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• Brian @ 73, “But today our FAB group and a couple of other groups who met Kinnear yesterday and they are saying that Kinnear intimated that the Friedkins changed their mind over transfer funding in the week prior to the window closing.”rnrnThere you have it. rnrnKinnear said on 18th August: “This window again, I think we will spend more than most of our competitors, the owners are very keen to back us,” Either he lied to various media outlets in his interviews on 18 August, or TFG\'s position changed in the 2 weeks before the window closed. rnrnThe club took a “sell to buy” approach in those final 14 days and would not commit to completing transfers in until sales had gone through. There is no other explanation why the club were willing to accept an initial fee of £60M for Ndiaye, and were willing to accept a £40M bid for Armstrong when we are meant to be building the squad strength. We finished the summer 18th in the net spend table with a profit of...
  Steve Brown in Everton FC: An assessment of a prospective sale by The Friedkin Group
• I think anyone trying to punch the Friedkin’s, in the face would end up being locked up in a sanatorium, Mike! What are you doing? I’m trying to punch that f***ing Dan Friedkin in the face. Stop it mate, there’s nobody there, there f***in is, I’m gonna get the bastard in a minute! Hence why I call them The Silent & Soulless Friedkin’s, Mike. Football is an emotional sport and without the emotional attachment then you’re just going to slowly erode everything that a football club should stand for. My message to our current owners is either sell the club, or in the words of Joan Armatrading “show some emotion” ...
  Tony Abrahams in Everton FC: An assessment of a prospective sale by The Friedkin Group
• Tony 87, you\'ve struck on the elemental difference that neither TFG nor the fan base will ever understand about each other.rnrnOne cup final in 32 years is a meaningless statistic for this ownership.rnrnAs far as they are concerned, Everton\'s history goes back about two years, to the day they wrote the check for the club and started cleaning up the mess.rnrnThey bought a club that was in a financial death spiral off the pitch and in a relegation death spiral on it. Since they took over, both situations have dramatically improved. And that\'s all they see. And all they care about.rnrnNot history. Not past failures. Just now, today.rnrnI\'m sure the Friedkins have no understanding of why Everton fans think so much about the past. And Everton fans cannot understand why they don\'t...
  Mike Gaynes in Everton FC: An assessment of a prospective sale by The Friedkin Group
• So the players also see the news too who knows if most of them do read ToffeeWeb, what KDH said is true we need to stop being negative and get behind the team like he said the quality of the squad have improved drastically.rnAnd this started happening since the Fredkins came in.rnAt least eveton can play football now pass the ball now and create and score goals from open play....
  Davide Wisdom in Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall calls for a more measured response after the transfer 'Meltdowns'
• Anthony 5. Was that when we lost to West Ham? ...
  Grant Rorrison in Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall calls for a more measured response after the transfer 'Meltdowns'
• DT 84, you may well be right that the rapidly changing circumstances have made the environment look very different from TFG\'s perspective.rnrnBut there are two other factors to consider. One is that after stabilizing the clubs catastrophic financial situation, TFG\'s top priority was increasing revenue flow so that we could raise our SCR ceiling for bidding on players.rnrnAccording to Kinnear, that number for the next fiscal year will be up a stunning 35%. It would seem that part of the plan, at least, is working great.rnrnThe other is that according to calculations from Forbes and Quinn\'s analysis, Everton enterprise value has roughly doubled in the 21 months since TFG took over. That makes the club a highly successful investment already, one that TFG would likely be loathe to cash in on so quickly with more value growth so obviously available. rnrnMike Tyson famously said that everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face. TFG has been hit in the face t...
  Mike Gaynes in Everton FC: An assessment of a prospective sale by The Friedkin Group