Fans left aghast as Everton end Deadline Day empty-handed

Unbelievable, surely Thelwell is not that daft, media shite stirred up by desperate agents.

Worryingly also, apart from leaving everything to the last minute again, those we are allegedly after, are preferring, or going, to Southampton, who are below us in the table. :-)

His goals-per-game ratio isn't that great either. His club will expect 㿀M plus. Too much in my opinion, given that back injury. Plays left-wing or right-wing.

22-23:- 20 appearances. Completed 90 minutes once. Goals 1, assists 2. Missed 4 games through injury.

21-22:- 28 appearances. Completed 90 minutes once. Goals 5, assists 3. Missed 13 games with back injury.

Paul Onuachu, centre-forward:

22-23:- 22 games 17 goals. Missed 2 games due to injury.

21-22:- played 43 games, 23 goals and 2 assists. Missed 2 games due to injury.

One thing you have to give Moyes credit for in his time with us over transfer targets, he would research the likelihood of injuries, how players performed on and off the pitch etc.

Granted, money was a lot tighter then, and okay the odd one would slip through but the teatment room wasn't like Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday morning.

Let's hope it is a 'Ginger Trait' to be carried on.

If the reports are accurate regarding the training intensity employed by Sean Dyche then we will need another striker surely?

A creative midfielder would be nice, but I won't hold my breath.

Dogs of War will do for me.

Linked with strikers but fail to land any.

How on earth can we have left this glaring gap until the final day again???

He looks slightly like a striker we used to have but it's definitely not him as this guy has a slightly bigger nose, a moustache and glasses.

I hope your'e wrong, but that thought had also crossed my mind.

Fingers crossed eh?

Christ Almighty, Everton!

Unless he can get two players in who can score or create goals, we are effectively blindfolded, tied to a post and await the final deadly report.

No amount of ‘sweat on the shirt' can disguise the fact.

They want to check if they still have Sean Davis's medical records from 2003 before proceeding.

Maybe you should be apply for Thelwell's job!!! Can't do any worse. As a director of football, he should have had all this done before the start of January. It's not brain surgery!!!

We got told that there was money to spend, how much nobody knows, but due diligence and targets should have been done prior to this window. We have had 4 games this month, and we should have had 6-9 points, but due to the inept management, we have ended up with zero.

This is a cut throat business, and missing a beat on every occasion for the past how many years has made us look desperate, and we have always ended up with bargain basement expensive flops.

When will this ever stop??? Everyone sees Bill mince along, and they rub their hands together and think it's Brucie Bonus Time. In all we do as a club we are a laughing stock.

Good luck to all Evertonians for the next 5 months, that is the only thing we have left, and as shown by VAR we only have bad luck, or is it a conspiracy against us by the Premier League and the officials.

If we don't sign a mobile strong striker and a winger that can supply for the striker we are doomed.

Can't mincer Bill go and see his bezzie mate from Spurs and ask if we can borrow Richarlison back?

Sure he would love the riches he can get for playing for Everton!!!!

It amazes me that some people still think there shouldn't be protests against these idiots.

They have ruined our club and unless they are removed they will do further damage.

This club has not only lost its direction but it's become totally shameless. Sack the fucking lot of them Moshiri then sack yourself.

Couldn't agree more, all the teams around us have added one or two players to help the team, we have had all month to sort out signings. what does DoF, Kenwright do leading up to January, as you said they should have the targets, agents ready.

What a club, eh!

Now, with such a backdrop, the club have to entice players to our club, which is in the mire at the bottom, with a coach who will make payers sweat.

This week, I have seen little headlines with comments from various ex-redshite players. Souness and Carragher being two of them. These guys just love it when we are struggling.

I suppose it is a pleasant escape from their own club's underachievement. However, these lazy bits of journalism do nothing to help us get in our transfer targets. It's like a conspiracy to make us fail.

Forgetting the wasted millions, if the club had simply looked at the team and results before the World Cup and sacked Lampard (as most other clubs would have done after such a poor record), then the new guy could have been appointed and given 5 or 6 weeks with most of the squad.

I think they decided not to sack him then because they had arranged the Australia jolly and some of them probably wanted to go to some World Cup games.

The scenario of a new manager having one day to bring in our saviours is ridiculous, but the club have done this before. Apart from the Coventry lad, who might be desperate for a Premier League move, who would come here? I think a loan is all we will get.

By the way, Lewis Dobbin showed more than Rondon, Maupay and Calvert-Lewin have done in months, in half an hour last night for Derby County.

Hope he is the catalyst to getting the rest of the money grabbing players on board. Get rid of limp wrist Keane to Southampton, it would help them get relegated.

A few Dyche rockets need to be put up a few arses this week!!! Fingers crossed!!!

We struggle to create and score so Ayew should fit right in. Honestly, it's embarrassing to be linked with such bang-average players. We have got to find some creativity and goals from somewhere.

Come on, Blues, surprise us and get someone through the door, for fuck's sake!

Can't help thinking this time though, that the board have resigned themselves to a relegation scenario. The EFC board are an absolute shambles!

Brighton paid ٦M for each of Adingra and Sima, both raw but talented West African forwards. Sulemana is a very similar profile.

I can only assume, like Onana and McNeil, the deal is structured so we don't pay up front.

It might be more boring but better to go for someone like Willock from QPR who is out of contract in summer.

The Gallagher rumour stinks of a Kenwright publicity leak. It does seem that the market is quite fluid right now so we will see but the lad from Chelsea won't be coming.

Pretty much sums up the circus that we have become. Even Spit the Dog and a few other RS dinosaur's commenting in the papers over the plight of our club.

Panic mode really has set in now with nobody of any stature willing to take a chance on joining so we can expect the usual last-minute loan signing(s) to join the deadwood we already have.

Why announce a new manager 48 hours before the transfer deadline? Smoke and mirrors as per usual with an empty piss pot. I would hazard a guess that the late announcement was planned so we await the real reasons. I am sure the dumb cunt in charge already has his stories well rehearsed.

Dyche was desperately looking for work and I was one who recently called for his appointment just a few weeks back but no doubt was obviously stalling on signing his non-disclosure agreement before finally accepting the job.

Let's hope that the fan reliance is rewarded. I recently attended a game which is probably my last ever visit to Goodison and was amazed at the incredible fanaticism and support shown by the faithful. Pity the morons running the show have very little appreciation for their efforts.

Hope that "Billy Liar" stays away for the rest of the games due to his safety concerns along with the other three stooges who kiss his ass every day.

I live in hope and at 68 years pray that we are not relegated.

COYB

Dyche made a point of saying that the most important players are the ones we already have. He's right of course. Even if we bring in one great new player, there's always a chance he'll pick up an injury, so it's up to the lot that are already here to get us out of this mess.

This window, at this stage, doesn't have the importance a lot of people are attaching to it, in my opinion.

We are the dead man walking of the Premier League. No-one will want to come here except on loan or if there are no other clubs in for them, like Ayew. e need to look at bench warmers like Loftus-Cheek, Ryan Fraser or Iheanacho. Otherwise, I think we'll get no-one in, even loans.

Dyche would be tearing his hair out if he had any. Maybe he's now thinking oh crap, they are as bad as everyone said.

㿂 m fee reportedly agreed for Sulemana. It's a huge fee for someone who is firmly the potential bracket.

Also it's a massive ask for him to come into the furnace of a Premier League relegation battle and produce goals and assists from the off. Our scouts and DoF must be very positive about his ability to deliver straight away.

I hope they are right, they need to be. Thelwell nearly pulled off the coup of the summer with Kudus but he's older and more experienced, so has he seen something similar in this boy ?

My tentative bet is we sign Sulemana, and pay another big fee and sign Gyokeres. A loan deal will surface later too for a midfielder.

Probably wrong on all accounts but please, please not Ayew , surely that a red herring so whoever we get we say ,' at least it's not Ayew!'

What would Everton do

Why is Moyes being mentioned on this thread? He left 10 years ago and is currently in a relegation battle with a much better squad than Everton!

Gallagher I would have liked, but not for £40m odd.

I wonder why we always seem to be scrabbling about at last minute. Is it poor preparation? Or more likely a belief from someone in the club (Kenwright?) that this is the best time to strike good deals (with clubs who are desperate to shift deadwood or need the money). It's a tried philosophy that has not worked out well so I am somewhat despairing that we are here again.

The leadership of this club appears to display wilful inertia coupled with a tragic inability not to change old ways. Rather than considered long-term planning and a willingness to adapt to the changing landscape, we are exposed to an endless flow of makeshift decisions, made on the run. In the past Everton was a go-to club. Not anymore.

For to long this club has relied on DCL for goals and with his injuries of late and his poor form we are now paying the penalty. DCL was never that good and I am not blaming him he cost virtually nothing and he has scored some important goals for us, but for me he was the luckiest lad ever to get an England cap. So we are now just hours away from the window closing and the prospect of getting in a decent striker look remote. I don't care how good a manager Dyche maybe without other attacking options this club cant survive.

What is our DOF doing, oh he is giving Dyche the guided tour of Finch Farm. He allowed Danjuma to sign for Spurs despite passing a medical here. He has been here long enough to have brought in some attacking options and he hasn't. When we get rid of the owner and the incompetent board maybe Thelwell should also be part of the clear out. Moshiri decided very early into his ownership that we should have a DOF well that's worked out well.

The older players out there are what, mid thirties? So even they won't remember 1995 and certainly not the 80's. Years of neglect and our obsession with our 'istory are finally coming home to roost. We're absolutely 100% the museum that Moshiri waffled on about.

Conor Gallagher? Hakim Ziyech? Give me a break!

It could also explain why Dyche's official announcement was delayed until yesterday. They might be incompetent but they ain't stupid and they'll do almost anything to prevent criticism landing on their doorstep, including it would seem, gambling with our Premier League status.

We'll see, but I'll be amazed if there are any significant arrivals today.

In fact I might even suggest that again delaying an appointment until the last day of the window might not be a coincidence.

This is what's wrong with Everton, we keep hearing about needing a backup to Calvert-Lewin, what about a replacement?

Since squandering Moshiri's riches, other than the potential to be playing in a spanking new stadium, we really are not a draw at all. I remain pretty pessimistic about today, and our prospects tbh, although I do see Dyche as maybe the best person available to achieve the near impossible and keep us up.

It is really pitiful being a Blue these days but I am fighting my corner!

I've just spoken to a lifelong season ticket holder Brighton fan, who says that Gyökeres is very good, who got away because he didn't want to wait for his chance at Brighton! He thinks they also have a buy-on clause in him.

My question is this, if he's that good, why did he end up at Coventry? No disrespect to Coventry. However, I don't know anything about the lad, but he has to be better than Maupay! So, if it happens, let's see.

They make me think? Did our board actually try and poison the fans through the media, when they told their despicable lies, because there's no money to spend? (Crazy, I know…)

Is Moshiri prepared to gamble on staying up, whilst trying to straighten up the books for whoever takes over? (Crazy I know…)

Anyone considering buying Everton would realize it's impossible because the club is in a real financial and sustainability pickle, so the quicker these inept self-preserving amateurs get out of our club, the better.

How can Everton go into the second half of the season without signing a couple of forward players when you think about the recent injury record of Calvert-Lewin, whilst also remembering that the two forward thinking players who carried the fight towards the end of last season are no longer with us? Sold for 𧴜 million…

Imagine the wives of potential players responding to the chance to move to the area, sitting in the posh seats at the match, driving home from the game.

"Oh no darling, I don't want to go anywhere near those people!"

It has halved our potential signings. Only single men will consider us, and even those will have their mums to contend with.

OMG, what a bunch of wankers we have in charge of this club!!!!

What player would really want this for their future? They would feel ridiculed by team mates, and then the hassle of finding another new club in the summer.

Come on, be fair. The only way we get any business is short term loans or massively overpaying transfer fees and wages.

Therefore the events of that day would hardly have showed the club or its fans in a good light and might have been enough to put off the potential investors, or at the very least fear putting one of their people on the board.

A bit far-fetched perhaps, but we've seen Bill do similar crazy stuff in the past in order to keep his hand on the tiller.

Like you two, I'll wait until the midnight hour tonight and see what transpires in the transfer window.

I can always moan tomorrow, if I have to!!

We all know what a bunch of cnuts the board are. We all know the club's in total dissarray.

But what IS it with all and sundry feeling the need to come on and post the same or very similar moan ad nauseam.

We're pissed off, all of us, but Jeez there has to be a limit to the posts which are basically pointless rants.

For what it's worth I think we're going down. I think the change has been left too late to save us. I sort of resigned myself to the fact a weeks or so ago so maybe I'm ahead of others in the stages of grief!

I've reached "acceptance" because the months of sleepless nights from last season took a real toll and I can't go through that again!

So, call me a quitter, a bottler, whatever. I don't really give a fuck!

And I have to say. I feel better at stage five than I did at the previous four!! ;-)

He didn't even sound like he was there first choice Marc.

Any decent potential transfers lined up quickly change their mind. We sign no-one, we sell our best asset (not player in my opinion).

It's the last day of the window for goodness sake. We are scrambling around for any body now. When you could see all year what the team needs.

I hope that the new manager has a promise that he keeps his job if we are relegated. And has a plan to get us back up.

What will happen though he will be sacked in August. The board will faff about looking for a new manager for weeks then appoint some no mark just as the transfer window is about to close. And just after we sell Pickford and anyone else worth a few bob.

Ché Zach Everton Fred Adams.

If the club can get sold and take the hit, I'd sooner be in Burnley's position this time next year, rather than in our own predictable position once again, but because you know what I'm going to say next, I won't say it!

We may have dodged a bullet there mate, I have been reading the pros and cons of this fella, and he is no stranger to a sick note, has rarely completed a full 90 minutes, so possibly a favour in disguise.

Besides, they are below us in the Table, and players are still choosing them over us. :-)

I'm still clinging to a bit of residual optimism, and am very happy to have Dyche, but it's hard not to feel dejected right now.

I think somebody on high forgot to set the alarm, and whilst every other team are/were conducting business we are in sleep mode!

Wake up, you have until 11pm tonight to at least get us a recognised striker!!!

Yes I have read the same, I was more interested to see the Coventry striker to come in as I think he is a good player.
But that now seems it is not going to happen.

I think we all know what is going to happen it will be Andre Ayew

He's the type of player who scores 4 goals in 5 games, then scores 1 more all season. Perfect fit for Everton then.

Yes I did see that Coventry were insisting he was not going anywhere in January.
What is worrying though is it looks like the boardroom turmoil, fan unrest towards them and the fact they stayed away from the game the other week, players just do not want to come to Everton at the moment.

James M @ 92, Four goals against Arsenal and then again against the RS, could get him onto the Wall of Fame ! :-)

Better to focus on Townsend and Garner being fit again. Simms can also be like a new player for us, particularly with the way Dyche likes to play.

So, as long as we don't do anything stupid, like sign Ayew, I think I can just about tolerate no signings today and hope Dyche gets the best out of what he's got. No more pass, pass, pass to nowhere. Aggressive direct football please, with no half hearted passengers.

I wouldn't rule out Gyorekes or even Ndiaye just yet.

I'm not so sure that the DoF is totally to blame for the mess we are in regarding the playing staff brought in during the Summer. And the playing staff NOT brought in, up to today.

I'm not so sure we are going to bring anyone in. Unless we can find players who we can sign on the never never, I don't think we'll sign anyone at all.

Thelwell brought some top players in for Wolves, so it seems to me he knows a decent player. My guess Danjuma is at Spurs, because of where we are and where they are, what we offered and what they did; and he got the offer (or his agent did) and scooted.

It seems to me that the last batch of players were brought in, because they were all we could afford. It looks to me that; even our board understand that we are in real danger of relegation. The only reason (beside sheer arrogance of the Chairman and incompetence of the Board) getting us here in the first place; is our financial state. It must be that we're up Shit Creek with our financial state. I can't believe that Everton Football Club have such lousy scouts, lousy coaches Lousy managers, and lousy DoF's, that we end up on the last day of the last transfer window in such a state.

