Bill Kenwright

[John from Bootle]

Oh come on, he got lucky, appointed David Moyes and left him to it on a budget of £5 million a season at most. He was close to appointing Gary Megson when Walter Smith stepped in.

How many times are people gonna spout this rubbish?

"Until Walter Smith stepped in" lol Do you honestly believe that somehow the recently sacked manager overruled the majority shareholder and Chairman?

Did Bill listen to the opinion of somebody he respected? Yes.

Is Moshiri criticized for listening to the wrong people? Can we criticise both? Bit hypocritical, isn't it? The fact Bill listened to the opinion of somebody who knew more about football than Bill ever will is not something to criticise him for. If anything, it deserves massive praise.

Trying to paint it as Bill was overruled is just plain wrong., and quite frankly laughable. Bill gave the managers job to Moyes. Nobody else.

 

[Ruairi77]

Its not so much people are backing him, they are correctly pointing out he isnt responsible for the current mess, Moshiri is, Bill sold a club to him that he had in a stable place, who often had European football....etc who stood by managers, and Moshiri went onto destroy it.

so why is Bill still there?
Either he's making the wrong decisions and should go
or he's making no decisions so should go.
There's no scenario where he's faultless.

 

[4737carlin]

I couldn't have watched a full season of Allardyce ball.
Sure he kept us safely in the top half but what's the point?

Whats the point in keeping us safely in the top half?? Er .... hello
You couldn't have watched a full season of Allardyce ball..... er have you seen us since? It's been worse

 

[Thomasc]

If sentiment was seen as success, we’d be the most successful club of the last 20 odd years.

Let’s not forget, this man tried to move us to Kirkby for his own financial gain.

This is the man who sold Wayne Rooney so that he could keep his position, instead of going out looking for investment and building a future around the best English player of his generation.

He’s made a fortune from selling to Moshiri and used Everton as his own personal vessel for years.

He’s been everything that’s wrong with the business side of Everton football club and has been out of his depth since day 1.

An absolute charlatan and a wolf in sheeps clothing.

 

[mahermi1]

Agree on the hindsight thing, people were desperate for Bill to sell, in hindsight we needed him to not sell, it was the worse thing to happen in a generation.

we needed him to sell to the right person, at the time who knew ? But I will say no matter who comes in FFP will hinder them severely, Chelsea and to a lesser extent Man City both had a clear run with who they bought, they were allowed to build massive squads, not us FFP was to that, the big clubs looking after themselves.

 

[Ruairi77]

Whats the point in keeping us safely in the top half?? Er .... hello
You couldn't have watched a full season of Allardyce ball..... er have you seen us since? It's been worse

yup, not disagreeing.
I just kinda tuned out in that half season he was in charge. It was no fun.
I wasn't going to wake up at stupid o'clock to watch an Allardyce side, call me fickle but that's just how I felt.
You just knew you'd never see anything special.
Kinda like wimbledon back in the 90's, no wonder they only had 4k fans in the premier league.

Kenwright did well with the Moyes appointment
But he did terrible with the Kirkby move
He did well with how he represented the club publicly
but he has fully backed Moshiri and still has an important role in the club.
This season he's seen off a manager, a DoF, lots of medical and coaching staff, board members, and god knows who else.
He made his choices, and since Moyes left for United, they've all been wrong.

 

[Lawrence]

No matter what he does, the depths he drags our club down to, his acolytes will always be there to defend him. We could be down in the conference (and likely will be if he and his useful idiot mate Moshiri stick around long enough to make it happen) and his fanboys will still be licking his arse and telling anecdotes about how he "saved the club" before sternly lecturing the rest of us heretics about how big a blue Bill is and how unfair we all are to him. I don't know who's the more sickening at this point, Kenwright himself or his little gang of minions that won't hear a word said against him.

Too true. Some sycophants seem happy with what the fat clown has not achieved. Kirkby "he was driving it from the front" His pre-season conversation with Moyes "every year" Just keep us up Davie lad. I wont even go onto the money "used in whatever way" to name one club Man City. Stones 52 Million. Lescott 38 Million. Rodwell 12 Million. What was ever pumped back into the infrastructure? His little band of arse lickers have shouted fans down at every opportunity. "GOOD TIMES" yes he and Jenny and moysie may have. Those people under 40 who go home and away have never seen us win anything. Everton FC one of the big two until the seventies and still big 6 until the nineties.

