Complete Rubbish...

Tubey · February 16, 2011

... but a grain of truth in it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/colum...es-the-pauper-s-burial-grave-115875-22925576/

"Docile Evertonians have meekly accepted Goodison penury for years without ever asking where the money has gone.

Who's in charge of their budget - my missus? This is a club who for years have enjoyed bumper gates without paying bumper wages, yet who would apparently struggle to hire a bumper car."

Bad article though; you wonder how these journos convince their bosses to give them a paycheck.

blue61 · February 16, 2011

Tubey said:
... but a grain of truth in it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/colum...es-the-pauper-s-burial-grave-115875-22925576/

"Docile Evertonians have meekly accepted Goodison penury for years without ever asking where the money has gone.

Who's in charge of their budget - my missus? This is a club who for years have enjoyed bumper gates without paying bumper wages, yet who would apparently struggle to hire a bumper car."

Bad article though; you wonder how these journos convince their bosses to give them a paycheck.

He's a kopite mate, but he's also right unfortunately.

daz4matty · February 16, 2011

blue61 said:
He's a kopite mate, but he's also right unfortunately.

The question is though what has the fat mincer done with all our dosh

little curly alan ball · February 16, 2011

daz4matty said:
The question is though what has the fat mincer done with all our dosh

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GWS · February 16, 2011

McGovern's usually a petty point scoring RS tsetse fly, annoying but inaccurate and deserving of a good swatting. That article, though, is far and away the most reasonable I've ever seen from him. And, sadly, the most accurate. There is no mystery as to where the money has gone however. It's not being syphoned off to fuel Bill's love of the Las Vegas Casino's. We have simply spent more than we've earned for many years. It's gone on player wages and debt servicing. It's gone on mortgages that have allowed Bill to cling on to the club, and pie-in-the-sky stadium schemes. It's gone on poor management.

Move along, nothing to see here.

blueblue · February 16, 2011

When David Moyes first came to Everton his strategy was to find good young players,buy them at an affordable price,pay them a decent salary and turn them into very good players.

In more recent seasons the strategy has changed and we have seen the signing of players such as Heitinga,Bilyaletdinov,Fellaini and Yakubu for a combined fee of about 40m pounds and a weekly wage costing about 200k(a guess).With our income streams the fact is that we simply cannot afford that type of expenditure.
I estimate that the sale of Pienaar and the loan deals of Yakubu,Yobo and Vaughan would probably save us between 8 and 9 million pounds in a full year.

Unless we are sold ,I think we will have to revert to our original policy and this summer could see the sale of players such as Bilyaletdinov ,Heitinga and maybe others to be replaced by younger talent eager to impress.