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SpongeBob brown shoes
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Defo coming from the club this
Suprisingly it never said 'be careful what you wish for'
Suprisingly it never said 'be careful what you wish for'
Behave soft arse. I find that insulting you have the audacity to claim we'd allow it.
Think what happens after Kenwright will be significant in determining his legacy.
If in 5 years we're in a 60,000 seater on Bramley Moore with Moshiri (and dare I say Usmanov?!) transforming the club, then he'd deserve a lot of credit for that.
There's also talk that Moshiri can't take majority shares until there's a spade in the ground on BMD - again, if that's true then Kenwright would deserve some credit for that.
On the pitch (and even off it transfer wise when you consider the players lost!), Moshiri hasn't delivered anything in his 2+ years more than Kenwright.
I also think fans overestimate his day to day role now, any key decisions is Moshiri despite the tendency to praise Moshiri for the good, and criticise Kenwright for the bad.
/runs
orly
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Kenwright or Kenwrong
At the end of another season, we find ourselves in a quandary that seems all too familiar. Despite our new investor (Moshiri) ploughing millions into the club and the area as a whole (I love that he bought the Liver building for obvious reasons) we find ourselves in the usual uninspiring situation.
As we have found out this season, having money does not always equal happiness. Despite shelling out millions of pounds on new players, some of these players have not lived up to expectations. Davy Klaassen is one such player that seemed to have the ability to inject some excitement into our season and I don’t need to remind you what happened there. On the other side of the coin, we have brought Cenk Tosun into the field and after a shaky start he appears to be on the cusp of making a much-needed difference up front. Yes, we have sold players over recent seasons too and made a few million quid doing so
I don’t really understand, however, why there is such hatred and vitriol levelled at our chairman Bill Kenwright. While I agree that he has never been a flamboyant, media savvy type and this can only be seen as a hindrance in the media rich world we live in today, I do feel that he is unjustly pillorised by a section of our fan base. Yes, I know that Bill historically hasn’t had deep pockets and because of this, we’ve always been seen as a frugal club who had to keep tight reign on the purse strings, but our situation has led us to do some very good business in the transfer market. Names like Ross Barkley, John Stones and Tim Cahill are evidence that you don’t need to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to get hold of quality players despite what Chelsea, Man City and Man Utd would have you believe.
The main complaint levelled at Kenwright is lack of action bringing the necessary investment to the club. As you'd expect, identifying the right investors with the right skills and motivations are not easy at all. You then need to sit down and negotiate while performing the necessary checks to ensure due diligence and that the appointment won’t blow up in your face when we discover the prospective investor was a wife beating money launderer (hypothetically). I do agree, however, that the process of securing the right investor and has taken a long time and I hope that the “fairy godfather” Mr Moshiri rewards our faith in him by offering the necessary funds and his business acumen where these will be most beneficial. In fairness, I think that the recent reshuffle and departures in the boardroom give us hope in this cause.
While as an Evertonian, I have long prayed for investment and become frustrated when opportunities to secure this have passed by. However, I do have experience in high value diplomacy and this means that I understand how long these things take and what the pitfalls are in these circumstances. Remember the way the newspapers talked up the Indian investors the Jain Group in 2011 and how well negotiations were going? This investment never materialised and the fans became increasingly frustrated after stories about every interested party was irresponsibly leaked by the media and then fell by the wayside. A great deal of this frustration was directed at Bill personally as fans impatiently and continually asked him why he hadn’t found the investment we needed and why we didn’t have the money to buy players, indeed, words like “Arteta Money” are forever burned into our collective consciousness. These words show a poor understanding of economics and what it takes to run a business in the modern age.
Let’s face facts here, Kenwright only became involved with Everton because he loves the club like we do and there are stories of his childhood as an Evertonian that speak to all of us. While Bill is a successful theatre promoter and this has enabled him to live a comfortable life, his attitude to entertainment is the same as his attitude to football and Everton. By his own admission, Kenwright could have made a lot more money promoting big name shows but he chooses to only support productions he believes in which is why he spent nearly a million pounds of his own money producing the Greek tragedy Medea in 1994. This self-belief has also manifested in his time at Everton.
