The Great Everton Fire Sale

[sbbefc]

Many things make my blood boil from the whole PSR saga but having to flog our best players before the 30th of June to a scab 6 team (or European if lucky) takes the biscuit. It's so unfair and it's another punishment on top of the points and loss of prize money. I know a lot on here dislike Forest, but I'm on their side when it comes to selling players. Why should both of us have to do the unsustainable thing and sell our best players on the cheap when we could get a better price holding on a month or two.

 

[Chewbacca]

We’re not selling for PSR, we’re selling to keep the lights on.

 

[ClausThomsen]

The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and rotten to the core.

Man United who are also completely turd, could buy our best 4 players and sit them on the bench while we struggle to bring any quality in to replace them and risk relegation again.

All because they have a huge world wide fan base of glory hunters who buy their shirts and merchandise. It’s actually quite putrid and the complete opposite of fair play.

Where do you draw the line then? Is it fair play that Everton can sell out Goodison and sell loads more shirts and merchandise than Tranmere Rovers?

Plenty of things may be disgusting or rotten to the core but a fair and equal distribution of financial resource has never been a feature of the professional game. You can go back to 'Bank Of England' Arsenal back in the 1920's or our time as the 'Mersey Millionaires' in the 1960s. There are plenty of other clubs previous to, in-between and following those periods who have had a disproportionate amount of wealth compared to their immediate peers.

 

[Thomasc]

Where do you draw the line then? Is it fair play that Everton can sell out Goodison and sell loads more shirts and merchandise than Tranmere Rovers?

Plenty of things may be disgusting or rotten to the core but a fair and equal distribution of financial resource has never been a feature of the professional game. You can go back to 'Bank Of England' Arsenal back in the 1920's or our time as the 'Mersey Millionaires' in the 1960s. There are plenty of other clubs previous to, in-between and following those periods who have had a disproportionate amount of wealth compared to their immediate peers.

History never stopped other clubs from competing if they had an owner who wanted to invest.

Rules are now in place for that not to be able to happen again, unless of course their turnover is huge or profit and loss is in order.

It’s completely different and in no way mirrors anything from the past.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

DCL complaining he doesn't have a personalised song at home......maybe that'll see him sign an extension

 

[twoblue]

The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and rotten to the core.

Man United who are also completely turd, could buy our best 4 players and sit them on the bench while we struggle to bring any quality in to replace them and risk relegation again.

All because they have a huge world wide fan base of glory hunters who buy their shirts and merchandise. It’s actually quite putrid and the complete opposite of fair play.

They can lose that in a 20 years. Last gernations of United fans are now city fans. And fans get older they tend to go buy less merchandise and go to less games

 

[ClausThomsen]

History never stopped other clubs from competing if they had an owner who wanted to invest.

Rules are now in place for that not to be able to happen again, unless of course their turnover is huge or profit and loss is in order.

It’s completely different and in no way mirrors anything from the past.

Fair point but history also has lots of clubs who simply don't exist anymore due to going under.

We live in an age were owners are taking over community institutions that are often over a century old, loading them with unsustainable debt in the name of 'ambition' and then turning off the supply when things go wrong. With the influx of commercial income there also comes interest from individuals and organisations looking to siphon that money off.

Now whether those financial controls are anywhere near perfect in their current form is probably doubtful and like any form of regulation a top end combination of accountants and legal experts will find ways around them but that's true in any industry. They're a seemingly hurried response (maybe by necessity) to the revelation of how many clubs were walking a financial tightrope, how vulnerable they were to people with no interest in the long term sustainability of them and the fact that football as a whole is in something of a financial bubble highly dependent on the well-being of TV networks and advertisers.

We've had that owner 'investment' and now the club runs on credit and is haemorrhaging interest payments on loans that were required to sustain the debts incurred once our owner no longer wished to invest his own dough - those bills and contracts don't suddenly disappear from the club. If an altogether more prudent approach was in place at the start of Moshiri's ownership then I think it's fair to say the club would be in a healthier position and less vulnerable.

When we sell this summer it won't be to satisfy PL or UEFA rules, a fear of points deduction or because of an agenda to keep the Scab 6 at the top of the pile. It'll be to keep on running as an ongoing concern and not default on debt caused by a previous unwillingness to run the club with an element of financial responsibility. Anyone at the club telling us sales are because of FFP or whatever is spinning it for the media and trying to deflect blame.