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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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IMO new owners won't hang onto Everton if things are going wrong.
They will get shut ASAP.
Unlike BK who has kept hold of his train set despite it repeatedly coming off its tracks all the time
Let's face it,if rumours are right and he is seriously ill then that's the only reason he's getting shut
 
blueblue said:
Football has changed out of all recognition in recent years, but Everton to a large degree has not.
If we get new owners, there is a good chance that Everton Football club may be a very different entity after the takeover.
I think that we pride ourselves in being a family club, where traditional values still apply.
New owners may mean different values and I wonder how welcome they will be ?

I wonder what people want the new owners to be ?
I have supported Everton since I was a small boy back in the late sixties. I vaguely remember winning the title in 1970.
In my life as an Evertonian there have been relatively few events which have profoundly affected the very fabric of what the club is all about.

If there is a takeover it will rank right up there with anything else that has happened. I m looking forward to it and fearing it in equal measures.
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I love this post, kinda sums it up for me....I genuinely fear a takeover/investment, but I also understand it has to happen (if it ever does) because if it doesn't then we lag further behind and the distance between the 'us and them' grows yearly, probably to the point where it's beyond catch-up...

That said, I fear it also because I don't want us to become THEM. I have a mate, a CITY fan, ST holder for years, bit old school in now he doesn't truly enjoy going the game, hasn't for a while 'cos he reckons it's all a bit soulless and feels like a corporate outing every game. Loves coming to GP though, says it still feels like grounds should feel, primarily citing that if the crowd's on the teams back at GP then the team know it is, whereas there....well, y'know how that is as well...

I guess the struggle is the happy medium, but I doubt it truly exists because, ultimately, the shift is (possibly) that the club is gonna become 'officially' (so to speak) a business then. As grimy & as cobbled & as tight & underhanded the current board is...well you have BILL as a figurehead who, for all his faults (LOADS OF), he's a blue innits. I genuinely dunno how I'd feel looking across to see a couple of 'business minded sports fans' from across the puddle sitting in the box, knowing that they're in it for the moolah and not the badge. It's weird.

I mean, I know it's utter bollocks & tiresome, but I may grow to appreciate the fact that the club currently only stocks abarr twelve kids kits of a certain size per annum, I may like that more than merch being force fed and stacked high in the long run...

I dunno.

I suppose it's down to the fans to keep the soul of the place though eh.

But I also think - (for a lot of us maybe and as irrelevant as it is) - that whoever the buyer is then they're tasked with selling themselves to us too.

I want convincing, me. Is that totally misplaced?
 

We all want Everton to be the best at everything however there is one thing that we are already the best at. Do you think any of the clubs run by billionaire businessmen give a toss about the young lad getting in the goal of the month competition or the fantastic blue crimbo and eitc events being run regularly? It's important to me and most evertonians that these proud traditions keep rolling whilst our financial powers get back on a more level playing field with the sky elite. As a few have said I'm excited and nervous in equal amounts.
 
TheHumbleEgg said:
I love this post, kinda sums it up for me....I genuinely fear a takeover/investment, but I also understand it has to happen (if it ever does) because if it doesn't then we lag further behind and the distance between the 'us and them' grows yearly, probably to the point where it's beyond catch-up...

That said, I fear it also because I don't want us to become THEM. I have a mate, a CITY fan, ST holder for years, bit old school in now he doesn't truly enjoy going the game, hasn't for a while 'cos he reckons it's all a bit soulless and feels like a corporate outing every game. Loves coming to GP though, says it still feels like grounds should feel, primarily citing that if the crowd's on the teams back at GP then the team know it is, whereas there....well, y'know how that is as well...

I guess the struggle is the happy medium, but I doubt it truly exists because, ultimately, the shift is (possibly) that the club is gonna become 'officially' (so to speak) a business then. As grimy & as cobbled & as tight & underhanded the current board is...well you have BILL as a figurehead who, for all his faults (LOADS OF), he's a blue innits. I genuinely dunno how I'd feel looking across to see a couple of 'business minded sports fans' from across the puddle sitting in the box, knowing that they're in it for the moolah and not the badge. It's weird.

I mean, I know it's utter bollocks & tiresome, but I may grow to appreciate the fact that the club currently only stocks abarr twelve kids kits of a certain size per annum, I may like that more than merch being force fed and stacked high in the long run...

I dunno.

I suppose it's down to the fans to keep the soul of the place though eh.

But I also think - (for a lot of us maybe and as irrelevant as it is) - that whoever the buyer is then they're tasked with selling themselves to us too.

I want convincing, me. Is that totally misplaced?
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.....I know what you mean but I think City are unique in respect of the investment they have. It's very unlikely we will have a sugar daddy. Their investment has brought in an element global (plastic?) support and regular fans who are spoil in the knowledge they can buy who they want.
 