I know that mistakes have been made, with hindsight, Steve Walsh was not the appointment that we all thought it would be. This hasn’t worked for Everton but Walsh came with great experience and a proven pedigree and I hope that his tenure with us won’t damage his reputation and that Marcel Brands can succeed where Walsh failed. In addition, I couldn’t write this piece without mentioning David Moyes which was Bill’s best appointment ever. Moyes succeeded in playing decent football while managing to even get us into the Champions League once on a shoestring budget and stayed with us for over a decade in a time when clubs seem to sack their managers at least once a season. This speaks of mutual respect and loyalty between chairman and manager and the fact that Moyes is now regarded as a joke in certain sections upsets me and I hope his next job is successful.
The one blot on Bill’s copybook is undoubtably Sam Allardyce. I was very surprised and even annoyed when he was appointed. But, to be honest, the club was in a bad place after being knocked back by Watford over Silva and they needed to appoint someone quickly to stop the uncertainty further eroding performances on the field. While I agree with most of you that Sam is overrated and I’m glad he is gone, he was the one to step up and join the peoples club when we needed someone.
Finally, over the years we have seen what happens when people who don’t care about football or the club they join have been left to run the business. Names like Oyston and Tan spring to mind and I’m very glad that we had Bill who loves the club rather than one of these “businessmen” with no history or relationship with the game. I for one, say “Thank You” to the man who put himself at the helm with only love in his heart.
Unreal trolling this @Karl Pollard - excellent job
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
If he loved the club as much as he claims he wouldn’t have allowed the last 20 years.
lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Should stick to pantomimes. He's stuck two fingers up to fans long enough
SpongeBob brown shoes
Player Valuation: £40m
Moshiri does take criticism, especially after this season there's a poll on here that shows people are dissatisfied
I find it insulting when people automatically take the stance that we should be thankful for a hopeless business man because he loves the club and we never got sold to owners like Tan or the Venkys, there's plenty of good owners out there, it's this 'careful what you wish for' attitude which we get (usually) from people associated with the club
Also 'soft arse' is it
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Agent Blue
Player Valuation: £10m
I wonder if the figure for "Other footballing expenses" in the clubs accounts would go up or down if he left?
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Sorry his legacy is already written, worst chairman in our long history.
Thomasc
Formerly known as By God I'm Blue
Oh my giddy aunt, where to start with this.
If you think Allardyce is the blot on Bill’s history at Everton then you have done zero research for this article.
He held on long enough to get lucky. Everybody in football was asking why Everton had not attracted investment over the last 10 years, when money was flowing into football, we were basically the last man standing who hadn’t been sold or attracted investment.
It’s no mystery why that didn’t happen is it? Which gives you the answer to why the answer to your title is clearly Kenwrong.
If you think Allardyce is the blot on Bill’s history at Everton then you have done zero research for this article.
He held on long enough to get lucky. Everybody in football was asking why Everton had not attracted investment over the last 10 years, when money was flowing into football, we were basically the last man standing who hadn’t been sold or attracted investment.
It’s no mystery why that didn’t happen is it? Which gives you the answer to why the answer to your title is clearly Kenwrong.
Well this is true and fair however there’s no need to shout.
What about the total lack of investment for Moyes’ sides? Prevented us progressing.
You can’t rest on your
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Biggest mistakes was missing the prem moneyboat, sticking with Moyes for far too long, installing the "plucky old Everton" mentality throughout the club, and persisting with Martinez after the latter had been found out after that first season. There was no cohesive plan or strategy and the whole Everton board should bear the brunt of criticism over the last 3 decades, not just Kenwright. Jury will still be out on Moshiri and it remains to be seen if he and the board can do any better...
The detractors, who aren’t few, will cite the failed stadium moves and the lies surrounding these as the primary failure of the Chairman. Others will suggest, maybe not inappropriately, that he seemed to lack either the ambition, or vision, to lead the club forward. I don’t believe that he views Everton as a “smaller” club than those whose success he wants to match, but I do think he has trouble seeing the pathway forward.
Hmm. What are the odds of 2 genuine everton fans joining a forum on the same day to defend bill kenwright?
I think we should be praising the chairman that led to the creation of the RS. Not because they came into existence, but because they acted as a magnet for generations of fans who have/had a propensity for being bad bellends. Kept them away from our club.
I think we should be praising the chairman that led to the creation of the RS. Not because they came into existence, but because they acted as a magnet for generations of fans who have/had a propensity for being bad bellends. Kept them away from our club.
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