Minimeister
Player Valuation: £35m
How much will his hamper be this Christmas?
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The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
Ha Ha Ha.
He was only ever in to make a quick buck but ultimately failed when he had to accept the price he bought the club for. The PL was still a new concept and it was fashionable back then for business people to buy PL clubs because generally they were on to a winner.
It is worth remembering that this is the man whose refusal to give HK Mk3 adequate funds because he wanted someone else nearly got us relegated in the 97/98 season. The man who later sold Ferguson behind Smith's back because he was calling in the debt. The man who cost us the best years of Nigel Martyn because he would not afford him a proper welcoming to the club. The man who refused to give Joe Royle the small amount of money needed to buy Flo who Chelsea later paid £10m for, and who caused Joe to leave. Things could have been so different.
We are still paying for the mistakes of his tenure.
No further questions Your Honour. Guilty as charged.
He was only ever in to make a quick buck but ultimately failed when he had to accept the price he bought the club for. The PL was still a new concept and it was fashionable back then for business people to buy PL clubs because generally they were on to a winner.
It is worth remembering that this is the man whose refusal to give HK Mk3 adequate funds because he wanted someone else nearly got us relegated in the 97/98 season. The man who later sold Ferguson behind Smith's back because he was calling in the debt. The man who cost us the best years of Nigel Martyn because he would not afford him a proper welcoming to the club. The man who refused to give Joe Royle the small amount of money needed to buy Flo who Chelsea later paid £10m for, and who caused Joe to leave. Things could have been so different.
We are still paying for the mistakes of his tenure.
No further questions Your Honour. Guilty as charged.
he did give nigel martyn excellent directions to leeds, this was pre sat nav days as well remember
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
sneak off to the "toilet" after 3 courses and plenty of drinks - leaving him to pay.
EvertonAmerican
Player Valuation: £950k
Thought this thread would be about a porn star.
I was incorrect.
I was incorrect.
cantlivewithem
Player Valuation: £1m
Ask him if he's enjoying the soup you got the waiter to piss in before it was served to him
Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
I personally think comparing Johnson and Kenwright is a bit like comparing a kick in the knackers with a kick in the teeth. Neither are very good, but at least Johnson invested some cash into the business, albeit in the form of loans which he demanded back when his flavoured chips business went west.
Having to sell off the bigger name players, like Ferguson, Dacourt etc obviously had an adverse affect on our performances. But how does that compare to us going almost three years without signing a first team player under Kenwright, which had followed a very similar fire-sale in which we flogged the likes of Arteta, Yakubu and Beckford etc? This happened under Kenwright without him investing any money into the business. The difference was that we had David Moyes in charge, otherwise things would have been just as bad as the 1990's.
All that bollox with Z-cars and dodgy kits that weren't even royal blue was just typical 90's marketing bollox. You will find that many a club throughout the country were implementing similar 'wacky' initiatives, in an attempt to evolve into the new, wacky sky boy era, along with their dancing cheerleaders and half-time sumo-wrestling contests. The 90's was full of that type of crap everywhere you went!
Johnson massively overhauled our retail facilities whilst he was at Everton. Does anyone remember the old souvenir shop on Goodison Road before Johnson came? Christ, you see market stalls in town with more Everton merchandise than you did in that place back then. He improved the Goodison Road shop, before going ahead and building our 'megastore'.
Having to sell off the bigger name players, like Ferguson, Dacourt etc obviously had an adverse affect on our performances. But how does that compare to us going almost three years without signing a first team player under Kenwright, which had followed a very similar fire-sale in which we flogged the likes of Arteta, Yakubu and Beckford etc? This happened under Kenwright without him investing any money into the business. The difference was that we had David Moyes in charge, otherwise things would have been just as bad as the 1990's.
All that bollox with Z-cars and dodgy kits that weren't even royal blue was just typical 90's marketing bollox. You will find that many a club throughout the country were implementing similar 'wacky' initiatives, in an attempt to evolve into the new, wacky sky boy era, along with their dancing cheerleaders and half-time sumo-wrestling contests. The 90's was full of that type of crap everywhere you went!
Johnson massively overhauled our retail facilities whilst he was at Everton. Does anyone remember the old souvenir shop on Goodison Road before Johnson came? Christ, you see market stalls in town with more Everton merchandise than you did in that place back then. He improved the Goodison Road shop, before going ahead and building our 'megastore'.
Chang Elephant
Forum God
No. The Kirkby shed get rich quick scheme was the king of watersports. Kenwright may as well rained down his urine onto the fans heads.
tonyhorne
Immoderate
The last straw for me was when Royle (I think) left as manager and the post was advertised in the Daily Mail! I was moved to write a letter of protest to the great man which, to be fair to him, he responded to. I've still got it somewhere.
I think he genuinely wanted to succeed at Everton. He just wasn't up to it. We were rather a different animal to Tranmere Rovers.......
I think he genuinely wanted to succeed at Everton. He just wasn't up to it. We were rather a different animal to Tranmere Rovers.......
The Mighty Quint
Player Valuation: £40m
Order the trifle and slam it into his grid and post a pic on here...
Donald Twain
Vide cor meum
Pass the salt!
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