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The Everton Board Thread

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barneygumble said:
We’re not a bad prospect for any owner.

The problem is, what we have at the minute is a mess because of the current board. Once they’re removed you’ve got a new stadium, huge fan base and training facilities it becomes a much more attractive prospect.

But we go nowhere without the removal of the current board.
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Will new owners see past the current mess

Will need more persuading than Baxendale jumping out a bday cake
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Footballs a unique business its a different ball game to owning a baseball or F1 team.

No doubt they're clever people but so is Moshiri who's a billionaire accountant yet he's struggled with football ownership.

I just dont see the appeal in these cats - if they had a track record of building these other footie clubs they own shares in up and turning them into success stories I would be a lot more aroused than I currently am.

The fact they're sniffing around Spuds also is a major turn off - hardly a sign of them being committed to making a proper go of it at EFC.
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They're not "sniffing around Spuds"

Never were as was claimed

Honestly just roll my eyes at your posts on here
 
good times bad times said:
They aren't investing to turn EFC into a top club. That is light years away given the damage that's been done by the two most recent owners. They are buying a 25% stake in the club to enable the acquisition of borrowing to help make up the shortfall in the stadium funding.

When the stadium is done they will probably sell their stake at a profit as Moshiri will do. Then hopefully we will have in place the right buyer who will have a plan to actually take the club forward.

Unfortunately its a one step at a time approach. But given the dire situation we are in, that is the way it has to be dealt with.
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I agree thats the likely scenario if they come on board - hardly worth getting excited about though is it ?
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
I agree thats the likely scenario if they come on board - hardly worth getting excited about though is it ?
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It is if it results in a change in the balance of power on the board which would be a breath of fresh air and give us all a bit of hope.

We just can't go on with things as they are at the moment. It would be a big step in the right direction.
 
good times bad times said:
It is if it results in a change in the balance of power on the board which would be a breath of fresh air and give us all a bit of hope.

We just can't go on with things as they are at the moment. It would be a big step in the right direction.
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Agreed but surely its worth waiting for the "right" buyer than just anyone wanting to make a quick buck.

I just want to believe again my friend. Im of the dying breed of old skool fan who wants to see trophies and success not be obsessed with balance sheets and profit margins.

Yes the latter is important too but give me something to get excited about. Give me India's richest bloke or Red Bull or the Kuwait Investment Group than some Americans who are sniffing around another English club treating us like we're the last resort.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
Agreed but surely its worth waiting for the "right" buyer than just anyone wanting to make a quick buck.

I just want to believe again my friend. Im of the dying breed of old skool fan who wants to see trophies and success not be obsessed with balance sheets and profit margins.

Yes the latter is important too but give me something to get excited about. Give me India's richest bloke or Red Bull or the Kuwait Investment Group than some Americans who are sniffing around another English club treating us like we're the last resort.
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You wanted us relegated to reset the club though.
 
Hinchcliffe's Corner said:
You wanted us relegated to reset the club though.
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I dont care if we go down - I didnt care last season and I dont care this one because what league Everton play in is irrelevant to my support for the club.

Sadly a lot of fans have been brainwashed by Carra and Nev that finishing 15th for the next 3x seasons with the season being over by Xmas in order to facilitate paying the likes of Iwobi and Mina 100k a week is "success" because we're a "PL side" whereas if we went down, rebuilt the club and pushed to win the championship and come up with some hard working players is somehow a "disaster" because the matches wont be on Sky or BT sport !

The modern PL fan is alien to me - when the ESL plans came out I was delighted as it meant EFC became that much closer to winning a trophy or title if the scabs left... yet many fans were gutted because the money and top players like Salah and De Bruyne would leave with them.

Most fans just care about banter on social media with rival fans or putting cheeky £1 acca bets on City to draw RS 3-3 as they tot up 100 points each a season than their own club actually doing anything. Even the big 6 fanbases who actually get to see their sides win stuff are more concerned with bragging who's got the biggest revenue streams on twitter and "bantering" rival clubs than actually going the game and buzzing seeing their team lift an FA Cup.

Football/modern fans needs a reset.
 
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ForeverBlue92 said:
I dont care if we go down - I didnt care last season and I dont care this one because what league Everton play in is irrelevant to my support for the club.

Sadly a lot of fans have been brainwashed by Carra and Nev that finishing 15th for the next 3x seasons with the season being over by Xmas in order to facilitate paying the likes of Iwobi and Mina 100k a week is "success" because we're a PL side whereas if we went down, rebuilt the club and pushed to win the championship and come up with some hard working players is somehow a "disaster" because the matches wont be on Sky or BT sport !