A window which could have such a cataclysmic effect on our stay in the Premier League if we do not get (at least!) a good goaslscorer in. A good midfielder and a good creator/scorer wide man would be even better.

Listening to the interview with Moshiri, I'm sure I heard him say that if we need a goalscorer, we would get one! I didn't think we would be reading or hearing about a last day car boot sale choice (no disrespect to the players or to the DoF).

We'll find out after midnight, but it looks to me that Sean Dyche will have to make do with the playing staff we've got, plus whoever we get today.

I can only think that even Everton Football Club, would be so short sighted and amateurish, that our club could be left to face the last few months in the Premier League, fighting to stay in with so little firepower.

Oh, I don't know though...

Well done Bill and co! again. 😡😡😡

Do the cretins who run EFC not learn, we won't be so lucky this year.

Ayew!!!! For fuck's sake, I despair, why not just go and get Niasse eh?

Not surprised, every other board have done their business near the bottom, not leaving it till the midnight hour. The Board are a complete embarrassment.

One thing is clear though: other teams are blinking before us and signing players. That is not Thelwell that is finances.

We are unfortunately looking like the weakest team financially in the top flight – although who knows how big a gamble Forest, Saints and Bournemouth etc are now taking?

We aren't signing anyone of significance today cos no-one will come to this shambles run by clowns.

It's concerning that we are doing such little business…

Bear in mind players from other cultures have experienced much worse.

Have you seen some of what goes on in Turkey? Or South America? Africa?

Gordon getting chased by a couple of half-witted teenage ASBOs outside the ground is nothing compared to what some must have seen.

The fact that nobody wants to come is because they see we may well not be a Premier League club in 6 months time and they would be off anyway.

As for Gordon, I think his head was already gone in summer, long long before the recent incident at the Southampton game.

I'm sure he'll use them if he thinks they could do a job. Maybe get Tom Cannon back as well, and see what Sean makes of him. We'll have a better idea tomorrow but he could be an asset for us as well.

Bloody hell, desperate times; but the squad have our backing. The Board, they're useless and not worth bothering with until we are out of this mess.

The board have accepted relegation, and have got Dyche as a potential manager to get enough out of the current squad. But if we are relegated, hey ho, no bother.

It makes me wonder if Thelwell is any different from Lampard. He might very well have put his list of targets in front of Moshiri & Kenwright only to be told that it's loans only or crazy drip-drip deals that nobody wants.

Dyche already emphasising that there is plenty of talent in the squad was not a good sign.

Imagine saying to Pochettino or Tuchel, "Here is the job, the keys to Finch Farm and oh, by the way, we can't afford any incomings even if we sell one of our few goal outlets for 㿙 Million."

Anyone with other options would tell them to stick it, but Sean needs a job. It's a terrible state of affairs.

I believe that Everton will be better off going for loans like Hazard and Gallagher and The boy from Man Utd by offering an attractive bid as compensation instead of competing for less qualified players, we may not get who we want in a transfer deal but it may be more of an advantage going for loans.

I am not sure how loan deals are financed but we need help, and surely an experienced loan player would be better than an inexperienced player from another league. You can plan for the future when you are safe.

Might it still happen?

I believe Lampard worked with Thelwell and they presented a plan last summer to the board about what was needed and they evidently failed to give Frank the tools he needed.

Lampard knew he needed strikers last summer, who's to say they wouldn't sanction the deals for some of those we wanted like Brereton Diaz,or the lad Guirassy was mentioned too and has done ok this season in Germany.

Lampard seemed peeved that Ings went to West Ham with a thinly veiled "he's a fantastic striker" when interviewed about Ings move.

It seems crazy that Dyche has taken the job on with no hope of being allowed to add to this squad which is weaker again.

This is all a meticulously planned strategy by Thelwell and our quality, professional board. They are going to act decisively and late in the window to get the two or three players in that will give us the essential goals we need to stay up. Other clubs will be in deferential awe of our boardroom yet again.

They are waiting like a hungry mantis to swoop when they can't be countered. I take my hat off in advance of the perfect execution.

Totally agree, the lads chasing one of our players in the media, on top of where we are, sacking our manager, our own board coming out with their allegations and being advised it isn't safe to attend.

Makes for players erring on the side of "Nah, anywhere else want me!"

Now do we understand what Bill meant when he said Everton always get right?

So Sulemana off to Southampton….regarding other players linked with Everton, we are told nothing happening with Victor Gyökeres, Thorgan Hazard, Paul Onuachu, Sheraldo Becker and Andre Ayew.

So we need players to get us out of this relegation scrap but end up with less players with Gordon gone.

Absolutely embarrasing from the board, they obviously want Everton to go down!

Riquelme spotted at Liverpool Airport!

And I agree with Geoff # 126, why waste that money on more rubbish of the same calibre we already have.

The directors will probably keep a low profile hoping the heat will cool a little, but if we avoid the drop you can be very certain Uncle Bill will be front and center looking for recognition for wonderful job he has done.

Spot on there, I heard he had got the Job as Old Age Pensioners Liaison Officer !

Maybe Moshiri is trying to leave the balance sheet in as good a state as possible so he can sell the club. He's probably factored in the probable relegation by not reinforcing this terrible squad.

That's THE thing that bothers me with changing the manager. All of the underperforming players get yet another chance. Don't get me wrong, we were right to get rid of Lampard but some of these players are now being assessed by Dyche when 40,000+ fans know how good/bad they are.

Anthony Gardner?

Still think Big Ant was underused by Moyes (actually never used at all) decent centre back the lad.

Spot on :) ! He'll probably contract a musical to be wriiten on how he saved his beloved Blues!

Hungry Mantis? More like scurry mice scampering away to their hole to avoid scrutiny from the cats.

With the money.

Fans 100% behind the team.

#We go with what we have.

Scouting - check
Finance - check
Medical team on standby - check
Purple dildo outside Finch Farm - check
Fax paper - Negative. Quick, who sells fax paper?
12 deadline passes without incident
Dyche ‘happy with the team I've got'

The board better get ready, I sense a storm coming…

How on earth did Moshiri make money?

Both decent players who score goals and create!

Looks like a poundshop Lukaku, but that'll do.

But you've just given me a horrible thought about that musical. He gets Elton to recommission his song as the theme:

"Iguess that's why they call us Bill's Blues".

Apologies for the typos above in my previous post. I'm on a train Oxfordshire back into London and on the phone.

Look at Brentford. Who are those players? Came from nowhere and are storming the league.

Equally, we never seem to interview promising managers. Mosh and Bill always want PL experience. Some experiences aren't welcome.

Danger is, Southampton get him and mug us with Che Adams! What's the bet?

That would explain Thelwell's activity so far - and the fact that every target seems to be someone touted around to many other clubs.

To put it another way, the club is being served a limited set of options rather than hunting down its own targets.

I am not sure how we resolve this - it seems in large part a finances thing but could also be part of wider mismanagement.

It is so sad it has come to this but like another poster, I've moved on to the acceptance stage. It's not the despair, it's the hope that kills you.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/jan/31/david-squires-on-bielsa-dyche-and-the-everton-manager-interview-process

That cartoon is hilarious

Let's see how tonight goes. We must have something lined up right?

I guess these chairman are taking notice of what Everton would do that's why they are signing players that Everton wanted

The fact that we are attempting to conduct transfer business during the last day of the window is a sad indictment and our board members are not fit for purpose.

Surely, an organisation with a vision has a succession plan in place when a manager is sacked and a player is released for a sum of 㿙 million. It is a total dereliction of duty and our supporters are fully vindicated in terms of peaceful protests.

Thelwell has not improved our recruitment one iota as due diligence should have been completed months ago and signings should have been completed at the start of the month. A striker was imperative in the summer and, as at 31 January, we are still waiting.

The sooner our great club is bought by a new investor and the current board is removed in full, the better.

Sean Dyche could say to the squad tomorrow, after signing no one, ‘right lads, we tried to bring in some new players, but they all turned us down. They don't want to join a relegation-threatened, dysfunctional club, where the current players don't seem to give a shit.
We need to show them we're Everton Fucking FC. Play for the badge and fuck everyone else!'

Siege mentality!

Nah, fuck it. We're fucked!

Maybe our plan is to bankrupt our rivals by generating interest in over priced journeymen knowing they will swoop in? Much as we obviously need reinforcements, there haven't been any players we've been linked to that seem good buys either due to being crap or insanely over priced.

You're right. The players here need to take some responsibility instead of always expecting someone else to come in and do the hard work. All of these jokers are well paid an many cost large fees. They need to step up instead of pointing fingers around at each other.

If we manage to avoid relegation this season, it will still be an issue this time next year, because in the last few years we have been unable to build a squad capable of competing in this division, that's because we haven't built a club that can cope with the competitive demands of the Premier League.

Much smaller clubs are now it seems able to outspend us. How can that be so? Who takes ownership for that? No wonder the fans are rightly upset, as they haven't seen anything in return for their loyalty or the money invested by the owners, but some people continue to blame them for the demise of the club. If the owner and board thought the scenes at the Southampton match were bad, I wouldn't like to see what they'll be like if Everton go down, because the board didn't act and failed to support the manager in this window.

FUCK OFF KENWRIGHT YOU FUCKING POISONOUS RAT! AND TAKE FUCKING L'IL MISS DYNAMITE WITH YOU!

Everton make cheeky bid for Scottish U21 striker - Wee R. Gowin Down.

Relegation signed, sealed, and delivered after today!

Sooooo depressing

if anything does happen, I could actually imagine it being last minute deals for Onana and Pickford being sold.

Ground Hog Day, as it is in most end of transfer windows past for Everton.

Let's hope there's some players on an Everton shirt this evening.

With the 㿔M from Gordon and the circa 㿃M guaranteed from the sale of Keane at the end of the season that's a pretty decent lump to go towards levelling up the P&S situation and maybe making the club slightly more attractive to potential buyers (don't laugh).

Sorry state of affairs that I think even the average supporter could have prevented from happening had they been on the board.

The club is so dysfunctional, no joined-up thinking at all at board level. No wonder we are in this really precarious situation.

We just can't compete as a top flight club anymore. Prove me wrong Everton, please. A few hours to prove me wrong

I'm starting to fear that may be our only option, albeit a square peg in a round hole.

He has been sold a pup by the Board if this is the case. Bringing someone in to manage with 1 day left is negligent and criminal.

What's new? This is a suicide mission for any manager.

If true this is disgraceful and who needs a DoF if he can't bring ANYONE in???

Unbelievable. I read recently that a symbol of how dysfunctional Everton's board are was a shortlist with Bielsa and Dyche on. The inference being that a club who knew their identity wouldn't have two such different, polar opposite managers on it.

After this disgrace of a window. I'm thinking "What do Bielsa and Dyche have in common?"

And the answer is that they've both taken clubs to promotion from the Championship.

The board gave up months ago and engineered a scenario to discredit the fans knowing that they wouldn't be signing anyone and wanted to strike the first ‘PR' blow…

Mourinho quoted on Zaniolo "Unfortunately he is staying." Sounds like a popular guy.

At the beginning of the season, there was talk of a 120-point plan and recent events have shown just how ridiculous that was. Quite clearly we haven't any plan at all and we have become something of a laughing stock in the press and within the football world.

The only positive at the moment is the appointment of the new manager, who by reputation is our best chance of getting something out of our ill-balanced, low-skilled, low-in-confidence squad of players.

I sincerely hope there is a coming together, and a backs to the wall approach for the next two games. Please, please no passing between our goalkeeper and numerous centre-backs, let's get the ball in the opposition half as quickly and as soon as possible.

Two points from the next two games would represent a great team effort and just possibly a better more productive end to the season.

Didn't Moshiri say 2 or 3 days ago that he knows we need a striker and we will get one? Perhaps he means in the summer or once BMD has been finished and paid for…

Sharpie is so out of touch, he blends in well with the board.

If Sharp thinks the fans protesting has put off potential signings, then him, and the other cronies on that board, better turn up in a suit of armour this Saturday if we don't get any worthwhile signings in within the next 5 hours, because I think the fans will really turn on the board if nobody comes in.

The creeps have been found out so we don't need any commentary from within. They have largely been absent or a distraction to on-field activities. So fine, you didn't buy anyone so we don't need to waste any energy on what is a bit of a black hole.

I'm not getting one in on the good people criticizing the club right now. Just saying there could be ample time for that in the future and we've still got a fucking chance against these other shits having a laugh. Let's make the most of what we have and get on with it. Not going down.

Poor guys.

It'd be an even more powerful statement than thousands staying after the match. Very much doubt he will though.

Do not blame a couple of nutcases chasing Gordon to make him want to leave, this happens at all clubs when they are losing, we just don't hear about it.

The problem is as plain as if you towed a banner behind a plane. Everton, your owner and board are a failure. We as supporters are asked to get behind the manager and players, why don't the Owner and Board do the same?

As a Supporter since 1954 and used to players coming to Everton as they were a top premiership club, it really saddens me that players will pick a team that normally finish in the middle or lower in the league rather than move to Everton. This is the most damning evidence of the scandalous position the Owner and Board have allowed the club to sink.

Do not blame the supporters, the only problem with them is they left it too late to complain about a problem that is obvious to everyone else except to the people that are the problem

As far as I can see, there was only one player it would have been good to get into the Everton team at the moment, Lewis Dobbin. Having seen his super display at Derby the other night he looks to have the football intelligence and even the fitness which is so absent from the current team.

If fan protests really put players off, Man Utd (for one) would never sign anyone.

Personally, I never expected any signings of significance – other than maybe one on loan.

Still won't be that surprised if Branthwaite goes (always assuming the alleged PSV bid for him was genuine).

In other news, I see Cenk Tosun has scored again!

“There is quality in this squad. But we have to make them shine. That's the job of me and my staff.”

Best get polishing.

Dyche may not want some of the identified. We are told he was looking at players last week; who have we got? Jack shit.

The whole management of the club, minus Dyche, are a disgrace. There has been no policy on players or when to get them in. No policy on the style of football so you can get players to fit the philosophy. Today, we are a laughing stock.

Because, forgetting how unattractive we've become from those elsewhere for whatever reason, and there are many, it was never financially feasible that we'd be in a position to purchase the required quality in the required numbers.

We don't have to look very far from home to see how inflated the market is, when we can demand 㿙M for Anthony Gordon, and without getting into his merits or otherwise, as others have already done that to death elsewhere, he's far from the finished article. So we need to avoid this tendency of being led by the nose and attracted to below-average players we've never heard of, or rather I've never heard of.

This time last week, everyone was going nuts about this lad from Sheffield Utd that we were rumoured to have bid 㿀M for which was knocked back. I'd personally never heard of him.

But I got to see him at the weekend in the cup tie at Wrexham, and to say he was shit would've been kind and made the 㿙M the Barcodes paid for Gordon look like a bargain, in fact the scouse lad Mullin for Wrexham looked 10 times the player.

Also, this guy who we've just missed out on to Southampton from Renne that our fans have been going ape about. I've never heard of him before either and I doubt whether most others have either. I defo didn't know anything about him till I googled him.

What do you know: it seems he's another sick note and only started one game for them and hardly completes 90 minutes… sound familiar? I also looked at his stats and not exactly remarkable either with only 1 goal and historically nowhere near as good as Maupay's were during his Brentford and Brighton days.

So the point I'm trying to make is, just because they're shiny and new with an exotic name, doesn't necessarily mean they're an upgrade on what we've already got, unless you pay a helluva lot of money for the guaranteed upgrade in quality, and unfortunately those type of players have a habit of being the reserve of clubs a lot better than us.

That's not to say there aren't unpolished gems out there, which better run and structured clubs than us can still uncover, but that's another thread and gonna take a lot longer to put right than we've currently got with our latest crisis.

But getting back to the topic in hand, and that's focussing on what we've got and, as an example, I've already touched on Maupay's previous stats at both Brentford and Brighton. That's before he joined us and we tried to turn him into Calvert-Lewin lite, an unsupported target man, which was totally alien to him.

His previous stats we're almost identical in numbers of goals scored and assists to Richarlison. That's why he might be a better option than all these unknowns with stats that don't bear comparison, particularly at this level and in this league?

