Terry Leahy

[davek]

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum: Listen up then Leahy

You couldn't make this up really could you? The CEO of a company that crushes all opposition and stands above the rest under his stewardship reckons it's good for Everton to be small, trophyless but content. The complete hypocritical cokcmuncher.

“Everton do not have a sugar daddy and it may be just as well they don’t. What they have is a strategy that can be sustained. To have one mega-rich owner or investor would put at risk the ethos of the club and give too much influence to someone who may be there one day and gone the next.

“I often feel Everton supporters are the happiest in football. The teams above them get spoiled by money and weight of expectation. Others clubs exist in fear for their survival. They all envy what Everton have achieved and how they’ve gone about it. That means more than winning trophies."

 

[kenada_blue]

Does anyone really ask.....Say if we did get a big money investor, you can honestly say give a season we'd be challanging and winning things in less time (and less money spent than Citeh).

Even if said investor does a runner...wouldnt we still be in a stronger position for someone to come in and buy the club again?

The only thing I worry about it putting a leesh on Moyes and not allowing him to do what he does. Everything else...I dont care even if Kim Jong Il bought the club (as mentioned before) just as long as he leaves Moyes alone.

 

[Namdrater]

We dont have to be bought, Arsenal got to where they are without all the money you keep asking for. I dont even live in Liverpool and I think it'd be better to keep the clubs heritage rather than sell off to some random, thats my own opinion though. I'd like to see us sell to someone with Everton at heart and can provide decent funds, not astronomical bullshit, it wouldn't be the Everton that I chose to support if that sort of [Poor language removed] happened.

Also, no offense, because I think its great to have your sometimes controversial opinion, but do you ever post anything good about the club?

 

[Goat]

We dont have to be bought, Arsenal got to where they are without all the money you keep asking for. I dont even live in Liverpool and I think it'd be better to keep the clubs heritage rather than sell off to some random, thats my own opinion though. I'd like to see us sell to someone with Everton at heart and can provide decent funds, not astronomical bullshit, it wouldn't be the Everton that I chose to support if that sort of [Poor language removed] happened.

Also, no offense, because I think its great to have your sometimes controversial opinion, but do you ever post anything good about the club?

Sorry, was maybe harsh.

Here, let me help you.

Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a non-quoted public limited company, whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs. Only 62,217 shares in Arsenal have been issued,[1] and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the FTSE or AIM; instead, they are traded relatively infrequently on PLUS, a specialist market. As of March 30, 2009, a single share in Arsenal has a mid price of £7,550, meaning the club's market capitalisation value is approximately £469.8m.[50] The club made a pre-tax operating profit (excluding player transfers) of £36.7m in the year ending 31 May 2008, from a turnover of £223.0m.

In April 2008, business magazine Forbes ranked Arsenal as third most valuable football team in the world, after Manchester United and Real Madrid, valuing the club at $1.2bn (£605m), excluding debt.[52] Accountants Deloitte rate Arsenal sixth in the 2009 Deloitte Football Money League, a ranking of the world's football clubs in terms of revenue, with the club earning £209.3m in the 2007–08 season.


They iz well skint innit.

 

[davek]

We dont have to be bought, Arsenal got to where they are without all the money you keep asking for. I dont even live in Liverpool and I think it'd be better to keep the clubs heritage rather than sell off to some random, thats my own opinion though. I'd like to see us sell to someone with Everton at heart and can provide decent funds, not astronomical bullshit, it wouldn't be the Everton that I chose to support if that sort of [Poor language removed] happened.

Also, no offense, because I think its great to have your sometimes controversial opinion, but do you ever post anything good about the club?

Most would say that Sir John Moores is part of our tradition. He was a millionaire Manc who pump primed the club for success in the 60's - a man totally out of step with the professional class of "Liverpool Gentleman" who'd run the club prior to that point.

A takeover of Everton these days would hardly be the shock to the system some think. Do you reckon Evertonians in 1960 were worried where the cash was coming from? No, neither do I.

 

[Namdrater]

Sorry, was maybe harsh.

Here, let me help you.

Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a non-quoted public limited company, whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs. Only 62,217 shares in Arsenal have been issued,[1] and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the FTSE or AIM; instead, they are traded relatively infrequently on PLUS, a specialist market. As of March 30, 2009, a single share in Arsenal has a mid price of £7,550, meaning the club's market capitalisation value is approximately £469.8m.[50] The club made a pre-tax operating profit (excluding player transfers) of £36.7m in the year ending 31 May 2008, from a turnover of £223.0m.

