The Everton Board Thread

[MikeH72]

You know that for sure do you?

Yes?

 

[jinkyali]

Have you only just come to that conclusion jinks?

I'd say that it's been pretty obvious for about 24 months, pretty much since they thought it was a great idea to bring in Benitez.

I absolutely agree. It seems to have stepped up a notch though doesn't it.

 

[lancs blue]

Apparently moshers has called his pals at wagner to force Billy whizz out

If you see what looks like a flying pig exit a window at liver building you've read it here first....

 

[AndyC]

Oh Mosh is definitely the puppet. He never imagined in his wildest dreams he'd get stuck in all of this, he thought he was just coming in as the face of the club.
Suddenly it all Blows up, Usmanov gets Sanctioned, and he's stuck with a club and a sport he knows absolutely nothing about.
So he grabs on to the one thing he does understand, 'Business' and puts all his time in building a new stadium ( great for us ) but in his mind, A Way Out!!

I’m not so sure he does understand ‘business’ as most people taking on a huge capital expenditure project utilise other people’s money ie finance it through banks etc rather than sink their own personal fortune into it.

Right from the moment the initial plans were released and planning permission secured for BMD, Moshiri and to some extent the club, have failed utterly and completely to attract external financing, largely due to the appalling state of the accounts that make investing in Everton a risk for banks.

Now, when he’s desperate for funding to keep the stadium build going, he’s had the club up for sale at a ridiculous price and failed, and had to agree to a circa 25% sellout to MSP in order to raise funds just and solely at this stage to finance the stadium… nothing for team rebuilding !!!

 

[oglop44]

On Friday it will be 6 months exactly since DBB said this.

"I am also pleased to be able to tell you that two incoming partners related to our new stadium project will be confirmed in the coming weeks, further evidencing the scale of work being undertaken and the game-changing nature of having such an iconic new stadium to call home."

Not heard anything about that since.

We'll never know for sure but one of them was almost certainly the Ticketmaster deal that was announced a week or so ago. These sort of IT projects are not easy and very often deadlines pass and pass and pass. As for the 2nd one who knows.

 

[Billy Dean]

Amazingly, even the Red Echo have been embarrassed into discussing it!:

Everton are running out of precious time after the longest '48 hours' in history

A full week has now passed since the deadline struck on Everton's self-imposed timescale over further boardoom announcements

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Meanwhile, over at the athletic, not a dickie bird since June 12th

 

[KaiserEFC]

Meanwhile, over at the athletic, not a dickie bird since June 12th

I wouldn’t be surprised if the two muppets who write about them for the Athletic were part of the cuts there tbh

 

[tr_efc]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the two muppets who write about them for the Athletic were part of the cuts there tbh

The two who now report everything for The Athletic about Everton both previously worked for The Echo I think. Paddy and Greg, isn't it?

 

[brieverton]

Meanwhile, over at the athletic, not a dickie bird since June 12th

The dearth of quality sports/football business journalism, is appalling. Particularly, when in our case and others, there is so much to cover.
It cannot be covered adequately by common garden football reporters, they lack the necessary understanding, and even if that wasn't an issue, the coverage is all client-based and tribal in nature anyway. They effectively write what they're told to and what their "market" expects to read.

It would be a different matter entirely if it was Liverpool F.C. that apparently didn't have a board or were being run into the ground. There would be a full-blown media campaign then, and everyone would be sick of hearing about it.

 

[KaiserEFC]

The two who now report everything for The Athletic about Everton both previously worked for The Echo I think. Paddy and Greg, isn't it?

O’keefe did but I think the other one was at someone weird like ESPN or Eurosport or something like that

 

[tr_efc]

O’keefe did but I think the other one was at someone weird like ESPN or Eurosport or something like that

Ah. Didn't know that. Don't really read much of what Greg says now really but what from I read and listen to of Paddy's work it's great.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

The two who now report everything for The Athletic about Everton both previously worked for The Echo I think. Paddy and Greg, isn't it?

More like Max and Paddy…

 

[MrGrumpy]

I’m not so sure he does understand ‘business’ as most people taking on a huge capital expenditure project utilise other people’s money ie finance it through banks etc rather than sink their own personal fortune into it.

Right from the moment the initial plans were released and planning permission secured for BMD, Moshiri and to some extent the club, have failed utterly and completely to attract external financing, largely due to the appalling state of the accounts that make investing in Everton a risk for banks.

Now, when he’s desperate for funding to keep the stadium build going, he’s had the club up for sale at a ridiculous price and failed, and had to agree to a circa 25% sellout to MSP in order to raise funds just and solely at this stage to finance the stadium… nothing for team rebuilding !!!

The only thing the club has is the stadium and as Paul said it’s way way later then it should, they wasted sooo much time, prime example was you see the plans in February, 18 months later it came out.
The surveys they did over and over complete waste of time

Are you alive…Yes
Do you support Everton….Yes

Thank you for completing our survey you ask you the same question in 6 months time.

We should have been in the stadium last season instead where still a year plus away

 

[The binman chronicles]

I’m not so sure he does understand ‘business’ as most people taking on a huge capital expenditure project utilise other people’s money ie finance it through banks etc rather than sink their own personal fortune into it.

Right from the moment the initial plans were released and planning permission secured for BMD, Moshiri and to some extent the club, have failed utterly and completely to attract external financing, largely due to the appalling state of the accounts that make investing in Everton a risk for banks.

Now, when he’s desperate for funding to keep the stadium build going, he’s had the club up for sale at a ridiculous price and failed, and had to agree to a circa 25% sellout to MSP in order to raise funds just and solely at this stage to finance the stadium… nothing for team rebuilding !!!

Bit harsh, remember we could have had a council loan at the start. They chose to wait it out because the further along the build is the more institutions and groups would then become interested and they in turn would pay less interest by taking the finance later. All the good intentions scuppered by global events. Yes you are right we perhaps should have played it safe but no one was really expecting what was to come and it could have gone the other way where we cost ourselves a lot of cash.

Also even if he had a spare 100 million to rebuild the team we couldn't use it as we'd end up with another big loss in the accounts and open ourselves up to further punishment, we are a sell to buy team until all the negatives have dropped off.

 

[jackyboy]

Meanwhile, over at the athletic, not a dickie bird since June 12th

No surprise there.