The Everton Board Thread

[mahermi1]

I missed all the excitement here yesterday but I'm curious, this is taken from the club statement in June 12th:

"The outgoing Directors have worked tirelessly over recent months to assist with the preparation for a transition to a new Board."

So Denise has been working with Colin (as she does normally) and Ingles has been working with his deputy. (Sharpy was probably eating crayons in the broom cupboard)

Wow, we're lucky we have such dedicated and professional staff!!!!

If they've been working 'for months' on the transition why are yesterday's appointments interim? It's horseshit, that's why. They got the hump and resigned en-masse once it became clear they're getting replaced.

This is exactly it, they've been telling each other for years how great they are, any major board decisions at any other club is followed by, " What would Everton's board do next". Then reality set in we are being sacked, dummies came flying out and they all resigned at once leaving Everton as they've always been unprepared. This is why Dracula is back sucking the clubs life blood out of us. I can but take one consolation, that the other 3 idiots are thinking right now " Thought Bill was resigning too" ?

 

[paultheblue]

Forgive me for not keeping up with yesterday's bombshells.

If MSP has deposited the much talked about £130 mil then why do we have to have an interim (yeah right) board & have to wait for another 6 to 7 weeks for a permanent board ?
And what is the significance of the 6 to 7 week timeline ?

The 6/7 week timeline takes us pretty much to the day before the season starts.
I would like to think that that would mean a new chairman for the start of the season.
In the mean time we need to let Dyche and Thelwell get on with the incoming and outgoing transfers without interference from Moshiri and Kenwright, they need to back the manager and dof and just sign off any transfers.
The object of the exercise is put a team together that can keep us away from the bottom of the division and if that means selling top players for the greater good so be it.
Where does that leave us regards protests I would suggest a major protest at the Porto friendly to remind them we will not accept Kenwright on the board for the start of the season and ideally remind Moshiri that he is ultimately responsible for the current mess and he should consider his future as the long term owner of the club.

 

[Big Sams Undies]

This still makes me laugh several weeks on… Chairman Bill Kenwright said: “This has been a great Board“

By any possible metric, they’ve been an effing disgrace.

On-pitch strategy - Shocking
Commercial strategy - Shocking
Transfers - Shocking
Financials - Shocking
Comms & engagement - Beyond shocking

I absolutely despise Bill Kenwright for what he’s done, and continues to do, to this club.

Best decision I made regarding Everton was to never give them another penny after the appointment of Benitez and I’ll be keeping it up until Kenwright is removed completely from Everton (including these pathetic ‘life president’ type titles that people are banding about).

 

[ultra]

I'm not sure what the 6 or 7 week reference is, I haven't seen it reported anywhere?

Myers

 

[BNJ1878]

Myers

Thanks.

Just had a look at his article for sky and his replies to loads of tweets asking questions.

Full transition to take 'up to 6 or 7 weeks' but followed up with 'could be sooner.'

One thing he is clear on is that club business carries on 'as usual' in the Interim. Nothing has changed on that front. Thelwell and Dyche are still operating in the free/loan/bargain basement end if the market.

MSP rocking up on Monday morning wouldn't change that. Even if we had surplus cash (we definitely don't) I doubt we'd splurge it anyway. Despite us being one of the lowest spenders for the last 3 year rolling period all eyes are on Everton.

Nobody loathes Kenwright more than I do, and my fine bottle of wine will stay on the shelf until he's definitely gone. He may be still there today, but I expect his involvement will be minimal, particularly once MSP is boxed off and they ride into town.

Chelsea did similar with Marina Granovskaia to transition the new owners in. The new owners (foolishly) cut her loose early and they went on an Everton style trolley dash. Unlike Denise, she was very well respected throughout the league and a genuine heavyweight operator. The polar opposite of bungling Bill.

It will play out as expected. He's on his last legs.

 

[davek]

Thanks.

Just had a look at his article for sky and his replies to loads of tweets asking questions.

Full transition to take 'up to 6 or 7 weeks' but followed up with 'could be sooner.'

One thing he is clear on is that club business carries on 'as usual' in the Interim. Nothing has changed on that front. Thelwell and Dyche are still operating in the free/loan/bargain basement end if the market.

MSP rocking up on Monday morning wouldn't change that. Even if we had surplus cash (we definitely don't) I doubt we'd splurge it anyway. Despite us being one of the lowest spenders for the last 3 year rolling period all eyes are on Everton.

Nobody loathes Kenwright more than I do, and my fine bottle of wine will stay on the shelf until he's definitely gone. He may be still there today, but I expect his involvement will be minimal, particularly once MSP is boxed off and they ride into town.

Chelsea did similar with Marina Granovskaia to transition the new owners in. The new owners (foolishly) cut her loose early and they went on an Everton style trolley dash. Unlike Denise, she was very well respected throughout the league and a genuine heavyweight operator. The polar opposite of bungling Bill.

It will play out as expected. He's on his last legs.

