New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

[miami]

Plus the effect of new ground…where it will take a while to feel like home

I don’t get the ‘it’ll take a while for it to feel like home’ stuff. For the fans, yes, it’ll take a while. Getting used to the concourses etc. but the players have no excuses. They’ll be backed by 12,000 more Everton than they’re used to. The grass is green. The pitch is the same size. the goalposts are the same width. Don’t give the players another excuse Not to do well. They should be able to hit the round running in the new stadium.

 

[Drico]

Their 3 best league finishes in last 10 years too

And yet they got rid of him...

 

[devon_blue]

And yet they got rid of him...

They’ve gone backwards since

 

[Drico]

They’ve gone backwards since

That simply means they've been poor at choosing a successor. It doesn't mean they were wrong to decide Moyes could take them no further.

 

[pfim]

Fair play to Beto, a bit of hard work created that

 

[Goat]

Just superb owners really.

 

[Fonzy]

I don’t get the ‘it’ll take a while for it to feel like home’ stuff. For the fans, yes, it’ll take a while. Getting used to the concourses etc. but the players have no excuses. They’ll be backed by 12,000 more Everton than they’re used to. The grass is green. The pitch is the same size. the goalposts are the same width. Don’t give the players another excuse Not to do well. They should be able to hit the round running in the new stadium.

No but historically results in first season of new ground are bit up & down .

 

[Bedfordblue]

I don’t get the ‘it’ll take a while for it to feel like home’ stuff. For the fans, yes, it’ll take a while. Getting used to the concourses etc. but the players have no excuses. They’ll be backed by 12,000 more Everton than they’re used to. The grass is green. The pitch is the same size. the goalposts are the same width. Don’t give the players another excuse Not to do well. They should be able to hit the round running in the new stadium.

Tbf that’s a lot more boo’ing when things aren’t going well!

 

[Bedfordblue]

Agreed it had gone a bit stale at end of his tenure and agreed he downplayed expectations at points, but the team were over performing on very limited investment with no sense of change any time soon at that point. Martinez lucked out in his first season, adding firepower to a well organised squad. Found out the next as the wheels began to come off.

 

[devon_blue]

Guess it depends how you measure it - they over performed the investment level for years

 

[Thomasc]

A couple of decent new additions on the playing side this week and you would have to say they’ve strengthened the club throughout in a relatively short space of time.

Great to see a bit of positivity back in the club.

 

[davek]

Do YOUR job and sign some players.

It's basically all you have to do, so do it.

 

[Infernus]

Do YOUR job and sign some players.

It's basically all you have to do, so do it.

 

[hoppy]

The Friedkin Group haven’t yet held talks with local fans George Downing and Andy Bell about Everton investment, according to Alan Nixon.

The journalist reported via his Patreon on 26 January that the American group are open to fresh backing at Goodison to help pay bills and fund David Moyes’ transfer budget.

 

[James Patrick]

I don’t get the ‘it’ll take a while for it to feel like home’ stuff. For the fans, yes, it’ll take a while. Getting used to the concourses etc. but the players have no excuses. They’ll be backed by 12,000 more Everton than they’re used to. The grass is green. The pitch is the same size. the goalposts are the same width. Don’t give the players another excuse Not to do well. They should be able to hit the round running in the new stadium.

The pitch will actually be bigger than Goodison unless we go all Walter Smith about it.