The Everton Board Thread

[EuroTexan]

Well Ashley was, Moshiri hasn't been to Goodison for over a year, buys in, kills it and bails, only he hasn't, he still owns it

Ashley renamed the stadium and put up advertising all around the ground to promote his below minimum wage paying crapfest. Moshiri/Usamanov paid above market rates for sponsorship around Goodison and Finch Farm, and for naming rights for BMD.
Ashley sold off club owned property around the stadium which will restrict the stadium development for decades to come. Moshiri is ensuring that the replacement to Goodison finally happens
Ashley kept investment in the team so minimal that they got relegated twice during his ownership. Fingers crossed its never happened once to Moshiri so far and never will in the future.

Moshiri is no saint, and who knows his exact reasoning for buying in, and whether he's able or willing to invest further given whats going on with Russia & Ukraine. But compared to Ashley.. I'd take Moshiri any day.

 

[BNJ1878]

Yep.

An independent person has come in and said "In my view in order for your business to be successful you need to rehire / hire new 26 positions and also follow this 120 point plan."

And the board, DBB in particular seems to think this is something kind of pat on the back, job well done sort of thing.

Pathetic, isn't it? You imagine her reading the 120 points and for at least 70 of them her little face would light up as though she'd discovered fire.

I wish he come out and say what’s really happening

Me too, though I imagine a hefty NDA was signed to secure his severance.

But right there you show what a bad owner Moshiri is, he shouldn't be an absent owner, he has only become an absent owner after he sealed its fate.
His final gift, 1.8m budget and Rafael, then it's off leaving a terrible mess behind him.

Nothing wrong with being an absent owner. Joe Lewis hardly ever goes to Tottenham. I don't THINK he's been there since they opened the new stadium, and before then the CL final.

He doesn't need to go because he has a trusted lieutenant in place (levy) who runs a very tight ship for him.

Farhad has Bill, Denise and 'Sharpy'

That's his failing, simple as that.

 

[PhilM]

He doesn't need to go because he has a trusted lieutenant in place (levy) who runs a very tight ship for him.

Farhad has Bill, Denise and 'Sharpy'

That's his failing, simple as that.

Nail on the head. I'd much prefer Moshiri to be an absent owner and allow experienced and capable individuals to run the club under his general oversight.

Our problems are due to him appointing yes men and women, involving himself in too many footballing decision and undermining the leadership structure.

Now he's pulled away from the club, we have an issue that the leadership structure appears to lack the credibility to make the correct decisions.

A rudderless ship will eventually become stranded and/or sink. We need the right people at board level, with clear responsibilities and a coherent strategy.

 

[BNJ1878]

Nail on the head. I'd much prefer Moshiri to be an absent owner and allow experienced and capable individuals to run the club under his general oversight.

Our problems are due to him appointing yes men and women, involving himself in too many footballing decision and undermining the leadership structure.

Now he's pulled away from the club, we have an issue that the leadership structure appears to lack the credibility to make the correct decisions.

A rudderless ship will eventually become stranded and/or sink. We need the right people at board level, with clear responsibilities and a coherent strategy.

Which is exactly why now the change campaign has got a little bit of momentum they need to press the message home.

Foot on the jugular and grind it into the pavement.

Install professionals, let them look after your investment and hopefully, in a couple of years you'll recoup most of your money.

 

[blueblood]

Most competent boards will have a rolling shortlist of managers in case the one in post is either sacked or poached by someone else. I bet Brighton had a list of 3 names before Potter had even been approached by Chelsea and had a new man in within 10 days.
Our illustrious leaders seem to have come out of hibernation to realise that if you sack a manager you need a new one. We had exactly the same situation last year which is why we ended up with a pretty poor choice that seemed to be Rooney- who would have been Bill’s misty eyed, dream appointment, Pereira- who they seemed on the verge of appointing until he showed on national tv that he was absolutely crackers, and Lampard, who was on the list largely because he was unemployed. This has led to a narrative that ‘the fans wanted Lampard’ when in actual fact the majority were highly unconvinced but absolutely did not want the embarrassment of Periera.

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

This has become a disgrace now. Just reading Liverpool fans marched against Hicks and Gillet, for a lot of reasons but they finished 7th at the end of that season. Good for them.

These clowns have hung around for too long because people were worried it could be worse. Those Evertonians who marched against Kenwright were ridiculed. He has not contributed 1 thing in thirty years. Kenwright out.

 

[chazzle_dazzle]

This has become a disgrace now. Just reading Liverpool fans marched against Hicks and Gillet, for a lot of reasons but they finished 7th at the end of that season. Good for them.

These clowns have hung around for too long because people were worried it could be worse. Those Evertonians who marched against Kenwright were ridiculed. He has not contributed 1 thing in thirty years. Kenwright out.

Whether people wanted to support it or not, last season was it for me - the 27 campaign. When the people walked out at that time, the loudest chant of the season was sung and they were abused and vilified.

They clapped bill when he come on the screen.

I’ve always thought Southall was a bit of an extremist, but he was right in 2013 - we have been brainwashed into thinking 6th was good enough.

The fans who walked out should have been applauded for wanting change, not abused, wonder how many of those ones who kicked off at them are now on their side.

The board needs to go, we need to sort on the pitch first though.

 

[Drico]

"As a very famous football club said to me...what would Everton do?"

Nothing, as Accrington Stanley's representative found out.

 

[NathDogg]

After about 20 years of just towing the club line, the Echo have finally run a critical piece on the front page about the mess we’re in;

it also clearly names the top 3 that have driven us straight into this mess. moshiri, dbb, kenwright. about time.

