2019/20 Bill Kenwright

[bullybeef]

SSN reporting that Usmanov would 'like' to buy a minority share in Everton. That might just be referring to Bills shares....

That would represent a seismic change to Everton’s fortunes.

The days of Bill looking for spare change down the back of the sofa would be long gone.
Usmanov and Moshiri would turn us into one of the wealthiest clubs around.

I think the recruitment of Carlo indicates that we won’t be beating around the bush this time.

 

[tommye]

Gregg would have ploughed in the money needed to secure our side of it...

Not strictly true but hey ho

 

[Archie Knox]

Crude,as usual from you.

Cheers Steve, means a lot from an esteemed poster such as yourself.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Not strictly true but hey ho

Do you mean he would have financed the money? That's a bit tomato tomahto imho. Least he could have got his hands on it whereas Bill couldn't. That would have saved us more than a fair bit of debt compared to what we are going to have now.

 

[neilsyd]

I’m fairly sure moyes was a recommendation from Walter smith also at the time

 

[edge]

Do you mean he would have financed the money? That's a bit tomato tomahto imho. Least he could have got his hands on it whereas Bill couldn't. That would have saved us more than a fair bit of debt compared to what we are going to have now.

rumour at the time was he said he would but the money in ,but would have the franchise over all match day food drinks ect in the new ground, Bill said no,don't know how true it was.

 

[tommye]

Do you mean he would have financed the money? That's a bit tomato tomahto imho. Least he could have got his hands on it whereas Bill couldn't. That would have saved us more than a fair bit of debt compared to what we are going to have now.

He offered to put the money up but Everton wouldn't have owned the stadium. We would have been tenants of Apollo Leisure (PG's company)

 

[tommye]

rumour at the time was he said he would but the money in ,but would have the franchise over all match day food drinks ect in the new ground, Bill said no,don't know how true it was.

Gregg (Apollo Leisure) wanted complete ownership of the stadium and all monies from it.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Cheers Steve, means a lot from an esteemed poster such as yourself.

Good.Well learn the lesson then.

 

[tommye]

Bill gets slaughtered from all sides over the Kings Dock yet it gets forgotten he saved us from a fate worse than West Ham, from a much bigger dildo than either of those in charge at The City Of London Stadium.

He's never been the perfect owner but he's nowhere near the villain he's painted to be either.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Gregg (Apollo Leisure) wanted complete ownership of the stadium and all monies from it.

Pretty close to the truth. Gregg owned theatres. He saw 'his' stadium as a big theatre/arena and wanted all the profit from concerts ,food and drink, etc. Bill I think will forever regret using the phrase 'ring fenced' with regard to the money. What he should have said that the bank had promised the money if the deal was in their own and Evertons interests. The bank did not like the deal so pulled the plug. Gregg subsequently went on to be involved in ,I think Sheffield Wednesday, and that ended badly as well. Re Gregg and Bill, you need to remember that Greggs modus operandum was to buy up old and run down theatres, refurbish them, and put Bills successful touring shows in the venues. So Bill directly influenced the growth of the Greggs fortune. A senior executive at One Nation(Palace, Opera House, Manchester etc countrywide) one told me that without Bill Kenwright provincial theatre would be virtually dead. Bill may not be perfect at running a football club, but he is tops in his core theatrical business.

 

[MACCA75]

Sell your shares to Usmanov you monster.

 

[royalblue66]

Remember being outside GP and they had just finished the time line ,Kenwright said to the Ginger fella " we have left a space there,for when we win something"
the Ginger fella nearly had a fit laughing at him.
They made a good double act them pair.

 

[Lawrence]

Well fat head make the first move in a brand new era and walk away. Let’s start top down.

 

[wainy]

Has he been on the telly yet?