New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

[Goat]

I've called for nothing.

I'v said that they'll get one if they dont deliver this window.

Some people are easily impressed, because this lot so far have done in actuality the square root of f.a. for this club. They are not benefactors, they're here to get this club set up as a money spinning operation with a passive fanbase who'll pay down that debt and who wont make noises when they're squeezed.

I'll give them 5 years max before they sell this club on. We are clearly not operating to the same model as the one they have at Roma.

5 Years? We will have folded and moved to Rome by then.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Looks like we did indeed sell the women’s team in the last FY. Presumably had a PSR shortfall to make up but extra headroom will pull through to this summer.

 

[windymiller]

Apart from making the club debt free
Hiring proper professionals at board level
Signed 4 players already and they are not stopping there.
Not bending over backwards and giving in to daft wage demands from bang average players DCL Doucoure
Tied down our most valuable asset (Branthwaite) on a 5 year deal
Will probably spend around 100mil before the window is closed
Got us one of the highest sponsorship deals for the stadium (Not a glamourous name but who cares)

Not bad for 6 months graft.

Apart from that though they need to pull their finger out............................

We're definitely not debt free. Our debt has been reduced and refinanced so it's much more manageable, and obviously that's a good thing as our previous situation was an unmanageable debt spiral, but we still owe hundreds of millions of pounds. Don't get me wrong the one measurable thing TFG have done so far is normalise our financial situation, which is very pleasing, everything else is yet to be seen. Clearly Dave is on one of his tears and is getting some traction with it (which is all that he cares about) but there's quite a few on here who have gone completely the other way and are giving TFG a ton of praise for things they haven't actually done. At least not done yet, anyway.

 

[Bally1989]

Looks like we did indeed sell the women’s team in the last FY. Presumably had a PSR shortfall to make up but extra headroom will pull through to this summer.

Do we know how much for?

 

[Bally1989]

Looks like we did indeed sell the women’s team in the last FY. Presumably had a PSR shortfall to make up but extra headroom will pull through to this summer.

Do we know how much for?

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Do we know how much for?

No. Unless a journo does some digging we might not find out until the next accounts.

 

[PhilM]

Looks like we did indeed sell the women’s team in the last FY. Presumably had a PSR shortfall to make up but extra headroom will pull through to this summer.

As was the sensible thing to do. Some people may say the women's game will grow in popularity and the price may have risen further, which is correct.

But in the short to medium term, we need the financial leeway to help build the squad and remove us from the financial constraints we've been stuck to.

The extra headroom now will help facilitate purchases, and the stadium will help provide additional leeway from this year.

 

[NorthernBlue]

Jury is out as it should be for every fan. First task is invest in the squad which they haven’t yet done. Until then they should be treat with the same regard as the pervious lot. Suspicion and disdain.

It’s alright wheeling out a Leeds cast off to peddle the middle management fluff but it’s time to see some action now.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Do we know how much for?

We were basically selling it to ourselves, so we either sold it on the cheap, as we did our assets under Blue Bill, or we overpaid for what we sold ourselves, which we did many time for players under Moshiri/Kenwrong.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Looks like we did indeed sell the women’s team in the last FY. Presumably had a PSR shortfall to make up but extra headroom will pull through to this summer.

Sad it's come to that but you have to play the game or get left behind. The soul of the game takes another beating

 

[Marcus Kendall]

As was the sensible thing to do. Some people may say the women's game will grow in popularity and the price may have risen further, which is correct.

But in the short to medium term, we need the financial leeway to help build the squad and remove us from the financial constraints we've been stuck to.

The extra headroom now will help facilitate purchases, and the stadium will help provide additional leeway from this year.

Nah the women's game has a natural ceiling which is roughly where its at now. Any growth from now on will be minimal as the target audience for football growth are too absorbed by their men's team to care too much for actively supporting another team

 

[matty1878]

Ok, but we don't know if the new structure has yielded or will yield any improvements yet, do we?

The debt situation is obviously a welcome development.

Look, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with TFG, we all hope they'll do a brilliant job. We just don't know yet. Everyone just needs to calm down a bit and wait and see what they do. There are a variety of milestones after which we can make judgements with the end of the current transfer window being the first. Realistically, we won't know if this lot are competent or not for a couple of years.

if you can’t be optimistic mate or ok more so “ a plan “in place for once instead of the club sinking into the abysss

i’m not saying we’re smashing the top4 and winning everything

we have a CHANCE to try and rebuild the 10 plus years we’ve been a joke

 

[brieverton]

I'm sure Moyes has said recently that the owner(s) were supportive.

Wonder does that amount to anything practical in reality? Other than cash I mean.

Gasperini said he was in regular contact with Friedkin in the same interview where he mentioned they were behind with transfers.

Things seemed to have picked up for them since.

They are clearly hands off but at the same time just curious as to how far their support extends, and whether it's offered pro-actively or otherwise.

I recall Walter Smith doing an interview when he first arrived in the summer of 1998 and he made the point that sometimes you had to change the point of focus and appeal to a player to get certain deals over the line.

 

[allen]

Sad it's come to that but you have to play the game or get left behind. The soul of the game takes another beating

It’s not brilliant, but really it’s just an accounting version of time wasting or whatever other shithousery happens on the pitch that the game would probably be better if no one did - but it’s the way it is.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

It’s not brilliant, but really it’s just an accounting version of time wasting or whatever other shithousery happens on the pitch that the game would probably be better if no one did - but it’s the way it is.

I just think it's a sad reflection of modern football where cheating and bending the rules is common place. Another example is a Man Utd player doing a ridiculous dive to 'win' a penalty yesterday against West Ham in a pre season tournament, does it get any lower than that?