CEO's departure among three changes in Everton Boardroom

And Barrett-Baxendale??? C'mon, she is just wonderful.

Shurly Shome Mishtake???

Changes are starting, and not before time.

A statement will be made about interim appointments and the future of the Chairman in the next 48 hours.

That's straight off the Official Website.

Get ready for an excruciating exit where he blows his own trumpet and tells us how much of an Evertonian he is and crows about the “Good times”…

Everything they touched turned to shit.

Hopefully, this is just the precursor to new appointments which would allow Blue Bill to depart stage left!!!

He's fucking indestructable, you have to give the old bastard that.

Now to get rid of the main leech – the quicker that thing is gone, the better! 😡😡

Interesting to see who is on the new Board.

To have had the decision made for us to leave. Fixed it.

I do go on about it, but when, oh when can we launch PR into outer space?

Utterly shameful, arrogant and so out of touch with every supporter of this club that they should be run out of town. If you can be prosecuted for gross incompetence, then this would make a perfect example.

Kicking and screaming, pointing to what they have done cannot disguise the harm caused. They have been thrown to the wolves... I wonder if it was the Chairman who told them, "Infamy, infamy, they all have it infamy..."

I know MSP are now registered with Companies House, with a formal announcement expected in the next few days. Hopefully then Billy Boy will be given the boot and MSP will take over all the seats on the board, along with what's his face from Formby……

Fuck, I can't think of his name without Googling it!

Also, given what was said the other day about having to have a minimum of 4 directors, we should be expecting an announcement imminently about who, hopefully from MSP to confirm their investment, is joining the board.

I guess playing centre-forward for Everton and running a charity weren't transferrable skills to elite sports management.

I wonder now whether it might be an idea for our man in Monaco to look for future board members who can show that they've done things in the past which relate to what we want them to do now?

They don't even need to be any good, just showing they know what the job entails would be a major leap forward at this point.

From an old movie of Marilyn Monroe's

Reading between the lines of the Directors' statement.

Rob @ 21, I think you mean Andy Bell from Formby? But knowing Everton, we’ll end up appointing Andy Bell from Erasure.

Hmmmm??

Fat, greedy tit. Worse than Benitez him….

Still, they are gone – HURRAH!!!

Come on now, Bill, don't keep us waiting.

Any kind of admission that they got it wrong would have been appreciated. The blaming of the fans, the 'headlock', the vacation of their duties since January, the club's league position, the club's financial position. The list goes on.

Whether or not these people did their best is not particularly relevant. They utterly, utterly failed in their duties and then tried to blame the fans for their own incompetence. Yet they have the temerity to walk out the door without a hint of admission that they had any part to play in our complete collapse as a football club. That says a lot about their character.

Now come on Bill, your time is up.

Edit: I see the official statement has now also been amended:

A statement will be made about interim appointments and the future of the Chairman in the next 48 hours.

Sharp has tarnished his standing as a blue hero and whatshername and whatshisface can both just fuck off and take their incompetent, bumbling approaches to somewhere more deserving.

Luvvie darling is up next... Dead Man Walking!!!

This was not a joint decision to leave, this was a result of new investors and Moshiri having to lance the boil... all that's left is the removal of an arm and a leg of a chairman.

4:45 am here in New Zealand – looks like it might be a nice day...

This is excellent news and is as good a sign as we are likely to have that serious investment is incoming and soon. The dead wood is being cleared out and it has to happen here at this level before anything of deep significance happens on the playing front.

We should still feel angry and still seethe, but this is more than anything else a moment of relief with some sunny optimistic rays. We all know who the next one out of the door should be, and that will surely happen with a wad of new investment.

We can now imagine and look forward to a better run club in all departments but most of all recruitment and the business sides of what we do which still lags well behind the 'Sky four, five, six, seven?' who took on board the 'new' commercial and financial management and culture of the Premier League so long ago.

This is down to all of our owners and chairman and that starts with Tory Carter who should never have had a stand named after him. Carter who joyously went to the dinner hosted by ITV along with the four others of the 'big five' – Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Spurs – to discuss a breakaway league where the five would get by far the larger slice of revenues.

It starts with Carter but there is only one common denominator and constant thorn in the side of our club since 1995. He must go. I hope his droopy jowls and slumped posture are never seen at the Old Lady again.

It's a coin toss: are we further behind on the playing side or the commercial, financial, and management sides?

And wither Graeme Sharp? An ignominious exit, I fear, for one of the heroes of Howard's Way. He will slip out of the back door and have no role, ambassadorial or other, to play in our next chapter.

