Yahoo Sports Aaron Lennon responds when asked if Everton will miss Goodison Park
Aaron Lennon has given his verdict on whether or not Everton will miss Goodison Park when they leave their home stadium at the end of the season.
Everton have been at Goodison Park for more than 130 years, but the Merseyside club have decided to move to a new and bigger stadium.
The Toffees, who will be under new ownership soon, will play their final match at the stadium in May. Goodison Park will then be demolished, and the team will move to a new stadium, which is under construction at Bramley-Moore Dock.
Lennon is a former Everton winger. The former Leeds United and Tottenham Hotspur player had a loan spell at Goodison Park in 2015 before joining the Toffees on a permanent basis.
The Englishman was on talkSPORT on Monday morning and was discussing Everton, who have been linked with Juma Bah.
TalkSPORT presenter Jeff Stelling asked Lennon how much Everton will miss Goodison Park. The 37-year-old responded by saying that the Toffees will miss it a lot.
Aaron Lennon gives verdict on Everton leaving Goodison Park
Lennon said on talkSPORT (9:23am, December 9, 2024): “I think they will miss it.
“You have seen it when teams do move to these so-called new stadiums, the bigger stadiums, is the atmosphere the same?
“Clubs are coming here and going, ‘Oh, look at these big fancy stadiums’, where some clubs now go to Goodison and they don’t feel that.
“Tight dressing rooms, tight tunnel, tight little pitch. It’s a difficult place to go at. And you go to these new stadiums, and I don’t think it has that same feel, that intimidating factor.”
Everton are in relegation trouble
It would be a disaster if Everton moved to a new stadium for next season and found themselves playing in the Championship.
The Toffees are only five points above the bottom three in the Premier League table at the moment. There is a chance that they could go down to the second tier of English football at the end of the season.
While the likes of Ipswich Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton are in dire form, Everton need to put together a winning run soon to make sure that they move further away from the relegation zone.
Sean Dyche’s side have won just three of their 14 Premier League matches so far this season. That is simply not good enough for a club of Everton’s size.