TheHumbleEgg said:
I love this post, kinda sums it up for me....I genuinely fear a takeover/investment, but I also understand it has to happen (if it ever does) because if it doesn't then we lag further behind and the distance between the 'us and them' grows yearly, probably to the point where it's beyond catch-up...

That said, I fear it also because I don't want us to become THEM. I have a mate, a CITY fan, ST holder for years, bit old school in now he doesn't truly enjoy going the game, hasn't for a while 'cos he reckons it's all a bit soulless and feels like a corporate outing every game. Loves coming to GP though, says it still feels like grounds should feel, primarily citing that if the crowd's on the teams back at GP then the team know it is, whereas there....well, y'know how that is as well...

I guess the struggle is the happy medium, but I doubt it truly exists because, ultimately, the shift is (possibly) that the club is gonna become 'officially' (so to speak) a business then. As grimy & as cobbled & as tight & underhanded the current board is...well you have BILL as a figurehead who, for all his faults (LOADS OF), he's a blue innits. I genuinely dunno how I'd feel looking across to see a couple of 'business minded sports fans' from across the puddle sitting in the box, knowing that they're in it for the moolah and not the badge. It's weird.

I mean, I know it's utter bollocks & tiresome, but I may grow to appreciate the fact that the club currently only stocks abarr twelve kids kits of a certain size per annum, I may like that more than merch being force fed and stacked high in the long run...

I dunno.

I suppose it's down to the fans to keep the soul of the place though eh.

But I also think - (for a lot of us maybe and as irrelevant as it is) - that whoever the buyer is then they're tasked with selling themselves to us too.

I want convincing, me. Is that totally misplaced?
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Nice post mate, sums up how a great deal of blues are currently feeling.
 
Dario Terracotta said:
I love going to Villa Park(probably won't next season!)I think it's everything we should look to as regards a redeveloped Goodison,it's still relatively modern but retains the history and heritage/identity of the club.
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I can't imagine Everton without Goodison Park. Yes I liked the look of the Kings Dock proposal and it would need to be a unique proposition like that for me to begin to move on.
Redevelopment please. However long it takes.
 

kithnou said:
I can't imagine Everton without Goodison Park. Yes I liked the look of the Kings Dock proposal and it would need to be a unique proposition like that for me to begin to move on.
Redevelopment please. However long it takes.
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I said about a year ago that if we would be leaving Goodison no doubt there would be fierce protests against it. Tried to say that what ever happends there will be many unhappy fans out there. I hope fanbase doesnt split up.
 
Dario Terracotta said:
I love going to Villa Park(probably won't next season!)I think it's everything we should look to as regards a redeveloped Goodison,it's still relatively modern but retains the history and heritage/identity of the club.
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That is the thing that concerns me.The new owners building a soulless cinder block stadium,Riverside MK2.Any new stadium should have the Archibald Leitch parts of Goodison transplanted,but I realise this is a pipe-dream.Just as the twin towers of Wembley could have been integrated into the new stadium which is poorer for their loss.
 
Dario Terracotta said:
Let's start now mate,I've got my shovel;)lol
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All geared up here...

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TheHumbleEgg said:
I love this post, kinda sums it up for me....I genuinely fear a takeover/investment, but I also understand it has to happen (if it ever does) because if it doesn't then we lag further behind and the distance between the 'us and them' grows yearly, probably to the point where it's beyond catch-up...

That said, I fear it also because I don't want us to become THEM. I have a mate, a CITY fan, ST holder for years, bit old school in now he doesn't truly enjoy going the game, hasn't for a while 'cos he reckons it's all a bit soulless and feels like a corporate outing every game. Loves coming to GP though, says it still feels like grounds should feel, primarily citing that if the crowd's on the teams back at GP then the team know it is, whereas there....well, y'know how that is as well...

I guess the struggle is the happy medium, but I doubt it truly exists because, ultimately, the shift is (possibly) that the club is gonna become 'officially' (so to speak) a business then. As grimy & as cobbled & as tight & underhanded the current board is...well you have BILL as a figurehead who, for all his faults (LOADS OF), he's a blue innits. I genuinely dunno how I'd feel looking across to see a couple of 'business minded sports fans' from across the puddle sitting in the box, knowing that they're in it for the moolah and not the badge. It's weird.

I mean, I know it's utter bollocks & tiresome, but I may grow to appreciate the fact that the club currently only stocks abarr twelve kids kits of a certain size per annum, I may like that more than merch being force fed and stacked high in the long run...

I dunno.

I suppose it's down to the fans to keep the soul of the place though eh.

But I also think - (for a lot of us maybe and as irrelevant as it is) - that whoever the buyer is then they're tasked with selling themselves to us too.

I want convincing, me. Is that totally misplaced?
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We shouldn't fear change. To fear change would imply to me that there's something to retain about this present regime. There isn't. They are completely without merit. They deceive, they mismanage, they patronise, they fail. 16 years worth of it.
 

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