I would give David Moyes 99% of the credit for that lad, the perfect manager for a penniless Everton, remember we had to sell our best players every year to buy new ones, we also went two years, four transfer windows were we never bought a first team player.
We sold the training ground off, the Park End carpark, remember the embarrassment of us trying to build "Everton place" on it ? Then being told we couldn't because Kenwright had sold the land off. Remember owing the next two seasons season ticket money ? Being in debt to dubious foreign off shore companies, also a £30m loan to Bear Stearns ?
Two failed ground moves, the King Dock, Samuelson laughed out of an EGM over his fictional investment, the money's ringfenced, the ground won't pass it's safety certificate, ( we are still playing in it now) . The Arteta money, Rooney sold for initial £10m fee the rest on add ons, Bills mum crying down the phone, Alex Ferguson laughing about it, wouldn't have sold him for £50m ? His sale actually saved us from administration. Yeah mate we were much better off then. # Good times. And guess whose still the Chairman with a handpicked board and banned EGM' s yes Bill Kenwright, the one constant of nearly three decades of no trophies. Get back in you're box ! And I know I've missed loads, what an owner, what a Chairman, so keep on thinking...what would Evertons board do ? The answer is to go into hiding, go underground when the going gets tough... And blame the fans, try and throw them under a bus.