By playing him more to his strengths and teaming him up with Calvert-Lewin might be a better option than wasting millions on gambles who're statistically not as good and certainly not proven.

For fuck's sake, we're now being linked with Ayew coz he's free… 🤦‍♂️

I would suggest that the biggest task in hand is whether Sean Dyche can get a tune out of what we've got and whether he can keep them injury free. Despite all the criticism, we do already have some decent players and in the main better than most of the other relegation candidates?

We've also got the likes of Garner, Patterson, Townsend and Godfrey all on their way back from injury, so what we've got ain't that bad?

Providing Sean Dyche can get them better motivated, organised & playing as a team, which encouragingly appears to be one of his strengths, together with first and foremost making us more difficult to beat, then we've still got a chance with what we've got.

If we'd just got a single point from each of Wolves, Southampton, Bournemouth, Leicester & West Ham, which should've been achievable with a better manager, we'd have 20 points now and not even be thinking about relegation.

It was Lampard's obsession with passing the ball to death playing out from back and through the lines and losing the ball before we even got out of our own half that did the damage... 🤦‍♂️🤬😤

Rant over.

On Tuesday, Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust reiterated its calls for the board to outline the strategy and vision for the club, calling for "clarity and commitment".

Admittedly there were only around 60 folk who turned up to the Spurs training ground on the 21 January, to protest, but apparently, according to some of our fellow Evertonians, we are too demanding of our club and the team.

Imagine, if Everton were still in the FA Cup, with an outside chance of another Champions League qualification. Goodison and this and every Everton fansite would be bouncing.

Some Everton fans are meeting up at Finch Farm tonight at 7pm to show their unhappiness at the current plight of the club.

Dyche has not been given much time to contact footballers that are loyal to him. Everton grasping at the last minute at out-of-reach players and not being able to secure loans is a bad look.

Dyche has probably copped on that the transfer procedure as described by Moshiri, who said it hadn't worked, is as bad as Moshiri said.

I expect that Dyche will be dependent on the existing squad. At this stage, it is close to impossible to think otherwise.

Dyche's strength is he has worked with Keane, McNeil and Tarkowski and his ability to organise with a priority to get the ball directly forward. I think Maupay will benefit from this also.

I think we're seeing the actions of club leadership who either:

1) Have accepted relegation and are planning accordingly; or

2) Do not plan to be at the club much longer.

I mean, a bid for Gallagher smacks of us having no plan or targets in place ahead of time. It looks like someone thought "Chelsea have just signed a few players, they must have someone going spare".

We're now asking Dyche to be a miracle worker which is pretty unrealistic.

What is happening now is the lifeblood of the club, the supporters, are realising right now that the Board and the owner have lied. "If we need a striker we will get one!" unless we get 2/3 players in of quality, Sean Dyche will have to get the best out of this squad that he can. We've done that in flashes so far. Now it's got to be consistent.

The Board are a bunch of incompetent, lying, charlatans.

I think he can do it. Whether we will be good enough, strong enough and fit enough, we'll have to wait and see.

My view is every supporter can see what's happening. We're on our own but the supporters will back our team.

A bit dramatic this, but I call it the "Great Betrayal" All the history of EFC for the last 70'odd years hanging on a squad with no reinforcements

I think Moshiri and Billy the Liar have convinced themselves that we won't get relegated and Moshiri is not going to spend any more money as he wants to sell as quickly as possible.

If Dyche keeps this squad up he deserves a statue outside the new stadium.

This board and owner cannot be allowed to continue. We simply have to get them out of our club.

If we do it will just be panic buying at inflated prices.

We should have had our targets lined up and deals stuck in advance instead we get into price wars with the likes of Southampton.

Maybe everything was dependent on the Gordon transfer to give us the funds and when we finally got the money other teams had already sorted the deals.

Thelwell needs to get on the ball and earn his money now by lining up deals for the summer with both the premiership and the championship in mind.

If we haven't got the funds for known players maybe it's time to get a few new signings into the U21's which we can fast track into the first team over the next few months.

Proves one thing though,our scouting system needs a total overhaul and if that doesn't work the the man at the top needs to pack his bags.

Moshiri keeps making it clear that Thelwell is the man who is accountable for the football side.

If they legitimately tried to strengthen then someone must have failed and needs to be held accountable. If they didn't legitimately try to strengthen the status quo remains until Moshiri gets a buyer.

I don't see any possible alternative now... unless the club shocks me by suddenly closing out on deals they've been working on for weeks.

Anyone expecting Calvert-Lewin to stay fit and start scoring 25-yard screamers or the midfield to pass forwards, or clean sheets is going to be disappointed.

The buck stops with the incompetent board, and Kenwright, who have been here for years, messed up Kings Dock and brought in Moshiri.

To the guys who like looking back at certain years in the '0s and '80s, that's all we will have.

It's too perfect, too repetitive, too relentless, too thoroughly destructive. I no longer believe in this degree of accidental incompetence pervading at this level for this long.

Decision made: Everton's turn.

Of course it could all be what might be described as "mismanaged decline" or the owner and the board are so fed up with the supporters unrealistic demands – as they see it - that they have decided to put two fingers up to the fan-base.

#SackTheBoard

#KenwrightOut

There has to be a reason for not having any sort of contingency plans. If Calvert-Lewin got injured on Saturday, we'd have to rely on Simms to fill the gap, which is doable but not at all ideal.

You can add Branthwaite to that list – assuming of course that he doesn't go today.

This last day shite is – and always was – a load of utter bollocks.

Even under 'normal' (?) circumstances, it's basically leaving your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve... at 11:30 pm.

Only in Everton's case, with about 70 fucking pence.

But I reckon Gordon has realised that there was a danger we decided not to sell at the last minute if we couldn't get anyone in, and so went nuclear to force his way out. Hence Everton, being absolutely furious with him. I think that fury was genuine.

KENWRIGHT OUT!

There's no conspiracy. We spent big and unwisely a few years back. We made poor managerial appointments (Benitez and Lampard) and then wasted what limited resources we had in the summer on the likes of Maupay and McNeil.

Is it fact that money does not have to be paid up front in the case of players being touted around by agents?

"Enhanced security procedures and protocols are being put in place for the club's players and staff," and that, "the club can confirm that Everton's next fixture at Goodison Park (Arsenal on Saturday 4 February) will also be categorised as high risk."

Given that statement, I would expect the board to remain absent?

No, I mean that presumably agents only bother approaching us where the selling club might accept money on the drip. Otherwise, there's no prospect of transacting. This will severely limit who is a realistic signing.

I would just stop asking now, its getting embarrassing.

This is Moshiri keeping his word…'I told you we'd sign a striker'

I am breaking a rule that I made when I was 15 years of age, and now actually feel sorry for Sean Dyche. He wanted the job, he's going to get very well paid for doing the job, but this owner and his totally inept board, have driven a massive wedge between themselves and our supporters now, and it's going to become brutal.

Instead of facing the fans, they told lies, helping to push a false narrative (except for a few stupid kids) and I expect things are going to explode very soon.

No love lost between the fans and Gordon, just like there was no love lost between Franny Jeffers, and the fans, and no love lost between Wayne Rooney, and the fans. Take a final bow Bill Kenwright, because you are surely facing the final curtain, you horrible, deceitful man.

Ayew might end up going to Forest, Tony.

Moshiri and the board must be delighted and chilling tonight congratulating themselves on getting the hang of this footy lark. The nuance of the quality of incoming vs outgoing isn't their concern.

But then what does Graeme Sharp bring to the party? Bill gushed, “We were determined to have someone join us with not only great knowledge of Everton but also extensive football insight and experience. Someone who could support and challenge. And in Sharpy's case we've got this in abundance.”

The statement went on “In his new role, Sharp will utilise the wealth of knowledge of the game he has been amassed over more than four decades to provide valuable input into the Club's football strategy.”

The board can't get off the hook for this shambles.

Now our "project" is not good enough for Batshuayi...

KENWRIGHT OUT IMMEDIATELY

Protests must not stop against this dysfunctional board.

Billy Bullshit, it's time to go.

Got to just hope that Dyche can perform a miracle and make us hard to beat and pick up some points. Is that a flying pig I see?! Oh no it's Fat Bill on the first plane out tomorrow morning!

In 2011.

Wouldn't you love a half hour chat with him.

My hope is that out of chaos comes some kind of backs-to-the-wall, fuck-you, last-chance-saloon inner strength that we didn't know was there.

Bananas, eh? Think I'm going to the game too.

For every single thing to go wrong in such a spectacular manner is impossible. A group of chimps would, by accident, have done better. Something is wrong, something is strange.

That is my hope to and to be honest our only hope – Shitshow FC.

What a joke.

Let's hope that with Gordon gone he gives Stanley Mills a chance and maybe one or two others. Backs to the wall, 90 minutes of defending with long balls out of defence. Maybe a few bookings and a possible red.

It's not going to be pretty. Not looking forward to it. A bumpy ride a head.

Christopher, it was him.

Now do we understand what Bill meant when he said Everton always get it right??

Part of me expects him to walk, saying his hands were tied. Or for him to be sacked (paid off) and the club have another scapegoat for the failure to sign anyone.

I think you might have found the answer to all our problems.

You can now see why our managerial situation was so difficult.

And it now looks like Gordon was sold out of necessity, to save us from going under.

I do still think we have a chance under Dyche even without additions. It will be hard though. Very hard.

Don't remember when it was but I posted on here that Kenwright wanted us relegated so he could pick up Moshiri's shares for peanuts and become our proud owner once again. Don't laugh. I meant it.. After another comedy show all we are going to get from the January window is broken glass in our faces,

No goal scorers, no hope despite the promising words from on high. I believe that too. We are totally shafted and the sooner everyone accepts that the better. If there are any signings they will be tokens only and trying to appease rather than meaning anything.

I feel very sorry for Sean Dyche who, if he manages to keep us up, deserves a medal and our wonderful owner must then do something decisive and get rid of the Chairman and his acolytes before they damage the Club even further.

Final note. Dyche and the players needs and deserves our full support for his task from now onwards because he isn't going to get it from the numpties in the Boardroom anytime soon so do your bit please.

I defer if you heard something concrete, Robert, but didn't we hear this after Richy went... and then look what happened.

Who knows - truth is becoming a rare commodity.

I hope no one blames those fans who have turned up at FF tonight - the club are to blame 100%

Simms will deputise for DCL and needs to be 100% ready to perform because we will be relying on him in this formation.

In the board room, they have completely failed in the results business and yet we are stuck with them, because Moshiri does not have football nous and yet he is a supposed to be a successful business man. I can not believe that FM has not sacked executives in his business.

Kenwright, to my mind, has only made three positive contributions:
1. Getting Peter Johnson out of the club
2. Signing David Moyes
3. Signing Roberto Martinez, who gave us out best PL points total and provided great entertainment in the short term.

Clearly, the inference is that Kenwright is leading Moshiri by the nose with a mantra of Football is not a results led game or is it a sad narcissistic sad luvvie paranoid about not feeling important anymore!

Fella named Enner Valencia, fresh off a brilliant World Cup, scoring four goals in 30 minutes for Fenerbahce, giving him 19 goals in 17 games, far and away leading the Turkish League:

https://www.beinsports.com/us/turkish-super-league/video/an-unstoppable-enner-valencia-scores-4-in-hal/2030824

And over in Serie A, a spectacular solo effort by the league's second leading scorer with 12 goals, including 7 in the past 4 games... Ademola Lookman:

https://eaglestrackerng.com/blogs/highlights/lookman-goal-vs-sampdoria

Life just totally sucks sometimes.

The DOF, must also be accountable, but we're his hands tied, effectively having no influence, in terms of his transfer strategy, as DOF, at EFC?

Hopefully Dyche will creat a dirty dozen, siege mentality with his squad and retune some of the players and they get their spirits back.

Massive challenge ahead for EFC, as it stands, in terms of boosting the squad, be it by new players in, or nurturing those we have to get better.

But in football, any thing can happen.

Thank you. I have a better understanding of where you are coming from.I think you could be right.It is unusual the players that Everton are reported to be involved in negotiations with seem to be touted round a few Clubs and have a choice who they sign for.Also free of contract players seem to be also pushed forward.

Everton are not in the game as a Club regarding players they would seek. They are definitely not player on your or Sams list. Thewell as Director of Football has the job of being first contact, with a bit of Manager input with this merry go round. Then a requisition form is sent to the Chairman, according to Moshiri.

It really does make you wonder what planning goes into the selection of suitable players.It really imo looks that Everton players of value are touted about most of the transfer window to get profit in and then a scramble takes place to get a bargain loan or something on the cheap or on the drip.

KENWRIGHT OUT !!

That would be a poor look were they to stay away for the new manager's first game.

Their actions have given the media endless options whatever they do.

"Another player not going to Everton, Elanga on loan" and they all laugh.

Shame on you, Kenwright. We are a joke.

I call on the Holy Trinity to visit Kenwright tonight and simply say "What the fuck have you done to our once great club, you fucking bell-end?"

We've needed a striker since June. Failed to sign one in the summer (god only knows why we signed Maupay and McNeil) and now, having had the whole World Cup period to scout strikers to join on the 1st Jan, we're left at the 11th hour on the 31st with. nothing. Even a 6-month loan, anything, seems beyond us.

It's truly shocking to think a Premier League club is being run like this. Over half a year to sign one single proper striker. A 10-year-old can see from a mile off this squad lacks goals, yet we kept signing defenders and midfielders (but still ship goals).

I truly despair for this club. It wouldn't surprise me if the board failed to turn up to any remaining home game this season. They must surely know the game's up, the fans have simply had enough and many would happily take relegation if it guaranteed a complete change at the top. It really is a sad state to be in.

The only silver lining is that I believe the rubicon has been crossed and there's no returning for Moshiri or Kenwright. People want them both gone and it will get ugly if they don't move on before next season.

Sack the Board, Thelwell – resign if you're not backed.

May I suggest one banner: ‘Just Go, Bill'. 😢😢😢

Who's going to turn down a multimillion contract when unemployed? If he wants to make the squad shine, he'd best get polishing turds.

That's likely the reason he hasn't made changes at board level, hasn't acquired the forward he said he would, and of course has said nothing about the new manager – unless I missed it.

We are the worst run club in the history of football anywhere in the world. What they have achieved sets a standard of ineptitude that will stand the test of time.

It is the equivalent of a two-minute mile, climbing Everest in a track suit, swimming the Atlantic. It is awe-inspiring.

It's tough life for a football manager.

The board, including that tosser Sharp, have taken the piss out of the fans just too many times now. We are going down and not coming back up.

Some of our fans have a lot to answer for…

"Thell Well - Buy Poorly"

If it doesn't happen, then my trust in him as a well-heeled owner who has the best interests of the club at heart is toast!

If he does nothing between now and the end of the season, he needs to get rid of the board and replace them with proper commercial and football expertise.

That's cos he's just been snotted by Sean and he's lying in a bin.

The board have failed the new manager and the team as much as the fans tonight. It should never have come down to this. Business should have been done, maybe it was dependent on finances but we have what we have.

It goes only 1 way now, the fans, the manager and the team coming together again and fighting like fuck to stay in this league with the players that the board gave us.

Fuck everyone including the board, siege mentality, we shall not be broken.

Protests against those on the board are right and long overdue but should not take away from support for the team to win games at Goodison.

Get right behind the team for the next 4 months but never let the liars get away with it!!!

Even a journeyman striker would be welcome. I just don't understand it.

One of the day's best. If there's a better one, it will come at the end of the transfer window.

I think you'll find it's the board and director of football that have got a lot to answer for while the fans have been exemplary.

They've had all summer and now this window to get players in and have failed miserably. Selling Gordon is just blatant asset stripping. That cash will now not see the light of day.

When we go in April or May, Onana and Pickford will be off and the Iranian will sell to the lowest bidder. Thelwell should be sacked for dereliction of duty. We'll get the usual excuses. Sick to death of it.

And hopefully Townsend and Patterson get fully match fit soon. These two lads on form will make the squad much better.

Looks like the targets are for players in teams in a better position. Should of been a big list of targets from the Championship of players in teams with absolutely no chance of promotion so they are "gettable".

