New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

Bally1989 · Saturday at 9:20 PM

Bedfordblue said:
Friedkin listed as ‘Owner of EPL club Everton’, despite only owned us 5mins, wouldn’t have owned us at the time the donation was made, and is a billionaire from a multitude other business ventures, predominantly opened from the US.
Everton that.

Why does it matter he still owns us so the kid had every right to name him as our owner.

Bally1989 · Saturday at 9:21 PM

toffee66 said:
Just to inject a bit of positivity I had a chat yesterday with a guy who specialises in concert sound management at arenas and Stadia across UK and Europe (we are both supporting a charity in very different ways).

His company (and others) where asked for input during the build of BMD into the specifications for sound mixing and PAs at BMD and things to create/avoid in overall sound dynamics in the ‘bowl’. They have just been given the final installed specifications and results of the sound dynamic testing as we start to put BMD out there as a venue. Their initial impression is that whilst it does not have absolutely everything they asked for they still think it has one of the best inbuilt sound infrastructures for its scale and provides a solid base for all of their/others specialist equipment to optimise venue experience. Much better than Anfield as he was keen to point out (he is a City fan).

I am no engineer so lots of his technical explanations about front of house, side/stage mixing, subwoofers, PA integration and digital amplification flew over my head but his bottom line was that it is a potential competitive advantage if marketed well directly to artist management and promoters. He grumbled that the sound and lighting specialists rarely get a say in venue choice but joked that they do bend the ear of promoters and acts about where is good/bad whenever they can.

Do we get a trophy for this?

toffee66 · Saturday at 9:26 PM

Bally1989 said:
Do we get a trophy for this?

No, but it might mean we earn more money thus improving our ability to invest in the team and potentially win a football trophy which cannot be a bad thing

Victus · Sunday at 8:07 PM

boooooooooo

Bally1989 · Sunday at 8:58 PM

toffee66 said:
No, but it might mean we earn more money thus improving our ability to invest in the team and potentially win a football trophy which cannot be a bad thing

This is where you’re wrong chief.

It helps with our balance sheet and strengthens the owners share price.

It’s up to whoever the custodians are of the club to decide how that money is spent.

Tigger · Sunday at 9:47 PM

Bally1989 said:
This is where you’re wrong chief.

It helps with our balance sheet and strengthens the owners share price.

It’s up to whoever the custodians are of the club to decide how that money is spent.

What? If it helps the balance sheet it means you have more chance to invest in the team, exactly as he said. Not wrong one bit ya negative blurt

Bally1989 · Sunday at 10:07 PM

Tigger said:
What? If it helps the balance sheet it means you have more chance to invest in the team, exactly as he said. Not wrong one bit ya negative blurt

Just read it back soft lad.