Yeah. Another thing worth pointing out with regard to his visiting Roma is that Rome is… well, Rome.
I wish I had a football club there that gave me a good excuse to visit.
I wish I had a football club there that gave me a good excuse to visit.
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
I'd like to see Friedkin attend one of the remaining games at Goodison, it will be a missed opportunity for him on a personal level if he does not, in terms of getting to experience the club he is now the owner of.
He clearly will not and does not have to, attend every game and I do agree that a detached ownership makes better business decisions.
But you cannot reduce football to solely a business transaction. At some point he thought he would like to buy Everton, and when you think of the money spent, the meetings, the planning, the dispatch of what appear to be some of his most senior and trusted people into roles at the club, the thousands of hours spent on this, don't you at some point want to see, to feel, to experience first-hand, what you've got for your money?
If there was no curiosity or degree of interest on that front, I'd be very surprised.
He clearly will not and does not have to, attend every game and I do agree that a detached ownership makes better business decisions.
But you cannot reduce football to solely a business transaction. At some point he thought he would like to buy Everton, and when you think of the money spent, the meetings, the planning, the dispatch of what appear to be some of his most senior and trusted people into roles at the club, the thousands of hours spent on this, don't you at some point want to see, to feel, to experience first-hand, what you've got for your money?
If there was no curiosity or degree of interest on that front, I'd be very surprised.
That's a fair point.
I reckon they’ll be there for the Southampton game. I’ve thought that for a while.
Romas:
Dan Thomas FRIEDKIN
Ryan Patrick FRIEDKIN
Guido FIENGA
Marcus Arthur WATTS
Eric Felen III WILLIAMSON
Analaura MOREIRA-DUNKEL
Benedetta NAVARRA
Mirella PELLEGRINI
Ines GANDINI
Gulf States Toyota Names Automotive Industry Veteran Eric Williamson as President and General Manager
Eric Williamson has been named president and general manager of Gulf States Toyota.
www.businesswire.com
Gulf States Toyota Names Automotive Industry Veteran Eric Williamson as President and General Manager
Eric Williamson has been named president and general manager of Gulf States Toyota.www.businesswire.com
He's not unlike Contract Dave!
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
So those four in bold?
…I think it demonstrates whether there’s any emotion in the purchase, suggests to me it’s 100% business. Whether that changes with time I wouldn’t know but at this point it’s not looking like he’s a fan of the club.
It is what it is.
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
Ryan Friedkin apart it's the same TFG nominees. I guess the remaining question is whether anyone with requisite experience from outside of TFG will be given directorships in time. That would be a healthy development in my opinion.
The TFG appointees all have very impressive backgrounds. I imagine they will take no prisoners when it comes to oversight of the executive management team. In effect that will be a reversal of decades of how the club has been managed, with the board effectively running the club and the exec team as proxies.
Kinnear will have to hit the ground running very quickly it seems, as will those who report directly to him. They are dealing with people of real clout and high personal achievement here.
That will be good for us.
Seems that way, practically i think Ryan has a big role at Roma and is really under the bonnet there.
You'd expect Kinnear, to be running day to day ops here.
Not sure if Chong will keep a place on the board or not.
Be interesting to see if we make a few non -exec appointments - they seemed to have brought on board some local representation at Roma.
Be in two minds about that here - given what we've just been through in governance.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Williamson is know as the Mr Wolf of TFG:
www.giallorossi.net
AS ROMA NEWS – When he is in Rome, silence falls in Trigoria. Because if Eric Felen Williamson III shows up around the Giallorossi sports center, it means something is about to happen, writes La Repubblica today. Heads are about to roll.
The supermanager, vice president of Business Development for the Friedkin Group, is the Mr Wolf of the Texan ownership. From automotive to cinema, to the Auberge Resort hotel chain, he solves problems. There is no investment that is not approved by Williamson. There is no decision that has not first passed the 57-year-old's scrutiny.
The same goes for Roma: the dismissal of CEO Lina Souloukou, disguised as a resignation, and her now probable replacement with the club's lawyer Lorenzo Vitali bear the stamp of the factotum. Powerful. Very powerful.
Every word he says is a millstone. He uses it to put it down in black and white. And so, just a few days ago, Williamson filed a detailed report on the state of affairs at Roma on the Friedkins’ table: the report starts with the market, passes through the Dybala mess and ends with the dismissal of Daniele De Rossi. A rejection that the Friedkins have made their own, acting accordingly.
Who to trust, if not Mr Wolf, in what the club itself, in the farewell statement to Souloukou, defined as a “particularly critical phase”? Williamson arrived in Rome. He listened, he evaluated and he wrote down his usual report. Then, since there is never a shortage of things to do, he launched himself onto the next problem: the purchase, made official yesterday afternoon, of the purchase of Everton by the Friedkins.
