2019/20 Bill Kenwright

[John Barton]

Good old Bill hey. Apparently he’s turned Rafael down twice.

Nowhere near as bad as turning down Man City owners

 

[Sentinel]

The club is full of Kenwrights ex Blue yes men, even down to ambassadors like Sharp,Snodin & Stuart, whilst big Nev, our record appearance holder is banished for telling it as it is

It pains me to agree. But they have a dog in race. Nev, the man's a legend and his spirit epitomized our motto. He's as pissed as the rest of us.

 

[Moomin]

He should as that’s his job, he talks to the manager about the style and type of play he wants he then finds them and tries to buy them... but by your reckoning he has to ask Moshiri if he can buy them

He will be set financial budgets on transfer fees, wages and compensation, why would he need approval if he doesn't exceed them?

Look lads, i used example of Messi as its a silly amount of money to prove the point he has a chain of command.

Brands will have a big input on the hiring and firing of managers but the final decision will be made by Moshiri.

 

[catcherintherye]

I wrote to Terry Leahy some time ago(my wifes ex boss was his guru at the Manchester Business School(UMIST as it was)) and he stated that he had no desire to become involved in the running of Everton.

I remember you saying Steve. He is in a very different place now though. He's left Tesco's, is a much older man, and actively looking for start ups to get involved with (as he did with B & M). I don't mean this offensively as I have no idea of your personal capacity, but I think an approach by Farad Moshiri would hold an awful lot more weight. Football is a much bigger business. The club is trying to be ambitious moving forward. He is now a fair bit older. It's likely he could hold arguably the key position on the board (rather than answering into Bill) and Moshiri is a billionaire.

Life is about being able to sell to people. We ought to be able to put a compelling case together to someone like Terry Leahy.

Be honest Steve, if Leahy came as chairman, and Gilvary came as say CEO, do you not think there would be a radical shift in the cultural practices and ethos of the club?

 

[catcherintherye]

I really thought maybe naively that once moshiri had settled into his role that we would have seen a real overhaul at boardroom level with people brought onto the board with real expertise and a different insight ,the board as it stands seems stale unimaginative and not forward thinking or capable to grow the buisness
unfortunately it's same old same old

Yes I agree with all of that mate. It increasingly looks to me that either he signed up happily allowing Kenwright to run the club, or the situation changed and thats now the accepted status quo.

We are nearly 4 years in and it's a farce. Everyone has been sacked apart from the key people at the top.

 

[bullybeef]

Bill taking some stick today...

Apparently he is being blamed for getting in the way of Brands doing his job.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Look lads, i used example of Messi as its a silly amount of money to prove the point he has a chain of command.

Brands will have a big input on the hiring and firing of managers but the final decision will be made by Moshiri.

The thing is Moshiri appointed him to over see football matter so it SHOULD be up to Brands when and if he fired and who should replace him. If Moshiri wants us to do well he’s got to shut up and let Brands do his job.. Same with Kenwright but you know that’s not happening.

 

[Toffeelover]

Yeah but that's history, and has no baring on anything that has happened since the day Moshiri arrived, all the problems now are on Farhads watch, but people are trying to pin them on Bill, it's crazy.
Besides Bramley Moore hasnt exactly started being built, still time for that to not happen, I could understand bring up KD if BM was in progress but right now thats no more then drawings and plans aswell

I appreciate your comment but it was merely to reinforce the general slant on BK.

 

[brieverton]

I remember you saying Steve. He is in a very different place now though. He's left Tesco's, is a much older man, and actively looking for start ups to get involved with (as he did with B & M). I don't mean this offensively as I have no idea of your personal capacity, but I think an approach by Farad Moshiri would hold an awful lot more weight. Football is a much bigger business. The club is trying to be ambitious moving forward. He is now a fair bit older. It's likely he could hold arguably the key position on the board (rather than answering into Bill) and Moshiri is a billionaire.

Life is about being able to sell to people. We ought to be able to put a compelling case together to someone like Terry Leahy.

Be honest Steve, if Leahy came as chairman, and Gilvary came as say CEO, do you not think there would be a radical shift in the cultural practices and ethos of the club?

I can only speculate, but I imagine people of the ilk of Bryan Gilvary may have been sounded out but declined. It would surprise me if the conditions were there to enable someone of that calibre take a seat on the board. He is the Chief Financial Officer at BP, and could only ever take a seat in a part-time, advisory capacity (not that it wouldn't be hugely beneficial to us).

We are talking a big step up in class here and that can be seen as a threat to the cosiness that seems to exist currently.

I think if one or more people eventually come onto the board from the corporate world, it will very much be arranged informally between Moshiri and the appointee(s) and they would all be very much part-time directors. We may not see developments like this until stadium construction is firmly underway I think.

We could badly do with someone with expertise and experience of a project of this nature being on the board, as well as someone with a commercial background.

 

[AndyC]

Surely Bills just a figurehead that is wheeled out in public every now and again to make everyone feel good.

Surely he can’t be involved in the day to day running of the club... can he?

Wake up and smell the coffee wil ya

 

[AndyC]

How long have you worked at Everton to know the inner workings of the club??

You don't need to work or have worked within the club to come to the conclusions that so, so many do... that the chairman is still, far too involved and wielding too much influence

 

[Moomin]

You don't need to work or have worked within the club to come to the conclusions that so, so many do... that the chairman is still, far too involved and wielding too much influence

If thats the case, the blame is with Moshiri for allowing it.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Bill taking some stick today...

Apparently he is being blamed for getting in the way of Brands doing his job.

Kind of hope this is true

 

[neilsyd]

The saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks is resonating here. Try telling a chairman/owner of a team for nearly 20 years that now his input is minimal and we are changing the model to have a DOF. Kenwright made all the decisions before and now he still sits in a key role. He’s never going to step back until he’s out of the club in an official capacity.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I recall an interview BK did back in 2011 spouting off how he won't be Chairman when he's 70 and hoped I was seeing potential light at the end of the tunnel at finally seeing the back of him.

Well 8 years down the line the self-styled 'world's biggest Evertonian' is now 74 and still showing no signs at giving up his beloved Chairmans seat.