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Bill Kenwright

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Looking forward to the day, he has gone from the club, as long as we are safe and in an even footing with some stability, this thread can then be locked and buried in the archives. The guy doesn’t deserve one second of our time but here he is 34 years after coming in to the board, and still in our minds. An absolutely leech. Once he has gone, it’s incredibly important that we take a stand against the club recognising him in anyway. That will be the next battle.
 
Looking forward to the day, he has gone from the club, as long as we are safe and in an even footing with some stability, this thread can then be locked and buried in the archives. The guy doesn’t deserve one second of our time but here he is 34 years after coming in to the board, and still in our minds. An absolutely leech. Once he has gone, it’s incredibly important that we take a stand against the club recognising him in anyway. That will be the next battle.
We'll be long dead by then and he'll be a head in a very large jar regaling passers by with tales of the boys' pen
 
As much as I loathe the fat phoney, its irrelevant because the damage is already done and he’s plundered Everton for his own millions. And now we have another group in 777 who will sell the new stadium and prob lease it to Everton.
 
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.
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True. I think Samuelson did say that it was in place and he was keen to invest etc but it just appeared desperately dodgy and no more than a PR stunt.

Think it was because he knew the Greggs had real money and he didnt, so he just fabricated a complete lie to make out he did. As Ian Rose stated" it was a means to an end" ,that means cost us the Kings Dock.
 
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.
If i remember correctly the red echo a few years ago (i presume that Prenno wrote it) released a statement telling the fans to back off, you could make things worse.

Be careful what you wish for etc. The statement more or less just said that 11th or 12th in the league is our rightful level, and we should be grateful for that etc.

This was when Martinez was manager. There was talk on here at the time about the local media being in cahoots with Kenwright, and that statement was the echos pitiful attempt to appease people.
 

If i remember correctly the red echo a few years ago (i presume that Prenno wrote it) released a statement telling the fans to back off, you could make things worse.

Be careful what you wish for etc. The statement more or less just said that 11th or 12th in the league is our rightful level, and we should be grateful for that etc.

This was when Martinez was manager. There was talk on here at the time about the local media being in cahoots with Kenwright, and that statement was the echos pitiful attempt to appease people.

Agreed in the battle between the Greggs and blue Bill, they backed Bill. They were wrong and still won't admit it. The red echo wants burning to the ground.
 
If i remember correctly the red echo a few years ago (i presume that Prenno wrote it) released a statement telling the fans to back off, you could make things worse.

Be careful what you wish for etc. The statement more or less just said that 11th or 12th in the league is our rightful level, and we should be grateful for that etc.

This was when Martinez was manager. There was talk on here at the time about the local media being in cahoots with Kenwright, and that statement was the echos pitiful attempt to appease people.
I would love to find that.
Is it worth owning a house but not being able to live in it?

Is it worth owning a fancy car with no wheels?

I don’t get why he is still obsessed with clinging onto some modicum of power when he will never be welcomed back with open arms.
Because he's a vain old man. He still believes the majority adore him.
 
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 mate. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
 

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