Having fallen through in the summer, the acquisition of the English club is now a done deal. A piece of news that has brought to the forefront an imminent sale of Roma to the Arabs. And, as happened in the spring of 2020, a few months before the Roman closing, the American manager has been examining all the papers of the Liverpool club for some time. The balance sheets, the organizational chart, the stadium project. His stamp was also needed on this operation. Despite the fact that the football business does not warm him: those in the know say that the “vanity assets” of the Friedkin Group are not well regarded by Williamson. In the last few hours, they have become three: Everton, Roma and Cannes. Too many.
It is no coincidence that his interventions in the Trigoria area were requested only to resolve business issues or manage states of crisis. He signed the recruitment of the former CEO Pietro Berardi, at the time CEO of Pirelli, and the former head of marketing Max Van Den Doel, who arrived from the top of Adidas with a heavy curriculum. Football? Not received. A separate discussion, because in this case we are not talking about things on the pitch, the sexgate puzzle that broke out among the Primavera players. When the intimate video of an employee started bouncing from chat to chat, Mr Wolf, together with the club's lawyers, took action: first he silenced the scandal and then resolved the issue by writing two checks (for the girl and her partner) for around 250 thousand euros.
Because Williamson solves problems. Like that of the now unpopular Lina Souloukou. Who will be replaced shortly. Lawyer Vitali is in pole position. A promotion on the pitch, like that of Nicola Zalewski: as of yesterday the Polish winger is back in the squad.
Roma, ci pensa Williamson: il Mr Wolf dei Friedkin tra Souloukou e Vitali
Roma, ci pensa Williamson: il Mr Wolf dei Friedkin tra Souloukou e Vitali - Rassegna stampa
www.giallorossi.net
AS ROMA NEWS – When he is in Rome, silence falls in Trigoria. Because if Eric Felen Williamson III shows up around the Giallorossi sports center, it means something is about to happen, writes La Repubblica today. Heads are about to roll.
The supermanager, vice president of Business Development for the Friedkin Group, is the Mr Wolf of the Texan ownership. From automotive to cinema, to the Auberge Resort hotel chain, he solves problems. There is no investment that is not approved by Williamson. There is no decision that has not first passed the 57-year-old's scrutiny.
The same goes for Roma: the dismissal of CEO Lina Souloukou, disguised as a resignation, and her now probable replacement with the club's lawyer Lorenzo Vitali bear the stamp of the factotum. Powerful. Very powerful.
Every word he says is a millstone. He uses it to put it down in black and white. And so, just a few days ago, Williamson filed a detailed report on the state of affairs at Roma on the Friedkins’ table: the report starts with the market, passes through the Dybala mess and ends with the dismissal of Daniele De Rossi. A rejection that the Friedkins have made their own, acting accordingly.
Who to trust, if not Mr Wolf, in what the club itself, in the farewell statement to Souloukou, defined as a “particularly critical phase”? Williamson arrived in Rome. He listened, he evaluated and he wrote down his usual report. Then, since there is never a shortage of things to do, he launched himself onto the next problem: the purchase, made official yesterday afternoon, of the purchase of Everton by the Friedkins.
Having fallen through in the summer, the acquisition of the English club is now a done deal. A piece of news that has brought to the forefront an imminent sale of Roma to the Arabs. And, as happened in the spring of 2020, a few months before the Roman closing, the American manager has been examining all the papers of the Liverpool club for some time. The balance sheets, the organizational chart, the stadium project. His stamp was also needed on this operation. Despite the fact that the football business does not warm him: those in the know say that the “vanity assets” of the Friedkin Group are not well regarded by Williamson. In the last few hours, they have become three: Everton, Roma and Cannes. Too many.
It is no coincidence that his interventions in the Trigoria area were requested only to resolve business issues or manage states of crisis. He signed the recruitment of the former CEO Pietro Berardi, at the time CEO of Pirelli, and the former head of marketing Max Van Den Doel, who arrived from the top of Adidas with a heavy curriculum. Football? Not received. A separate discussion, because in this case we are not talking about things on the pitch, the sexgate puzzle that broke out among the Primavera players. When the intimate video of an employee started bouncing from chat to chat, Mr Wolf, together with the club's lawyers, took action: first he silenced the scandal and then resolved the issue by writing two checks (for the girl and her partner) for around 250 thousand euros.
Because Williamson solves problems. Like that of the now unpopular Lina Souloukou. Who will be replaced shortly. Lawyer Vitali is in pole position. A promotion on the pitch, like that of Nicola Zalewski: as of yesterday the Polish winger is back in the squad.
Just said the same thing above mate - id be in two minds - part of the reason for the failure of the last regime was Bill convincing Moshiri that local appointments were best and he swallowed it.
That said - if it was the right people - there have been rumors going around for a while that Bell and Downng turned down the opportunity to join the board, pinch of salt and all that.
The other thing is ACAP once the Leadenhall case is resolved have an option to turn part of their debt to equity or exercise warrants - they would want a seat on the board to id imagine.
AndyRJ
Player Valuation: £8m
Would still be better than our previous board
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