 

[Ghost Rider]

"and the little rat here" who is the rat?

Also Bills influecnce, you name Allardyce, which was a fine appointment at the time and a totally stupid sacking too by Moshiri

Sammy Lee mate. Sorry, assumed you would know that reference.

Allardyce was a fine appointment in hindsight and certainly would have been a fine appointment 2 months ago as well. However he didn't reflect our ambition at the time given how much we had invested , and Sammy Lee should never have been employed here.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Kenwright always reminds me of the first dune movie - Baron Harkanen.... odious.

 

[everton fan number one]

Kenwright always reminds me of the first dune movie - Baron Harkanen.... odious.

Crossed with a certain famour Hutt.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I couldn't have watched a full season of Allardyce ball.
Sure he kept us safely in the top half but what's the point?

If you could swap our current situation right now with Moyes no money but top half finish, would you?

As much as top half nothingness isn't too appealing, that mid table nothingness very easily knocked us out the cup yesterday. We have no foundation here to build anything on and it's going to take 2-3 years to even get to that foundation of midtable. The worst thing about typing that is the fact it's been applicable for the last few years and we seem to never adhere to it.

Allardyce may never have won us a trophy or took us to Europe but we wouldn't be in a relegation battle with him. The real point of this though is how can the club after 500 million be left with allardyce being our best manager so far, given we sacked koeman for poor performance?

 

[Ruairi77]

If you could swap our current situation right now with Moyes no money but top half finish, would you?

As much as top half nothingness isn't too appealing, that mid table nothingness very easily knocked us out the cup yesterday. We have no foundation here to build anything on and it's going to take 2-3 years to even get to that foundation of midtable. The worst thing about typing that is the fact it's been applicable for the last few years and we seem to never adhere to it.

Allardyce may never have won us a trophy or took us to Europe but we wouldn't be in a relegation battle with him. The real point of this though is how can the club after 500 million be left with allardyce being our best manager so far, given we sacked koeman for poor performance?

Would I swap our current situation for Moyes and no money? Yea, probably. But Moyes left, he wasn't fired.
Ancelotti also left.
Of all the fired managers, Allardyce is the only one who was doing well but he somehow managed to drain any ounce of entertainment from the game.
Lampard has inherited a dogs dinner of a squad and in brief moments I can see what he's trying to do. I could swap it for Allardyce but Allardyce would eventually get run out of the club and be replaced by god knows who because the chairman has either no clue or no say.

For me, Benitez was the biggest screw up and if Kenwright didn't support his appointment, he should have had the balls to walk.
He was complicit and he bears a large chunk of responsibility for where we are today.

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

Thank you.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

If you could swap our current situation right now with Moyes no money but top half finish, would you?

I mean, yeah we'd all take mid-table mediocrity and stability over what we've got right now obviously, but it's hardly something we should aspire to want for the club long term. Moyes left us for a better opportunity precisely because he wanted more then that. No manager, no matter how much they love (or claim to love) the club will ever stick with us for the long hull if that's all we aspire to be. We'll be a stepping stone for players and managers looking to better themselves. That's not good enough for Everton football club and anyone who thinks otherwise has been brainwashed by Kenwright and his acolytes. Just existing in a state of perpetual mid-table mediocrity with no chance of ever improving all to make money for people like Kenwright and nothing else isn't all that much better then what we've got now.

 

[Mr K.Dilkington]

Its not so much people are backing him, they are correctly pointing out he isnt responsible for the current mess, Moshiri is, Bill sold a club to him that he had in a stable place, who often had European football....etc who stood by managers, and Moshiri went onto destroy it.

You can't say Bill has washed himself clean of the current affairs when he's still the chairman and part of the day to day running of the club. It is very correct to point out he is doing his utmost to destroy this club for his own ego. "We've had good times", I bet he has with his train set.