New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

[Lob]

Should be a meet and yeet

Or a meet and catapult.

 

[Drico]

We've spent eight years being run by Herschel Krustofsky and Fat Tony. We've been taken over by people who have invested significant money in AS Roma and taken them to two European finals in that time. The level of competence at the club has, therefore, rocketed from where it was.

Worries that "the fans are going to pay for all of this" are hilarious. OF COURSE the fans are going to pay for this. That's precisely what's required if you want the club to grow. The idea that this club can be run like the Soviet Socialist Republic of Walton are for the birds. People like to use the poverty index as an excuse to prevent Everton joining the 21st century and pulling its weight as a club. Kenwright played this parochial pauper card for years - and mortgaged the club on the basis of excessive subsidised up-front season ticket exclusivity. We play in a globalised league with foreign players, ownership, and, yes, fans. The club will ALWAYS reflect its locale and social milieu first and foremost, but the Friedkins or any competent owners will not be indexing the prices it can charge or the players it can buy to the deprivation levels in the wards of inner-city Liverpool.

You want a club to compete with its former peers? Welcome to the globalised Premier League. We helped create it, remember? It's a pity we are only joining it 32 years after we set it up. The Friedkins will be judged on actions. I hope they throw sentiment into the Mersey.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

We've spent eight years being run by Herschel Krustofsky and Fat Tony. We've been taken over by people who have invested significant money in AS Roma and taken them to two European finals in that time. The level of competence at the club has, therefore, rocketed from where it was.

Worries that "the fans are going to pay for all of this" are hilarious. OF COURSE the fans are going to pay for this. That's precisely what's required if you want the club to grow. The idea that this club can be run like the Soviet Socialist Republic of Walton are for the birds. People like to use the poverty index as an excuse to prevent Everton joining the 21st century and pulling its weight as a club. Kenwright played this parochial pauper card for years - and mortgaged the club on the basis of excessive subsidised up-front season ticket exclusivity. We play in a globalised league with foreign players, ownership, and, yes, fans. The club will ALWAYS reflect its locale and social milieu first and foremost, but the Friedkins or any competent owners will not be indexing the prices it can charge or the players it can buy to the deprivation index in the wards of inner-city Liverpool.

You want a club to compete with its former peers? Welcome to the globalised Premier League. We helped create it, remember? It's a pity we are only joining it 32 years after we set it up. The Friedkins will be judged on actions. I hope they throw sentiment into the Mersey.

Good post

 

[HappyJack]

We've spent eight years being run by Herschel Krustofsky and Fat Tony. We've been taken over by people who have invested significant money in AS Roma and taken them to two European finals in that time. The level of competence at the club has, therefore, rocketed from where it was.

Worries that "the fans are going to pay for all of this" are hilarious. OF COURSE the fans are going to pay for this. That's precisely what's required if you want the club to grow. The idea that this club can be run like the Soviet Socialist Republic of Walton are for the birds. People like to use the poverty index as an excuse to prevent Everton joining the 21st century and pulling its weight as a club. Kenwright played this parochial pauper card for years - and mortgaged the club on the basis of excessive subsidised up-front season ticket exclusivity. We play in a globalised league with foreign players, ownership, and, yes, fans. The club will ALWAYS reflect its locale and social milieu first and foremost, but the Friedkins or any competent owners will not be indexing the prices it can charge or the players it can buy to the deprivation index in the wards of inner-city Liverpool.

You want a club to compete with its former peers? Welcome to the globalised Premier League. We helped create it, remember? It's a pity we are only joining it 32 years after we set it up. The Friedkins will be judged on actions. I hope they throw sentiment into the Mersey.

Great post. Id just like to add that I hope we revamp the Academy and focus more on local talent like a coherent playing style at every level…

 

[kenada_blue]

We've spent eight years being run by Herschel Krustofsky and Fat Tony. We've been taken over by people who have invested significant money in AS Roma and taken them to two European finals in that time. The level of competence at the club has, therefore, rocketed from where it was.

