OK, I apologise, I went through the thread and didn't see confirmation everywhere. For those of us getting out of bed for the first time, can you repost the link that confirmed it?
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OK, I apologise, I went through the thread and didn't see confirmation everywhere. For those of us getting out of bed for the first time, can you repost the link that confirmed it?
Screech
Player Valuation: £10m
Cheers, I missed that. I'm still not TOTALLY convinced (there's no sources mentioned, and every major newspaper site is still reporting it as a rumour, e.g. Mystery surrounds reports of UAE takeover of Premier League club | Football | The Guardian), but that article is a lot more definite than any other link I read.
Blue Wiz
Player Valuation: £25m
Wouldn't give it a 50-50.. I'd say it's about 10% chance it's us. Still think it's another club. These things don't happen to us.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
We've been down this road once before with you haven't we? I see you've now, though, taken Villa out of the special one-off category you previosly had them in and now lump them in with the leveraged buyout brigade of borderline extortionists. The fact is, whatever the terms of a takeover, the eventual buyer of Everton will get something out of it - be it a platform or the hope of turning an eventual profit - and the club will move into a new phase of its history looking to maximise its commercial potential. I think we all accept the inevitabilty of this. Well, almost all.
You're just trying to scare people with the notion that all change is a bad thing: it can turn Everton into a 'toy club' or one that's getting 'squeezed'. You seem to want Bill Kenwright in charge full stop and to bumble along as an also ran.
It's way more than a one in a thousand chance that the reports aren't true. Even the Sun don't see enough evidence to report it as a fact (and indeed a SUN EXCLUSIVE).
It wasn't meant to be a list of terrible clubs, it was a list of clubs that weren't toy clubs who haven't had automatic success. My stance on Villa hasn't changed - Lerner has run that club exactly like Kenwright has run Everton. He started out with zero debts in the club, and borrowed money to fund the purchase of players.
This summer, it's well known that Villa aren't spending and their chairman talks about running the club is a "sustainable" fashion. That isn't bad compared to Everton - it's exactly the situation we are in - but people are going crazy in this thread as if ANY buyout must (with 100% certainty) mean we will have billions to spend. I'm trying to moderate expectations to something more reasonable.
You are trying to paint me as the one with the extremist view?
No, I just believe that not all change is good. Some is good, some is bad. A lot of people believe that literally anybody with money will be better than Kenwright.
You ignored my "I'm hoping for a good result just like everyone else" comment. I'm in favour of the right buyer. I'm not going to assume that somebody is the correct buyer just because they were born within sight of an oil well. I'll be hopeful for the future if we did get bought out - but I won't be celebrating the 2011/2012 Champions league trophey this week.
Yes Dave, I want Kenwright to bumble along like an also ran.
For the last time, I'm not pro-kenwright. I'm just anti-anybody-who-isn't-in-the-clubs-interest. I'd be anti Ashley, anti-Icelandic banks, anti-Glazier, anti-Liverpool-duo, anti-Pompey's owners. I'd be pro Abramovich, pro City's owners. Lerner, I don't see the difference between what we have.
What I will say is that some are very against Kenwright for not selling the club. Personally, I think Kenwright should only sell to the right person. If we are reaching the end, Kenwright should be judged on this decision. If he held onto the club for years, then sells to the wrong man, then that should be history's final damning judgement on Kenwright.
Desaparecido
Player Valuation: £15m
Didn't someone on here used to speak to Ian Ross? What is he saying?
Whitebootman
Player Valuation: £35m
I've just read almost all of this thread, yet so far we don't know what this guy thinks of pineapple on pizza. Lets focus on the issue here chaps.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
That's disingenuous. 'Toy club' has a lot of value attached to it. You're rowing back a bit here.
Regardless of who he eventually sells his stake to this Kewnright decade will be remembered as a series of missed commercial opportunities. His legacy is already written as far as I'm concerned.
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