I just read this breaking news sitting outside a Clerkenwell Italian cafe, drinking cold white wine after a long day working in Archives, and I feel so much better and brighter now with another wine out of the way and the belief that each one of us on here should feel a real blue streak of optimism.

He was always going to leave Villa because Emery had his own man supposedly, but Purslow has been a superb CEO by all accounts.

Aston Villa: Christian Purslow to step down as chief executive

Sign him, Moshiri!

And will ensure we don't have a pot to piss in to buy players.

Cheers, big ears!

I think Monshi has joined up again with his mate Emery at Villa.

If the Chairman isn't also removed in the next 48 hours, we will continue to make the same mistakes going forward. Certainly if he has a hand in the process of finding replacements for them, that will be. a disaster.

Moshiri's Long Knives, a new novel by Stephen King, following on from his previous works, Blue Hell and Rafa: The Haunting.

It's not the fans who have forced Sharp out, it's money, pure and simple. He is as culpable as the rest of the board, but the fans are not responsible.

I suggest that you look to the owner and his decision to seek investment as the cause, not the fans, who this board have ignored or derided at every opportunity.

Sharp himself made his choice to get into bed with the board of EFC, for better or worse.

What's most important is that they and their buffoon of a Chairman will leave in failure, disgrace and shame which is the only legacy to which this bunch are entitled, The 40-year demise of this club which I have witnessed has been criminal.

The question remains: What permanent damage they have done? And can we recover?

It is true of so many things in life but sometimes you do have to hit rock bottom to turn things around. Don't slam the door on your way out!

Sharp could have saved his own skin at any time. He's not the Chairman, CEO or the Finance Director. He had no particular duties or expectations as a non-executive director.

All he had to do was attend recent matches and possibly release a statement thanking the fans for their support, while distancing himself from the 'headlock' allegations. If either of those things meant his removal from the board (which I doubt anybody would have had the guts to do!) he would still have been on the right side of history.

Unfortunately, he chose to stay silent, essentially choosing to side with the outgoing board.

In my mind, he's still welcome at the club and still a club legend. Unfortunately he seems to have mixed up his loyalties and should play no further part at board level in the future.

And to Sharp, Barrett-Baxendale and Ingles: don't hit your heads on the way out. If any of you had a modicum of self-respect – or respect for the fanbase – you would have resigned months ago.

Hopefully Kenwright will be gone in hours rather than days.

Sharp wasn't forced to be part of the board, he knowingly joined it to shore up support for the Chairman. He could have resigned at any point in his time on the board; he didn't.

None of these people have resigned – they have been pushed out completely. Who knows, is it possible they have been 'resigned' since the Southampton game?

The one we're all awaiting is the main culprit for the culture at Everton and I can only think that he has to sign off the accounts that his retirement has been delayed?

It's good to know that the Chairman and his board believe they have left the club in a better state than they found it – well that's certainly more than worthy of debate.

He revels in his ramblings.

Ignore him, he might go away.

(I know… I just couldn't help myself.)

Brian Williams is right. Ignore attention-seeking cretins like #42.

Sharp a "legend"? Fuck me, what was Dixie Dean if the accolade is given to money-grabbing, shameless scroungers.

It's a good job we can still thank our lucky stars to have Boys Pen Bill still at the helm. His tireless work has put us where we are now.

Should take him all of, what, about 10 seconds to find the one good time, if you can call it that, the FA Cup Final of 2009, before it's finally announced that the noose has been tightened and he's gone.

Fuck Off, Kenwright….. You fucking parasite!!

Maybe certain individuals need to get over themselves and think about what's best for the club because, if you're happy with what's happened over the last few years, you're certainly no fan in my eyes… and to be quite frank, you're not a fan at all.

That or stupid. Probably both.

Sharp is a Judas and deserves any stick he gets, himself and Barrett-Baxendale were puppets under the control of Machiavelli disciple Kenwright, the lot of them want legging up Goodison Road and into Stanley Park Lake.

Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright is to hold talks with Farhad Moshiri and looks set to depart the club 🔵
5:52 PM · Jun 12, 2023

If Ian Edwards disappears from these pages, following the departure of the Chairman, could we draw what seems a reasonable conclusion?

He intends to be Chairman when we move to the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock so he can gloat and tell everyone what a great Evertonian he is. He will not attend any more matches but will refuse to budge.

He's just an arrogant self-centred shit.

Very true, without the protests and general angst as exampled incessantly on this forum,, the board would very likely still be toddling on.