Worries that "the fans are going to pay for all of this" are hilarious. OF COURSE the fans are going to pay for this. That's precisely what's required if you want the club to grow. The idea that this club can be run like the Soviet Socialist Republic of Walton are for the birds. People like to use the poverty index as an excuse to prevent Everton joining the 21st century and pulling its weight as a club. Kenwright played this parochial pauper card for years - and mortgaged the club on the basis of excessive subsidised up-front season ticket exclusivity. We play in a globalised league with foreign players, ownership, and, yes, fans. The club will ALWAYS reflect its locale and social milieu first and foremost, but the Friedkins or any competent owners will not be indexing the prices it can charge or the players it can buy to the deprivation index in the wards of inner-city Liverpool.

You want a club to compete with its former peers? Welcome to the globalised Premier League. We helped create it, remember? It's a pity we are only joining it 32 years after we set it up. The Friedkins will be judged on actions. I hope they throw sentiment into the Mersey.

You'd only get people 100% satisfied if we'd have got a Saudi take over, where money was no object, to clear all the debt and drown us in surplus cash.

That was never gonna happen.

 

[14_dollars]

Fancy just doing the Chelsea presser today yourself Marc

Dyche to Watts…

 

[Curtis]

Marc don't shake Dyche's hand it's covered in snot and flem!

 

[Drico]

Great post. Id just like to add that I hope we revamp the Academy and focus more on local talent like a coherent playing style at every level…

Yes, exactly this. THIS is where the club can truly reflect its locality. There must be a massive emphasis on developing and bringing through local players. Merseyside has always teemed with local talent, but it galls me - as a foreigner - to count the number of boyhood Evertonians who made it big with Liverpool FC. It must drive locals nuts.

There should be a KPI established for people like the Director of Football to have x number of quality local boys in the first-team squad at all times. While everything about the game becomes globalised, get locals on the bloody pitch to reflect the DNA of the club and allow the people in the stands to feel an even-closer affinity with its team. Nobody wants a team of 11 Englishmen or even Scousers on the pitch - unless they were the best 11 players in the world. But why shouldn't the club have the best three or four local players of their generation in OUR squad rather than across the park city or elsewhere?

I know it's hard work to do all of this, but this is what we should be striving for. Let's reflect the local people and the history of the club in ways that does the city and region honour - not simpy subsidising a select group of relatively well-heeled local fans (and anybody who can afford a season ticket at a PL club has disposable income by definition) and pretending we're all socialist humanitarians.

 

[McKindrick Blue]

How that man became an accountant is beyond me let alone a multi billionaire. I'm convinced that Moshiri is the victim of a cruel prank where Usmonov gave a random idiot a few billion and bought him a football club just to see what would happen and have a laugh.

 

[Bryan+]

Fancy just doing the Chelsea presser today yourself Marc

Absolutely blinding insights from Al, cheers pal.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Great post. Id just like to add that I hope we revamp the Academy and focus more on local talent like a coherent playing style at every level…

There is no point investing in academy players and at the end of it producing players of league 1 or 2 standard. Its not good enough to go for several years developing players that are never going to get any closer than sitting on the bench for the first team before being released to lower league clubs. Don`t know if the problem is the coaches that work in the academy or the people that bring in kids that never make the grade.

Would love them to focus on local lads, the parks are full on a weekend with kids teams so it`s not like there`s a shortage of players in the area, maybe there`s a need to help these kids learn how to play properly from an early age, maybe invest money in maintaining the facilities these teams use. Having 3 or 4 local lads taking to the field in a derby would be great to see.

 

[matty1878]

Morning Blues.

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wonder if TFG have had to pay that scummy paper to stick us on the front

 

[matty1878]

“golden chance to wake sleeping giant”

we’ve been asleep all my life

like me actually

 

[MrGrumpy]

Be that interview goes well

So Sean how it been seen you got here?

There been noise

What sort of Noise?

Loads of Noise

A loud noise like hammer banging or a buzzing noise?

No not that type of noise.

What type then? Have you considered seeing a doctor?

 

[davek]

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.

Completely agree. I dont mind the esk, he's obviously someone who cares about Everton and that's ok by me. But I dont think any of us are done any favours by looking the other way on this deal and spinning it for TFG.

It's a long way back to financial fitness for Everton and any notions that a magic wand has just been waved for us are well wide of the mark.