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Latest Takeover Rumour. The Moores / Noell one

Are you For or Against the idea of the possible Moores / Noell takeover ?

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Anyone know whom is running this £200m business called Everton Football Club?
I have this bad feeling that Bobby is the first one in and the last one out to turn off the lights at GP on matchdays.
 
abelard said:
the problem is that "Moneyball" in an American context often rests on assumptions that don't hold in a competitive environment. American sports are legally-corrupt corporate welfare cartels, and much of their analytical insights rest on gaming the system as much as anything else.
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Is right.

It's easier in baseball to hold on to your young, low-priced talent for a few years. The Yankees aren't allowed to go up to the Minnesota Twins and say, "We want your 19-year-old phenom, here's $50 million" like Man U did to get Anthony Martial from Monaco.
 

With regard to Billy Beane and Moneyball, while looking beyond traditional scouting and the traditional statistics was very influential, there were some other factors in play as well. One thing that deserves to be mentioned is that the A's really had once-in-a-generation type of luck in assembling an amazing rotation of young starting pitchers with Hudson, Mulder and Zito. In baseball, the starting pitcher has such a profound influence on the game that strong starting pitching, especially young, contract-controlled, can lead a team to years of success almost singlehandedly. Beane's inability to develop a strong rotation in recent years has correlated with their decline. Also, the two big hitters in those A's teams (Giambi and Tejada) experienced dramatic improvement in their statistics with the A's and have subsequently been proven to have been PED users.
 

wm02 said:
With regard to Billy Beane and Moneyball, while looking beyond traditional scouting and the traditional statistics was very influential, there were some other factors in play as well. One thing that deserves to be mentioned is that the A's really had once-in-a-generation type of luck in assembling an amazing rotation of young starting pitchers with Hudson, Mulder and Zito. In baseball, the starting pitcher has such a profound influence on the game that strong starting pitching, especially young, contract-controlled, can lead a team to years of success almost singlehandedly. Beane's inability to develop a strong rotation in recent years has correlated with their decline. Also, the two big hitters in those A's teams (Giambi and Tejada) experienced dramatic improvement in their statistics with the A's and have subsequently been proven to have been PED users.
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I really have no idea what any of this means...

....if I google translate it will it indicate a new owner?
 
njligernj said:
Why do you say that? We only don't have enough if we continue to spend competitively.

Again, napkin math, but if you sold to Prem teams, bought from non-Prem teams (where your PL money puts you above all but a handful of teams) and just aimed for mid-table we'd easily be able to siphon 10-20m from the current deal to service the debt. Plus selling some of our 50m assets and not replacing them of course. Loads of money.

We can't do what Man U did -- service debt and spend hundreds of millions on players. Of course not. But what do they care about making the CL?

It's free money. Everton has millions just lying around our current board has never been smart or engaged enough to leverage. We've all said it for years. We said it under the impression that if we leveraged our assets better we'd have more money to buy players; you can't be surprised when someone finally shows up and starts picking up the money for themselves instead.
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The problem with that is that the moment we get relegated the tap is shut off. Utd have huge commercial turnover; it wouldn't affect them that much if they got relegated. We spend every last penny on wages and transfers just to tread water (and even then we are going backward) Imagine our squad if we had 10-20 million less per year over the last few years. No Lukaku. No McCarthy. No Funes Mori. And likely no new contracts for a lot of our young up and comers like Stones and Barkley.
 
wm02 said:
With regard to Billy Beane and Moneyball, while looking beyond traditional scouting and the traditional statistics was very influential, there were some other factors in play as well. One thing that deserves to be mentioned is that the A's really had once-in-a-generation type of luck in assembling an amazing rotation of young starting pitchers with Hudson, Mulder and Zito. In baseball, the starting pitcher has such a profound influence on the game that strong starting pitching, especially young, contract-controlled, can lead a team to years of success almost singlehandedly. Beane's inability to develop a strong rotation in recent years has correlated with their decline. Also, the two big hitters in those A's teams (Giambi and Tejada) experienced dramatic improvement in their statistics with the A's and have subsequently been proven to have been PED users.
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Sort of like strikers?
 

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