But you broke the cardinal rule by criticising fans – Wow!!

Strictly verboten, no matter the facts.

Buy shite and sell your best players is eventually a recipe for the Championship.

At this present time, he is absolutely useless. Good riddance.

As for Ancelotti suing Everton… "What For" he cleared off to Real; it was his choice – no one who knows anything about football would think he had gone there for less money. To kick us while we are down, especially if it is greed inspired, is a farce.

That is a disgraceful post that shows an utter lack of understanding or knowledge of the circumstances of Sharp's appointment and his tenure in post.

He did what he did. He knew what he did. He said what he said about the fans, nailing all he had to the Owner & Chairman mast. And now, sadly, he has to exit stage right and shamefully and deservedly.

You genuinely believe a single fan's voice has had anything to do with Sharp's appointment and resignation, Ian? It betrays an utter naivety and complete failure to understand how we have been run under the present shower.

Maybe you can present yourself as some suffering martyr again, Ian. Maybe you should have 40 days in the wilderness like that other martyr and try and learn something. But you do not speak in well-chosen contextual parables and you will never heal Everton because your grasp of the club is so thin.

And let there be no doubt... it may not have been announced yet, but Bill is gone too. His continued official presence may just be procedural, a placeholder until the new Board is named. The minimum is three.

Now... Michael, Paul, Christine and others, I get all the anger about the statement, but were you really expecting apologies and mea culpas and public self-flagellation? When have you known human nature to work that way?

Honestly, I don't give a goddamn whether they sang Joy To The World, danced the can-can and sprinkled each other with rose water on the way out the door. Nothing they say matters now.

All that matters is that the change has come. I literally cannot wait to see who takes those Board seats now. (Mr Moorad, may I show you to your chair, sir? Oh, Mr Cahill, welcome back, sir, it's been a long time!)

All this and Trump being arrested again tomorrow. Maybe Joy To The World is appropriate.

The board have gone because their record speaks for itself, their positions were untenable this time last year, but they managed to hold on for a long time, perhaps, in order to explain to the owner, why the current mess has come about.

I hope that the owner and the chairman become a footnote in Everton's history by the weekend, but that's probably a wish too far.

We have had luvvies, amateurs and charlatans in charge and it has been a fiasco. Glad to see the back of these three with Kenwright to follow.

I hope this is also the beginning of the end for Moshiri now.

He is not sacked. What he would not want. He is not kicked out of the club. What he would not want. He has no influence. What we all want.

Don't be bitter.

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright: “This has been a great board."

I've never liked the lit torch and pitchfork attempts at argument which is all that Ian is getting for speaking the truth.

The bit about the club being better off without them is another matter; football fans are generally off their skull regarding support. If rational thought played a big part, most stadiums would be half-empty.

“This has been a great board who have all worked tirelessly for the club, no matter what the circumstances,” he wrote.

“My relationship with Denise has been known as one of the closest in football. I thank her for her many achievements, particularly her magnificent work in respect of our new stadium.”

I would choose those words very carefully. The ones I stand with most weeks are not a disgrace.

Those thousands who have endured two very emotional last gasp relegation battles. Travelling thousands of miles by car, bus, coach, train and even plane. Early starts, home late to sleep with the dogs.

How fucking dare the finger gets pointed at the supporters. Trip to the swear jar.

Worked tirelessly? We've all had sleepless nights and slept all the way home with little reward.

I watched and adored Graham Sharp as a player in my younger years. He gave me some of my happiest moments at Goodison and on the road. But as a board member, he was passive and submissive. Part of a failing organisation and compliant to it.

We need to separate the two.

Pointing the finger at the supporters and calling them a disgrace is, well a disgrace in itself.

I'll give them the stadium. I admire the EitC work. But we are a football club and judged on our success on the football pitch.

That past, yes, no past board has not delivered.

I can't comprehend how anyone who stands amongst those supporters can blame the supporters.

Graham Sharp was unfortunately and disappointingly compliant.

Emotional outburst, but change is happening. Maybe Moshiri has finally smelt the coffee, or the new investors are calling the shots.

Not great; for that we need to be able to say the four B's:

Bye Bye Bullshit Billy.

Even as the end draws near, he can't help himself. Not a dry eye in the house.

"Will Bill have any say in the running of the club?" we ask.

"Why of course he will," says Mr Moshiri, "we can't afford to not utilize his vast knowledge of running what is after all his football club."

And so it continues.

