How other Premier League teams fared after moving to new stadiums

I stand to be corrected, Harry!

Lionel Messi to Everton, and he's buying the dock next to Bramley-Moore Dock and turning it into a helipad to airlift all the Blues to the game free, using giant military helicopters bought from the Argentina army (verified by General Coriander).

I shall keep TW updated with further new information.

Obviously Harry Diamond is not his real name, but a pseudonym, just using the same initials of Hill Dickinson!

Relevant? Just because it is not the Premier League?

They are all now Premier League teams who have moved to a new stadium.

Forget pushing onwards and upwards, I'll take an exciting mid-table finish right now.

Then, we can hopefully use the extra revenue from our shiney new stadium to step up and challenge for European places in the 2026-27 season.

Sorry, I apologise. My logical brain does my nut sometimes. Now where did I drop (..)

I left those sides out as none were Premier League teams in both seasons of the stadium change.

For Tony, Rob, Paul and more...

I'm quite enjoying the speculation around me but I can assure you all I am in fact...

1. The new editor of TW (who is happy to receive feedback on desired content...)

2. Very much a real person and do NOT use AI (will pretend I'm not slightly offended).

3. That is my real name.

Other than that, well done, Harry, interesting and well-researched article.

Sounds like a DCI in a police procedural novel.

'DCI Harry Diamond stubbed out his 20th Rothmans of the day whilst he surveyed the scene. He'd seen a lot in his decades in the Met, but nothing could have prepared him for the atrocity exhibtion he was staring at. It was simply inhuman....'

Just off the top I can think of Middlesborough. Reading, Derby County, Hull, Bolton, Wigan, Southampton. They all went for glory and saw top-flight football at their new stadiums before they slipped away.

No guarantees here!

I was just guessing wrong with regard to Harry being a robot, Paul H, but reading things like "could a change of scenery see a return to home comforts?" obviously made me think it wasn't written by anyone who had been watching us play at Goodison during the last however many years.

You wrote the article, Harry, but it stated that “We've” looked at how other Premier League teams fared after moving to new stadiums, whereas most humans writing an article would state “I've” looked.

Splitting hairs? Maybe, but I honestly don't think anyone really knows how we will do next season until we see how much the squad is strengthened during the summer.

Arsenal: tightened their belts for a bit and fell off the pace of the Champions League places. Now back in business.

West Ham: got a stadium on the cheap and completely idiotic club management let them down. Spent enough recently to be pushing for Champions League places but handled recruitment badly – and have since handled managerial appointments even worse. Current situation is nothing to do with the stadium.

Spurs: did well to stay vaguely competitive while spending on the new stadium. Have bought far too many players in scattergun fashion and forgotten they were supposed to be assembling a coherent squad. Weird massively underperforming (in the league) season has nothing to do with the new stadium.

Other clubs like Derby, Sunderland etc were all yo-yo clubs before getting a new stadium and have stayed that way since. Generally down to poor club management rather than new stadium.

The moral of the story is this: a well run club has nothing to fear from a new stadium – and should gain additional revenue to fund growth etc. A new stadium doesn't overcome the disadvantage of being a badly run club.

Harry surely can’t be an Everton fan (doesn’t necessarily have to be to do a decent job) - he referred to Chelsea as ‘the Blues’ in a previous OP.