John Textor / Everton Takeover

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My concerns with Textor.

• He talks too much and he talks to the wrong outlets - reminds me of Moshiri with Jim White.
  
  
• Meddling. Who is he to be telling DOF who they'll sign and managers who they should play? He's doing this publicly on social media, and in prepared interviews.
  
  
• Multi club model. I recognise the benefits, but he seems directly involved/key decisions and his time isn't infinite.
  
  
• He evidently feels Everton is above him and despite being 90% confident of taking over, he admits he still thinks a better person can come in. If he thinks that, shouldn't we?
  
  
• He was still trying to buy Crystal Palace with new offers after agreeing to exclusivity with Moshiri/Everton. He then issued what was, in my view, a prompt, misleading statement afterwards to deflect.
  
  
• What he says, doesn't translate to what his actions are. Just one example - in March this year; "I don't want to run [Palace] one day. I don't even like running the clubs I have"

Some of this concerns me, but not all of it.

• Yeah - He's a talker and it's not just this instance. He may have reason for going public at the moment, but his track record suggests he likes the sound of his own voice. It'll get irritating, but it's no reason to suggest incompetence.
• Think that you've interpreted what he said there very differently to me. My take on it was that he wants a coach who will be comfortable coaching players who come to the club through the multi-club system, which makes perfect sense. In this model we will go out and buy our own players, but you'd expect to see us also benefitting from the better players at Botafogo and the Belgian club he has. I took this as more of a general point that he will need a coach who's going to embrace that.
• Hadn't really considered this, but it's unlikely a group with hundreds of millions invested isn't going to have a disaster recovery plan if he got knocked over by a limousine one day. He does seem to be the voice and the one making the calls, but we don't know what the structure is behind him.
• A "better person" isn't how I viewed that, I thought he meant that Moshiri could still get a better offer.
• I don't think any of us should be under any illusions that we were his 1st choice. If he'd got his way, he'd be calling the shots at Palace and I don't blame him for exhausting those avenues before he decided to try and buy us. He wants an English club. Palace were his 1st choice, we are 2nd choice. There's no real shame in that given we weren't available when he first bought into Palace and it would make sense for him to follow that through in the first instance.
• Yeah, as per he first point, he talks a lot and by virtue of talking a lot, everything you say is on the record and is used as a stick to beat you with when circumstances/opinions change. I don't particularly like my owner/chairman to be as visible as he is - whether he's competent or not or doing a good job or not, the more you're on the record, the more ammunition people have when there's a negative spin to put on things.