New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

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If he's between 39-40 years of age, I used to play football with him when we were teenagers at Vauxhall Motors over in Ellesmere Port. He was a centre half, dad is Dutch called Hans.

If it's him, anyway. Lost contact over 20 years ago. Looks like him, just he had much blonder hair as a kid. I'm 99% sure it's him, I mean with that surname and the location.

Third from left of the players standing up, although said picture is when we were about 11 or something.

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which is you handsome
 
I can Masters shouting at his cronies from here . I bet he’s not happy that we crawled through the loophole before he could take pee through it before closing it . One nil to the Toffees you smirking rat .
Maguire did a very helpful blurb on BBC. No mention of PSR. Entirely about the potential benefits to the women’s team and women’s football in general, as it will be easier to attract minority investors in a time of growth, being separate from the behemoth of the men’s teams at each club.

Surely….surely even Masters wouldn’t try to block these alleged fantastic opportunities to attract more funds into the women’s game at the exact moment the Lionesses are parading their trophy around, just to protect his PSR scam?

Can imagine him staring angrily into his log fire thinking about it.
 

If it's good for Chelsea then I don't see why we shouldn't take advantage of this massive PSR loophole, hopefully we get an amazing deal selling Goodison to the women's team as well
I’m sure the “we aren’t like Chelsea” PR blitz is designed in small part to create a fall back position should Masters decide plucky Everton needs a lawsuit.
 

Masters can try all he wants but the clubs voted against closing the loophole (I think maybe more than once). Only needs 7 to vote against it and I’m pretty sure us, Chelsea, Villa, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, Man U and Man City are all quite happy to keep it as an option.
 
It’s a bit hypocritical of us to celebrate selling the women’s team for PSR when we slagged Chelsea off for doing the same.
The only ‘slagging off’ I saw was for Masters and his cronies for allowing it to happen, when Chelsea were clearly going to breach PSR. We were punished twice for the heinous crime of building a stadium if you recall. Once it became clear that nobody would be punished, it would be very foolish of us not to follow suit. Bend the rules or get left even further behind. It’s an obvious choice.
 
The only ‘slagging off’ I saw was for Masters and his cronies for allowing it to happen, when Chelsea were clearly going to breach PSR. We were punished twice for the heinous crime of building a stadium if you recall. Once it became clear that nobody would be punished, it would be very foolish of us not to follow suit. Bend the rules or get left even further behind. It’s an obvious choice.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it. I just don’t like our attitude to it. If we somehow sold a hotel to ourselves then I wonder how we’d react.
 

The only ‘slagging off’ I saw was for Masters and his cronies for allowing it to happen, when Chelsea were clearly going to breach PSR. We were punished twice for the heinous crime of building a stadium if you recall. Once it became clear that nobody would be punished, it would be very foolish of us not to follow suit. Bend the rules or get left even further behind. It’s an obvious choice.
I wouldn`t say we were even bending the rules. Chelsea tested the rules to their max and the PL saw no reason to take action, Villa sort of went the same route, no action, so for me there`s no stopping cashing in on the ladies team. Similar to the idea of swapping squad players like we did with Dobbins and Tim to boost our PSR situation. A clever way to be compliant by breaking no rules that are in place.
 
It’s a bit hypocritical of us to celebrate selling the women’s team for PSR when we slagged Chelsea off for doing the same.
Totally, I find it all rather depressing how bending rules and finding loopholes is celebrated or excused by people. But if you don't play the game then you're at a disadvantage. It's why football at the top end is pointless caring about
 
I wouldn`t say we were even bending the rules. Chelsea tested the rules to their max and the PL saw no reason to take action, Villa sort of went the same route, no action, so for me there`s no stopping cashing in on the ladies team. Similar to the idea of swapping squad players like we did with Dobbins and Tim to boost our PSR situation. A clever way to be compliant by breaking no rules that are in place.
Come on now its not clever at all
 

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