Latest Takeover Rumour. The Moores / Noell one

[onlyme]

You could go a lot further back than 20 years and see reports of clubs 'buying the league'. In fact, I think there was a certain club from Merseyside that may have been accused of doing something very similar in the 1960's.

We hardly bought the league, we developed our own players too, Wright, Labone,Hurst, Husband, Whittle, Royle, Harvey to name 7.

 

[Dymak]

Financial steroids have really kicked on the last 20 years though. The Premier League is the Jamaican sprinters of financial steroid abusers.

Agreed. But I see people stating that they wouldn't want Everton to achieve success through using financial muscle as a means of acquiring the best side in the land, and they then go on to say it wouldn't correspond with our history. But Everton have been using their financial muscle to purchase the best players for absolute decades. We were doing it to great success way before Chelsea and City started doing it.

 

[Dymak]

We hardly bought the league, we developed our own players too, Wright, Labone,Hurst, Husband, Whittle, Royle, Harvey to name 7.

I'm not denying that mate, but we also used our financial muscle to buy the best players around, like Tony Kay etc. Even as recently as the 1980's, Everton spent the most on player acquistion throughout the decade of the 1980's.

 

[kithnou]

He quoted QIA £280m, and that didn't really put them off, I have it on good authority QIA came away from the meeting with Bill and Wyness with the feeling that the club was not really for sale.

Bill said he was more interested in investment, QIA said ok show us your investment plans, Bill had nothing to show them, he basically came across to them as a bit of a clown, and they walked away.

I know nothing about the Arabs at Man City, but if he was like he was with QIA then you can see why they went with City.

That I can believe.

 

[kithnou]

In a nutshell this, these Arabs may not miss a billion or two if they lost it down the back of the sofa but they aren't mugs.

Then where are all "these Arabs" now when a football giant is at its knees and,under difficult circumstances, practically begging to be sold?

 

[onlyme]

I'm not denying that mate, but we also used our financial muscle to buy the best players around, like Tony Kay etc. Even as recently as the 1980's, Everton spent the most on player acquistion throughout the decade of the 1980's.

No doubt we supplemented talent from outside but it was never as a detriment to young players developed in the youth team. Something Chelsea and now Man City have ignored.
I know which system i prefer and gives greater satisfaction, if it can lead to silverware.

 

[degsy]

He quoted QIA £280m, and that didn't really put them off, I have it on good authority QIA came away from the meeting with Bill and Wyness with the feeling that the club was not really for sale.

Bill said he was more interested in investment, QIA said ok show us your investment plans, Bill had nothing to show them, he basically came across to them as a bit of a clown, and they walked away.

I know nothing about the Arabs at Man City, but if he was like he was with QIA then you can see why they went with City.

that sounds more like it...and I seem to remember at the time various figures bandied around between 150-200M

 

[degsy]

Then where are all "these Arabs" now when a football giant is at its knees and,under difficult circumstances, practically begging to be sold?

city?

also $100+ oil price then as well, not like now.

 

[kithnou]

city?

also $100+ oil price then as well, not like now.

None out there any more?

 

[The Mighty Quint]

that sounds more like it...and I seem to remember at the time various figures bandied around between 150-200M

He tried to bump the price up using the deal for the new stadium with the council and Tesco being a given, him and the other major share holders were being greedy, but like I said the impression Bill gave QIA was that he didn't really want to sell, he wanted to get a load of money in and be there holding up the shirts with the new players milking it as we all know he likes to do still at the helm.

 

[MrGrumpy]

You can't win things without spending money it's impossible. To win things over and over again you need the best players and they require money, a team like Everton to win the league next season would need to spend 200-300 mil, Chelsea have spent over 1 billion since Abram took over, City have spent probably the same. Leicester are doing brilliant don't get me wrong, if they win the league it's bad news for us, their owners are Chelsea City rich and I'm pritty sure next year Yardy won't be a starter

 

[zirc]

None out there any more?

Any oil magnates are trying to figure out how not to lose their shirts at the moment, not vanity purchase football clubs.

 

[degsy]

None out there any more?

*puts hand to ear listens, looks out window to check...


nah

 

[Toast]

Any oil magnates are trying to figure out how not to lose their shirts at the moment, not vanity purchase football clubs.

A bit like the Scottish national party's idea for funding actually running a country ? You know, for real like ??
But that's for a different thread..

 

[hibbo'sclass]

Lads?! Are we being bought?

'Sake!

In the immortal words of They Might Be Giants:-
Yes no maybe,
I don't know
Can you repeat the question?

Hope that helps