Where's the Gordon money?

[m hart89 efc]

Get down to BMD you’ll be able to see it.

 

[Bebeto]

Gordon money will help pay the severance package for lampard and his team...there were talks of 8 millions it will cost us. That leaves us with 32 millions which I am sure will fill some black hole somewhere

 

[The binman chronicles]

So name a lodged bid that seemed fair to you which has been in the media?

As far as i can see there werent any. Happy to be proven wrong.

Zat the media doesn't know every bid the club make and they would have printed stuff that was totally unaccurate that we were never in for. You seem to also be distinguishing between verbal and official bids in your previous post(?). If I go to utd and say I want Elanga and they say no or they say we've spoken to him but he doesn't want to go to you there isn't even a bid lodged. But the target was identified and sounded out.

What you are saying is that Everton decided to look busy trying to mislead everyone into thinking we were going to do something but secretly knew we were not and that is just tin foil hat stuff. Simple answer will come down to the fact the players rejected us or wanted over market value or what was not in those camps was not better than what we have OR one of Dyche, Thelwell, Kenwright or Moshiri thought I don't want him. There would have been far more in first categories than the latter.

 

[Zatara]

Zat the media doesn't know every bid the club make and they would have printed stuff that was totally unaccurate that we were never in for. You seem to also be distinguishing between verbal and official bids in your previous post(?). If I go to utd and say I want Elanga and they say no or they say we've spoken to him but he doesn't want to go to you there isn't even a bid lodged. But the target was identified and sounded out.

What you are saying is that Everton decided to look busy trying to mislead everyone into thinking we were going to do something but secretly knew we were not and that is just tin foil hat stuff. Simple answer will come down to the fact the players rejected us or wanted over market value or what was not in those camps was not better than what we have OR one of Dyche, Thelwell, Kenwright or Moshiri thought I don't want him. There would have been far more in first categories than the latter.

Were you around when we bid for Alan Shearer? Or Alan Smith?

If you were then you would know Kenwrights modus operandi.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Were you around when we bid for Alan Shearer? Or Alan Smith?

If you were then you would know Kenwrights modus operandi.

Kenwright wasn't in charge when we bid for Shearer, that was Johnson and it was hardly a phantom bid as we were after players like Collymoore the season before for 9 million. If you have a look at the top 10 spending clubs in Europe we were up there at the time.

This has got little to do with Kenwright how much we spend now. His was the period between Johnson and Moshiri so I don't get your point. He lies I know but he isn't in charge of the purse strings so... ?‍

 

[granter79]

Usmanovs bank

 

[HowardsWay]

My best guess is that they're still buying champagne and giggling over how much they got for the arrogant moron.

 

[Jarvick]

What you are saying doesn't make sense. Even when we were poor (i.e. no Gordon money) we still managed to get a few loan deals in. There is no way we went into this with a masterplan to come out with zero players. If that was the case the messages would have been from summer we have no cash due to regulations and we'll have to even sell players to balance the books.

Everything coming from the club was the opposite. I'm telling you now everyone who had the choice of two clubs chose the other and the ones that didn't, either turned their noses up at us too or wanted an Everton tax and for once the club stood its ground and wouldn't pay the ridiculous prices.

People can't beat the club with a stick for buying players like Dele for 100k + a week and then the next year say why aren't we getting in anyone - We don't care at what cost.

One of our problems is we have poor scouting and no vision. Rather than looking at cast offs from other Premier league teams such as Dele on high wages, we need to be identifying young talent in other leagues, even outside of Europe. How many promising young lads from North or South America or Asia were we linked in this window? Few, if any. It's a worldwide game, look at the recent World Cup success of national teams such as Japan, South Korea, Morocco and others. There is a lot of talent worldwide, we apparently are just unable to identify good young players from other parts of the world. We have every right to be upset that the club cannot identify and bring in young talent who can contribute on reasonable wages.

 

[Lob]

Usmanovs bank

Interesting rise of wealth today that innit. 42 million dollars.

 

[MIKE85]

£100m+ loses in three years in a row, £260m additional stadium cost and FM not injecting cash. Take your pick. As I've said before, I think the club will cover some of the stadium cost - I know some won't accept it, but it seems it's the most likely outcome of all this sh*tstorm.

 

[Kevmac]

I haven't been a sack the board fan but now the club is just an embarrassment for the fans every time we get in [Poor language removed] it's sack the manager the onus has to fall on the players also BUT who buys the players and sanctions there contracts and wages The board we have bought far too many mediocre players given them long contracts and far too much money and they are happy to just sit on the bench and get paid every week
I only hope now the new manager has the bottle to give a few of our younger players a go because no body but mercenaries will be interested in joining this club

 

[Moderatelywarmwater]

You sure? Not saying your wrong, but I understand upfront to mean guaranteed, with the rest depending on performance etc. Wouldn't be good for their FFP to have all $40m in this years accounts

FFP maybe…. But I suspect cash is an issue, I wonder if it has gone straight to the stadium ?