Bill Kenwright

[BNJ1878]

He didn't spend a penny.

The money for True Blue holdings came from Jon Woods, Paul Gregg, Jimmy Mulville and Willy Russel. Kenwrights share (7m) was a loan from Anita Gregg.

There's no evidence that Kenwright used any of his money to pay Anita Gregg back.

When we needed the club's share of the King's Dock money the Greggs offered to loan the club the 30m we needed in exchange for a greater say at board level, (I think Anita was going to join the board from memory of meetings the Greggs held with various fan groups at the time)

This rattled Kenwright because Everton was HIS club, despite gaining control without spending a penny. He then invents the Fortress Sports Fund headed by his good friend and 'Huge Evertonian' Chris Samuelson during an EGM. The Greggs had by now enough and wanted out, they'd seen Kenwright perform a 30m 'cut off your nose to spite your face' act of stupidity in turning down their money to trigger the remaining funding for Kings Dock. (I forget what that number was, but it was large.) Ian Ross, (the Prenno of the day) later admitted that Fortress was a 'means to an end' and once the Greggs play to weild more power was gone it quietly disappeared.

After some scratching around Kenwright came up with that idiot Robert Earl, a very close friend of the the snake known as Philip Green. Earl bough the Greggs shares and either he or Green took over the loan from Anita Gregg. Around this time the accounts showed ever increasing figures as 'other operating costs' that when raised at AGMs visibly rattled Kenwright. It's safe to assume that these where partly some kind of loan repayments to Anitta Gregg, and later to Earl (Green) who's onky contribution during his time as a shareholder was bringing Rocky to Goodison.

Again, these loan repayments for Kenwrights shares are not from Kenwrights pocket, they're from the club's own coffers. Exactly the same as what the Glazers would do years later.

Since he sized power we've been run incredibly poorly as a business, losing money, running more and more debt. When we somehow managed to attract a top notch CEO on Trevor Birch he had a look at the books and told Bill to sell. When that wasn't entertained Birch left.

We suffered years of Bills btales of woe, lies over Goodison, Kirkby being "effectively free" etc all because he was so desperate to hold onto HIS football club.

"Hey Bill. If you can't move it forward, why don't you sell?"

“There's no better salesman for Everton football club than me, I'm searching 24/7 for investment"

How convenient that after an almost decade long search the fella he came up with allowed him to stay on as Chairman. What a coincidence!!!!

Moshiri initially paid 200m for 49.9% of True Blue, so Kenwrights share of that already made him richer that he ever thought possible. Subsequent additional purchases from Moshiri onky topped up that Pigs bank balance.

Short answer to your question:

ZERO pounds in = high tens of millions out, all the while saddling the club with debt due to piss poor commercial performance and having to take payday loans (Vibrac and now Rights and Media - by the way, I suspect Robert Earl and Kenwright are involved with both of these.)

Anybody who defends him is a total bellend. We are where we are today because of Kenwright. Every failure over the past 30 years is directly related to Kenwright.

He's undoubtedly the worst thing the ever happen to Everton football club. Worse than Houlding increasing the rent, more damaging to Everton than Hysel. It's death of a thousand cuts and he couldn't give a stuff about any of it.

I hate him, I have hated him for over two decades. If I saw him crossing the road I'd speed up.

Apols for the numerous typos above.

I get like that angry typing cat whenever Kenwright needs a post.

 

[PhilEFC]

He didn't spend a penny.

The money for True Blue holdings came from Jon Woods, Paul Gregg, Jimmy Mulville and Willy Russel. Kenwrights share (7m) was a loan from Anita Gregg.

There's no evidence that Kenwright used any of his money to pay Anita Gregg back.

When we needed the club's share of the King's Dock money the Greggs offered to loan the club the 30m we needed in exchange for a greater say at board level, (I think Anita was going to join the board from memory of meetings the Greggs held with various fan groups at the time)

This rattled Kenwright because Everton was HIS club, despite gaining control without spending a penny. He then invents the Fortress Sports Fund headed by his good friend and 'Huge Evertonian' Chris Samuelson during an EGM. The Greggs had by now enough and wanted out, they'd seen Kenwright perform a 30m 'cut off your nose to spite your face' act of stupidity in turning down their money to trigger the remaining funding for Kings Dock. (I forget what that number was, but it was large.) Ian Ross, (the Prenno of the day) later admitted that Fortress was a 'means to an end' and once the Greggs play to weild more power was gone it quietly disappeared.

