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Everton have the potential to introduce a number of new statues when they move to their proposed new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

Planning application for the waterfront ground has gone through Liverpool City Council's public consultation stage, with the hope still being that approval can be confirmed by the summer.

And part of the documents released to public in February revealed details on what potential statues around the new stadium could look like - with a bigger area allowing for the club to consider a few more options.

These important pieces of artwork will be reserved for the greatest heroes and legends of Everton's long and illustrious history - so who should get one at Bramley-Moore?

Our writers have all had their say.

Dixie Dean

Adam Jones - When you hear the words "Everton legend", this man's name will inevitably pop straight into your head.

Throughout the annals of history of this famous club, no player can live up to the status that William Ralph 'Dixie' Dean possesses among even today's supporters.

Up until very recently, he was the only Blues great immortalised at Goodison Park - because he evokes the exact feelings a legend should.

Pride in the club, a litany of personal honours and accolades with his teammates. Dean has it all.

Visiting his statue has become a staple part of a matchday for a whole generation of supporters, who have grown up with that statue symbolising everything about Everton for them.

These supporters of course won't have seen Dean in action, but everyone of a royal blue persuasion knows his story like the back of their hand.

383 goals in 433 games. 60 strikes in a single season. Arguably the greatest goalscorer the English game has ever seen.

His love for Everton, and that of the club towards him, continued for years right up until his sad passing - while watching a Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.

In 2001, he was rightfully commemorated in a statue outside the famous ground - and his legacy is one that must continue with the club to their new home.

(Image: Liverpool Echo)

Debate will continue over whether the current statue itself should move, or whether it should be left in its current place to lead the Goodison legacy project in a sense.

Regardless of what transpires in the future, Dixie Dean absolutely must have a statue at Bramley-Moore Dock.

Everton's greatest player, a star with records that will never be broken. An icon. A legend.

What more do you need?

Howard Kendall

Dave Prentice - Everton renamed the Gwladys Street End after the most successful manager in the club's history - the man who told his players on perhaps the most iconic evening in the club's history "get the ball in the box to Sharpy and Andy and the Gwladys Street will suck it in."

And they did.



But the Street End was only renamed The Howard Kendall Gwladys Street End the year after Kendall's tragically premature passing.



It should have happened earlier.

Eight months before Howard's death, in the days when I still penned a column every Friday for the print edition of the Echo, I wrote: "There are lounges named after Dixie Dean, Brian Labone and Alex Young at Goodison Park, but nothing bearing Kendall’s name.



"It is sometimes a strange protocol that football clubs only honour their greats after they have left us forever and lined up in a celestial XI.



"Howard and Kenny Dalglish are still very much with us. But why wait until we are mourning legends before acknowledging their contribution to their clubs?



"Dixie Dean scored the last of his 383 goals for Everton almost 70 years before a statue was erected in his honour.



"Bill Shankly had passed away 16 years before Anfield’s iconic statue was cast.



"We have it in our gift to acknowledge the enormous debt we owe to two giants of Merseyside football. Why wait any longer to repay it?



"The Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Howard Kendall Stand have an appeal and an allure about them."

Howard thanked me for that column, words of gratitude which carried extra poignancy in October that year.

And the Howard Kendall Stand belatedly became a reality.

But if the Howard Kendall Stand came a year too late, Everton can rectify that by erecting a statue in his honour.

Surely no individual has a greater claim.

Howard Kendall is the most successful manager Everton Football Club has ever had. He cultivated a football team which gave Evertonians back their pride, he put a succession of trophies on the Goodison sideboard … all after playing a significant part as a player in one of the most celebrated league championship winning teams Evertonians have ever witnessed.

A statue in his honour is overdue ... a statue as a manager, to follow the Holy Trinity bronze which already exists at Goodison Park.

Joe Royle

Phil Kirkbride - Perhaps when you see, hear or think about Joe Royle, it's as the teenage centre-forward who went onto achieve great things at Goodison.