Joe Thomas is the one calling them out. Far cry from the halcyon days of prentice

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Fair play to the Echo on this one.

You know when the echo have got you front page then things need to change. Never thought I’d see the day when the echo had that front page headline.

This is good news.

Not a huge development given it's print media in 2023, but still pretty interesting for the Echo to have that front page, and a bit of a surprise too. Can't argue with what they have done.

Mental that the echo have actually done this. This is normally buried on the 3rd page in the sport section

And significant too. The Echo reaches people and families far beyond what the social media "echo chamber" does.

It's a simple and powerful headline.

Wow.. you know things are bad when even the Echo is running with that front page

Finally the echo calling the out, only taken a decade

Too little, too late from that kopite shitrag - they have been shamed into this. Considering it is supposedly our city’s newspaper, it’s entirely damning that they have not been leading on this issue - finger on the pulse journos there still I see. Probably scared of bloody prentice.

If the groundswell of ex players and other media outlets had not started going in on the EFC board and calling out their ineptitude, this kopite fanzine wouldn’t have done a tap or printed anything.

Behind closed doors they have probably been laughing their heads off at our continued demise and the ongoing shambles.

Get back to writing about lost dogs or plastering compo faced screffs moaning about busses on the front page, you kopite biffs.

 

[Drico]

I don't know much about the local newspaper politics, but in all my time supporting Everton from afar, David Prentice has always remained blandly and fastidiously loyal to the club through each and every crisis. Is it a coincidence that the Echo now run a page like this - mild as it is - only after he has finally gone fully over into the pay of his masters at Everton?

That's another thing, by the way. The man who was the main voice of that newspaper on all things Everton for decades just walks off to become the club's communications director. It was obvious he was under their influence for years. It's only now that they have been honest about it.

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

Whether people wanted to support it or not, last season was it for me - the 27 campaign. When the people walked out at that time, the loudest chant of the season was sung and they were abused and vilified.

They clapped bill when he come on the screen.

I’ve always thought Southall was a bit of an extremist, but he was right in 2013 - we have been brainwashed into thinking 6th was good enough.

The fans who walked out should have been applauded for wanting change, not abused, wonder how many of those ones who kicked off at them are now on their side.

The board needs to go, we need to sort on the pitch first though.

There was a group called Evertonians against the Blue Union. They were working against Evertonians that wanted the club to win trophies. Can't get my head around that.

 

[PhilM]

This has become a disgrace now. Just reading Liverpool fans marched against Hicks and Gillet, for a lot of reasons but they finished 7th at the end of that season. Good for them.

These clowns have hung around for too long because people were worried it could be worse. Those Evertonians who marched against Kenwright were ridiculed. He has not contributed 1 thing in thirty years. Kenwright out.

I'm not disagreeing with the idea of protest nor am I saying the questioning of the board's standards is wrong, but the RS comparison doesn't truly fit.

The lowest league position they've finished in since 1962 is eighth - yes, eighth! Rightly or wrongly, the idea of finishing below that is abhorrent to them.

Sadly, we can't display such a record, so again (rightly or wrongly) there is more of an acceptance (perhaps tolerance) of underperformance.

This isn't new - it's generational - and as such it's harder to get fans fuelled for a confrontation. For large swathes of our fan base, there's an apathy.

Chronic mismanagement for the past six years has been the catalyst, however the rot set in much earlier than that, which is the saddest part of it all.

I sit with young adults at the game who've never seen us win a cup; I sit with men and women with children of their own, who weren't alive when we won the league.

That shouldn't be underestimated because us ol' farts remember those halcyon days, and remember when Everton was about winning. In 1992, we were still big!

 

[Simon Buttle]

I'm not disagreeing with the idea of protest nor am I saying the questioning of the board's standards is wrong, but the RS comparison doesn't truly fit.

The lowest league position they've finished in since 1962 is eighth - yes, eighth! Rightly or wrongly, the idea of finishing below that is abhorrent to them.

Sadly, we can't display such a record, so again (rightly or wrongly) there is more of an acceptance (perhaps tolerance) of underperformance.

This isn't new - it's generational - and as such it's harder to get fans fuelled for a confrontation. For large swathes of our fan base, there's an apathy.

Chronic mismanagement for the past six years has been the catalyst, however the rot set in much earlier than that, which is the saddest part of it all.

I sit with young adults at the game who've never seen us win a cup; I sit with men and women with children of their own, who weren't alive when we won the league.

That shouldn't be underestimated because us ol' farts remember those halcyon days, and remember when Everton was about winning. In 1992, we were still big!

I think it was Big Nev that once said something about half our problem is we became too happy with being the 'best of the rest' types.

 

[ToffeeTim]

SACK THE BOARD

 

[PhilM]

I think it was Big Nev that once said something about half our problem is we became too happy with being the 'best of the rest' types.

You're right. However, in my humble opinion that has come from the very top (the current and previous owners, the board et al.) rather than the fans.

The latter have become use to expecting under-investment, players not of the highest standard and consequently underperformance on the pitch.

I'm not saying fans are entirely blameless (that's another discussion entirely), yet it's not us who invest the money, choose how it's spent and who's appointed.

If you'd had said to me in '88 that it'd be 2023 and we'd never come close to winning the league, let alone winning one, I would have told you to k'off.

That's where we are, though. Don't get me wrong, there is no right to win things because it takes hard work and good decision-making, which we've lacked.