del78
Player Valuation: £750k
He is being awfully quiet about it either way.
Can't say i'm not too displeased with the outcome either.
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He is being awfully quiet about it either way.
Can't say i'm not too displeased with the outcome either.
Hahahaha, Yeah lets blame Wyness for the whole mess, THAT will work, honest.
Surely it was the store and not the ground that was the problem wasn't it?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
No mate. There was a retail park three-quarters the size of the Trafford centre planned for Kirkby, not just a massive Tesco. The Tesco store would get the thumbs up no problem on its own.
I wonder if Tesco will now carry out its promise to 'stay in Kirkby for the long haul' that they made throughout this farce?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The Leader on the future of the club
Bill breaks cover: Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - Bill Kenwright: Everton FC’s Kirkby move 'is dead but we need investment'
“The first thing to say in terms of Kirkby is that the chapter is over and the book is closed. The motivation has only ever been to improve the finances of the football club. They need to be stabilised, improved and expanded. As everyone knows, the club doesn't currently have a chairman or a board in a position to do those things. We have had some of the best financial experts helping us with our search for investment for some considerable time now – and that will continue. Inevitably the search will throw up questions about where the club will play its football in years to come. And the response will be: 'We are happy to be at Goodison Park while we regroup, reassess and consider all options available to us there and possibly elsewhere’ At the end of the day, the club's finances will be key to everything."
Statesmanlike.
Clueless and potless, but statesmanlike.
Bill breaks cover: Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - Bill Kenwright: Everton FC’s Kirkby move 'is dead but we need investment'
“The first thing to say in terms of Kirkby is that the chapter is over and the book is closed. The motivation has only ever been to improve the finances of the football club. They need to be stabilised, improved and expanded. As everyone knows, the club doesn't currently have a chairman or a board in a position to do those things. We have had some of the best financial experts helping us with our search for investment for some considerable time now – and that will continue. Inevitably the search will throw up questions about where the club will play its football in years to come. And the response will be: 'We are happy to be at Goodison Park while we regroup, reassess and consider all options available to us there and possibly elsewhere’ At the end of the day, the club's finances will be key to everything."
Statesmanlike.
Clueless and potless, but statesmanlike.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
apart from....
"We have discovered huge oil reserves under Bellfield so we are glad we still own it" *raises 2 fingers with Warren & Bradley written on them Chris Martin style.
what exactly did you want him to say in these first hours since the decision Dave ?
"We have discovered huge oil reserves under Bellfield so we are glad we still own it" *raises 2 fingers with Warren & Bradley written on them Chris Martin style.
what exactly did you want him to say in these first hours since the decision Dave ?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Well, for a start, it'd be nice if he held his hand up and not let his pack of media dogs pin it all on Wyness to cover his arse.
Then he could apologise to the support for driving a wedge between them for two years.
He could also apologise to the whole fanbase for stewarding the club through two failed stadium schemes.
And finally, he could follow up on his talk about looking for money to bring into the club by baldly stating that 'I am selling my stake in the club to make way for a new era at the club.'
That would do it.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Code:The uncertainty is over, please give me your offers for my shares
If that's what he was saying in code, fair enough. I wouldn't bet on it though.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
Who knows, Davek? However if he has genuinely been looking for investment then the main barrier to that investment has now been removed.
Of course, no seller will openly disclose his willingness to sell, however the pressure is now on Kenwright. He either has to come up with investment with him remaining on board, or investment with him selling.
Sitting and waiting for the next stadium project to come up is no longer an option, he has to act. I believe he and his advisors will fully understand this.
Failure to act will confirm what his doubters have always said about him, I'd like to think he's a true blue and will now put the interests of the club before his own.
Over to you Mr Kenwright.
Of course, no seller will openly disclose his willingness to sell, however the pressure is now on Kenwright. He either has to come up with investment with him remaining on board, or investment with him selling.
Sitting and waiting for the next stadium project to come up is no longer an option, he has to act. I believe he and his advisors will fully understand this.
Failure to act will confirm what his doubters have always said about him, I'd like to think he's a true blue and will now put the interests of the club before his own.
Over to you Mr Kenwright.
Blue Truth
Player Valuation: £25m
All hail the leader.
Or is it all stone the leader
Or is it all stone the leader
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I tend to agree with you. The days of sitting tight behind an exclusivity deal are over. Things have moved on from that. There will be movement at the top.
A little bit more than 'we move on' was called for from Kenwright there though today. He's dragged the club twice up the garden path and should acknowledge his mistakes. For him though, it's just a shrug of the sholders and let the local hacks off the leash to scapegoat some long departed CEO.
Classy.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
TheGame - Times Online - WBLG: Merseyside stadium share would be a sad day for English football
Spot on.....
"The day after Everton’s latest stadium dreams went belly up should have been a day for recriminations. It should have been the day when Bill Kenwright, the Everton owner and chairman, had to answer searching questions about the future of his club having said on so many previous occasions that only a move to a hideous soulless bowl built outside the boundaries of a city which they should never even have considered leaving would give them any hope of recapturing past glories.
It should have been a day when searching questions were asked about what this setback means to David Moyes, who has performed near miracles in defying the kind of lack of finance which would have crippled lesser managers to produce the only team in the Premier League which regularly out performs its wage bill, but who is now faced with the realisation that there is no immediate prospect of Everton having the kind of stadium which would produce revenue in keeping with his ambition.
It should have been a day when Everton’s board had to answer searching questions about why it sanctioned the spending of millions of pounds pressing ahead with proposals that appeared to be clearly in contravention of planning policy, as consistently argued by the Keep Everton In Our City campaign group which did such magnificent work on behalf of the tens of thousands of fans who were quite rightly opposed to the idea of Everton quitting the city in which they belong.
But we got none of this. Instead, someone says the magic words “ground share” and hey presto, the media dances to a different tune and the Everton hierarchy is off the hook."
Spot on.....
"The day after Everton’s latest stadium dreams went belly up should have been a day for recriminations. It should have been the day when Bill Kenwright, the Everton owner and chairman, had to answer searching questions about the future of his club having said on so many previous occasions that only a move to a hideous soulless bowl built outside the boundaries of a city which they should never even have considered leaving would give them any hope of recapturing past glories.
It should have been a day when searching questions were asked about what this setback means to David Moyes, who has performed near miracles in defying the kind of lack of finance which would have crippled lesser managers to produce the only team in the Premier League which regularly out performs its wage bill, but who is now faced with the realisation that there is no immediate prospect of Everton having the kind of stadium which would produce revenue in keeping with his ambition.
It should have been a day when Everton’s board had to answer searching questions about why it sanctioned the spending of millions of pounds pressing ahead with proposals that appeared to be clearly in contravention of planning policy, as consistently argued by the Keep Everton In Our City campaign group which did such magnificent work on behalf of the tens of thousands of fans who were quite rightly opposed to the idea of Everton quitting the city in which they belong.
But we got none of this. Instead, someone says the magic words “ground share” and hey presto, the media dances to a different tune and the Everton hierarchy is off the hook."
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