Sorry but until Kenwright disappears out the gates of Goodison for the last time, I cannot sing any joyful songs. I really couldn't give a rat's arse about Barrett-Baxendale, Ingles or Sharp, or their going. The mess we are in lays at the feet of both Kenwright and Moshiri who between them for the last 20 years have run this club down.

I didn't expect a mea culpa, but it was not surprising that they failed to acknowledge the situation we are in. So, muted relief until the changes are complete…

Perhaps the fan who put Barrett-Baxendale in a headlock (allegedly) can now step forward and identify himself now she has gone.

The statement was a disgrace, nothing about their running of a club into the ground with one of the worst teams we have had, a looming fine or points deduction due to their financial mismanagement, and the catastrophic managerial appointments, shit players on long contracts and top wages, etc etc.

Fuck off, the lot of them – and take fat Bill with you.

Money coming in, signalling confidence in our future. A board of wiser minds, Andy in the seat? The new-ground build proceeding apace. Roll on next season.

Colin @75, that's exactly what I've been thinking since I heard this news, mate – especially after reading the statement from the outgoing board members, who make it sound like they are the only people who have been doing anything good or positive for Everton FC.

I learned long ago that there were a couple of folks here who were never, ever worth responding to. You already know who they are.

And like I said, I do get the anger coming out, but nobody will find any in me. I'm too busy singing Spirit and doing a one-man wave in the bedroom. I'm a Happy Clapper today for sure.

Hallelujah.

My view might not be popular, but it's my opinion anyway. They have done lots of good things, that should not be overlooked. EitC, the new stadium, some of the commercial deals are as good as you can get outside the fabled Top 6, it's not all bad at all.

But, the structure of the club, the recruitment policy and the football culture is wrong. That's down to Moshiri, Kenwright and Thelwell plus Ancelotti leaving, Walsh, Koeman, Benitez, Brands and Lampard, so really they fall guys in many ways.

It all hinges on what happens on the pitch and actually these 3 don't have a huge say in any of that.

I know you go against the tide and see both sides. Keep it up. Sometimes, though, torches and pitchforks... actually, nah, they're not.

I fucking hate that man!

And I will always remember sitting outside Terroni cafe & deli in Clerkenwell (WiFi code: terroni1878, by the way) drinking white wine when I heard about the first moves in binning the biggest parasite in the history of this famous club that has, Ian and Barry, the best fans of any Premier League club.

But suggest some points for debate and we can begin.

"Abuse"! Grow up, lad.

I'd advise you go back to your original comment with a bit of self-awareness and you'll find your answer when you've just called majority of fans on here a disgrace. Stop playing the victim because nobody shares your utter delusion. Toodles.

I just about coped with two relegation battles, but if slippery Bill survives as Chairman, I will get a huge gut wrenching feeling, in the pit of my stomach, do the decent thing and step down.

As for Ian E, what a disgrace to call fans who travelled all around the Country supporting Everton, have your opinions, but don’t be throwing supporters under the bus, like the board did.

Not often I comment or attack another posters comments, but I cannot defend your comments Ian.

How does this actually work?

As far as Sharp is concerned, "If you lay down with dogs, you get fleas".

I'm typing this while looking at the signed photo on my office wall of him scoring that goal against Liverpool.

Derek @105,

He was CEO over the park wasn't he?

And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain…

The slug did it his way alright.

No surprise that those who were 'only following orders' have been disposed of with public praise.

You, me and all of us gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth. Who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process.

What unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and wellbeing of everyone. I hope that, as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this Club holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.

More likely that an Italian firm of lawyers had advertised:

"Lost your job in the last three years? Wasn't your fault? Promises made by your employers that weren't kept? Call 0800-810-811 to get help claiming compensation."

Carlo thought "Why not? I didn't get the Champions League bonus this season."

Bill writing his own eulogy now, that's going to be a laugh. Boys Pen, mortgaged house, saved club, investor, new stadium, Boys Pen. Never mind no trophies, relegation battles, money spunked on shite players, Kirkby, Green. Dodgy shit in the Virgin Islands.

I was more interested in all the work that our CEO as done with regards the new stadium, because I wasn't aware she had been so involved, and especially to the levels that Ian mentioned.

I am suspecting that Bill has nailed himself to the desk and they will need my Ridgebacks to coax him out.

On the subject of Sharp, I posted elsewhere, my most memorable goal was him hitting that one in off the post against Watford in the 1984 Cup Final right in front of me stood behind the goal.

“Taking me away, are you fuck”, says Bill. Just don't put a gun into your mouth, that's all. At least walk away with what very little dignity you've got left!