I reckon Lampard and Thelwell had to make hard choices on who to bring in as last Summer's bargain basement choices. And I agree that we haven't made the best of what players we've got. Your point about some of the names (expensive names) we've been linked with, are probably not worth it.

I think where we've continued to fall down, is missing out on players that have cost a few million, like those that Brighton and Brentford and other clubs, have recruited, and are playing like superstars. We seem to have gone for expensive players who haven't really fitted the bill.

I think as well though, what we've been going to the match and watching for years, has not been anywhere near good enough. Why? a lot of reasons and already been through.

But this last season so far, and the delay in trying to bring an improvement has been extremely poor. Culminating in the antics by the Board members up to and including the last home game, and continued up to now, has just been atrociously ill advised.

There is a feeling among us that we have been kidded (I'm being kind!) by the board members, to the extent that many of us feel they have fallen in their responsibilities and that there is no plan to resolve this fall towards relegation.

I go along with you that we have decent players who haven't been organised to be able to use their talents more effectively. You mentioned the stats of Maupay while at previous clubs, can Sean Dyche get more out of him, I think he can. Townsend is a good player and will be back soon, Garner is on the way back to fitness, as you say.

So, I think we've got enough players to make a good fight over the next half of the season, to save us from relegation. I think Sean will give EFC as good a chance as anyone, to pull us away from the relegation places, with the squad we have got and giving the youngsters a chance.

However, I think the Board, led by Kenwright, are guilty of an awful dereliction of duty in running this club of ours in a fit and proper manner. And that's been going on for years, leading us to where we are now. So I won't be holding my breath to see someone come in who is a last-minute panic buy.

Reece has now gone off their list?

We'll struggle to win 2 games after today. We're down, it's all over. Complete neglect from a board that shouldn't even be there. Next season there will be a fire sale of players to get the ludicrous wage bill – 96% of revenues – down, and more losses. All of these contracts overseen by the board. Bigger losses on the P&L means points deductions are very real.

BMD is now nothing but a pipe dream as we simply can't afford it given the financial structure that Kenwright - once again - has us in.

Unfortunately he sold everything else last time. No doubt Goodison will be failing it's safety certificate soon but at least we can ground share with Southport when we're in League 2. And there won't be another Moshiri to let him play God.

People will lose their jobs, Evertonians will lose their football club.

I sincerely hope, Bill Kenwright that you are thoroughly ashamed of what you have done do this football club. All for your own personal gain and ego.

But I won't hold my breath. There's always someone else to blame for your incompetence, including the fans which love this club more than you.

But at least you had some good times sat in the directors box rubbing shoulders with the great and good. Being chauffeur driven to and from games,'home and away. You are a disgraceful human being.

Salomón Rondón, Aug '21
Joshua King, Feb '21
Moise Kean, Aug '19
Richarlison, Jul '18
Cenk Tosun, Jan '18
Nickola Vlasic, Aug '17
Wayne Rooney, Jul' 17
Sandro Ramirez, Jul' 17
Henry Onyekuru, Jun' 17

Other than Richarlison, our 'scouting' of forward talent really takes some beating. For such an important part of the pitch the lack of attention to signing a quality striker is quite stark.

The above list covers 4.5 seasons and 10 transfer windows. Richarlison is/was the only player who was of a decent age and proven in the top flight when brought in. The rest were punts, cheapies and just bad bad buys. (I don't count Maupay as a striker, albeit would just compound the dross listed.)

Agents are greedy but they're not fucking stupid, they want to keep their clients on their books. Blame the fans and you're colluding with the owner and board.

That now leaves Everton alone as the only top flight outfit to not recruit a player in this transfer window. Source: The Echo.

That must be another first for our strange and wonderful club.

Felipe to Forest!? Weren't we in for him at the start of the window?

And Richard Widmark gives John Wayne a knowing look of "we're fucked" while Lawrence Harvey tries not to react and convey the idea it's no big deal.

So I am thinking this will play out at Finch Farm tomorrow with Kenwright as Harvey, Dyche and Thelwell as Widmark and Wayne, and our chief scout as Wayne's boy. And we all remember what happened next.

Even though the police contradicted their story a week later and the pundits were embarrassed to say the least, the harm was done. Well done, Board and Sharp.

It's more duplicitous spin by Kenwright and Prentice – imagine blaming the lifeblood of the club for all their mistakes. It's so low it's untrue.

They're trying the divide and conquer tactics. Don't fall for it. It happens everywhere.

How many people saw what happened with Roma recently? Do players not want to join them cos they have “Ultras” who are far worse than a few lads chasing a car.

Get a grip.

Police called after angry Roma fans confront Zaniolo at home

I take it you mean some bizarre form of self-flagellation?

Otherwise, I'm good for a fiver... :D

I have never seen such a complete disorganised shit show of a transfer window from us. Absolute scattergun amateur madness. What an almighty mess.

If you want to kill a club, Everton would be used as an example. Has this been a deliberate act of spite?

There's no coming back from this now.

This was our last moonshot to avoid relegation. We simply had to bring in new faces.

We have just sold our joint top scorer with three goals.

We sold Richarlison in the summer.

We needed new faces for the “bounce” effect.

We are the only club in the bottom half not to sign anybody.

They've accepted our fate, haven't they?

It was obvious for all to see!

Pep couldn't get a tune out of the lot we currently have playing for us who won 3 all season so how are they going to win 7?

Absolutely negligent on all counts by that shower of a board

There is no way they can ever show their faces at Goodison again / they sealed our fate today. Moshiri lied again with his FAB interview.

I know I'm venting but I am gobsmacked even from the point of view I thought they would at least try to protect their investment which will dwindle with relegation.

Incoming multiple headlocks if they ever have the brass neck to show their faces at Goodison!

Stupid twat.

If Garner, Dom, Simms, Maupay, Patterson, Townsend can get going again anywhere near their potential, there is a tiny glimmer of hope.

Here's hoping…

For fuck's sake (and I don't normally swear!!), break the piggy bank, mug Bill for the Arteta money and get them in!!! Pay them what they want!

'Totherwise, we are well and truly goosed...

Connor doesn't want to come here, even on loan (reported earlier today) and Potter won't sell him till summer;

And Potter doesn't want him here. Not good for his development apparently. Wise man is Graham methinks.

It's embarrasing. Do we just call up the same players every window knowing they will say "no"?

KK [424] Glad you game back after you left us yesterday. Great analogy, unfortunately too close to the truth. Can I play Santa Ana in this scenario please? :D

Now that I'm getting over the disappointment and anger of how bad this is, how bad this looks, and how much shit we are in – I am almost looking forward to hearing from the board why, and how we failed to get anyone across the line! (Tho my guess is they'll send Dyche out on their behalf.)

Whatever they say, it's just gonna make it worse.

Not now, Moshiri.

A lot of competition for that role

We have been guilty of pretty mind-blowing levels of incompetence in the past, but this January has taken it to a whole new level.

To quote the infamous banner:

"Our expectations for you were low, but HOLY FUCK!"

Starting with our home game on Saturday & then for every game till the final whistle draws this reoccurring nightmare of a season to its final conclusion & hopefully those who are the soul of this great club have done sufficient to preserve its legacy despite the treachery and incompetence of those halfwits who have no place at our club, and believe me come what may we will have our day.

All high-ranking (I hope I spelt that correctly ;) ) officers would be taken out and executed after a prolonged, say 33 years, period of torture... To say it would be slow would be an understatement!

Who could defend the Indefensible?

The female Everton fan on the show- I can't remember her name - said "Everton is an analogue club in the digital age", she also fears that we haven't yet reached the nadir, not simply our standing in the league, but she feels there is a lot worse to come. I hope she's very wrong, but the vibes we've been getting since before Christmas haven't been good and there aren't many signs of things improving. Over to you Sean!

Rob #447, I am the same. Can't sleep either and have little or no motivation for anything. I just feel completely betrayed.

It's pitiful but dyche must find a way. If not? Attracting players to play in the championship is another matter.

Night all

If a club is no longer in a position to attract players, if it is being called the worst run club in the country by mainstream media, if the disaffection of the fans continues to deepen to a point where it is irreconcilable, then there has to be a breaking point. How much can fans take?

The gesture bids that were tabled knowing they are going to get rejected are a bit puzzling. Why not just say the squads been assessed and no need for transfers in. If transfers are needed, go big on the one player you want where they are really gettable.

Looking forward to the explanations...

And the place is deader than Heaven on a Saturday night.

So I lift my glass to the awful truth

Which you cant reveal to the ears of youth

cept to say it isn't worth a dime

And the whole damn place goes crazy twice

its once for the devil and once for Christ.

The boss don't like these dizzy heights

We're busted in the blinding lights of closing time.

It's closing time

Sadly, dereliction of duty and total lack of care, by the Board, - Dyche, will need a few miracles, and more.

God only knows, what's gone on, but the transfer strategy so called, has been rank poor in summer, and seemingly as dead as a Dodo, in this window.

Up to Evertonians, to deliver the mission this season..

Townsend, and Patterson, will be like new players in, and Dyche, Stone and Woan, will need to be brilliant to turn this Team, around.

But 17 Cup Finals, and perhaps at least 8 wins needed, to sneak a safe position, but hopefully Soton, will implode after tonight's defeat, and so we live in hope of other teams being worse than Everton's current form.

https://twitter.com/andytomo5252/status/1620551713404100609?s=20

Pickford, Coleman, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, McNeill, Gueye, Onana, Iwobi, DCL and Maupay. 4 4 2. God help us.

In the bottom of our hearts
we felt the final cut

Did he end up at Southampton

Throw the shits up the Arsenal team before they even set off/

SSN reporting that Southampton and Bournemouth spent 100m between them

That quote taken from Lyndon's report about the FAB interview with Moshiri, just seven days ago, seems so much twaddle now.

They've had 31 days to get someone in, also they've had 6 weeks prior to that with the World Cup break to do the background necessary to get two players in who can score and create goals. This is not something that has crept up on anyone, we've known for months, since the summer failure to get a striker, that we need more goals in the team.

It's just incompetent and inadequate for a great club like Everton. I've never seen such a complete mess of a transfer window, an unmitigated disaster by all concerned in our hour of need.

These amateurs have put our beloved club in jeopardy.

Guilty, m'lud. You might say the evidence before the court is incontrovertible.

I think we are heading for total annihilation under Moshiri. What use a fabulous new ground if we get relegated. We will have been destroyed by the wet dreams of a clueless clown who had way more money than sense. I'll still hope for a miracle, but every other team is way better than us so I won't be surprised if we fail. Just need a miracle

Now watch where the fingers point.

The directors must either a) be totally and utterly useless at their jobs (objectively speaking) and/or b) hate us fans for protesting and this is their revenge

I simply cannot believe the team that are bottom, struggling to score and winless for 2 months have weakened themselves. It's beggars belief

Fucking scandalous!

Welcome to Everton Sean Dyche good luck mate your gonna need it

Not only are we now unable to persuade even non top players to join us, we're now the subject of jibes and jokes in the media...and probably deservedly so. Because of the ineptness of the board we've become a total laughing stock.

If we get stuffed on Saturday it could get very, very ugly.

Moshiri I just give up what a basket case he's turned out to be.

I suppose the consolation is that Dyche leaving early is not as bad as Brands walking his big dog.

As for our Director of Football, Thewell, why do I not have confidence in him developing youth. Braithewaite and Nkounkou back in the fold is something to look forward to.

But it just shows you why supporting the team and Dyche is vital maintaining pressure on Moshiri and the Board is essential.NSNOW.

FUCK OFF KENWRIGHT YOU FUCKING RAT!

"My inside is sad

I like to forget my life

And find what you have found

But I wasn't blessed with that knowing

And I can't help sinking down

I give to you my heart my soft fun

I'm lying, crying, god I'm dying by you

My fear of being such a lonely one

It hurts me inside, that's alright"

Grin ~ Soft Fun

That '“This is the most critical time in our history and almost an existential point” remark by Moshiri, is still haunting me too.

Take the club down to its lowest value then buy it back at a cheap price and control the whole club.

Even if thats not true the whole board including Thelwell has to resign and be replaced by football people not amateurs with a self serving plot.

I cant put into words how enraged I am by this total incompetence.

Barry. 476.
I agree, we can cope' and maybe James Garner can be that schemer. Gray Maupay, Townsend, Lewin, are all capable of scoring goals. Let's see how we develop with Sean's coaching.

The worst part is if we wasn't constantly lied to I could accept us not spending, I could live with the club saying Spurs never made a signing for 2 years when building a ground and Arsenal sold all there big names while building also.

Moshiri tells us whatever we want to hear but by the looks of it he's played his last hand.

It would probably be better for all concerned if the board stays away which I am sure they will. For me, resignation is their only out now and for Moshiri to sell up as soon as he can find a buyer.

Strangely, perhaps the fans can help by giving our undying support yet again and keeping us up and thus a better prospect for new owners.

Come on Sean, get the team into shape and fired up!

UTFT!

The January transfer window is now officially closed, and Everton (it appears) have not made a single signing to back the new manager Sean Dyche. Sleepwalking into relegation.

But today, I get it. He's been at the club long enough to know what an absolute shower of shit we have become, and that there's only one direction we're heading under the ridiculous comedy fucking duo of Moshiri and Kenwright.

He chose to jump from a sinking ship, and I think that probably makes him smarter than the rest of us mugs who are still here.

Dyche deserves our support for being brave enough to risk his reputation on us. A few players deserve the support but the shirt they wear means all of them will get support. No idea if Kevin Federline is a fool or had his hands tie but the rest of the board deserve only contempt

The other clubs at the wrong end of the league must be looking at us wondering what on earth we're doing. They'll believe they've strengthened their squads while we've sat by and done nothing.

We're reported to have been in for several players but the fact that no-one came through the door leads me to think that there's something going on behind the scenes. Something we don't yet have a full picture of.

I think it was Derek Knox before who suggested picketing the Liver building? But then again are Bill and Mosh ever there?

In big business you get what you deserve when you let poor, unchallenged leadership do what it wants.

"Nothing But The Worst Is Good Enough".

It cannot happen. It would need a new board in place first and then Kenwright & Co to resign. Otherwise liquidation of the club could occur, if I'm not mistaken. Someone please correct me if that is not the legality of the situation.

That's the thing. You can make offers but are they credible? Sarr for example supposedly we wanted to loan with an obligation to buy if we avoid relegation. How would that appeal to Watford? If they want to sell him then they'll sell him. They don't want to weaken there team for six months and see if we might buy him. Beto, Giroud and others. Who is going to move from overseas with a few hours notice? You make such offers well ahead of time. They are not serious when made an hour before the window shuts. But we've seen this before when Blackburn agreed 8 million for Barry Ferguson then we offered 2 million less. Or Kuyt, Owen etc just bullshit activity so Bill can pretend we tried. We've had a whole month and even four or five days since we got the Gordon cash. If we had any serious interest we'd have moved before today. I sincerely believe the delay in appointing Dyche was designed to run down the clock.

Every team, regardless of its ability, which visits the Grand Old Lady in the next few months is the enemy and has to be beaten, none of this a draw is a good result because of who we are playing nonsense - although, admittedly Saturday's match is more than a tough fixture to begin with.

Now more than ever, we need to energise the ground and make it as difficult as possible for the away team, because, in reality the future of the club is at stake.

It's a lot to ask of the hard-pressed support, but we've done it before, we can do it again. Save your energy for the match and if you need to make your point to the board or the wider world, do it after the game, regardless of the result.

Dyche now has a free hit for the rest of the season, as he won't be blamed when we get relegated, as we surely will. No goals, no guile, no imagination, no pace and a a defence craking more than a really creaking gate in a farce 12 gale.

F Off Everton. F Off Kenwright and your minions.

Well thats me banned !!

Same happened last season when the goals and assists provided by James, Sigurdsson and Digne were not properly replaced.

All we have left are a relegation squad.

Moshiri and the board have shown themselves to be not only incompetent but also bare faced liars and I suspect corrupt.

If you are … then you're as bad as him as you can fuck of my too … anger is through the Fucking roof

I'm not surprised just angry, like I have been for weeks.
If we go down then there is absolutely no way we'll come back under this group of creatures making the decisions.