Maybe, when you see, hear or think about Joe Royle, it's as the manager who lifted a team off the bottom of the table and took them to FA Cup success.

For many, of course, when they see, hear or think about Joe Royle then it's as all of this. Everything that Royle means to Everton, to Goodison, to the club, to it's past and what he symbolises in the future. At a new ground. On the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey. A place, we all hope, brings trophies, success and silverware - the likes of which Royle helped deliver - back to Everton.

A legend in every sense, Royle deserves to have a statue at Bramley-Moore Dock.

Whether that's Royle, as the player who made 276 appearances and scored 119 goals, or the FA Cup winning manager, would be up for debate.

But that there's such a discussion to be had means we can all agree on one thing: there has to be a Joe Royle statue at Bramley-Moore Dock.

Neville Southall

Chris Beesley - Perhaps Everton should build a statue at their proposed new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock for the club's record appearance holder?

Perhaps they should build one for the player who won the most trophies for the club?

Perhaps they should build one for a player who was the best in the world in his position at the peak of his powers?

All three of those feats should be enough to qualify you for a permanent tribute by the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey but ultimately only one statue would be needed for them because they were all achieved by Neville Southall.

Llandudno's greatest son donned the gloves on some 751 occasions for Everton – that's some 217 more games than his closest rival in matches played, legendary captain and one-club man Brian Labone, 'The last of the Corinthians.'

With two League Championships, two FA Cups and the European Cup-Winners' Cup collected, he is also the Blues' most-decorated player with his second FA Cup secured 11 years after his first and a full decade on from Howard Kendall's great side of the mid-1980s as Southall turned back the clock for Joe Royle's 'Dogs of War' with a vintage display to deny Alex Ferguson's men.

How many Everton players can genuinely claim to be the best on the planet in their position?

Maybe Dixie Dean in the Inter-War years but that was an era before European competition and before England even bothered to enter the World Cup.

Also, English football's record-breaking marksman was virtually ignored by his national team selectors in a seemingly arbitrary fashion after the age of 22 anyway.

Another prolific Goodison centre-forward, and team-mate of Southall, Gary Lineker, won the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup finals but by his own admission, the now Match of the Day host was a great goalscorer rather than a truly great player.

Southall though, recovering from the early setback of conceding five goals at home in a Merseyside Derby and being sent out on loan to Port Vale to iron out his flaws, worked diligently to become a true master of his craft and a keeper without a weakness.

Although he became the last goalie to date to be named the FWA Footballer of the Year in that celebrated 1984/85 season, while Everton subsequently declined many believe that he was actually better by the turn of the decade when being kept busier in a lesser side he would pull off some of his most stunning saves.

An unorthodox character off the pitch, Southall grafted as a binman and a hod carrier during his early days in the game while playing in non-league football but in retirement he has become a great social campaigner for a number of causes.

(Image: Stu Forster/Getty Images)

A teetotaller in a team whose close-knit bonds were forged through legendary drinking sessions commonplace in football at the time, he famously drove straight back to his North Wales home after the 1995 FA Cup final, eschewing the traditional celebratory banquet.

While he did return to the capital the following year to collect his MBE, you'd imagine 'Big Nev' would feel quite uncomfortable by the prospect of being immortalised by the sculptor's chisel but it was his extraordinary talent that carved out Everton's greatest era and subsequently saved them in less auspicious times and for that he's got to be considered a must in the statue stakes.

Harry Catterick

Sam Carroll - A manager with two league titles and an FA Cup to his name at any club is a legend.

But Catterick supersedes that tag on Merseyside.

Everton had not won the First Division since before WWII when he arrived at Goodison Park but by the time he left, almost 600 games later, they had won it twice.

(Image: Tony McArdle/Everton FC via Getty Images)

He created a side that defined a generation and created the Holy Trinity midfield of Alan Ball, Howard Kendall and Colin Harvey.

The trio have their statue outside Goodison Park now. Harry should join them at Bramley-Moore.