FAB calls a vote of no confidence in Kenwright

Over the past number of weeks and months, the FAB has expressed its own concerns about the predicament our club finds itself in, and the challenges it faces. The FAB has held open meetings with supporters to listen to their views, attended meetings held by fan groups and taken soundings from Evertonians through the representative organisations and individuals that make up the FAB. These have been shared directly and unfiltered with senior officials at the club. In sharing this feedback, the FAB and its members have also consistently called for proactive leadership, communication and engagement from the club hierarchy at a time when the relationship between large parts of the fanbase and the board has become fractured, and for some, irreparable.

"The chair of any organisation has a core responsibility for leading the board, ensuring its focus on strategic matters and direction, overseeing the company's business, and setting high governance standards. We were therefore hugely disappointed at the chairman's statement last Friday.

"At a critical time for our club, when we most needed leadership, understanding, accountability and a recognition of the strength of feeling and concern across large parts of the fanbase, we got the absolute opposite. The situation as it stands is not sustainable, not befitting of our great club and as Evertonians we do not deserve it. After careful consideration, we are therefore making a call of no confidence in the current chair of Everton Football Club.” Source:Liverpool Echo

In another article elsewhere Marcel Brands claimed that the 'owner' dictated to a manager which players should be in the team. He didn't name names. According to Brands... that he was in ‘meetings on expensive yachts and phone calls where the coach was told who to line up'.

He also didn't ‘name names' and could not go into too much detail ‘out of respect‘ for his previous employer.

“You can't imagine that world if you haven't seen it yourself” he [Brands]said.

Unfortunately, they can't be bothered debunking the whole security threat bullshit that was spouted by Chairman Bill, but at least McNulty had the sense to call the board out. To my mind, the timing is driven by hubris rather than a real determination to highlight the club's issues, but that's the BBC for you these days.

Hopefully they will enlarge the statement to include the rest of the so-called Board.

Anyone who utters the words "Consider me buying Salomon Rondon as a gift to Raphael," is a sandwich short of a picnic!

I don't know what's worse, getting trolled by a bunch of inbred Geordies or knowing that Kenshite is still our chairman?

Do the honourable thing and resign – and take Sharp the puppet with you.

Reading where Brands didn't want Silva sacked, and wanted Arteta to replace him, overruled by the owner who knows nothing about football.

I think Jaz and FAB have handled this very well. They've done everything that was asked of them, they've been diplomatic and polite and raised legitimate concerns.

The board failed to hold up their end of the bargain by not even honoring their commitment to meet with them as scheduled. Therefore, while there are no "winners", no-one can cast them as the villains.

Had they gone the more aggressive route, the board would have cut off communication a long time ago and represented them as a baying mob.

The FAB have in my opinion been selected to be seen as something as a go-between, but on occasions have not really attacked the board, but defended them, gave them the benifit of the doubt.

For them to come out with this gives me real hope that we may be finally getting rid of these clueless idiots, running our football club.

Mr Kenwright's supporters are narrowing down by the day.

I just hope one day they will look back in time and see the damage he has done to our football club, with his big ego, and realise that it is not a personal vendetta on the guy himself from the supporters.

Fat
Arrogant
Bastard

Whatever happens this season, the club needs a new start, the incompetence and division can't go on any longer.

Stop fighting. It's over for you. Stick to the theatre and all that stuff. Apart from yourself, it's your one true love.

Enjoy yourself but don't bother us again. We'll be busy sorting out the mess you've made in nearly destroying our football club.

What's the bet he tries to stab the board in the back to save his own skin?

There's so much momentum going now, it will be difficult for the national media to ignore the damage this man's done.

Sharp can do whatever he wants. He's made his bed and now he has to lie in it. As long as the shithouse that he is never comes anywhere near our Club again.

Sharp and our CEO are getting away with murder. Kenwright without doubt is enemy number one; however, the rest are a very close second.

This current statement says it all and is putting Chairman Bill under a lot of pressure, as well Moshiri.

I know if I was on this current regime, I would give my notice and resign to stop taking a wage for doing a crappy job.

What Sharp did as a player is in no doubt. Nobody is questioning his playing achievements – well paid though it was – for us at a time when we were almost unbeatable.
However, that does not give him a free pass for his present allegiance to a bunch who have made a complete joke of our Club.

Sharp has probably been privy to a lot more than us plebs have been and still decided to stick with Kenwright. He has had opportunities to distance himself from the Board but decided against it. If you cannot separate Sharp the player from Sharp the director, then that's your business.

We are all entitled to our opinions and my opinion is that Sharp the director has negated the achievements of Sharp the player and he is no better than the other arseholes who have decided to support the lies aimed at the real supporters of our club.

Nothing can take away Graeme Sharp's achievements on the football pitch, but I think he's lost a lot of respect as a man?

This is on the BBC website >>> Everton fans call for Bill Kenwright to be removed as chairman

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I can safely say that I had to eat every word I posted on that thread and give Kieran credit for being so right.

I can't add anymore to the excellent comments and reflections already been posted. I agree that probably more is to come out.

