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New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

What do we reckon?

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    Votes: 850 72.6%

  • 🤷 | 🧀🥪

    Votes: 277 23.7%

  • 👎

    Votes: 43 3.7%
  • Total voters
    1,170
davek said:
Exactly.

Unforgivable yesterday that a lot of people who apparently have pull in the Everton community were telling fans this is "an effectively" debt free club now. They should hang their heads in shame contributing to that myth.
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It's extremely rare that any business goes from a terrible situation to an ideal or perfect situation overnight.

What we have here is a big improvement in our finances and that's clearly a positive. No one is claiming its perfect.

Now we need to give the new ownership the opportunity and time to show us their plans for the club. They will be judged on their actions and how they move the club forward. I'm feeling fairly optimistic about it but obviously time will tell.
 
ToffeeTim said:
It's extremely rare that any business goes from a terrible situation to an ideal or perfect situation overnight.

What we have here is a big improvement in our finances and that's clearly a positive. No one is claiming its perfect.

Now we need to give the new ownership the opportunity and time to show us their plans for the club. They will be judged on their actions and how they move the club forward. I'm feeling fairly optimistic about it but obviously time will tell.
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Oh I think some got perilously close to saying that yesterday.

It's apparently an improvement. That's it. But the debt is still there in large part and will be paid down by fans in one way or another.

My overall point is that we shouldn't be making the mistake of handing a blank cheque to any owner of Everton. To do so would fly in the face of all our experiences of owners going back decades.
 
davek said:
Oh I think some got perilously close to saying that yesterday.

It's apparently an improvement. That's it. But the debt is still there in large part and will be paid down by fans in one way or another.

My overall point is that we shouldn't be making the mistake of handing a blank cheque to any owner of Everton. To do so would fly in the face of all our experiences of owners going back decades.
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I'd say its a big improvement and I am content with that right now.

The club isn't going to be turned around in a few weeks.
 

kenada_blue said:
All I know is that this man is in charge of Roundhouse

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He would have been no match for the man in charge of Roadhouse
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davek said:
Oh I think some got perilously close to saying that yesterday.

It's apparently an improvement. That's it. But the debt is still there in large part and will be paid down by fans in one way or another.

My overall point is that we shouldn't be making the mistake of handing a blank cheque to any owner of Everton. To do so would fly in the face of all our experiences of owners going back decades.
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Perilously close is an understatement.

From the resident “Everton finance expert” on X, who just a few short weeks ago gave emotional thanks to those who helped build his empire on X, and that he was now moving the new shiny platform. But his political statement lasted about 7 minutes as he carried on posting on X, presumably the need for adulation was greater than principles.

“Everton now only have one outstanding charge (security against debt) with our bankers Metro - this is standard for banks & football clubs. Effectively the football club is debt free. (The Friedkins may have borrowed money but not via the club)”

Be nice if the new era saw the end of all this peddling of inexperienced and unqualified guesswork as financial fact, from him and others. Financial info won’t be dribbling out of Everton as much with a US owner. Anyone proclaiming to know anything going forward is lying, unless it publicly available info, in which case, there is no scoop.
 
HalfTimeSayers said:
Perilously close is an understatement.

From the resident “Everton finance expert” on X, who just a few short weeks ago gave emotional thanks to those who helped build his empire on X, and that he was now moving the new shiny platform. But his political statement lasted about 7 minutes as he carried on posting on X, presumably the need for adulation was greater than principles.

“Everton now only have one outstanding charge (security against debt) with our bankers Metro - this is standard for banks & football clubs. Effectively the football club is debt free. (The Friedkins may have borrowed money but not via the club)”

Be nice if the new era saw the end of all this peddling of inexperienced and unqualified guesswork as financial fact, from him and others. Financial info won’t be dribbling out of Everton as much with a US owner. Anyone proclaiming to know anything going forward is lying, unless it publicly available info, in which case, there is no scoop.
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For me, bottom line is that we're in the hands of people who know what they're doing rather than having the last few years of someone who struggled to keep the lights on.
 
jazzy said:
There seems to be a misconception ( even with the United hierarchy) about Ashworth's strengths .

He is an organiser , a systems guy. He isn't a guy who has a strong reputation for identifying player talent like for example Monchi
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Whether it’s a strength or weakness is irrelevant. The fact is that identifying and signing players was/IS part of his job.
 

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