Hopefully, this little piece of old humour will help us feel a little better.

Either way, it would make his position untenable, and I would have expected him to speak up or walk. Then again, has he had to sign a non-disclosure agreement to protect the real culprit (s) ? I just hope we all can rally round and support Dyche to the hilt, but the players have got to step up and be more responsive on the pitch. On Sky Sports tonight we were almost a laughing stock that we were the only Club not to have had any activity.

However, Clinton Morrison, who I am not a great fan of, but fair does to him, he did believe that we would just escape relegation. No guarantees but the players have to do their bit, I 'm sure Dyche will try his utmost, and I think they are in for a shock with his training regimes.

But Kenwright and his 'Little Miss Dynamite' have stretched my endurance beyond it's limits. His rose tinted boys pen lies are as much a sham, as the present day whoppers he shamelessly trots out to us long suffering fans.

I hated 'The Pen' as a kid. You couldn't see a thing and were constantly fearful of the older bullies in there. The man is fittingly, a failed actor.

As for Baxendale, she knows little or nothing of footballing matters and even less of our history! Kenwright's appointment of her was a nonsense. A CEO is a crucial position at the head of any Company. Would you enlist as CEO of an oil rig for instance, someone who knows absolutely nothing about oil? Or CEO of a Bank, someone who knows nothing of banking and so on?

Its totally flabbergasting and would be laughable if the implications weren't so terrifying for the future of our club.

I believe that they are desperately hoping that Dyche's efforts will save their necks by avoiding relegation. I do not believe for one second that they share the devotion, passion or desperation of the fans of Everton Football Club.

“Catastrophic failure by the owner, the board and Kevin Thelwell.”

Matt Law

“Unbelievable”

Alan Myers “Never would have believed it.”

By the time Dyche finally came in, the club was clearly in shambles, the Gordon debacle was going down, and for all we know he had 10 targets lined up and they all chose to stay as far as away as possible. It would make no sense for anyone to come our way if they had other options, unless the money was obscene — and then we'd all be complaining that we'd been taken for a ride once again.

So we arrive on deadline day with all our targets gone to other shit clubs or telling us to fuck off, and I do see the silver lining that we maybe we avoided another Tosun or Walcott episode. That said, given where we are we might as well have coughed up 㿙 million for any attacking midfielder or striker with a history of scoring 10 goals/season in a decent league, even if they were worth 㿀 million less. What else did we have to lose?

So yeah, fuck the Board. I've never said it before publicly, because it felt shitty to feel that way, and because I don't have the long history so many of you on here do. But they're complete failures, all of them, and they sure as hell don't deserve to be attached to this storied club.

May Sean Dyche be our savior, and may Calvert-Lewin find 10 goals up his sleeve in the next 4 months. So many thought we were done and dusted this time last year. Maybe God will reveal himself to truly be a Blue and work a miracle for us again this year.

Another manager, no money, no new signing and the real prospect now of hitting rock bottom.

Ain't gonna happen--right !!

If we had some real punch up front I would say we will get out of this mess but we don't and so the struggle to get wins will continue unless Dyche can get a bid improvement from what he has in other areas.

It tells you that even potential loanies couldn't be persuaded to join us and that is a really sad state of affairs.

I am dreading the next few weeks.

Well in my view the perfect storm happened:
1. Lampard found the players he had couldn't play the way he wanted. We keep losing, he gets sacked, by which time we are in the bottom 3.
2. Kenwright and co throw the fans under a bus and blame them for their absence and assault, threats, none of which are substantiated or reported to police. The result is they leave the team and manager hanging out to dry at home in a vital match. We lose. But the smearing of the clubs supporters by the board makes worldwide news. The scene is set.
3. Transfer window opens, no activity, no manager. Finally, with just a day of the window left Sean Dyche is appointed, Gordon forces transfer, toxic and tears.
No signingings, targets look at club and say no, situation at club, turmoil, fans demonstrations, joint bottom of the league.
From a prospective players perspective, bottom club, not a high class manager, fans in revolt, poor board, look certain to be relegated.
Christ on a bike, who would WANT to come here?
So we end up actually weaker in the team but stronger manager ( we hope)
We have been shunned, never mind the money, no loans, no purchases.
It's so bad the pundits are laughing at us.
Disgraceful. Sickening incompetence. Shameful.
Just how low will you lot go? Are we at the bottom yet?

Rant over, have to move on.

What now?

The new manager has to inspire, focus and drive the players on. We have got enough to get out of this mess, but it will be graft. Anyone and I mean anyone, who hasn't got the stomach for this fight needs to be dropped.
This may not be pretty, but has to be done. It's the end of January and we are bottom of the table. Stuff the board, don't let them anywhere near the players.!
No protests before or during the game, 100% support for manager and team.
Post game, wave the banners, let Moshiri know, we are on a hiding to nothing, keep quite and we will be in the championship in a blink.That cannot be allowed to happen, we have to do our bit.
I am stunned, angry, but not surprised. But that was yesterday, today we have a new manager who needs our support.

Log on here to find no incomings whatsoever and genuinely hate myself a little for still feeling deeply disappointed, despite the scenario being exactly as I expected.

Still, there can be no doubt Thelwell turned up for work today well prepared, armed as he was with his trusty 120 point plan:

#117 (Transfer Deadline Day):

Switch all the lights off, shiftily peek through the gap in the blinds a good five or six times like you're holding a room full of people hostage, settle down in your sleeping bag for the night with a big pack of salted peanuts, a safe and snug cocoon to reflect upon where you go from here…..before absolutely shitting yourself and thrashing about the floor wildly, rolling from side to side, squealing like a stuck pig whenever the phone rings like in that scene from Audition.

#118 (Day After Transfer Deadline Day)

See #117 (but REMEMBER to mix it up a bit, Kev. Big bag of Monster Munch instead of salted peanuts, perhaps).

It's us against the board, who claim they are a shining example to most other clubs. It's us against the self preservers, it's us against the bare faced liars, but we can't afford to make it, us against the team.

I don't know how it's even going to be possible to find the positive energy to back the team, but this is what we must try and do. Our supporters helped pull the football club, out of a massive hole last season, and this is something we have got to try and do again.

This will only be possible with resignations, so don't hide behind your lies, whilst trying to switch the gear and turn Evertonians, into a bunch of lunatics, with the help of your friends in the sycophantic media, because it won't work.

You have gone to far now, so for the good of Everton football club, admit your failings and your lies, or just go quietly out the door.

THE FANS ARE RESIGNING THEMSELVES TO RELEGATION, BUT IF THIS NEPOTISTIC BOARD, MADE THE CORRECT AND HONORABLE DECISION TO ALL RESIGN, WE MIGHT JUST FIND THE STRENGTH WITHIN US, TO TRY AND SAVE THE CLUB WE LOVE, ONCE AGAIN.

Dyche must have known the score, so he will only have taken the job because he believes in his ability and he wanted to manage Everton. Let's get behind him, no matter how hard this seems right now.

Personally, I don't believe that even our club could be this incompetent. We're seeing a deliberate attempt to mitigate financial losses despite sitting on the precipice of relegation. It's now managed decline of a football team - they've taken a view that there is simply no point investing in this club as it is going down regardless.

I'm not even surprised. It's partly what I thought would happen (I actually thought they'd save face with an insignificant signing).

The harder part to answer is where this leaves me, and I'm sure many others. I've had a lifelong relationship with this club. I've loved it regardless of what has been going on. I'm not too sure what I'm looking at now, but it's not my football club.

Dyche talked about everyone uniting. I'm sorry Sean, but it's completely and irreversibly broken.

I agree. Colin Glassar has talked of manager decline for a long time. It seems Bill would prefer to let the club sink into oblivion when he hits the big time as if Everton was a long running show that the curtain comes down on

To your point I haven't heard Dyche say a word about signings since he arrived.

He said, "Thelwell (note, not "Kevin") makes the football decisions and then submits them to our fabulous chairman who, if he agrees with Thelwell, then forwards them to me. If I agree, we sign/sell the player."

Thus Thelwell, reputation aside - albeit any employee of Moshiri/Kenwright will have no case to answer in terms of alleged incompetence in the future given the risible antics of those two in the world-wide world of football, is castrated as a so-called DoF by his very own employers in terms of benefitting the club.

He no doubt has long decided to just take the huge salary they swore to pay him, pending them booting him out with a seven-figure NDA pay-off.

Everyone employed by Everton financially benefits enormously unless you're a fan - or a dickhead owner, led by a self-aggrandising charlatan shyster of decades'-long notoriety to anyone with half a brain.

I think we're in agreement Neil. Maybe my wording was misleading.

You're quite right, it is Moshiri 's call and yes he can sack Kenwright & Co. The chances of that happening are remote and the compensation packages would be I believe, massive. Their resignations are probably just as unlikely.

I wish I knew the answer. They are taking us for mugs.

Because if master psychologist Dyche can get him anywhere like he can perform we will have another weapon to fight relegation with. He will be motivated, Dyche too because he needs players with skill. Stuff the cost.
Its gamble time.

Good post. Also as to Thelwell resigning in protest. I'm sure he's well paid but no playing career of note, a few academy jobs, stint at Wolves. I don't imagine the guy is loaded. Presumably he has a mortgage and bills to pay. And if he quits this mess, who's going to hire him? He's just another patsy

May as well get them all back: Gomes, Gbamin, Dobbin. Moise Kean. How many relegattion threatened clubs loan their striker to Juventus? Like they can afford him anyway.

Imagine we are paying the majority of their wages anyway.

Alli will be trickier. He'll cost us money and we've seen that we're not spending.

Dyche won't allow any doom-laden narrative to take hold in the dressing room. We should ensure that the same is true in the stands.

Living well is the best revenge and it is the best way to knock the smiles off the faces of those who are currently mocking us.

I expect Dyche, and the team he has chosen, to receive the most powerful welcome Goodison has ever witnessed on Saturday.

It's just a shame that a couple of Evertonians behaved rather badly, because all we needed to do was apply reasonable pressure and this lot would fall through their own incompetence.

All of My mates disagreed, admittedly most had very modest contradictions to zero. Maybe just two was the commonest assessment.

And here We are:

Zero new faces

Most money incoming

But the horrors of what comes next will not be laid at the door of:

The whimsical owner

The seriously ill Chairman(so much so that his vision is severely impaired, but still in post)

The first time, football knowledge free CEO

The Director of Football who still has not appointed a Head of recruitment

No.

Not their fault.

US, the long suffering diehard Fans.

Be prepared for "The Board" to deploy deflector shields in the run up, or immediately prior to Saturdays Kick Off.

We have made so many desperation signings in recent years we would be better off without.

To be fair, I'm pissed that those lads did that too. They gave the Board exactly what they wanted. Such a minor way to lose high ground.

I've said for a while that I genuinely believe Everton's boardroom want relegation, I don't know the reasons but it seems they do.

They are planning for it and nobody at the club can have any complaint when we go down in May because we will have totally deserved it.

I'll bet Frank Lampard is massively relieved that's he's out of it.

I think Tony Abrahams captures it now though. We have now choice to get behind this team and the new manager.

I can't contemplate going down. The board can wait until the summer as they aren't going anywhere just now unfortunately.

I have experience in this in both UK and Australia. Diff country, same thing. Time for Mosh to stand up and be counted. Relationship between chairman and CEO stinks of under performance and so both should go or the board responsibilities should be reorganised.
The current model is dysfunctional.
Here's hoping Dyche can save us from the drop this year.

Unfortunately mate, Saturday will be absolutely toxic, it will be hateful and frankly horrible.

There were protests last night outside Finch Farm so Saturday brings more of the same on a far larger scale.

I don't feel sorry for Dyche, he's been around the block as a manager, he's a tough fella and prior to taking this job he'll have seen the situation at this rotten football club so I commend his guts for taking it on.

But to think there won't be a massive demonstration against Arsenal on Saturday is putting our heads in the sand.

This club is going down and possibly out of business before long, Moshiri and Kenwright need to know EXACTLY how we all feel.

Yet another tragic episode in the Everton saga.

The writing was on the wall anyway when we ''offered 45m for Gallagher but he didn't want to join'' and when Dyche said '' we need to work foremost with the players already here''

There was never going to be any new signings.

Everton - bottom of the league (almost)

Since 2016 - Martinez, Koeman, Silva, Allardyce, Ancelotti, Benitez, Lampard - now Dyche. Not including Unsworth and Ferguson

3 directors of football

Squad now - brought in McNeil and Maupay - both on the bench

Viangre - loaned, never plays

Garner - bought injured

and now

in need of recruitment, sold another creative player - 45 million - but, no one in!

Did they not contemplate changing manager?

What does the DOF actually do? Is he allowed to do it?

Is it a managed decline as some are suggesting?

Richarlison and Gordon gone

Before that - Digne, Sigurdsson and James

all the creative players

wow

From other clubs points of view - risible!

Remember the guy from Villa who was loaned in and never played (Al Gharzi!?)

or Josh King!!!?????

Weirdly run club it has become (in Yoda voice)

And Everton have a striker on loan to Juventus - but cannot score!!??

You match going fans deserve a medal folks!

Changing track, I see that Manchester United got Marcel Sabitzer on loan.

I watched him rip Schalke apart a few years back playing for RB Leipzig. He scored a screamer in the first minute and tore poor Jonjoe Kenny to shreds throughout the match. I wish we had made a move for him under Ancelotti and when we were willing to spend.

I wouldn't listen even if anyone at the club did come out.

Moshiri is a lying little sneak "we need a striker, we'll get a striker"

Well fuckin' show us one then halfwit?

Between him and cobweb head Kenwright, totally destroyed the club over this last six years.

Even since the Southampton debacle on January 12th every major decision they have got wrong.

We had SIX WEEKS while the World Cup was being played, to study a plan of what was needed regarding the manager, the incoming players for January, but they did absolutely NOTHING.

Right down to waiting a whole week to appoint Dyche, after the fella was unemployed, no compo needed paying but you wait until a day before the window closes before appointing him.

Dragging out the Lampard sacking when the writing was on the wall in November after the two Bournemouth shellings.

I wouldn't put Moshiri in ownership of a kids teaparty.

Get behind the players and manager. Relegation is a cert if protests take over. Sadly bill and co are going nowhere yet. I fear the worse this season but Mr Dyche might keep us up. Stop wasting energy on the board. Let's all get behind the players. They really are our only hope!!

Excitement with the build up to hosting Eurovision, which is great for the City. But they only went and showed footage of people singing "that" song.

At least the Liver Birds were lit up in blue. The bird is blue.

COYB

There will probably be a few appear on here too

The cynic in me thinks this is a Cambridge Analytics type approach by the club. The sad thing is you get blues agreeing with them.

It won't be long before one of the usual suspects King Maddock publishes a "club sources" that players didn't want to join because of fans protesrs. They had targets identified but they didn't like the toxic fans at Everton.

This board of cowards will never set foot in Goodison again and every single game the fans will be blamed. This narrative is going to be pushed even more.

The only hope left is Dyche can turn this around. I do think he possibly can, it's the hope that kills you every time

A rebuild is needed in the summer, not now. It would have been great to see Gyorkes come in, but it looks like we've spent what limited funds we had this season on Maupay, McNeil and Firing Lampard and his team.

We can stay up. With Dyche it's not over yet.

But it is frightening to see us in a worse financial position than we were before the Moshiri acquisition. What a disaster he's been.

There was talk of us linking up with the owners of Augsburg and Estoril. I can see that happening. It at least gets us on the player development path (albeit about 5 years or so too late).

The force is strong with these!!!

Sean Dyche is Yoda

Our pride and loyalty violated.

This latest shit show is not just incompetence, it is self preservating design.

Saving money in a hope the team avoids relegation, to spend big in summer?

No good options available, therefore avoiding repeating the mistakes made in every transfer window for the last six years.

Young players coming back from loans, as options - maybe they'll fight for a place more than over paid players finishing their careers?

Help me out here …

Andy 616. Whether you like it or not some players will be put off by videos of players being chased and abused in cars. Fact.