I sit in the Danny and Rob school of optimism. That a win (a draw is not enough) on Monday is still a distinct possibility with captain Seamus back, Mina/Coady for Keane (so the return of proper leaders who will stand up) and the same focus and intensity they gave for the first hour on Thursday. Certainly I think it is likely Leeds and Forest will lose prior to that game.

Of course, that will recreate all the hope that is killing us. But let's not give up. 17th, new owners, the board gone and a reset (notwithstanding penalties) by next August is not beyond. Relegation is a nightmare on so many fronts I still can't reconcile myself to it and the dreadful short and medium-term repercussions.

Unrealistic? Maybe, but we are only 2 points – not 6 points – from safety.

Well they were all at Goodison getting regally entertained by Bill. Writing pieces fully supportive of Bill and slagging off supporters who were questioning Bill and his shenanigans

It was an absolute disgrace. The same journalists and papers now questioning Bill were his biggest supporters
And the, by far, biggest culprit in the media was our very own Echo.
Our local paper only concerned about the interests if local people were the biggest Bill arselickers of all!

Before Moshiri, Kenwright managed a steady decline over a sustained period of time. A decline slowed by the transfer policy and stability of David Moyes. By luck or design, Moyes countered Kenwright's lack of football-business acumen and managed the majority of fans expectations with a The People's Club and Plucky Everton identity.

We were always a couple of players short of success, due in large part, to the fact we inevitably needed to sell our best players just to continue to operate, whilst also selling off other tangible assets.

Kenwright, to keep himself in a position that, over the years has proven to be driven by ego and not love, told countless lies and displayed a serious lack of football-business knowledge.

Kenwright's ego provided the drive to find someone with money who would keep Kenwright at the top of the tree, whilst making him rich. Kenwright's interests first, Everton second. One can only conclude, Kenwright has started to believe his own lies about being the best man to run EFC. Ego and narcissistic thought process evident.

The only positives during the pre-Moshiri ownership, stability and transfer policy, were quickly forgotten once Moshiri bought in.

This to me, is evidence Kenwright could not even identify the few elements that had brought him relative success during the Moyes days. Those elements were evidently not by design, but by circumstance. I.E an inability to develop, innovative and produce growth. Something all of the other clubs of relative size in the Premier League have succeeded in.

Recruitment. Recruitment. Recruitment.
Once Moshiri came aboard, all aspects of recruitment have been shambolic.
The Board.
Football Staff.
Managers.
And most importantly, players.

Over the last 6-7 years, can we name a player signing that improved upon the previous incumbent in the same position? I'm struggling! Maybe Gana (first time). Maybe Pickford (eventually).

The standard of player has been getting progressively worse. Progressively more expensive.

With wages to income ratio's in the 90% area, who is responsible? Every board member. That is who. Who provides the oversight and framework, sets the policy and culture? The fucking Chairman.

Personally, I'm emotionally drained. It's like living with a narcissistic gaslighter, who shits in your bed and tells you it's roses.

Im tired. I'm drained. It's just not fun anymore and hasn't been for nearly a decade. I sometimes ponder relegation as an exercise which could relieve the poison, but the realist in me knows once we go down, it'll likely be a decade before we return.

I'll still go the game. I'll still support and love my club. But it does not change the fact I'm heartbroken, furious and extremely fucking tired of seeing that fat, lying, narcissistic red nose bastard of a chairman associated with US!

As much as I'd like to avoid going down, I think for the long term sake of the club one big upside would presumably be the accelerated departure of the current ownership and board. We've been taking money out of the club since the Richarlison sale so can't see Usmanov, still under sanctions, putting any more in so would need to sell sharpish if we go down.

The club is already a mess financially, god knows what the books would look like without the life support of the premier league TV money.

Would also be nice to win more regularly in the championship and not average one win every six games.

Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Mina, Digne were decent players imo. However I did just scan our incoming transfers from 2016 and the number of crap journeymen or over the hill players signed is truly staggering. So much dross, many on large contracts that were then run down as we couldn't shift them. Literally hundreds of millions pissed away.

I remember reading a book called Broken Dreams a long time ago that basically said where clubs make loads of strange transfers it tends to be linked to corruption - ie backhanders to various people. Main example given at the time was Harry Redknapp, who made loads of transfers wherever he went. Given our managements wish to be involved closely in transfers and managers complaining about getting players they don't want, can only put two and two together.

Either way, Everton is a case study on how not to do things. Just amazed BMD is actually happening.

The only issue I have with the Sigurdsson transfer was we spent 40m on an attacking midfielder, when really we should of spent it on a striker.

The corruption side is something I could only speculate, but most likely has some smoke and fire to some extent, especially the Iwobi deal.

Consider our CEO. Who else but Everton would pay her close to a million a year? I'm sure she knows full well she would get a fraction of that anywhere else, so will hang on for dear life until a big pay off.

Usmanov needs to sell up - got to be a link to Moshiri somewhere surely to do a Chelsea.

