It would seem that, despite the potential intervention of the government, Everton have finally put Destination Kirkby to bed and are looking to relocate within the city boundaries.
Something still doesn't feel right about the whole thing as Everton seem to have dropped the Kirkby proposals all too readily after it was perceived to be the only option available to the club.
Something which caused a fair amount of bad feeling and mud slinging between EFC and LCC over the past couple of years.
But it seems that both parties are now prepared to bury the hatchet as Ian Ross, who we all know is Head of (lack of) Communications at Everton but I have to put that in anyway, has stated: "Throughout the Destination Kirkby process, Liverpool City Council always made it clear that if the project was to fail they would step forward and seek to help us."
He added: "As a consequence, a working-group is to be formed and meetings held to actively explore all the options and possibilities which are open to Everton Football Club."
"Despite the disappointment of seeing our proposed move to Kirkby collapse, we, as a Club, remain convinced that a move to a new home is not only the right way forwards but the only way forwards.
Furthermore: "Of course, it does remain to be seen if the City Council can provide us with the level of help and assistance which we will require if we are to locate to any new stadium within the Liverpool boundaries but we will enter these preliminary talks with a measure of optimism."
Warren Bradley, head of Liverpool City Council and 'man-most-in-danger-of-sounding-like-a-professional-Evertonian-a-bit-like-Derek-Hatton' - it'll catch on! - has said: "We have got a meeting with Everton where we will put all our cards on the table. I will be there as will be council chief executive Colin Hilton and executive director of regeneration John Kelly. We want to make sure that we can facilitate things for Everton."
So expect to hear the words 'Loop', 'Walton Hall Park', 'Stanley Park' and 'Clarence Dock' bandied about everywhere over the coming months.
Ironically, the announcement comes almost seven years to the day that Everton had to come up with the £35 million needed to fund their end of the King's Dock project.
Having seen how that area has subsequently been regenerated, it's criminal that Everton couldn't come up with what now seems a paltry amount for a new stadium.
And it's criminal that no-one has been made accountable for it and the same people have been allowed to preside over the latest relocation farc e.
I know it's no time for unrest at the club but given their relocation record, if Everton are to move forward then the current hierarchy must go!