After some scratching around Kenwright came up with that idiot Robert Earl, a very close friend of the the snake known as Philip Green. Earl bough the Greggs shares and either he or Green took over the loan from Anita Gregg. Around this time the accounts showed ever increasing figures as 'other operating costs' that when raised at AGMs visibly rattled Kenwright. It's safe to assume that these where partly some kind of loan repayments to Anitta Gregg, and later to Earl (Green) who's onky contribution during his time as a shareholder was bringing Rocky to Goodison.

Again, these loan repayments for Kenwrights shares are not from Kenwrights pocket, they're from the club's own coffers. Exactly the same as what the Glazers would do years later.

Since he sized power we've been run incredibly poorly as a business, losing money, running more and more debt. When we somehow managed to attract a top notch CEO on Trevor Birch he had a look at the books and told Bill to sell. When that wasn't entertained Birch left.

We suffered years of Bills btales of woe, lies over Goodison, Kirkby being "effectively free" etc all because he was so desperate to hold onto HIS football club.

"Hey Bill. If you can't move it forward, why don't you sell?"

“There's no better salesman for Everton football club than me, I'm searching 24/7 for investment"

How convenient that after an almost decade long search the fella he came up with allowed him to stay on as Chairman. What a coincidence!!!!

Moshiri initially paid 200m for 49.9% of True Blue, so Kenwrights share of that already made him richer that he ever thought possible. Subsequent additional purchases from Moshiri onky topped up that Pigs bank balance.

Short answer to your question:

ZERO pounds in = high tens of millions out, all the while saddling the club with debt due to piss poor commercial performance and having to take payday loans (Vibrac and now Rights and Media - by the way, I suspect Robert Earl and Kenwright are involved with both of these.)

Anybody who defends him is a total bellend. We are where we are today because of Kenwright. Every failure over the past 30 years is directly related to Kenwright.

He's undoubtedly the worst thing the ever happen to Everton football club. Worse than Houlding increasing the rent, more damaging to Everton than Hysel. It's death of a thousand cuts and he couldn't give a stuff about any of it.

I hate him, I have hated him for over two decades. If I saw him crossing the road I'd speed up.

Brilliant post mate. That fat slug should be tarred and feathered and paraded down County Road.

Why is no one in the press tracking him or Prenno down? If it was any other club there would be a Roger Cook style investigation.

 

[BNJ1878]

Why is no one in the press tracking him or Prenno down? If it was any other club there would be a Roger Cook style investigation.

Because he's made us irrelevant.

Plucky little Everton.

Outside of our own fans we're not newsworthy. Calvin Phillips need for more game time gets more column inches than a proper look at why Everton has gone from one of the big five pushing for the premier league to being on the brink of administration.

It does t need pages. The summery is one word.

Kenwright.

The [Poor language removed].

 

[dannyboy]

He didn't spend a penny.

The money for True Blue holdings came from Jon Woods, Paul Gregg, Jimmy Mulville and Willy Russel. Kenwrights share (7m) was a loan from Anita Gregg.

There's no evidence that Kenwright used any of his money to pay Anita Gregg back.

When we needed the club's share of the King's Dock money the Greggs offered to loan the club the 30m we needed in exchange for a greater say at board level, (I think Anita was going to join the board from memory of meetings the Greggs held with various fan groups at the time)

This rattled Kenwright because Everton was HIS club, despite gaining control without spending a penny. He then invents the Fortress Sports Fund headed by his good friend and 'Huge Evertonian' Chris Samuelson during an EGM. The Greggs had by now enough and wanted out, they'd seen Kenwright perform a 30m 'cut off your nose to spite your face' act of stupidity in turning down their money to trigger the remaining funding for Kings Dock. (I forget what that number was, but it was large.) Ian Ross, (the Prenno of the day) later admitted that Fortress was a 'means to an end' and once the Greggs play to weild more power was gone it quietly disappeared.

After some scratching around Kenwright came up with that idiot Robert Earl, a very close friend of the the snake known as Philip Green. Earl bough the Greggs shares and either he or Green took over the loan from Anita Gregg. Around this time the accounts showed ever increasing figures as 'other operating costs' that when raised at AGMs visibly rattled Kenwright. It's safe to assume that these where partly some kind of loan repayments to Anitta Gregg, and later to Earl (Green) who's onky contribution during his time as a shareholder was bringing Rocky to Goodison.

Again, these loan repayments for Kenwrights shares are not from Kenwrights pocket, they're from the club's own coffers. Exactly the same as what the Glazers would do years later.

Since he sized power we've been run incredibly poorly as a business, losing money, running more and more debt. When we somehow managed to attract a top notch CEO on Trevor Birch he had a look at the books and told Bill to sell. When that wasn't entertained Birch left.

