WHY EVERTON DODGED A BULLET WHEN WE MISSED OUT ON THE ABU DHABI GROUP

[Neiler]

Thought this was an unusually different perspective, given the debate in what we have seen in terms of ethics and morals shown by the club and BU recently.:

WHY EVERTON DODGED A BULLET WHEN WE MISSED OUT ON THE ABU DHABI GROUP

In a recent interview with Christian Purslow, Bill Kenwright claimed that if we had moved to a new stadium and were a little bit more “in the right place at the right time” then the Abu Dhabi group may have bought us instead of Man City. This is a bullet dodged, partly through our board’s incompetence and inability to move stadium, but we should all be sighing with relief.

Some don’t feel that way. Some think that the ones who bleat on about not wanting one of the world’s richest men in control of the Goodison train set are the morons. The argument is simple: money makes the football world go round. Flood a football club with money, put gold bidets in the stands, and “spend spend spend!” until your chequebook disintegrates and you will be given your choice of trophy forevermore. Do the opposite, and you will never get even a sniff of success.

But it’s not that simple, is it? Nil Satis Nisi Optimum isn’t all about steamrolling your opponents on the pitch, it’s about being the best off it too – and no one can claim that Man City have the moral high ground in either place. They buy foolishly; Roque Santa Cruz for £18m and Joleon Lescott for £24m were far too expensive, and Mario Balotelli, Emmanuel Adebayor, Robinho, and Kolo Toure clearly just came for the money.

Money City, as Kolo Toure calls them, are going to win trophies – lots and lots of them – but do we want to win like that? By bullying in the transfer market, by shelling out tens of millions on players with defective personalities – one of whom couldn’t even be arsed to get off the subs bench recently , by shedding its skin every summer and buying yet more players, by shockingly retaining CEO Garry Cooke – the man with the gaffe prone gob and the morals to match.

But all that glisters isn’t gold. These trophies that Man City will no doubt start winning soon, they were bought. Man City are on steroids. They are Ben Johnson and his bloodshot bovine eyes in football club form. If playing Man City is pointless, and losing to them is pretty much par for the course – as argued beautifully by Andi Thomas - then just imagine what a hollow, soulless experience supporting Man City will become. And more to the point, if you see no problem with being a Verruca Salt, forcing daddy to buy Wonka Bars by the crate-load until you find a golden ticket then supporting our Everton must be hellish too.

 

[quasi modo]

What a load of rubbish.

 

[davek]

Speechless at the stupidity of that article. Where in God's name did you get it? You haven't been hacking accounts inside Ashworth have you?

 

[zed]

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum isn’t all about steamrolling your opponents on the pitch, it’s about being the best off it too

so whoever wrote that knows about all the stuff man city do in the community !!. and theres too many ifs and buts in that blurb. to a certain extent all clubs buy success so whats the use going on about the few mega-rich ones- thats just the way the cookie crumbles

 

[RFUS]

That makes me feel better about it all.

Yep.

Defo.

 

[kenada_blue]

so whoever wrote that knows about all the stuff man city do in the community !!. and theres too many ifs and buts in that blurb. to a certain extent all clubs buy success so whats the use going on about the few mega-rich ones- thats just the way the cookie crumbles

This.

Agreed they initially bulldozed their way into the market upsetting everyone. But now they're almost where they want to be, they've gone about their business on and off the field quiet well.

The infrastructure they're building now with the academy is going to be pretty envyous.

And the way they've wiped the debt with the dodgy stadium rights and got away with it was genius IMO

 

[BlackToffee]

Sorry, Neiler, don't actually agree. If they were our owner they wouldn't have to buy two teams, just add to what we have and start to move others on. We have a better academy than City, that would save them millions in player development. They'd have enough money to build a ground and make some money from it in the long run. In short if they brought us they wouldn't have to stockpile players and recruit mercenaries by paying extortionate wages and they'd have had a much better base to take on the football world.

 

[Mvflusk]

Wasting your time here Nelier. It's all about winning things remember, at all cost, nothing else matters.

 

[kenada_blue]

Sorry, Neiler, don't actually agree. If they were our owner they wouldn't have to buy two teams, just add to what we have and start to move others on. We have a better academy than City, that would save them millions in player development. They'd have enough money to build a ground and make some money from it in the long run. In short if they brought us they wouldn't have to stockpile players and recruit mercenaries by paying extortionate wages and they'd have had a much better base to take on the football world.

Which is true.

They've spent about 400mill on players alone over 3 seasons, god knows how much on the new academy build...

With us, a fraction of that would be spent on players...the focus would be on the infrastructure

 

[Neiler]

Woah horsey, im not pushing any view point here i just thought it was a fresh perspective to the going around in circles we see on here, so thought it was worth debating. There are some interesting points though,: the amount of money wasted on dross, the type of players/personalites they have bought - i suppose what got me thinking was the fact that the likes of the Sheikh and Abromovich are bigger then their clubs - lets be honest both would survive without their respective clubs, but would their clubs survive without them? Prob in a Portsmouth style existance if even.

We often say on here, no one is bigger then the club - its not really the case in modern football with this kind of model really. I suppose looking at it with a bit of depth the question is, is that a price worth paying?

*The wonka bar thing was class as well, sums up melt season on here.

 

[EFCNIK]

I agree :/

I don't wanna be supporting that souless shower of bells. I've always said all I want is the kind of money Spurs Villa and Liverpool have. Like enough to compete in the window, but also with limits. Purely because I think with Moysey in charge and with the players we have and the team spirit etc etc we'd do better than all of them.

 

[davek]

Woah horsey, im not pushing any view point here i just thought it was a fresh perspective to the going around in circles we see on here, so thought it was worth debating. There are some interesting points though,: the amount of money wasted on dross, the type of players/personalites they have bought - i suppose what got me thinking was the fact that the likes of the Sheikh and Abromovich are bigger then their clubs - lets be honest both would survive without their respective clubs, but would their clubs survive without them? Prob in a Portsmouth style existance if even.

We often say on here, no one is bigger then the club - its not really the case in modern football with this kind of model really. I suppose looking at it with a bit of depth the question is, is that a price worth paying?

*The wonka bar thing was class as well, sums up melt season on here.

You still haven't sourced that article.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Excellent surrealist prose by the writer.

 

[Neiler]

You still haven't sourced that article.

Dave Kelly mate!

 

[davek]

Dave Kelly mate!

You are going to source it though?

This is strange.