He and Gregg as we know now did not get on - how they could not reach out for that amount of funds is mind bogglingBut what an Evertonian he is! Lucky to have him etc etc
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The thing is though mate, Gregg was willing to put up the funding, but it meant BK giving up being major shareholder.
If thats true he really has been a bad chairman!
ALANSTUBBS
Player Valuation: £5m
Might improve the selection of Pastys at half time like.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
I've always found that an interesting question. There were many stories around painting him as a out and out bad man. He clearly appeared to be a ruthless businessman,but most successful business men are. The echo even published a story about his treatment of his sons ,long after he left, as if to make sure his name remained suitably blackened. Truth is we will never fully know the truth.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
That wasn't what happened. Gregg said he could attain (not provide) a 'reverse mortgage' on Everton's share of the development, which the then board decided was too risky a strategy. Which given the context of our tenuous league status at that time was risk averse but partly understandable. Looking back it was obviously a massive missed opportunity.
Yeah never put it across as I meant to, and I know some of the board were a bit edgy about it, still think though that a lot of it came down to the fact that BK didn't want to give up the train - set.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
The deal didn't mean he's have lost his trainset though mate. His shareholding wasn't on the line.
Ah, I thought Gregg fronting the reverse mortgage, part of it would have been Gregg becoming the majority shareholder.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Just think what the club would have been worth now! Crying!!
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
I don't know enough about the man, and it seemed we only ever heard of Gregg in a negative sense. I can't recall the year, but it must have been at the height of his power struggle with Kenwright, one pre-season, when BBC R5L were live outside Goodison in the early evening more or less doing a piece on the "state" of Everton. He was speaking live and sounded genuinely angry and frustrated and I recall him saying the club had to start setting targets and holding people accountable to them, across the board. I remember being impressed with the "interview" and thinking that we needed someone without blue-tinted specs, to see the wood from the trees.
It always seemed to me that anyone with even the faintest idea of driving change at Everton would quickly tire of an association with Kenwright, and the fact that Kenwright remains in situ today under the new regime (though I accept this may be related to the new stadium and options) is still a worry to me.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
A lot of the struggle was played out in the media I seem to recall,and Kenwright had the better contacts.
onlyme
Player Valuation: £10m
As I recall the issue was that Gregg promised the money on condition that he could reap the financial benefits from staging concerts etc within the stadium , given that staging concerts was his business (i know he owned the Apollo in Manchester) this scenario seems feasible but Bill wasn't keen to give up this revenue stream.
Nothing to stop someone making a request under FOI but there are a couple of exemptions they might use, one for prejudicing commercial interests, the other for information due for publication.