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The Friedkin Group reaches agreement to buy Everton

What do we reckon?

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    Votes: 791 72.2%
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    Votes: 265 24.2%
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    Votes: 40 3.6%

  • Total voters
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Honestly dont mind who they have on the board if TFG feel they can bring something to the table and help us inprove. I am all for it, if bell downing can help us in certain areas plus bringing in more just want is to have the best people we can in place. Have wasted so many chances and this finally can be the reset we have needed with the new stadium we really need to take advantage now
 
Don't know anything about skills needed for boards so I asked AI and it gave me some waffle - suggested experience of governance, boards and finance and then loads of soft skill fluff.

Conclusion for me is - probably having a UK board experienced person is good - but another one that is experienced with multi-nationals too so we don't think too small.
 
Ery Counter argument to this could be , ‘Yeah , 30years experience of abject failure’
And I’d find it difficult to disagree with such a sentiment.
Disagree. Direction has come from the very top and those below like Thelwell have worked under those constraints. We have been in a mess and those on the ground have kept us up....just. They must remain in the medium term at least. Change should be gradual to ensure stability.
 
Honestly dont mind who they have on the board if TFG feel they can bring something to the table and help us inprove. I am all for it, if bell downing can help us in certain areas plus bringing in more just want is to have the best people we can in place. Have wasted so many chances and this finally can be the reset we have needed with the new stadium we really need to take advantage now

we have to trust TFG
 

Disagree. Direction has come from the very top and those below like Thelwell have worked under those constraints. We have been in a mess and those on the ground have kept us up....just. They must remain in the medium term at least. Change should be gradual to ensure stability.
Slash and burn !
Raze the whole institutionally rotten edifice to the ground and start afresh , using as reference nothing after 1995 .
 
God help anyone who has to liaise directly with our fanbase.
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Disagree. Direction has come from the very top and those below like Thelwell have worked under those constraints. We have been in a mess and those on the ground have kept us up....just. They must remain in the medium term at least. Change should be gradual to ensure stability.
Ensuring stability would suggest that there has been or is already stability at Everton. Being deeply involved in three consecutive relegation battles and on the end of multiple points deductions is about as far away from stable as I can imagine. The fans are unhappy with the manager in terms of both the team's style of play and results. Signings have continued to be a mess under Thelwell, albeit under severe restraints (big credit for Ndiaye though), so he gets some leeway on that from me. Dyche has underperformed massively imo - it's like watching a Sunday league side most of the team.

You'd imagine Mr Friedkin and his partners already have some idea about what kind of manager they'd like, and hopefully even have a shortlist of names they want to approach. No reason at all why we can't attract a much higher quality of manager than we've currently got, one that would get an awful lot more out of a pretty good squad - which is what we have.

As soon as the takeover happens there will obviously be big changes behind the scenes; a new board of directors will be put in place, with possibly a few of those already here staying in the short term. Chongy, for example.
 

The experience that has lead us to win absolutely nothing in nearly 30 years, brought us massive debt, point deductions, yearly relegation battles and to the brink of administration.

@Bob Elstone is spot on, clean sweep is the only way forward which is exactly what Friedkin group will do over a period of time.

Not really a clean sweep if they do it over a period of time mate 😂
 
Not really a clean sweep if they do it over a period of time mate 😂
Well you couldn't really do it in one foul swoop could you. We would literally go bust. :lol:

By over time i mean an immediate wipe out of the key positions that they have replacements for and then replace the rest in a planned organised manner. Only way to do it really.
 
There will be changes but at first I don't expect sweeping changes. I think it more likely they will be gradual.

Relationships have been built up with other clubs, with players , agents, suppliers, sponsors, banks ect. and you don't want to sweep all of these away at once.

I am sure TFG has been speaking to those currently running the club and will bring some people they trust and have worked with previously to work alongside the current board.

I doubt if there will be any football changes initially.
 

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