You have my vote as Chairperson, when the long awaited revolution starts ! We do have the tools (excuse the pun) in our ranks, it is just getting the correct formation of those parts, a task that was glaringly beyond the much liked, but stubborn Lampard. A fully functioning Dele Ali, which we haven't seen yet would go a long way to that solution, and as you rightly believe as I do, Sean Dyche is most likely the Psychologist to effect that.

I know it's early days in his tenure but retrospectively (sorry Darren) we doubtlessly would not be anywhere near the shambles that we find our once great Club in, had he been the Helmsman. Still, turning clocks back, and reversing tides is an impossibility and far too late, but we could and should learn from this Board's mistakes, and forge a new way forward.

While we have enough games, and potentially enough points to guarantee safety, or survival, we still have to try and gain the maximum from every game left, no matter how futile it may appear, starting this, and next Saturday.

David, allegedly slew Goliath after all !

I really, really don't understand how we can have had no transfer plans in place and done all the leg work with the clubs and players ready for the January window. Where are our scouts? What are they actually doing on a day to day basis. They should be scouting leagues around the world, second divisions even. It is diabolical that we have found ourselves in this position.

Sack the board, sack the director of football who as far as I can tell has only used his influence to sign a reserve left back, sack the scouts (if we have any). Rip it up and start again.

How can we ever show ambition and drive to get to the top when our employment record shows we enjoy filling our academy with former midtable players and failures.

Ridiculous. So angry.

There was never a £45m bid for Gallagher. This was all paper bullshit. This was a smokescreen, probably fed to the press from the same person who made up the threat against the board.

As a club, we have an amazing fan base, loyal, hard working people who love their club. But the owner and the board are using the club as a laundry service. This is barefaced criminal!!!

It stinks of Usmanov, and it should be investigated by the relevant authorities.
Whatever happens, we will get relegated, have sanctions imposed on us, and the drop to league one if we are lucky is just about to happen.

I really can't see anything else happening. But one thing that won't change, is our loyalty and love the for this huge community that is part of our lives. Owners come and go, but we are Everton!!!!

God bless our club!!
We deserve so much more!!
Love to all Evertonians near and far!!!
Nil Satis, Nisi Optimum

On the one hand do we want unknown players with questionable performance histories from far less competitive leagues, simply buying for the sake of it, or do we hold back and only invest in those who'll make a genuine difference?

I always thought Lampard set the team up to be withdrawn and very indirect, far too passive with the team always looking sideways and backwards. It's the main reason why I wanted him replaced after the Forest game.

Not even Haaland will score goals with those tactics.

Taking a punt on Gallagher was, for me, typical Bill bollocks. He was attempting to say 'see we are trying'. Bullshit... if they were serious the interest would have been in Loftus - Cheek, a far more realistic target, a midfielder who can play wide on the right or in midfield.

I don't do conspiracy theories, there's nothing sinister, no hidden agenda. Just a bunch of numpties in the boardroom who haven't got the first clue on running a Premier League football club.

Kenwright is strictly League 2 calibre, he'd bask in the BBC David v Goliath 3rd round FA Cup tie coverage, analyse his soundbites as he runs his little club shelling out the odd couple of hundred K on 35 year olds who were famous way back for while.

What struck me was the mentality which these lads took into every game. They'd be getting twatted 4/5-0 at HT - Usually by some posh team from over the water who didnt even have to "borrow" their goalposts. Yet they would come out for the second half miraculously filled with a new found resolve. an illogical emotion brought on simply because somebody shouted "Right lads. We go again"

You'll all be here, or at GP for the Arsenal game - Yes even the ones who have officially resigned as Evertonians.

Your stomach will do cartwheels every time Arsenal get into our half (just the ninety minutes then) You'll kick every ball, you'll shout yourself horse and you'll be as knackered as the players come the final whistle.

We invest so much of ourselves in this club and we get less than nothing back... I don't know why the fuck we do it, but seemingly... Thats the deal.

Yeah Everton football club is four/five nil down at HT against posh fuckers who can affort their own goalposts, But come the Arsenal game, we'll all hear that voice whispering in our ear...and we'll go again

Yes that's what I was getting at mate, a bullshit story to make it look like the club were trying to reinvest the money, which we all know was never going to happen.

We have been crying out for goals and goal threat for years, and whatever little we had has been released or sold.

To not use the 2 remaining loans, sell your 2 best players from last year, during a season that contained a 6 week break is frankly gross incompetence.

You reap what you sow Moshiri, and you'll get nothing for this club. That's on you and the weaklings you surrounded yourself with.

This is Kenwright ls slow death of Everton over many years. How can this narcissistic man show his face again. I stopped going to Goodison after the pandemic because of him. I just want him gone. Everton will cease under his watch.

Oh and another thing, anyone with fond memories of Greame Sharp, you have been let down, big time!

The lads who approached players cars, or remonstrated verbally with players, are being slated by some as the reason why players won't sign for us. That's nonesense. Players don't want to come to Everton, because we are a club in freefall. Its as simple as that. Although, I personally don't condone certain fans actions, I can sympathise with their spur of the moment frustrations.

I vividly remember when Harry Catterick was manger and he was allegedly jostled and kicked to the ground by a group of fans, for daring to drop Alex Young in favour of a young unknown 16 year old Joe Royle. The press had a field day at the time, but Catterick simply maintained his dignity and got on with his job of managing EFC.

Our press office put out fictitious stories of Baxendale's headlock, totally unproven, yet nobody within the club had the decency to come out and say that the incident was without substance. That was left to the Police to issue that statement. How pathetic can you get?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist as a rule, but I'm inclined to agree with some people's fears on here, that there are darker and more sinister financial elements at work within our club. The consequences of which could prove irretrievably devastating.

Let's get right behind Sean Dyche. He's our man now. Whoever he selects to pull on the Royal Blue, let's get right behind them. Each and every one of them, regardless of indifferent past performances. We are Evertonians. That is our duty,

Into battle once more we go! COYB.

Not this time.

The way we lost out with other clubs on players suggests to me that we were outbid on wages. The desperate last hours of daft offers suggest blind panic.

All told, this window shows the self-inflicted lack of finance and planning.

Time to stick with the manager and players. Time to hope Sean finds the nous and goals that lurk in this squad somewhere.

When we're safe/down is the time to go after this owner and board relentlessly.

What my point is there are all of a sudden a lot of very similar posts so over Facebook fom so called "top contributers". Every single post the same theme I hope the fans are happy protesting caused this. We can't sign any players because the fans have scared them off. When you look at their posting history they always appear to back the board.

There is a definite deliberate attempt to shift the blame to the fans like headlock gate etc. The club will try and spin this to blame us.

Bobby Danny I agree buying for the sake of buying is pointless, however to not even get a couple of loans in is ridiculous. We probably are skint as a club. I also think my tin hat conspiracy theory might have legs. Why waste money on players if they are going to sell up? Why sell Gordon and bank the money, because we have not turned a profit for first time in years.

I think the club has looked at this and thought they have enough to stay up now Dyche is here so no new players. They may be right I still think we can stay up, the point is that's one very risky roll of the dice.

"Andy 616. Whether you like it or not some players will be put off by videos of players being chased and abused in cars. Fact."

No Ian, not fact but your personal opinion. Unless of course you have been on the phone to the players' agents over the last 24 hours.

After all, we've got enough of our own and the toilet is overflowing with it… from top to bottom… but it's not just any shite… it's our shite!

Unfortunately the majority of the fanbase couldn't quite fathom why some die-hard Evertonians were trying to make their great leader and saviour look like a conman and baulked at their endeavour.

Well, whoever you were (and are), I hope you're happy because he's strangled the life out of the club as we all knew he would in the end. Jobs will be lost, hearts will be broken yet Kenwright and his mates have made a fortune standing on the backs of Evertonians goodwill.

RIP Everton Football Club,
1878-2023
Murdered by William Kenwright

https://twitter.com/ThePeoplesGroup/status/1620682839577739264?s=20&t=kE8jqbYH1Z6p_VN3rY8taw

Those of you who want Dele and other loan players recalled, I'm afraid that it's just not possible once the transfer window has shut. Only free agents can be signed now.

Terrible mismanagement.

The signings of Jelavic, Pienaar, Donovan, Gibson or before it the likes of Brian McBride ect ect.

Even the likes of Aaron Lennon on loan back in 2015 when in Leighton Baines own words "shamed others into hard work".

Now we have a crop of players that have fallen flat, and frankly have no inspiration on that pitch to get us out of it.

Dyche will soon know what he's in for with this crop of players, he'll realise that he was spoiled when at Burnley.

We escaped relegation with a game to spare last season. Our goals for, have been pathetic for years. This season is no better, probably worse so far. I think that Thelwell and Lampard had a lot of positions to improve with very little scope to pick up major improvements.

There were decent players out there this window and not to pick up one is ominous. I don't think Thelwell had the funds to go for any one of them.

It has to be Financial irresponsibility that has caused the plight we're in.

As Paul (616) as pointed out, there is nothing we can do to turn back the clock.

We can do what we do best, and that is support the playing staff (including the youngsters!!) and the manager. Nothing should divert us from that.

We have 18 games or so, to save ourselves from relegation.we have goalscorers, and we need to begin playing as a team who can provide them with chances to score. I think we have the best manager to get the team to do just that.

I think he will give Dobbin, Ellis and Cannon, if he'll bring the ones on loan back, (and Maupay) the chances to prove themselves. Gray and Townsend have scored good goals since they've come. They need to score more. But so do the team as a whole. If we can do it, we will escape relegation.
After that, then the Board, and the owner need to be held to account. This club deserves better than them much better!

Maybe Dyche will keep us up but we are second favourites for relegation and rightly so. Whatever happens the board will surely never be forgiven for their actions this season and something will have to give there. Again I'm not sure why Moshiri keeps on standing up for them?

If we are relegated then would that increase the likelihood of new buyers sniffing a bargain? Presumably Mosh would have to significantly lower the asking price. It seems like he's checked out.

What a quite extraordinary thing to have managed to turn the long awaited injection of spending power, transfer funds and opportunity into an inexorable slide towards relegation and possibly worse.

We still have more than enough to survive in my view so lets not talk ourselves into a relegation scenario.

Thirty years ago I was in one of those teams getting killed every Sunday morning. Didn't matter. What's the point of playing if you don't give everything. That's what Dyche, the players and us fans need to do now.

We've all rightly had a go at the criminals who run our club. Now it's time to bin the protests and do our utmost to keep our club up. Then we can hopefully see the back of Moshiri et al.

Has this squad got the ability and the mental strength to get is out of this hole?

Well the one massive plus is that we've got a manager like Dyche in charge. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea but in the circumstances can you think of anyone better?

We've got to get right behind the team, with no booing or you're not fit to wear the shirt chants, even if we get pasted in the next few games.

We can't control the antics of a couple of knobheads, but we can make sure that the other 30-odd thousand of us at every game at Goodison make the place a bear pit. Get behind the team, get behind the manager. The rest is out of our control.

Anyway, to your point, I can't get a ticket for life or money for Arsenal, but I will be there fighting in spirit. I'll probably be sat around many so called Arsenal fans who know virtually nothing about football. I'm used to that in west London. Don't talk to me about alleged Chelsea supporters and the life long Liverpool and Manchester United "supporters" I have to endure down here. I can tell them more about their clubs than they know.

I will comment as much as anyone on the problems with our club and I care passionately about our plight and deeply about Everton beyond anything I can explain, But come match day, they have me hook line and sinker. I just want 3 points.

Sorrry for the rant Darren. You kicked me off!!

I watched him when he came on at 70mins this week against West Ham. He was hit and miss, but what struck me is how confident and positive the lad was.

He was a live wire, constantly wanting the ball and determined to attack the West Ham defence. I'm not saying he's going to be the silver bullet, far from it, but he would be a definite plus to be used from the bench. Offering a bit of pace and directness that tiring defenders hate. He's looking to me like a young player with some upside given the right advice and chances to play.

With our abysmal failure in the transfer window this has to be considered today.

Get behind the team all you like but it's a futile gesture. Most of these fucks don't deserve to wear the shirt. We should be focussing 1000% on getting rid of the board and forcing Moshiri to act so that when we do drop we can regroup properly, IF there is a club still left. This set up won't survive in the Championship.

MOVE ON.

Little point in whinging as we all know the state of the club and that's not going to improve all the time present incumbent are there and they are not going anywhere no matter what we say ( but happy to be proved wrong).

Let's start with doing Arsenal on Saturday!

We need a minimum of 23 points. Dyche can galvanise and get the best out of this squad. He can? It shouldn't be pretty but I don't care. Just do it.!

What am I talking about? He'd fit right in at Everton!

The club won't admit it, but we are in a mess with the P&L rules and have stretched them to the limit, indeed lots of journalists believe we've already breached them. 96% of turnover spent on wages is not sustainable. The situation is entirely down to the mismanagement of Moshiri, Kenwright and board over the last few years in wasting a fortune in transfer fees, wages and paying off sacked managers and DoFs. We've blown our windfall and now we have to go back scrimping and saving to try to get the P&L under control like we did for years under Moyes. Dyche is not stupid and will have known the score when he signed up. We have just got to hope that he can keep the team up and go on to stabilise us like Moyes did when he took over. Relegation would be a disaster for the club in terms of lost revenue. The FL P&S rules are also far fighter than the PL so we could be facing a points deduction if we are relegated meaning there would be no quick return. It's all on Dyche now.

i do agree this is not over and we are not relegated yet.

As for the rest. Do you really need a list of what Kenwright has done to this club?
Let's start with King's Dock the lies that led to us losing it

The Kirkby fiasco the lies that he used to try and force the move. Funny how Goodison still passes its safety certificate.

I could go on and on. The only constant in the 30 year demise of this club is him.

He found Moshiri the only owner who suited what he wanted namely to stay in control. He was not the best owner for Everton he was the best owner for Kenwright.

The club for years had tried to demonise fans. He uses his friends and contacts in the media to create the illusion he's the greatest ever blue. He's not he's a narcissistic parasite that gaslights idiot fans and the sole reason we are where we are now.

The fans definitely need to be united we will come together like last time for the club, we will no doubt save us. However the current owner and board must be run out of this club. They are destroying it.

If we go down this will be the end of Everton. They will be making Milk Borad adverts about us Everton who are they... exactly

Relegation means a fire sale. We then need to try and get promotion back with none of our best players. If we don't our loses will be higher than allowed a points deduction will follow. There is a very good chance we could down again.

Administration is a very serious threat again a further points deduction.

This is all on the owners and current board the complete mismanagement of the club.

Our only hope is we survive, is this possible? - definitely, has this been made harder by the board? - definitely. Do we need fans calling each other out and believing the club lies and planted stories? - no.

There does not seemed to have been a plan regarding the Transfering in of players.Of course they where looking for last minute loan bargains and did give lip service to bidding for players in demand they really did not want.

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One of the most considered posts I have seen on here for years!

Yes we have got people running the club who could certainly be improved on, but the level of vitriol is crazy. I agree with him that the squad is good enough to survive if coached properly, which I'm confident Dyche will bring to the table. We will not become world beaters anytime soon, but realistically how many clubs are?

We will have a new stadium soon (which by the way no one else has been able to deliver before the current owner) which will almost certainly mean the club is sold, probably to some other dodgy billionaire or country with dubious backgrounds.

At which point, if we do not win the league, lots of other trophies, attract the world's best manager and top top world class players, the new owners will also be ‘shite'…

How about supporting the club we all profess to love, through thick and thin, and give the players the belief to put in stronger performances and get us further up the table!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-308410/Gerrards-U-turn-threats-family.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1322748/Wayne-Rooney-death-threat-Angry-fans-outside-home.html

The other side of the coin too, most players are greedy bastards these days, and if a new man joins on a much better deal/salary it can, and does cause derision. Remember we are not defeated until it has become an impossibility, and everything is possible.

We are Everton!

To pass through another transfer window and not address that is just plain incomprehensible but clearly points to the utter mismanagement in the corridors of power at our once great club. Some think it is a deliberate act by the board but to say that is to assume they are strategic, can formulate a plan & execute it. That I am afraid is well beyond them as they have proven time & time again.

