New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

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davek said:
I know the last thing we need is a revolving door on the manager and CEOs office.

All the stuff claimed for TFG that they know football now that they have experience of running Roma is out the window. They've made an absolute bollocks of that.

If/when they arrive here they'll need close watching. That shouldn't need saying in any case after the Moshiri experience.
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You wrote them off day one because they sell cars, you started from a biased position for no real reason, it's hard to take you serious.
 

I'm confident TFG will expand the commercial side, grow revenue, and run the business operation prudently.

They do have questions to answer on recruitment. It is perhaps to our advantage they can reflect upon their mistakes at Roma and have had an opportunity at least to see what doesn't work.

If we are to recover any sort of standing and have a chance at a brighter future, then this only comes about when all elements of the club are run in sync with each other and for the ultimate benefit of the first team squad and layers below.

It isn't an end for the club to be well run as a business. It's a means to an end. Mistakes and misjudgements on recruitment are costly. Money spent on pay-offs affects our PSR and limit the ability to strengthen the squad.

I'm very much looking forward to the completion of the takeover. TFG are, as has been said at the top end of the prospective candidates that could have been in this position. That doesn't make them perfect, and clearly they are not. But they do now have experience and lessons to learn and will have a near blank canvas awaiting them. It's a time to be positive.
 
Victus said:
You wrote them off day one because they sell cars, you started from a biased position for no real reason, it's hard to take you serious.
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Don’t worry, in 5 years time when they come to sell us he will hard flip to going after the new incumbent owners and will retrospectively start to rewrite the Friedkin era. He stopped going after Moshiri as soon as the general consensus turned against him, after non stop vehemently attacking him from 2016-2020. It’s written into the coding of Davekbot Web Traffic Generator 3000.2.exe
 
Simon Buttle said:
Zat that just isn't true, 5 of those initial players are now key members of the current Spurs team, Romero, Udogie, Kulusevski, Bentancur, and Porro. Do you also realise that he has still been advising them (he is only on restricted duties atm) and was responsible for the likes of Gray, Bergvall and Van de Ven and some other younger players they brought in.
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I read that he was able to work after his appeal just not able to take on certain roles -- did not realise he was still acting in an advisory capacity.

The four you mentioned from Italy & Porro along with the 3 signings this summer are imo ace.

Clearly they'd mostly walk into our team.

At Juve its hard for me to gauge based on the variey of roles he had whether signings were his or not.

I suspect it would be difficult to bring him over if hes at Spurs? Or would he perhaps initially work for the group with a staff of DOFs under him e.g Thelwell and the French chap at Roma.
 
Zatara said:
I read that he was able to work after his appeal just not able to take on certain roles -- did not realise he was still acting in an advisory capacity.

The four you mentioned from Italy & Porro along with the 3 signings this summer are imo ace.

Clearly they'd mostly walk into our team.

At Juve its hard for me to gauge based on the variey of roles he had whether signings were his or not.

I suspect it would be difficult to bring him over if hes at Spurs? Or would he perhaps initially work for the group with a staff of DOFs under him e.g Thelwell and the French chap at Roma.
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Spurs did eventually replace him with someone else but it appears he was still having some input into them on recruitment. No idea if he still is, Id guess not if he is being linked with us. He also tried to sign Jonathan David which should please you.
 

Everton are expected to have more money to spend in the January transfer window once The Friedkin Group takeover is complete, sources have told Football Insider.

Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, senior correspondent Pete O’Rourke revealed that Friedkin will “put his hand in his pocket” to bolster the current squad.
 
Simon Buttle said:
Spurs did eventually replace him with someone else but it appears he was still having some input into them on recruitment. No idea if he still is, Id guess not if he is being linked with us. He also tried to sign Jonathan David which should please you.
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Indeed it does. David, Cherki, Rigg & Gnonto with only the first two joining in Jan and the other 2 staying with their clubs until end of the season would be really a great window for us.

Never happening obviously, but that would give us a different dimension.
 

davek said:
I know the last thing we need is a revolving door on the manager and CEOs office.

All the stuff claimed for TFG that they know football now that they have experience of running Roma is out the window. They've made an absolute bollocks of that.

If/when they arrive here they'll need close watching. That shouldn't need saying in any case after the Moshiri experience.
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They tried to get champions league football, but finished 6th 3 seasons running I think and with no money in the Italian league,
They had cut their cloth,
But if 6th 3 times and 2 European finals is failure, what is winning nothing in 30yrs and fighting relegation for the last 3 years called
 

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