The Everton Board Thread 2014/15

[Goat]

No.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Fair enough

 

[Goat]

So far this window mirrors the 1 in which we sold Rooney, i.e, the money was "banked" and spent the next window.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Why have you got Wigan in your name, you on the right website mate ?

Because...er.....I live in Wigan? Used to live in Seaforth, Waterloo, Aigburth, New York, Los Angeles, Rainhill, Atlanta, Edinburgh, and a few other places. Do you think 'Steve Atlanta' has more of a ring to it? After all, you are the guru of literary style on here. Are you actually an Elephant? That drinks Chang?...er...mate

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Because...er.....I live in Wigan? Used to live in Seaforth, Waterloo, Aigburth, New York, Los Angeles, Rainhill, Atlanta, Edinburgh, and a few other places. Do you think 'Steve Atlanta' has more of a ring to it? After all, you are the guru of literary style on here. Are you actually an Elephant? That drinks Chang?...er...mate

I like Steve Atlanta myself.

Probably needs a poll though.

 

[Pat's Van]

why have you got Steve in your name ?

 

[billy bluestar]

Been thinking the exact same thing. Martinez's optimism may peter out and end in failure, but Moyes seemed to be steering the club away from success at every opportunity. I wonder if in hindsight we will attribute more blame to him than Bill.

Despair reading this site sometimes.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Despair reading this site sometimes.

That's another thread

 

[RaleighBlue]

People are getting a bit ahead of themselves I feel in thinking that the board is now spending money freely. Maybe they are! Wouldn't that be ace?

But they haven't yet. Lukaku was funded by the Fellaini sale. Anichebe and Jelavic more than paid for Besic. Their wages (as well as our other big wage earners, Neville/Moyes) are paying for the upgraded contracts.

We are still at a negative net spend over the past 5 years (but no longer bottom of the table!)

So let's not get ahead of ourselves. If we do this again without selling then, and only then, can we say that the board has spent a dime.

 

[magicjuan]

Yeah a whiff of wealth and it's like the beginning of a family feud when some old spinster auntie dies that nobody used to visit.

I bagsy the lawnmowers. Got to be worth a few quid...

 

[magicjuan]

Because...er.....I live in Wigan? Used to live in Seaforth, Waterloo, Aigburth, New York, Los Angeles, Rainhill, Atlanta, Edinburgh, and a few other places. Do you think 'Steve Atlanta' has more of a ring to it? After all, you are the guru of literary style on here. Are you actually an Elephant? That drinks Chang?...er...mate

Are you in that gyspy wedding show Steve?

 

[magicjuan]

How was your holiday mate ?

Mods? Way off topic.....

 

[Dell Boy]

People are getting a bit ahead of themselves I feel in thinking that the board is now spending money freely. Maybe they are! Wouldn't that be ace?

But they haven't yet. Lukaku was funded by the Fellaini sale. Anichebe and Jelavic more than paid for Besic. Their wages (as well as our other big wage earners, Neville/Moyes) are paying for the upgraded contracts.

We are still at a negative net spend over the past 5 years (but no longer bottom of the table!)

So let's not get ahead of ourselves. If we do this again without selling then, and only then, can we say that the board has spent a dime.

That's all true but the signs are positive in my book. We're going in the right direction.

With each new crisis that befalls another club it's one more reason to be appreciative of Kenwright. I'm sure if you scrolled back through the old thread there would have been chat about Southampton and their new stadium etc etc. Or Newcastle under Ashley.

I don't disagree that we should want more and it is right to look angrily at the cash spent season after season by our Top 4 rivals. But you can't spend what you don't have without risking the whole thing.

Our best chance in my book of making the step up to the top level of English footy is for us to continue playing beautiful football across the continent this coming year. Maybe then with a supposedly better economic climate also to hand we might genuinely get a new owner/investor to move us on a notch.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

That's all true but the signs are positive in my book. We're going in the right direction.

With each new crisis that befalls another club it's one more reason to be appreciative of Kenwright. I'm sure if you scrolled back through the old thread there would have been chat about Southampton and their new stadium etc etc. Or Newcastle under Ashley.

I don't disagree that we should want more and it is right to look angrily at the cash spent season after season by our Top 4 rivals. But you can't spend what you don't have without risking the whole thing.

Our best chance in my book of making the step up to the top level of English footy is for us to continue playing beautiful football across the continent this coming year. Maybe then with a supposedly better economic climate also to hand we might genuinely get a new owner/investor to move us on a notch.

You'll be needing this mate;

 

[dholliday]

That's all true but the signs are positive in my book. We're going in the right direction.

With each new crisis that befalls another club it's one more reason to be appreciative of Kenwright. I'm sure if you scrolled back through the old thread there would have been chat about Southampton and their new stadium etc etc. Or Newcastle under Ashley.

I don't disagree that we should want more and it is right to look angrily at the cash spent season after season by our Top 4 rivals. But you can't spend what you don't have without risking the whole thing.

Our best chance in my book of making the step up to the top level of English footy is for us to continue playing beautiful football across the continent this coming year. Maybe then with a supposedly better economic climate also to hand we might genuinely get a new owner/investor to move us on a notch.

Good sensible post that.