There is nothing we blues can do about the past right now, we have to move on & focus all our energies on supporting Sean Dyche & the team. It is still possible to avoid relegation, its going to be a bumpy ride but we MUST get behind & support this team with every ounce of energy we have.

The mist clears.
Kenwright would only sell to someone who gave him all his money whilst retaining all his power (ie all the vital organs fed by the heartbeat of the club)
Enter Mr Moshiri.
Articles state owner cannot sack the board.
Kenwright has placed puppets around him.
Now Kenwright will never leave, sealed into the Everton sarcophagus.
Kenwright receives huge cash injection.
Kenwright goes about squandering dime after dime.
Kenwright states he doesn't trust Moshiri with the club.
Moshiri powerless to act in reality and admits so.
Moshiri's realising of a new stadium is now his The Sword of Damocles.
The showman has worked his magic.
Draw Curtains

The owner has backed the club with his money, his mistake is listening to the wrong people. We all know the Board is a joke but that's a long term problem. Lampard in a year has done huge damage, walked away with millions and is still popular!

Similarly the suggestion that the threat of relegation deterred players doesn't stack up either. Apart from us, every Premier League team from 13th downward recruited at least 3 players in the window and the players joining know that 3 of those teams will be relegated.

A more plausible scenario is that we went for one player (the winger who decided to switch to the bench at Spurs after Frank was given his P45) and that was it. Chelsea report no bids (from anyone) for Connor Gallagher, while most of the player links that popped up yesterday looked like lazy media or agent creations.

The money from the sales of Gordon, Broadhead and Anderson – having been received before 30 June – will be used to improve the accounts. Expect to see us repeat the trick with the sale of Pickford during the summer.

Had Bielsa been appointed our manager, he would probably have resigned this morning.

I've read 660 twice, and all I can do is concur with your observations.
Moving on, and that's what we must do, what's done is done, reducing us further as a laughing stock in the eyes of other clubs fans/supporters.
We are currently and have been heading on a downward spiral, whereby (and we will) we avoid relegation by the skin of our teeth.
One question I would like answering is; ‘why did it it take so long announcing the appointment of Sean Dyche? No doubt there is a gagging clause in his contract.
Let's get behind the team and the manager. 18 games to go, 54 points to play for, sounds better already, albeit a sticking plaster over a gaping wound COYB

It's sycophants like you that are part of the reason we are in this mess. You've got the Everton you deserve.

I take offence when the owners labeled me and my 11 year old match going son hooligan and toxic with this "club source" leaks to the media.

We go the game we support the team. All Everton fans want the same to support the team we love and see us successful. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where the issues lie.

I will be there at the match on Saturday supporting the team, I'll also be at the protests supporting the club and trying to cure the disease at the top that is killing it.

If you want to bury your head fine, don't start crying when we are the next Accrington Stanley.

It brought back my memories of playing for a pub team (The Derby, Everton Valley) as a 20 something. We played in the Kirkby Newtown League, on a, very aptly, named Windy Harbour ground. The pitch was built on top of a rubbish dump and when it rained (it always rained!) oil used to work it's way to the surface.
We got beat every Sunday, got changed in a concrete building and it always seemed to be freezing, we got covered in oily gunge if we slid on the stuff, but we went the pub after it and talked about how we'd win next week. We never did, until one game. I scored, me mate scored and we won our only match in all the time we played there!

Thwe pub afterwards was the consolation though, selling spot theball tickets to help pay for the kits and getting them washed. We kept going, though, for years. Never learned any sense!,

I've been going to The ground since the late Fifties, when I was about 10 and luck enough to see the great sides of the Sixties and the Eighties, been to Wembley, think it was six times and see us win the Cup twice and League 4 times. Really lucky.

For nearly thirty years since this con man has become Chairman, we've seen us tread water, then start the slide to where we are now. He lost us the chance of playing at the Kings Dock, try to take us out the City and now presiding over our demise, as though it isn't happening.

My view is that our players and our manager are all that matters now. Where we end up in May, who knows, but the Board are finished as far as I'm concerned. I don't give a toss whether they turn up or not (though I think they might well stay away) We have the media, hovering like vultures, looking for the evidence of us Toxic Fans. Well they can sod off an all. It's our club at stake here, we support our team.

Moshiri talking about an existential threat sounds off the alarm bells , agents wanting cast iron guarantees of payment of long contracts despite relegation. All of which we wouldn't do.

I think the claims of the board trying to blindside the fans with phantom 45m bids for players are right, it was a total smokescreen.

In our situation it was only short term four month loans that were acceptable to us or we were ever interested in.

And if the answer is 'our istory' that just shows what a joke we are. Winning league titles before the advent of colour television doesn't mean a damn thing to anyone other than Evertonians.

If I was Dyche today, left with a bunch of players who, to all intents and purposes have proved they don't have the mental/physical toughness for the task ahead, I'd be sitting with the coaches/managers of our under 23s/21s/18s etc and asking. "who do you have who has no fear?"

I'd want to find 4/5 players from within the club who could be fast-tracked.

They wouldn't have to be the 'best' players, just those who despise (DESPISE!) losing.

A kind of 'pups of war' group (?)

The kind who'd run through their own grandmother to win a ball and maybe have a bit of a physical presence.

I'm not suggesting putting 4/5 young players into the side but rather bringing them into the group.

The next 18 games imo are going to require a certain amount of gambling and he'll need to try to repair the psychological damage results have had on the current mob

Just avoiding relegation will feel no different than going down by 20 points, so now is the time to go fo it'.

We need EVERY player to play for EVERY second of EVERY game.

We need to see players fight for EVERY second ball.

We need to press teams like they press us.

Physically we need to go shoulder-to-shoulder with opposition players and make sure it is them who come off second best.

We need players to stop being mutes - open their fucking mouths, scream at each other, scream at the refs, linesmen/women.

One of our players goes down in the box?

Everyone get in the ref's face.

And maybe most importantly, we're going to require players who say "give ME the ball, I'm NOT scared of making a mistake" (nb: all that pointless tip-tapping over the past few months, that's players basically saying 'don't give me the fucking ball, I don't want it')

I also think having 2 or even 3 up front will be just as effective a defence as anything else (ie: 7 at the back or...whatever).

If Dyche has a big pair of plums, now's the time to wave them about.

As Kenny Rogers said "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em" (to be clear, Kenny was talking about cards not testicles).

We are far worse off than this time last season. We are without the Brazilian number nine AND the "Dirty cowardly rat" who fought so hard to stay in the division last season, he was unanimously voted player of the year by his team mates - You know. The ones who were on the pitch with him.

Our board were clearly in talks with Newcastle. They clearly didnt want their 40m asset injured and they completed the hat-trick of snide moves by not spending a penny on the windfall.

But they will get away with it..Especially if there`s a kid to blame

Newcastle have spent £250m in transfers in 2 years, struck lucky with a manager no one would take a gamble on, even us and it's paid dividends - Wembley and top 4 in the league. And I have no doubt they'll go on to be equal of City, Liverpool etc.

We've blown it for many years yet.

I did say the other day I hope with a new manager and hopefully a couple of new players that the lads organising the protest should maybe call it off, but in all honesty there is no argument I can put forward that could do anything but back the protest. I would just say look we al agree this owner and board have to go, and so far the press and TV are agreeing with those arguments. But lets make sure that the protests don't cross the line and don't let the narrative to change to no wonder they cant get players to come because of the behaviour of some fans. Dont go near players after the game, don't go on the pitch.

Somebody reminded me that when Villa went down they didn't buy anybody in the window and lost the next 13 out of 15 and got relegated.
I cant help feel a bit of sympathy for Dyche non of this was his making yet somehow he is expected to turn around a team that don't score and have won only 3 league games this season. I worry that the frustration and anger the fans are feeling could well turn ugly should Arsenal win this easily as form would suggest.
Finally we have to point the finger at Lampard and his coaches, they have twice managed to put this club perilously close to being relegated. I have nothing but contempt for him and his coaches, yes this board and owner are the worst. But you were given enough funds for us not to be anywhere near relegation.

Ian E@442, says the club is actually stronger because we have replaced Lampard, with a new manager, but I don't think he's factored in the most important thing, about the fans, who will be absolutely fuming with this lying, self serving, totally inept board.

My own opinion is the people on the board should now become an irrelevance until the club is sold, but unless they come out with some kind of statement to either acknowledge this, and tell us they are going to stay away from the game, they should just resign, for the good of the club, they profess to love.

I've stated it many times before, because even though people don't like to admit they have been completely taken in by a liar, the way the club has dealt with Anthony Gordon, has parallels with both Jeffers and Rooney, and has the smell of an egotistical nepotistic lying bastard all over it.

Now he can add second rate chairman of a second rate football club/ team to his second rate credentials.

Not sure you read the post fully! I agreed the people running the club need changing. I also did not, and would not, accuse people criticising the board of not being dedicated supporters who want the best for Everton Football Club. What I did say is we need to all give the players belief that they can turn this around this season.
Until the stadium is complete there is little or no chance of Moshiri selling as he will not get as good a price - this is just economic sense. I don't like or trust the guy and want him out, just like I wanted Johnson out when he was making pigs ear of it. I also want BK out, or at least in no position of power/authority. I am no sycophant and have certainly not buried my head in the sand. Things need to change but we just don't agree and when that is realistically going to happen. Enjoy the game on Saturday I'm sure I will (well here's hoping anyway!!).

Glad you clarified the Kenny Rogers situation, I was almost wincing at the very thought of him folding them !

2 million loan fee proposed and a commitment to buy him for 30 million if we stay in the premiership. I am guessing that was the basis of all offers we made in the transfer window and why we signed nobody. The 40 million from Gordon's transfer was to return us to profit, not to finance player deals.

Richarlison and Gordon got 14 goals and 7 assists between them last season. They were also our main saleable assets so they have gone and won't be replaced. We have no money and won't have in the future unless minority investors get on board.

However, I don't buy that our board were in early talks with Newcastle. If they had been negotiating early, Newcastle and Gordon's own agent would have told him to carry on attending training and sit tight. We were bound to sell at the right price.

More likely the board worked the same angle as they did on Rooney all those years ago. Privately agree to sell the player at the right price, act like they are desperate to retain him in public.

The player was badly advised by his agent, as Everton's board are grim shysters but they are not that sharp. Gordon could have attended training, pleaded his loyalty to Everton and still got his move.

At the start of the season, we were all full of optimism, we even had a few good results. So theoretically we have the players; they are in rubbish form now, but they don't lose form without a reason, and I think that reason was basically Lampard. Dyche is much more canny and is surely the right person to get the best out of the squad.

We need to try to look on the bright side - what else can we do?

No John, I absolutely agree, get right behind the team, but don't let the board and owner off the hook.

Thelwell unfortunately in my eyes is now demonstrating that he too is way short of the skills required to do this job. His ridiculous 120 point plan to make Everton ‘s Academy, Recruitment, Medical functions truly top class, shows a man who is just overwhelmed by the leadership qualities he needs to take this club forward. The 120 point is a plan to impress the useless board that he's on top of his job.
Unfortunately he way off the mark, he can't plan and execute recruitment as we've just seen, he's kowtowing to Moshiri and Kemwright, he seems to a non entity as far as the rest of the football fraternity, a man who can't sell Everton even to mercenary footballers.

Just give Dyche the whole of the footballing side to run, he can't do as bad a job as Thelwell & Lampard

Sharp, will be nodding like Phil Neal, whilst Kenwright would be nudging Denise laughing, saying he still doesn't know I'm a red.

Minder is just starting on itv4. It's that bad, I've just had a mate from London, texting me to tell me I need cheering up, so put minder on!

Seany's here...!

Anyone who thinks we are out of the woods based on the removal of Frank Lampard is living in cloud cuckoo land, he had plenty of faults, but Sean Dyche is set to manage the same set of players, these players are the common denominator in the demise of this club, aided and abetted by the miscreants supposedly running the horror show.

We all celebrated avoiding relegation last season, such emotional scenes, but just let that sink in, we were nearly relegated!

God help us.

We watched last week as Moshiri answered pre prepared questions from a member of the FAB, why not let a sports journalist ask you questions or our chairman or our DOF. But no the manager who isn't responsible for any of this debacle will have to answer the questions that the press will put to him.
What a start to your role as Everton manager.

We now have a much better manager in my opinion, and although the squad isn't the greatest in terms of quality, I believe that Dyche will turn it around. Anybody that thinks Dyche is nothing more than a disciplinarian should watch some of his interviews on youtube.

Everton v Arsenal LOSE

Liverpool v Everton LOSE

Everton v Leeds United DRAW

Everton v Aston Villa DRAW

Nottingham Forest v Everton LOSE

Everton v Brentford LOSE

Chelsea v Everton LOSE

Everton v Tottenham Hotspur LOSE

Manchester United v Everton LOSE

Everton v Fulham WIN

Crystal Palace v Everton DRAW

Everton v Newcastle United LOSE

Leicester City v Everton DRAW

Brighton & Hove Albion V Everton LOSE

Everton v Manchester City LOSE

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton DRAW

Everton v AFC Bournemouth LOSE

This season no Richarlison, DCL missing too many games and Gordon wanting to be somewhere else but its all Lampards fault, great logic that.

Thats water under the bridge anyway.

You have to feel sorry for Dyche and us of course - obviously he has the consolation of a very large influx of cash every week- us poor sods have not. We are now 1/2 to go down, going smaller each week.

Its going to take large miracle for him to keep us up now, we were poor last season and this and we are weaker now.

I don't think the bigwigs will be turning up at the game this week now do you, theres bound to be fresh protests.

To have any chance of staying in the Prem. the team needs our support more than ever now, even though going to games feels more like serving a penance.

Probably won't be as bad as that but we won't stay up I agree.

I see 3 wins and 6 draws so that won't be enough to keep the club up.

30 points is my prediction and I think we'll finish 19th.

I just don't see enough goal threat in our team.

For those hoping Dyche is going to help the club avoid relegation, I admire your hope in the face of the grim reality. We would need the courage of Ives and Hiltz to even attempt to pull off a great escape, and sadly our players don't possess that bravery. PS Ives and Hiltz didn't escape

I think Moshiri has put the brakes on bigtime in order to make the club (financially) a more attractive one to buy.

What he seems unable to comprehend is that a championship club is a much less attractive prospect than a premier league club.

Yesterday's performance (transferwise) just CAN'T alone be down to a level of incompetence beyond belief.

If they'd have brought in three of the academy players to handle yesterday they'd have managed to get a deal over the line.

I think there's not only a disconnect between the supporters and the board I think there's one between Moshiri and the board as well.

Either way I firmly believe that we're well and truly fucked.

We won't get rid of this board until the club's sold and by then we'll be in the championship.

The only way we survive is the fans supporting the team. If all the infighting can remain on social media all protests away from match itself we might just do it again

"We were after certain players" — you do your homework, get them signed up, don't leave it to the last minute and lose out.

I think we will survive — as long as the board keeps away from Goodison Park and the fans do their bit.

My take is that we did try to sign players, but they wouldn't come. We've been blackballed. Every agent in the land is currently saying to their client "Don't go to Everton". And to be fair, a white knuckle relegation ride with a fanbase at war with the board – why would you sign up for that if there are other options around?

So, when Moshiri comes out and says 'we tried' I'm not going to instantly dismiss that, particularly if it's backed up by Thelwell and Dyche. It is total fucking incompetence like, but that's not as bad as deliberately holing the boat.

Getting back now to what's important (and that ain't the transfer window), I think we've got the squad to stay ahead of Southampton and a couple of others once Dyche's proper coaching bears fruit.

Clearly we are lacking goals, but we only need one to win a game, and I suspect our work from set-pieces is going to improve significantly, and that we are going to be very mean defensively. It might not be pretty… but probably pretty effective.

The Everton owner, Kenwright and his puppets have called time and last orders on the club. But fuck him and his puppets, we are having a “stay behind” that will last for the rest of this season and the future.

Get behind the team and the manager before and during the game. I'm not interested, now, in protesting against phoney bastards, just fuckin' blank and swerve people(?) like them, they can go and mix with other phoney bastards like themselves.