Too reasonable that mate. You obviously didn't get the memo that we all have to set our hair on fire because "nothing has changd".

 

[Ferguson1878]

The boys on the blue room had a very good point. I mean we joke about the arteta money and it is funny, but what happened to the richarlison and Gordon money...that is close to 100M? I get that we had a number of signings that went bad and the wages were a millstone around our necks, but If 2 of jpg, claasen, and gomes were good, we would be in a different spot. However, they didn't. So, is that the entirety of the problem?

exactly , people saying we need to sell onana pickford etc to buy players what about the 70 odd million from gordon and kean

 

[Ferguson1878]

It's not the entirety of the problem, our biggest problem is our wages to turnover ratio. Far higher than some of the clubs around us and is the main thing that hampers our FFP standing, hence why we have to sell 100 mil just to keep the wolves at bay. Things would have been different with more top half league finishes and qualifying for Europe, extra revenue but alas we are crap.

that another thing too how many of our big earners how gone past few years sigg bernard schniderlin walcott mina delph rodreigez all supposedly on huge money but still the wage bill is too high something doesent add up like the tory’s with there never ending austerity

 

[davek]

The next two months will be absolutely critical, existentially, for this club and we've still got a self-aggrandising self-pitying, compulsive liar as the front man of the organisation. Even if it is resolved in 2 months time, which I'm far less convinced of than you, that may be too late. The Moshiri-Kenwright-Thelwell nexus sold £45m worth of players in January and brought in nobody, despite, to use your words, our pop-gun attack having us on the precipice of relegation and financial oblivion. These men will be in charge of our recruitment for the next two months, at the end of which we will have played two games already and have a handful of days of the transfer window left. That's why there is gloom.

Dont get ahead of yourself.

All of the boardroom comings and goings and the changes there to come will drive you mad. We know what we have to do and we have a manager in place who'll have a shopping list to get the players in he believes will get us safe next season. If that means selling a player to get cash to get them in plus loan deals then that's what it'll mean. Getting a settled chain of command even in the next tqo months facilitates that.

 

[davek]

They're all terrible Dave. We are a shambles.

I dont see it that bleakly.

People are focussing too much on the negatives.

We're in a state of flux. That's not an altogether bad thing given where we were all last season regarding the hierarchy.

The last thing we need now is for a group like alltogethernow to start kicking off when the pathway to transformation has been mapped out. That would not be reading the room.

We know the old guard are in the process of being purged; all that matters now is stability and for incoming players to arrive.

 

[Lob]

Something else that is not being picked up much by any of the media merchants, Joyce included is the fact that the chairman of the board should not be doing transfers. That is the DOF's job and if he doesn't have the contacts and acumen to do it then what the feck are we even employing him for. The chairmen of the board has shown time and time again that he absolutely sucks at it which is why we are were we are. What a great way to start a transitional period, club could not be any more messed up than it currently is and it looks destined to get even worse now that the worst of them all is on the board. No conflict of interest there eh.

This kin club.

 

[davek]

I am that sick of them that I’m paying zero attention to transfers, manager, next season or whatever else

At this point I just want that news that the old duffer is officially gone and I can move on with all the rest of the mess around the club

I’m not overly interested in what he is or isn’t doing around the club lately, I just want that symbolic moment of the end of his crappy era (whilst fully acknowledging there is no guaranteeing the next one won’t be worse)

I dont understand the fixation on Kenwright.

I've always mistrusted him and wanted him gone. However, I dont get the level of anger still about for someone who clearly is leaving the club in the near future. We can put up with that for a few more weeks.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I dont see it that bleakly.

People are focussing too much on the negatives.

We're in a state of flux. That's not an altogether bad thing given where we were all last season regarding the hierarchy.

The last thing we need now is for a group like alltogethernow to start kicking off when the pathway to transformation has been mapped out. That would not be reading the room.

We know the old guard are in the process of being purged; all that matters now is stability and for incoming players to arrive.

The pathway hasn't been mapped out at all. This is not stability.

The future of Everton is totally unclear and the communication has been as poor as ever.

Not reading the room is Moshiri retaining Kenwright as chair.

Why should we possibly believe the manager and DOF are going to be supported this summer and allowed to do their jobs properly. I certainly don't.

 

[BNJ1878]

Too reasonable that mate. You obviously didn't get the memo that we all have to set our hair on fire because "nothing has changd".

I guessed I was probably doing something wrong.

People are focussing too much on the negatives.

Everton, that.

Change is finally coming. It's inevitable.

Calm heads needed.

 

[davek]

The pathway hasn't been mapped out at all. This is not stability.

The future of Everton is totally unclear and the communication has been as poor as ever.

Not reading the room is Moshiri retaining Kenwright as chair.

Why should we possibly believe the manager and DOF are going to be supported this summer and allowed to do their jobs properly. I certainly don't.

Yes it is. It's a provisional board until the stake PSP have agreed to purchase is in place.

How you think there's no pathway mapped out I have no idea. It's literally been explained to everyone this is a pathway.