The modern PL fan is alien to me - when the ESL plans came out I was delighted as it meant EFC became that much closer to winning a trophy or title if the scabs left... yet many fans were gutted because the money and top players like Salah and De Bruyne would leave with them.

Most fans just care about banter on social media with rival fans or putting cheeky £1 acca bets on City to draw RS 3-3 as they tot up 100 points each a season than their own club actually doing anything. Even the big 6 fanbases who actually get to see their sides win stuff are more concerned with bragging who's got the biggest revenue streams om twitter and "bantering" rival clubs than actually going the game and buzzing seeing their team lift an FA Cup.

Football/modern fans needs a reset.
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If we go down, we will struggle in the Championship. It's possible we go to League 1. You'd be okay with that?
 
barneygumble said:
We’re not a bad prospect for any owner.

The problem is, what we have at the minute is a mess because of the current board. Once they’re removed you’ve got a new stadium, huge fan base and training facilities it becomes a much more attractive prospect.

But we go nowhere without the removal of the current board.
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Needs root and branch changes.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
Footballs a unique business its a different ball game to owning a baseball or F1 team.

No doubt they're clever people but so is Moshiri who's a billionaire accountant yet he's struggled with football ownership.

I just dont see the appeal in these cats - if they had a track record of building these other footie clubs they own shares in up and turning them into success stories I would be a lot more aroused than I currently am.

The fact they're sniffing around Spuds also is a major turn off - hardly a sign of them being committed to making a proper go of it at EFC.
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Moshiri is good at adding up and taking away. He's lucky he got involved with an oligarch.
All he is is Usmanovs bag man.
 
Hinchcliffe's Corner said:
If we go down, we will struggle in the Championship. It's possible we go to League 1. You'd be okay with that?
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Its all hypothetical mate - many of our fans have fallen down the rabbit hole of believing if we drop thats us done and dusted forever but the path to success isn't set in stone otherwise everyone would be using the same formula.

Hypothetically we could stay in the Prem for the next 5 years and be finishing 16th-17th every year avoiding the drop by the skin of our teeth and not progressing.

Whereas we could go down, drain the swamp, sign some of the young hungry players in the Championship and come up playing some good footie, recruit well with the promotion dough and be in Brentfords position.

Obviously it could go the opposite way and we stay down for a few years but a new 53k ground means eventually we'll be back as our revenues would drawf the teams in the division.

My point is dont get hung up on the PL status - Leicester were in the Fizzy pop league for years, came up then won the Title and FA Cup in which we've been in the league for much longer and done sod all. Newcastle & Villa both went down in recent years and have both overtaken us. Sunderland went into League One with worse finances than us and they're just outside the Play off spots in the Champo a season after coming up from League one.

Dont listen to Carragher/Nevilles Propaganda - the PL isnt the be all and end all like they'll have you believe. Burnley fans will likely be much more optimistic about their future this season watching them win every week playing good togger than they were losing every week and all the doom and gloom of the bestest league in the world last season.
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Its all hypothetical mate - many of our fans have fallen down the rabbit hole of believing if we drop thats us done and dusted forever but the path to success isn't set in stone otherwise everyone would be using the same formula.

Hypothetically we could stay in the Prem for the next 5 years and be finishing 16th-17th every year avoiding the drop by the skin of our teeth and not progressing.

Whereas we could go down, drain the swamp, sign some of the young hungry players in the Championship and come up playing some good footie, recruit well with the promotion dough and be in Brentfords position.

Obviously it could go the opposite way and we stay down for a few years but a new 53k ground means eventually we'll be back as our revenues would drawf the teams in the division.

My point is dont get hung up on the PL status - Leicester were in the Fizzy pop league for years, came up then won the Title and FA Cup in which we've been in the league for much longer and done sod all. Newcastle & Villa both went down in recent years and have both overtaken us. Sunderland went into League One with worse finances than us and they're just outside the Play off spots in the Champo a season after coming up from League one.

Dont listen to Carragher/Nevilles Propaganda - the PL isnt the be all and end all like they'll have you believe. Burnley fans will likely be much more optimistic about their future this season watching them win every week playing good togger than they were losing every week and all the doom and gloom of the bestest league in the world last season.
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Not hung up on anything other than wanting the very best every season for my club, it's an alien concept to want your team to not succeed to be a big fish in a small pond, you're entitled to that view of course and I understand that view, I just coudn't go along with it, 16th in the Premier League is still doing better than playoffs in the Championship.
 

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