In April 2008, business magazine Forbes ranked Arsenal as third most valuable football team in the world, after Manchester United and Real Madrid, valuing the club at $1.2bn (£605m), excluding debt.[52] Accountants Deloitte rate Arsenal sixth in the 2009 Deloitte Football Money League, a ranking of the world's football clubs in terms of revenue, with the club earning £209.3m in the 2007–08 season.


They iz well skint innit.

They iz, but they iz spending as much as we do

 

[trebilcock66]

Hmmm - food for thought all round.

Yes, Dave, we were chequebook champions in 1963, buying Jimmy Gabriel and two others (can't recall who) for an unheard of £175,000.

I loved that 1963 side and the 1970 champions as well

Nowadays, I've already posted a thread in which I openly hope that nobody does to us what has happened at Chelsea or Man City. Inject lots of cash, hopes go through the roof. But the players you buy are mostly money chasers without an ounce of commitment to or understanding of the clubs heritage. No thanks.

So I'm open to an accusation of hypocrisy, I know

I just don't want Moyes to have all that cash, only to have it withdrawn when the benefactor gets bored...

Difference between now and summer 1962 is that Moores was here for a generation and longer. Will City's paymaster be around that long? I think not

Arsenal, Aston Villa and us - we're the role models for the others.

Well blow me down - I agree with Terry Leahy! Somebody giz me coat, quick....

 

[kenada_blue]

They iz, but they iz spending as much as we do

But they attract the talant and pay bigger wages.

They could bag massive names if they wanted to, Wenger just doesnt like to do that. He likes getting youthful talant and keeps them by putting them on 60k+ a week.

 

[kenada_blue]

Hmmm - food for thought all round.

Yes, Dave, we were chequebook champions in 1963, buying Jimmy Gabriel and two others (can't recall who) for an unheard of £175,000.

Nowadays, I've already posted a thread in which I openly hope that nobody does to us what has happened at Chelsea or Man City. Inject lots of cash, hopes go through the roof. But the players you buy are mostly money chasers without an ounce of commitment to or understanding of the clubs heritage. No thanks.

So I'm open to an accusation of hypocrisy, I know

I just don't want Moyes to have all that cash, only to have it withdrawn when the benefactor gets bored...

Difference between now and summer 1962 is that Moores was here for a generation and longer. Will City's paymaster be around that long? I think not

Arsenal, Aston Villa and us - we're the role models for the others.

Well blow me down - I agree with Terry Leahy! Somebody giz me coat, quick....

Then we'll go back to how we are now, surely? We'll flog the players on big money, bring in cheeky cheap ones, and it'll go back to as it is now....

But we'd be in a comfy position to attractive other buyers more so than we are now or ever be.

 

[trebilcock66]

Then we'll go back to how we are now, surely? We'll flog the players on big money, bring in cheeky cheap ones, and it'll go back to as it is now....

But we'd be in a comfy position to attractive other buyers more so than we are now or ever be.

Not sure that's true KB.

If Bill sells up and the moneybags benefactor pulls out two seasons later, we'll go into freefall. (Wouldn't it be great if that happens to Chelsea and they revert to their rightful place in the hierarchy).

 

[Goat]

They iz, but they iz spending as much as we do

The Emirates Stadium, often referred to as the Emirates (IPA: /ðiːˈɛmərəts/), is a football stadium located in Holloway in the London Borough of Islington and is the current home of Arsenal Football Club.

The project cost £430 million, including the cost of the associated infrastructure.

Thats because they have THAT to pay for.

Check your facts and never compare us to Arsenal again.

 

[kenada_blue]

Not sure that's true KB.

If Bill sells up and the moneybags benefactor pulls out two seasons later, we'll go into freefall. (Wouldn't it be great if that happens to Chelsea and they revert to their rightful place in the hierarchy).

But who's to say they'd pull out if the team is successful?

We're all not bothered about a rich Arab with trillions to spend but at least someone that can give Moyes a comfortable budget every season so he doesnt have to sell any key player or have to get people to scrape cash together at the last minute.

 

[Goat]

Show me 1 takeover in which the owner has left the Club in the shiit?

 

[kenada_blue]

Show me 1 takeover in which the owner has left the Club in the shiit?

True. Its not like Mr Moneybags pumps £200mill into the club, gets bored the says "**** it I'm off" without actually selling us off to make some money back at least.

The only clubs that go tits up are the ones poorly managed, poorly run, who make bad decisions, who spend above what they actually can - see Newcaslte and Leeds United.

 

[Goat]

Newcastle hasnt gone tits up tho. Everybody thinks takeovers are EVIL and I admit some of are not great, but even Ashley at Newcastle paid all the debts off and is selling the Club at a loss. Hardly a bad thing.

As you say, its mainly down to bad management that clubs get screwed.