We suffered years of Bills btales of woe, lies over Goodison, Kirkby being "effectively free" etc all because he was so desperate to hold onto HIS football club.

"Hey Bill. If you can't move it forward, why don't you sell?"

“There's no better salesman for Everton football club than me, I'm searching 24/7 for investment"

How convenient that after an almost decade long search the fella he came up with allowed him to stay on as Chairman. What a coincidence!!!!

Moshiri initially paid 200m for 49.9% of True Blue, so Kenwrights share of that already made him richer that he ever thought possible. Subsequent additional purchases from Moshiri onky topped up that Pigs bank balance.

Short answer to your question:

ZERO pounds in = high tens of millions out, all the while saddling the club with debt due to piss poor commercial performance and having to take payday loans (Vibrac and now Rights and Media - by the way, I suspect Robert Earl and Kenwright are involved with both of these.)

Anybody who defends him is a total bellend. We are where we are today because of Kenwright. Every failure over the past 30 years is directly related to Kenwright.

He's undoubtedly the worst thing the ever happen to Everton football club. Worse than Houlding increasing the rent, more damaging to Everton than Hysel. It's death of a thousand cuts and he couldn't give a stuff about any of it.

I hate him, I have hated him for over two decades. If I saw him crossing the road I'd speed up.

Excellent post. Essential reading for anyone who thinks he's had the club's interests at heart. It's always been what's best for Bill Kenwright rather than what's best for Everton.

 

[PhilEFC]

Because he's made us irrelevant.

Plucky little Everton.

Outside of our own fans we're not newsworthy. Calvin Phillips need for more game time gets more column inches than a proper look at why Everton has gone from one of the big five pushing for the premier league to being on the brink of administration.

It does t need pages. The summery is one word.

Kenwright.

The [Poor language removed].

Definitely. He was happy to see us as underdogs and not break the glass ceiling under Moyes as he could keep hold of his train set.

All the sycophants he has amongst the ex players (especially Sharp who I idolised) and press are a disgrace as well.

 

[edge]

Excellent post. Essential reading for anyone who thinks he's had the club's interests at heart. It's always been what's best for Bill Kenwright rather than what's best for Everton.

It was a brilliant post .
The man has been a hindrance to the club from day one, good at propaganda nothing else.
The minute those happy clappers applaud him on the screen after the march
,I was finished at Everton forty odd years of going through thick and thin, I didn't want to sit with are own fans anymore totally discusted and heartbroken by them being suckerd in by this fella.
Lasted a few more years they finally just jibbed it.
Go when I feel like it now, because it's coming home to roost what he has done to this club..
Said decades a go on bluekipper we will never win a thing while he is around and sadly ,I have been proved right.
We will never moved forwards whe he is around .
I suspect his influence will. Drag us down for years even after he goes.
Still can't believe people have an time for him at all.

 

[mahermi1]

Apols for the numerous typos above.

I get like that angry typing cat whenever Kenwright needs a post.

Funny how all of his super fans have disappeared into the sunset, like " Farts in the wind". Left their stench behind and will never be forgotten.

 

[mahermi1]

Brilliant post mate. That fat slug should be tarred and feathered and paraded down County Road.

Why is no one in the press tracking him or Prenno down? If it was any other club there would be a Roger Cook style investigation.

 

[mahermi1]

Imagine if this would be Liverpool we were talking about, the Echo, just like Hicks&Gillette would have crushed him instantly. As well as the super fans, a lot of the blame belongs to the local media who hardly ever would allow a bad word to be said about Bill Kenwright. In fact over the years we're in my view very complicit with his lies and dodgy dealings. They should be ashamed because were we are now has a lot to do with them as well.

 

[mahermi1]

It was a brilliant post .
The man has been a hindrance to the club from day one, good at propaganda nothing else.
The minute those happy clappers applaud him on the screen after the march
,I was finished at Everton forty odd years of going through thick and thin, I didn't want to sit with are own fans anymore totally discusted and heartbroken by them being suckerd in by this fella.
Lasted a few more years they finally just jibbed it.
Go when I feel like it now, because it's coming home to roost what he has done to this club..
Said decades a go on bluekipper we will never win a thing while he is around and sadly ,I have been proved right.
We will never moved forwards whe he is around .
I suspect his influence will. Drag us down for years even after he goes.
Still can't believe people have an time for him at all.

Yeah no one does it better, love his posts.

 

[Bob Latchford]

He didn't spend a penny.

The money for True Blue holdings came from Jon Woods, Paul Gregg, Jimmy Mulville and Willy Russel. Kenwrights share (7m) was a loan from Anita Gregg.