The man is simply poison!–

The man is simply poison!–

The man is simply poison!–

I agree, it's only lately that were becoming into focus nationally but some writers have been mentioning our plight. Except that prick in the Guardian who seems to look more on the hope of finding corruption than the plight of the club and the people who support it.

Where were they for the "King's Dock, "I've found a Rich Man! Sheik Mansour's interest in Everton, "Samuelson and the money's in the bank" The Ground won't get a safety certificate" Destination Kirkby. I can't say.

There's probably more but it's the "Now" that's the bit that matters. The focus is turning on the Board, The owner and most of all "We've had some good times." Kenwright.

Whatever the owner's done, whatever the Board have, or more correctly, haven't done, it's the long dreary descent into the mire that we find ourselves in now, that the focus is on. It is that one time Board Member, one time major shareholder, Long Time Chairman of the best run club in the Premiership, should centre on.

In my view, where we are now and where we could well be in a few weeks time; is mainly due to Kenwright.

William's post(46) makes a lot of sense to me.

Kenwright as Chairman of Everton Football Club is the man where the full responsibility lies, for the good perfomance of all Board members who oversea the perfomance of all aspects of the club on and off the pitch, and to ensure the financial viability of the club is in good order.

Has he done that? Has he heck!

I can support an Everton that falls down a league. I'm not sure how long I can associate with an Everton that turns on its own fans.

Some things are more important.

You're spot on. My argument is that the lies Kenwright told years ago are the same lies being brought up now.

They know they are lies now and for sure they knew they were lies then. Thing was they were quite happy filling their faces with free grub and treble G&Ts.

If these two-faced bastards had told the truth years ago, we may not have been in this position now.

He found us a billionaire more corrupt than himself who oddly enough has less football acumen than him. This billionaire has then, like Kenwright before him, simply played with Everton like a train set.

He has, without proper due diligence, hired and fired who he wanted, when he wanted, and seemingly without Bill's consent if you listen to and believe what Brands is now saying.

After Benitez, Kenwright brought Sharp on board as his "Footballing" board member. He realises that none of them have a clue about football, so in comes Sharpy, for fuck's sake. Right there, he knows the game is up. Everyone can see that Moshiri and Kenwright are not on the same track, just parallel lines.

Now to the present day, they are all simply turning on each other. Moshiri blaming the board and Kenwright now getting Brands to leak his story to sully Moshiri in an indirect fashion. The coward's way. They are alienating each other and still the CEO, not in a headlock, she keeps schtum.

Sharp heads off to the races and he remains schtum. None of them are now attending the home matches. An absolute fucking shambles.

I hope they all fuck off including Moshiri and he can turn the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock into his own Taj Mahal, a footballing temple built not out of his love for Everton but out of the tears of its fans.

You could wonder about the Dele Alli deal which Harry Redknap admitted he encouraged his nephew Frank in. There was a lot of bypassing of due diligence.

Actually, the deal was structured to reward those involved all round, even more so if there was any chance of it working out.

To agree to such a negotiation, where were the pluses for Everton? Kenwright having his high-profile meal with Levy.

"Always as a chairman you have to take on board that Evertonians eat, sleep and breathe their football club but what I would say to these guys is that until I find the right man – and I will find him – then you are better off with me."

Everton missed out on Mansour's Riches – ESPN

Bill, you found 'the right man", but we are now worse off with him and your good self at the club, some 12 years and millions of pounds spent later.

There's hurt, anger bitterness, and disillusion coming out aplenty here and rightly so. There's plenty of knowledge, great posts and heartfelt ones too. The supporters of our club have shown themselves to be Top Class in every way.

The one thing we could not be blamed for, all what Our Club has stood for since those lads formed the club's first team and played in Stanley Park, all the great history that has made Everton one of the Great Clubs in England, What was out of our hands of us supporters of our club and all it stands for,

Is The Great Betrayal that's gone on in the last 3 decades,

It's utter contempt for the people who have spent their lives, years following & years building the club to what he bought and then destroyed in what is the blink of an eye in the lifetime of this club.

Since 1878, 145 years… but 7 years in his hands and it's ruined.

Moshiri is hoping investment will come and he can parade a new investor as some sort of saviour. Like Bill did when proclaiming Moshiri as the saviour.

Do we really want Moshiri having a say in any future of our club?

If you have a couple of hundred million, would you look at Moshiri and his record at Everton and think that's my best option??

Our best option is a new owner with a new board. I know there are financial implications as Moshiri is basically bankrolling the club with loans and guarantees, but the man has ruined this club.

With him or without him, we are going to be cleaning up his mess for years to come.

If we survive and don't have this clear out, we will most certainly be in exactly the same position next year. Soul destroying, the lot of it.

I see the BBC have finally picked up fans' discontent about Kenwright. 4 months too late.

“4 months too late”

Ahahahahahahahahahaha

So just how embarrassing must it be for the same board who heaped praise on each other for setting in place a fan initiative the was intended to show the board in a positive light and little else, to be turned on and ridiculed by the very people they had intended to exploit for their own benefit. It's being publicly shamed. The clubs silence is expected, the demise of FAB will surely, quietly, follow.