I'll be going to the rest of the home games cheering my team on. I know 99% of my fellow fans will be doing the same. Miracles happen, let's try and create one for The Blues.

The transfer did not just happen. There was days of negotiation. We were told by Leighton Baines that the player was excused for at least one of the days. It's no stretch to then think the club excused the others because they wanted him in one piece so the sale could go ahead.

I see a lot of people pointing the finger at the player, but I believe that's born out of a desire to think the worst of a him.
Other than Bainsey correcting a reporter by telling him he wasn't AWOL... I've seen no statement from the club, the coaches or the player. No evidence whatsoever.

I only see a sequence of events which suggests to me that club were absolutely compliant with his absence.

Kenwright will be happy for people to point the finger at an outbound young boy. He always has been.

Deadline day has gone and is now irrelevant. The battle starts here. It's not over yet.

When he was appointed I thought we'd get out of this. The lack of signings is a disgrace but we still have the quality to stay up.

The board should stay away not because of safety, but they will cause fan division. I remember during the Blue Union days the club deliberately put Bill's smiling face on the screen during a match. As you can imagine there were boos and claps and fan arguments and infighting.

If we are to survive, every home game needs to be like Palace last season.

Fans protesting before and after the game is fine as long as the players know they are supported.

I can however see the board intent on self-preservation trying to create fan unrest and infighting. If we fight each other, we forget about them. For this reason alone, they need to stay away and let us do our job after they failed to do theirs.

But we do have some good players and, if Dyche gets the team playing a better system and gets them organised and motivated, we do have a chance. Staying clear of injuries and having a bit of luck would be a huge help.

But the biggest worry for me is the justified bandwagon about our terrible board. We need to put our hatred for them on ice and leave all protests until the end of the season. It is not doing any of us any good.

We can talk about getting behind the team but what is going to happen if Arsenal go 2 or 3 up early on? Some supporters could lose their heads. And we do not want anyone running onto the pitch.

We must get behind the team and stay behind the team during the Arsenal game, whatever happens, and stay behind them for the remainder of the season.

Now is the time for cool heads, backing the team, and then unleash the biggest protest in history at the end of the season.

Just trying to find a positive to this whole debacle!!

This boardroom is being run by the lunatic asylum or by red shite wankers. After all this time, Bill was a red really. He is just poison!!! Along with his band of merry men!!!

The team need cheering, the atmosphere has to be a bear pit for the opposition.

The owner and board are nothing.

Apologies if I'm being pedantic, it's just the young players over 18 are men, not boys.

At the end of the day, we are all understandably pissed off. I'm concerned though that the Burnley team that was relegated last season had more talent and ability than the 2023 Everton squad.

One of the results of de-leveraging is that he has to raise less cash himself personally or from a third party (new) investor in the future. A very calculated risk though as relegation is a disaster for the club & Moshiri

I'll be honest I have no idea about accounting or finance, but it would seem that any squad building has been sacrificed for the completion of the new stadium?

From that perspective, I believe that Sean Dyche took the job in full knowledge of the circumstances he would be working under, and I would guess there will be no expensive signings made in the next couple of years or more, even if Dyche keeps us in the top division.

Moshiri has always been about the money. He gambled wildly on transfers, not necessarily to improve the team, but rather to try and attract investors. The gamble failed, and world events have conspired to exacerbate that failure to such an extent that he's now decided to gamble on the club remaining in the top tier and is hoping there is enough gas in the tank for the club to limp to the new stadium; unfortunately, the petrol gauge is flashing empty.

But let's not relegate ourselves. There's so many surrender-monkey comments here, for fuck's sake.

We have a decent squad. Not great, but okay. Many would have thought Lampard should have had us mid-table at least with this squad, so it can't be that bad.

We have a manager who knows how to scrap. He's done it enough times, he'll pick the players who are up for the scrap.

We have us. The best fans in the world. Now we will show we are the best by dragging our team over the line in every game. We can do something about it on matchday. We did it last season and we'll do it again.

Sorry, Premier League. The Toffees are here to stay.

UTFT

What is “the Kenshite narrative” and what is your honest counter to it?

I'm interested, not being arsey.

Almost like the club has given up already and won't even try to do all it can to avoid relegation. If we feel down about it, can you imagine the feeling in the dressing room? It can't be good for morale.

The failure to sign a decent striker and effective winger is now bordering on farcical. Everyone can see we needed more quality/ and numbers in some areas apart from those running the club it seems. The DoF role is a joke and a total waste of money.

I know it might be players turning us down to be fair, which you can't do a lot about, but there must have been at least one good player somewhere we could afford and who would come.

Shambles.

Dyche basically has 18 experimental games. If we can see seeds of something positive, then most of us would be happy. Relegation is a bigger threat than last year so if we have to rebuild in the championship, then so be it.

On the plus side, chatting to a couple of friends who are Burnley fans, they are loving the championship and don't want to get promoted. Maybe we will enjoy it more down there.

The owner and chairman are the reason why we are in this position.

The atmosphere against Southampton was totally focused on the teams support, didn't help sadly did it.

The owner needs telling what we are all feeling.

Relegation with these fools in charge is a nightmare scenario for us.

KENWRIGHT OUT NOW!

I'd have had far more respect if he'd have spelled out the dire financial situation and managed our expectations by saying we had to cut costs in order to finance the stadium. I wouldn't have liked it but I'd have respected that position.

Yet again, it all comes down to there being no communication, whatsoever.

This exasperated the fans, and signing nobody in the transfer window has exasperated people even more.

Sit in the stadium at the end of every game, and even rejoice that these phoney's won't dare show their face's anymore, but I also think we should forget about them, because it's obvious they have never been interested in us.

I'd love to get hold of Dyche, I'm not sure he would let me anywhere near the place, to give his squad a straight from the heart speech, (that's his job) but blocks need to be built quickly between the players and the fans, because they are all we have right now, and we need them to fight for our shirt.

Are there any other young forwards that might step up should we need them.

I'm sure Everton DID try to sign some players but the terms they were offering were not attractive enough due to the constraints of P&L rules. A result of incompetent management by an inept Board over many, many years.

As an aside, I wonder when the Premier League auditors are going to start examining Nottingham Forest's books (27 players signed this season) or Chelsea's (𧻨m spent in the last two windows)? Not going to affect us, I know, but it intrigues me.

Lampard was hopeless in formation, selection, tactics and Subs.

The fan protests should have been solely aimed at Lampard after Bournemouth.

Going after the Board mid season served no useful purpose and anyone with sense would have seen that. The Board werent going to suddenly sell mid campaign

Going after Barrett Baxendale and Sharp when we were joint bottom with a Manager tactically stinking the gaff out was absolutely ridiculous.

The time for board protests was the end of last season or the end of this season.

The protests have just caused toxicity, affected player interaction ( cars) and in my view made us very unatttactive in the transfer window.

The Board are useless. But the protesting fanbase has made things worse.

That's my opinion. Many won't agree. No doubt the usual suspects will not address the issues or debate but just insult me. Or perhaps chase me in my car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiGlgchv4E

Would be 4-4-1-1 / 4-2-3-1, both of which Dyche is comfortable with.

Pickford

Holgate - Tarkowski - Mina - Godfrey

Gray - Onana - Gana - McNeil

Iwobi

Calvert-Lewin

I am hoping Dyche is the type who would let you talk to the players, and is on it all.

Like you say all our hopes are on Dyche and the players performing a miracle.

It can be done and the supporters should back the team to the hilt and forget about the rotten board, for now,

Good on you Tony. COYB!

Even under pressure, the board are saying nothing, but they are also sitting still, and now that Lampard has been replaced by Dyche, surely these lying self preserving nepotistic conmen and woman, should do the decent thing and resign?

I'm certain that this would give almost everyone, a massive lift, and it would definitely help the supporters, to pull themselves off the floor, to try and help the team, because now Moshiri has given up, we have got nothing. Except ourselves.

Time to focus on the next game rather than what we can't change. Only things that matter are the players, the coaches and the fans. Training had better focus on organisation with every player's attitude being checked personally by Dyche. Only those who will run through walls are allowed.

I can see Simms getting a game alongside DCL and Maupay on the bench. Defence of Coleman, Tarkowski, Coady and Godfrey. Midfield has lots of options, but maybe Iwobi, Doucoure, Onana and McNeil? Aim to grind out a draw minimum, but maybe nick one via long ball or set piece. Remember Man City.

He owes the board nothing, especially if they are trying to spin the blame onto him by lying that he was missing training. Bill certainly has a long track record in this line of duplicity.

Unfortunately, he probably will just move on and look forward to his new challenge.

Someone with pace in central defence would be a good start. That means Holgate or Godfrey to partner Keane or Tarkowski.

We're not staying up from here, but we have a chance to make it a respectable end to the season. It would be nice if we could cause an upset in what is likely to be our last derby for a few years!

It might just wake the fcukers up and they realise they have to put in some hard work to avoid relegation.

The horse bolted years ago, and the legacy of decades of mismanagement is upon us now. The kopites or mancs would never have tolerated this for so long.

Winning games is what every Evertonian wants, it's what any fan wants for their club.

But scraping by, escaping relegation by the skin of Our teeth and merely existing is surely not what rational Evertonians want for Everton Football Club.

I'm afraid John that it's exactly the "Ostritch & sand pit" scenario which your statement embodies that allows the ineptitude of our Board. And frankly, I'm long overtired being told what to do by thumb twiddling lickspittles who display precisely none of the fighting spirit that Sean Dyche will require, if he is to pull off a feat of biblical proportions this season.

But didn't lead to a TDD without signings for the first time, eh Ian?

21/22 42 goals Leeds United Pts 38

20/21 33 goals Burnley Pts 39

19/20 41 goals Villa Pts 35

18/19 35 goals Brighton Pts 36

17/18 37 goals Southampton Pts 36

As we all know, EFC have 15 goals, so far. So to reach the average goals required - 37 - to finish 17th over the past 5 seasons we would need to score another 22. Unless we do a Burnley ie 33, then another 18 would do it. The present squad has scored 11 Premiership goals between them, in 20 games.

We have 15 points so far. to reach the average points - 36 - achieved by the team finishing 17th over the past 5 seasons we would need another 21.

So 7 wins or 6 wins and 3 draws would do it. Lose 12 of our next 18 games then we are surely relegated.

Miracles do happen and I can only hope we are the benefactors once again but it's not looking good is it ?

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2004/jul/17/newsstory.sport2

I agree with Ian Edwards, Lampard is massively culpable and our fan's ignoring his shocking tenure whilst focusing on the Board has created a negative spiral at just the wrong time.

The Board issue has to get sorted but it's likely to be at the end of the season but our energy has to be completely on supporting the manager and team.

It will, however have to be done at grass roots level - the fans, the players and our manager, without any interference from the top brass. Everton really is looking like the sporting equivalent of Blackadder so we just need to keep Lord Percy, General Melchett, Captain Darling and Nursie away somehow.

I have had a gut feeling since Wolves that we would pull off a shock win on Saturday - the start of the comeback.

Nurse!..My meds!

(Just reading back through the thread and echoing Roger Helm @731 here with this post.)

Its worth a shot.

As the old saying goes, you can't polish a turd.

Change takes time unless you buy players who are already used to playing a style a particular manager wants to play.

Im as gutted as the next person on here following yesterdays transfer debacle but now we know where we stand (firmly in the s*it as we cant score/create goals) and we have to put faith in Dyche and get behind the squad. I'm confident Dyche will get the team fitter and organised - which I feel is something we have missed for several years under previous management, and therefore more combatitive. it may not be pretty but we need ponits and I don't care how we get them.

It seems all fans are now focused on getting behind Dyche and the team. He's now being lauded as the messiah that can lead us to the promised land of Premier league survival and "fair play to him for taking us on" etc.

If he fails it's not his fault its the board, if he succeeds he's saved us. It's a win win for him.

Lampard should have gone after Bournemouth fiasco and we can blame the board for not acting then.

But demonstrating about the board mid season has brought us to this point.

It is now time for cool heads and biggest ever demonstration against this shocking board at the end of the season, not now.

Get behind Team and Dyche even if we are well beat v Arsenal and for the rest of the season. The only sensible option.

Cool heads and COYB!

Under pressure earning thousands a week

Go tell a few of my muckers lying in the Falklands and other shithouses around the world

I'd birch the fucking lot of them, especially the Board

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/andre-ayew-everton-latest-forward-26128327

As for Dyche, he deserves our support and needs it but let's not delude ourselves. The only reason we need him is because of board mismanagement. The only reason the board wanted him is because they people who can work miracles on a shoestring until they eventually cash in.

So nothing about this situation is good. It's ridiculous to lumber Frank with all the blame or to blame Gordon's alleged "strike." Yes, Frank was floundering but who appointed him? Who failed to back him in the market? Who talked up Gordon and fan protests then cashed in on him and pocketed the cash? If we are relegated the board will throw Dyche under the bus. If we survive they'll keep him around until there are the first whispers of discontent with his pragmatic style. The board are the root of all our problems and we must not forget that.

So, pause.
We are not going to go down.
We will get a new stadium.
FM will sell to someone with a bit more ambition.

It might be a bit rocky...

Apparently Palace are after him as, well and they have the advantage as his younger brother Jordan Ayew is currently contracted to the Selhurst Park outfit.

Dont think we could fall any further in recruitment as players prefer Forest, Leeds and Southhampton over Everton. Wonder if this was what Moshiri meant when he said, judge me when the transfer window is over.

He can only realistically answer the basic questions he gets (in one form or another) every time: Team news and line-up (the latter never supplied), injury updates, transfer news (also never supplied), verdict on the opposition, maybe wider questions about form/league position/some other topic related to the Premier League or football in general. And that's fair enough.

To expect that employee to answer questions about finance, ownership, strategy, the new stadium, the current stadium, any internal or community activities or investments behind the scenes is unrealistic.

So why not either have another employee (and don't forget the directors get paid) in the press conference to pick these other questions up?

As a club, Everton have the enviable reputation of being famous for a a great number of "firsts" which have shaped the history and future of the game. So why not create another?

Most think it's our right to protest against the Board in order to elicit change.

The trouble is, in the short term that's hurting our own club by creating an impossible atmosphere for the team and manager to rise above it all and perform to the standard needed to stay up. We're cutting off our noses, to spite our faces!

Hence no new players and no money for Dyche.

We will never know as the going's on at GP are shrouded in mystery. No one even knows who's actually in charge.

Weekends gonna be interesting but I'm predicting a battling draw to get the fans hopeful, with not a single director at the match.

Alert the UK and International media to the way our club has been run?

That's already been achieved, and the media are likely to stay on the case, and are probably digging for more dirt as I type.

Force the owner to sell up and move on?

Well, it could be argued that he has already decided to do that for himself, not necessarily to the timescale that some people want and he may have decided to do that well before, any fan protests took place.

Force the board to resign en-masse?

They are all too aware of the sentiments of many supporters and that doesn't look as if it will end in any individual resigning, never mind the whole board

I agree that the owner and the board are unfit to run a bath, but I can't understand what protesting will do, in the short or long term, what will we as fans gain from it? How will they help the team to gain positive results?.

Protesting for the removal of a particular manager may result in change and very often has.

Protesting for a change in ownership or for a change of board members is highly unlikely to result in any meaningful change, that is unless the parties involved find a buyer and decide to sell or the owner decides to sack members of the board or as individuals they step down.

Moshiri has already stated his belief in his board, and that he won't be forced into a knee-jerk reaction, when considering the make-up of that board.

If the owner and the board aren't fully aware of the supporters dissatisfaction already, I can't see how further banners and sit-ins will produce anything of note.

I'm not against protesting per se, but there has to be an achievable outcome at its core, otherwise it's mere barking at the moon.

Tyre kicking, I just hope Moshiri is getting everything together before he sells the club and departs.

When Kenwright spoke at the Hillsborough tribute and said the government picked on the wrong city, then I'm wondering if he will ever see a game at Bramley Moore now, because once scousers turn, it takes a lot to reign them back in, but this liar deserves everything that's coming his way now, imo