Everton’s efforts to relocate from Goodison Park will gather pace on Friday when Farhad Moshiri, the club’s major shareholder, visits two proposed sites for a new stadium.

Moshiri is scheduled to lead an Everton delegation paying site visits to Bramley Moore dock, the club’s preferred option on the Mersey waterfront, and Stonebridge Cross in Croxteth. The British-Iranian billionaire and club chairman, Bill Kenwright, have been in negotiations with Peel Holdings, owner of the dockland site, and Liverpool City Council over the latest stadium proposal for several months.

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Friday’s visits reflect the determination of the club and city council to reach a final decision, as the Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson put it recently, “in a couple of months”. However, it remains for Everton to meet Peel’s financial demands for the Bramley Moore site before a breakthrough is made on the preferred option.

As revealed last month, Peel Holdings wants in the region of £30m for the dockland site although negotiations over the final figure are ongoing. Peel received planning permission for a £5.5bn redevelopment project for the north Liverpool dock in 2012 – with no stadium involved– but work has yet to commence on that scheme. Bramley Moore would require significant enabling works to take place before it could hold a new stadium whereas the second choice of Stonebridge Cross is ready for development.

Anderson is understood to be in favour of Everton relocating to the waterfront site, with the club having missed the opportunity to build a stadium in another prime location, at King’s Dock in 2003. Liverpool city council announced only this week plans to transform 10 streets near the north docks into a ‘Cultural Enterprise Industry Hub’ and a multi-million pound investment to improve road works in that area is under way.