The Everton Board Thread (Inc. Bill Kenwright / Blue Union)

[Timak]

But my main point is ,if you want the board to go who do you want to replace them with??? Its easy to criticise but you realy have to have a plan. KEIOC criticised Kirkby ,which is their right as good Evertonians, but four years down the line, we are still in a decrepid stadium and they still have not come up with a stadium solution.

I was involved in KEIOC, we approached the club on numerous occasions offering to put together plans. They aren't interested in anything other than someone giving them a free stadium which isn't going to happen. We gave them lots of information on funding, were in touch with the council and landowners but there simply is no direction at Everton at senior level.

 

[NewRadical]

I'm surprised that they went with the '2 hours away' line. Surely it would have been even more dramatic to say it was just one hour away, or they could have even said it was 15minutes away from being signed, that would have been a far better bad luck story.

Or the ink dried up in the pen, and there weren't any pens in the next office along, and by the time we got back from running all the way to the secretary on the ground floor with a pen NTL had gone under.

Dreadful the way this club is run,and yet most people in the country think we are well run, seemingly the majority of our own fans. I must have missed being MK Ultra'd.

 

[D410]

I was involved in KEIOC, we approached the club on numerous occasions offering to put together plans. They aren't interested in anything other than someone giving them a free stadium which isn't going to happen. We gave them lots of information on funding, were in touch with the council and landowners but there simply is no direction at Everton at senior level.

I still see a lot of coments from both new an old fans who still don,t get it. The closer you get to the core of the issues at everton the less you wish you knew - was something told me by someone very close to the inner circle of the club. Part of the that problem, still is a bloke who bought the club for 20m with someone elses money and has pulled the shutters of truth down for good on the public window. The rest of the time has just been about spinning plates and jurnos to court favour to keep things whiter then white at the club from a media/fan perception.

A new owner is the only way forward to clear the decks and start afresh becuase stagnation is not an operating plan.

 

[Bluesnapper]

That equates to £2.7M per annum, hardly ever going to make the difference between us & the CL clubs like.

That loan also consolidated the £19M overdraft that was left from the Johnson era.

In short, not the best piece I've ever read, but it was written by king of the kopites Evans.

So which which part of the piece is untrue?

Look forward to the club threatening to take legal action, as is their wont.

Clap, clap.................

 

[Bluesnapper]

I was involved in KEIOC, we approached the club on numerous occasions offering to put together plans. They aren't interested in anything other than someone giving them a free stadium which isn't going to happen. We gave them lots of information on funding, were in touch with the council and landowners but there simply is no direction at Everton at senior level.

Everyone will have noticed how the RS have/or about to take up those ideas for themselves and incorportate it into their own redevelopment while the greatest Evertonian in the world whistles in the wind.

Clap, clap.............

 

[BoysInBlue]

That equates to £2.7M per annum, hardly ever going to make the difference between us & the CL clubs like.

That loan also consolidated the £19M overdraft that was left from the Johnson era.

In short, not the best piece I've ever read, but it was written by king of the kopites Evans.

Just because Johnson left a £19m overdraft does not excuse Kenwright's poor running of the club in the 14 years since taking over, or the £46m debt that the club currently has, with nearly all of the assets gone that the club had during Johnson's reign.

 

[LITLEJOE]

I still see a lot of coments from both new an old fans who still don,t get it. The closer you get to the core of the issues at everton the less you wish you knew - was something told me by someone very close to the inner circle of the club. Part of the that problem, still is a bloke who bought the club for 20m with someone elses money and has pulled the shutters of truth down for good on the public window. The rest of the time has just been about spinning plates and jurnos to court favour to keep things whiter then white at the club from a media/fan perception.

A new owner is the only way forward to clear the decks and start afresh becuase stagnation is not an operating plan.

kenwright is one slimey rat, hes bumped plenty to get his hands on a big big profit out of our club.

 

[TheFinnFan]

kenwright is one slimey rat, hes bumped plenty to get his hands on a big big profit out of our club.

your ferocity towards BK starts to be a bit rueful tbf.

 

[ToffeeMike]

NTL were proper bad bells

They went into administration though?

 

[Chang Elephant]

In short, not the best piece I've ever read, but it was written by king of the kopites Evans.

Guessing he's just the sort of Knob that would list YNWA as his favourite song.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Just because Johnson left a £19m overdraft does not excuse Kenwright's poor running of the club in the 14 years since taking over, or the £46m debt that the club currently has, with nearly all of the assets gone that the club had during Johnson's reign.

Who said it did?

Is there any harm in dealing in the real facts rather than overblown nonsense?

Bellefield is the only liquidated asset

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Guessing he's just the sort of Knob that would list YNWA as his favourite song.

He's a badly deluded full blown Kopite

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Spoke with a reading & a UTD fan today UTD fan would love Moyes to come up after SAF stands down, and sees the clear connection between SAF & Moyes and the reading fan was full of cliches about the budgets he has, an the consistent top half finishes, and would be mad to sack him.


Was very surprised when I informed his annual salary.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

So which which part of the piece is untrue?

Look forward to the club threatening to take legal action, as is their wont.

Clap, clap.................

Legal action? Lol

It made out that the long term loan was a significant factor in why Moyes can't compete with the clubs at the peak of the game, which is ridiculous

 

[BoysInBlue]

Who said it did?

You brought up the £19m overdraft from the Johnson era, as if to take the sting out of Kenwright's faults.

Is there any harm in dealing in the real facts rather than overblown nonsense?

Bellefield is the only liquidated asset

So short-sighted. It's far more than just Bellefield, which indeed the club sold for £9m, all of the money going to the banks to repay part of the debt. As for Finch Farm - Everton sold the land to Hudson Capital Properties for £2.1m. Finch Farm is now worth £17m. Everton pay Hudson Capital Properties rent of £1.25m a year to train at Finch Farm.

All of the club's assets have either been sold or mortgaged: this includes the stadium, which acts as security for a £30m loan; future season ticket sales for many years into the future, the method by which the loan is repaid; and the club's own ability to generate future commercial income as they have uniquely sold the rights to both their catering (Sodexo) and merchandising operations (Kitbag). This is why the club has very little money and is always skint; the areas in which they could have made some money, they were completely out of their depth, to the point they made losses. Rather than employ specialists in-house to get these areas profitable, they took the easy option of outsourcing, which got the immediate losses off the books (making them look good to the banks), but at the same time sacrificing any potential growth or profitability for many years to come.

With £45m of debt, no tangible assets to speak of and the smallest squad in the Premier League, Everton now have a negative balance sheet with £35m of liabilities – when Kenwright took control there was £20m of assets

Nothing 'overblown' or 'nonsensical' about that, these are the 'real facts'.