There's no evidence that Kenwright used any of his money to pay Anita Gregg back.

When we needed the club's share of the King's Dock money the Greggs offered to loan the club the 30m we needed in exchange for a greater say at board level, (I think Anita was going to join the board from memory of meetings the Greggs held with various fan groups at the time)

This rattled Kenwright because Everton was HIS club, despite gaining control without spending a penny. He then invents the Fortress Sports Fund headed by his good friend and 'Huge Evertonian' Chris Samuelson during an EGM. The Greggs had by now enough and wanted out, they'd seen Kenwright perform a 30m 'cut off your nose to spite your face' act of stupidity in turning down their money to trigger the remaining funding for Kings Dock. (I forget what that number was, but it was large.) Ian Ross, (the Prenno of the day) later admitted that Fortress was a 'means to an end' and once the Greggs play to weild more power was gone it quietly disappeared.

After some scratching around Kenwright came up with that idiot Robert Earl, a very close friend of the the snake known as Philip Green. Earl bough the Greggs shares and either he or Green took over the loan from Anita Gregg. Around this time the accounts showed ever increasing figures as 'other operating costs' that when raised at AGMs visibly rattled Kenwright. It's safe to assume that these where partly some kind of loan repayments to Anitta Gregg, and later to Earl (Green) who's onky contribution during his time as a shareholder was bringing Rocky to Goodison.

Again, these loan repayments for Kenwrights shares are not from Kenwrights pocket, they're from the club's own coffers. Exactly the same as what the Glazers would do years later.

Since he sized power we've been run incredibly poorly as a business, losing money, running more and more debt. When we somehow managed to attract a top notch CEO on Trevor Birch he had a look at the books and told Bill to sell. When that wasn't entertained Birch left.

We suffered years of Bills btales of woe, lies over Goodison, Kirkby being "effectively free" etc all because he was so desperate to hold onto HIS football club.

"Hey Bill. If you can't move it forward, why don't you sell?"

“There's no better salesman for Everton football club than me, I'm searching 24/7 for investment"

How convenient that after an almost decade long search the fella he came up with allowed him to stay on as Chairman. What a coincidence!!!!

Moshiri initially paid 200m for 49.9% of True Blue, so Kenwrights share of that already made him richer that he ever thought possible. Subsequent additional purchases from Moshiri onky topped up that Pigs bank balance.

Short answer to your question:

ZERO pounds in = high tens of millions out, all the while saddling the club with debt due to piss poor commercial performance and having to take payday loans (Vibrac and now Rights and Media - by the way, I suspect Robert Earl and Kenwright are involved with both of these.)

Anybody who defends him is a total bellend. We are where we are today because of Kenwright. Every failure over the past 30 years is directly related to Kenwright.

He's undoubtedly the worst thing the ever happen to Everton football club. Worse than Houlding increasing the rent, more damaging to Everton than Hysel. It's death of a thousand cuts and he couldn't give a stuff about any of it.

I hate him, I have hated him for over two decades. If I saw him crossing the road I'd speed up.

Great post mate.

Hard to believe the route taken to the current predicament. Enough for a book?!

 

[blue61]

Great post mate.

Hard to believe the route taken to the current predicament. Enough for a book?!

Hopefully a book of condolence.

 

[Yarrgh]

Great post mate.

Hard to believe the route taken to the current predicament. Enough for a book?!

Enough for a musical perchance?

 

[mahermi1]

It was a brilliant post .
The man has been a hindrance to the club from day one, good at propaganda nothing else.
The minute those happy clappers applaud him on the screen after the march
,I was finished at Everton forty odd years of going through thick and thin, I didn't want to sit with are own fans anymore totally discusted and heartbroken by them being suckerd in by this fella.
Lasted a few more years they finally just jibbed it.
Go when I feel like it now, because it's coming home to roost what he has done to this club..
Said decades a go on bluekipper we will never win a thing while he is around and sadly ,I have been proved right.
We will never moved forwards whe he is around .
I suspect his influence will. Drag us down for years even after he goes.
Still can't believe people have an time for him at all.

I find it amazing how people, ordinary people can fly the banner for serial liars, narcissists, you see it in every walk of life. Kenwright is the Football version of a Boris Johnson or a Donald Trump. Some people are prepared to vote/ support them no matter what they have done, committed or lied about, even when sometimes the truth hits them right in the face..or comes home to roost as it has with us now.

 

[mahermi1]

Great post mate.

Hard to believe the route taken to the current predicament. Enough for a book?!

And a whole series..could be called "The Serial liar who killed a Football club".