The Everton Board Thread

If you wish to know why we have a 'dysfunctional' football club, its because the 'Cult of Bill Kenwright' put his, and their personal interests ahead of Everton Football Club's interests.

As Bill Kenwright's previous PR man Ian Ross commented in response to the Fortress Sports Fund debacle. 'A means to an end'


I agree with Rodger. 100% ?
 

Everton’s riposte will be the strategic review, the board’s answer to the criticism they attracted last season and which has resulted in 26 appointments behind the scenes by Thelwell.

It has provided “a structure that has enhanced our approach in areas including coaching, analysis, player welfare, player development, governance and recruitment,” according to the chief executive, Denise Barrett-Baxendale.

It is, she said: “An overarching strategy outlining our vision and goals across football, commercial growth and engagement.”

The review was conducted by the very same board who are responsible for Everton’s implosion. Their problems could have been identified quicker with a mirror.


Ooooof. Two footed from Hunter.

 

If you wish to know why we have a 'dysfunctional' football club, its because the 'Cult of Bill Kenwright' put his, and their personal interests ahead of Everton Football Club's interests.

As Bill Kenwright's previous PR man Ian Ross commented in response to the Fortress Sports Fund debacle. 'A means to an end'


I agree with Rodger. 100% ?


deffo all billy bull
 

Champions, firefighters, snake-oil salesmen and now … Sean Dyche?​

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Sean Dyche’s name is in the frame too.

Sean Dyche’s name is in the frame too. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images


MAKE A NOISE AND MAKE IT CLEAR

There’s more to Sean Dyche than meets the ear. His gravelly voice, which makes Phil Mitchell sound like a pubescent teenager in comparison, has reinforced the image of Dyche as somebody who is – to use some of the praise delivered by Social Media Disgrace Twitter’s finest in the last 48 hours – a dinosaur, a thug and a footballing caveman. Oh, and about to be the new Everton manager. Yes, Dyche is set to be appointed at Goodison Park, a decision that the club’s social accounts are expected to announce sometime next month, after Marcelo Bielsa decided not to take the job. Bielsa wanted to coach the U-21s for the rest of the season, allowing the younger players to become familiar with his methods, before taking over the first team in the summer. Everton, whose short-term needs are plentiful, declined.


The road from Bielsa to Dyche is rarely travelled, because their approach to football makes chalk and cheese seem like siblings, but as characters they are deceptively similar – serious, charismatic, principled and largely without ego. While it’s true that much of the football played by Dyche’s teams has a whiff of 1987, and he does look and sound like the kind of man who could eat a wooden chair in one sitting, we’ve always thought him to be one of the more impressive figures managing in the Premier League.

Sean Dyche pictured in March 2022 during his time as manager of Burnley.
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Anyone who is mates with Kate Fleming from Line of Duty and was a regular visitor to the Haçienda back in the day is all right with Football Daily, and a glowing testimony from former Irish international Keith Treacy earlier this year made it clear that, in his man-management, Dyche is more enlightened and skilful than most. “He was the one manager who cared about me as a person, not just a commodity as a footballer,” said Treacy. “He did eventually let me go from the club, but I still loved the guy, he took an interest in the person behind the footballer. He would talk to anyone, he’d sit down and chat to the tea lady at the club for 20 minutes.”

If all goes to plan, and when doesn’t it at Everton, Dyche will provide both a quick fix and long-term stability. It’s easy to imagine him staying for a decade, like David Moyes, and quietly overachieving with a team that takes pride in working hard and making life unpleasant for everyone who visits Goodison Park. Style of play may eventually become an issue, but at the moment that’s the least of Everton’s concerns. And Dyche may prove to be a cloth-cutter whose style evolves at a club with greater resources. Everton have tried all kinds of managers since Moyes left in 2013 – Big Cup-winners, firefighters, snake-oil salesmen – but Dyche could be the best fit of the lot. That’s good news for Everton, but it comes with one nagging reservation. If Ol’ Gravel Voice can’t sort Everton out, they might be beyond salvation.
 
Azul knows his stuff when it comes to the disgraceful shenanigans at Everton Football Club perpetrated by Bill Kenwright and his acolytes like Denise Barrett Baxendale. He should do he's seen people tweeting about it and commenting about it on here often enough.

Pretty sure you used to speak highly of Kenwright a few years back.
 

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