been' and hinted over a potential location for a ground.
Plans to develop on Walton Hall Park were abandoned earlier this year but the Toffees are now expoloring the possibility of building on a docklands-based site or at Stonebridge Cross, report the Liverpool Echo.
The Mayor of Liverpool – a life-long Blues supporter – responded to a supporter’s query on Twitter, providing an update on an announcement.
He wrote: “It’s closer now than it was last month and closer now than it’s ever been.
“All working hard to make it happen.”
He then followed that up with a second tweet, which intimated the site could be the Bramley Moore dock, situated in the northern dock system in Vauxhall.
“The Moore the merrier for me,” he tweeted, complete with a winking emoji.
The dock was part of Peel’s £5.5billion ‘Liverpool Waters’ regeneration programme, which was announced in 2007.
Bramley Moore dock closed in 1988 following the decline of the coal industry in south Lancashire, and has recently been used as a site for Sound City music festival.