Until I see who comes in to replace them, I'm reserving judgement.

Does that mean that Bill was going to resign with the rest of them and has been talked out of it? Two bad things if that's true, Bill remains in power and Moshiri remains the owner.

Oh, and it’s all the fans fault - ha! Well it’s cost me at least a few bob to make it happen then. It’s well worth it though…….

Bring it on UTFT!

It could just mean the final details have not been negotiated yet. You know... "How much do I get to keep quiet?"

Praise where its due: thanks be to God...

Please, Ian, tell me, just between you and me, that this is a monumental wind-up. As you type this ill-informed, thoroughly unresearched nonsense, it really must be with a sense of mischief and irony.

So that I can go back to reading your stuff, and some of the match stuff is spot on, come clean and accept the joke has run its course.

If he had a backbone, he would have resigned back then, or still taken his seat at the game, but no, he came out in support of Bill, who hasn't the decency to even leave now.

Sharp could learn a lot from Reid, Sheedy and Southall who are not afraid to say it as it is.

Ian, I didn't know that Barrett-Baxendale paid for the new stadium and worked for Laing O'Rourke.

She was Kenwright's appointment. I'd expect him to praise her. She will undoubtedly have done some cracking work on the new stadium. She has also, undoubtedly, been CEO of a business that has performed spectacularly poorly.

Like the UK government, these people have got us in a mess, don't know how to get us out of it, and lack the bravery to admit it.

Nearly there…

Cannon fodder rolled into the fields to distract the oncoming masses whilst the guilty general still cowers in the bunker.

It's over, Kenwright. The sands of time are finally going to run out after nearly 25 bloody years!

He hired Koeman, Allardyce, Benitez, Lampard and Silva; he has also interfered in player transfers.

An accountant by profession who couldn't keep the club on the right side of financial rules, so how can we move on when even something he is supposed to be proficient at, he even messes that up?

Let's be perfectly honest, he is only here because his boss told him to sell his Arsenal shares and use the money to buy Everton.

He has no idea how a football club should be run and has taken a club with no money who usually finished about 7th-ish to one which is finishing outside the top 10 and, for the last 2 seasons, escaped relegation by the skin of our teeth.

I don't think Dyche was his appointment; probably Thelwell made that decision. So I will only believe change is really here when we see the back of Moshiri.

While I was waiting in the 'green room', Doyle and Summerbee were hovering around waiting to be noticed by someone old enough to know who they were. I obliged; they were both friendly, funny, charming, etc.

They said they did the meet & greet, gladhanding everyone in the exec boxes. At that moment, I thought that's what Kenwright should be doing, instead of holding back the club he says he loves. I wouldn't let him do that now.

Has Sharp slagged the fans off? What did he say?

I take the points about him being a yes man, dogs and fleas, etc, but what did he say about the fans specifically?

I'm not defending him as I don't have the knowledge to do so, I just want to know what it was he said exactly as all can recall was him keeping his mouth shut.

Not sure Stubbs or Southall would have kept quiet in Sharp's position obviously.

No more heroes anymore.

Even if Jimmy Clitheroe, Old Mother Riley, The Crankies and Nigel Ponsonby Smallpiece took over, it would be an improvement of where we have been.

Happy Days are here again!!

And don't think that the abuse of our fans began in January 2023; Bill Kenwright has been abusing Everton Football Club, its supporters, shareholders, history and tradition for at least two decades.

He is a complete fake and charlatan who fooled too many people for far too long and nearly resulted in the club's total demise, a fate that is still in the balance to this day such is the mess wrought by these people in the amateur shambles that they resided over in every aspect of the way they destroyed the club.

Then we need a Board & Club hierarchy that consists of competent professionals. If Moshiri retains an interest, he needs to let the professionals get on with their jobs & restrain himself from interfering.

A curse on Everton that will hopefully soon be lifted. The spectre of teary Bill Kenwright is coming to an end.

(I'll get me coat...)

I don't believe he has or would have.

Sharp claimed that the supporters reactions were “over the top” after the 2-0 home defeat to West Ham in January. I’m not aware of anything other than that.

So Moshiri decides to fire the other three and see how Kenwright reacts – expecting that Kenwright would then find his own position untenable ("he's sacked my whole board") and resigns? Job done.

Maybe not.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's given some kind of Evertonian peerage and we're stuck with the old bugger forever.

“He said what he said about the fans, nailing all he had to the Owner & Chairman mast.”

I thought there was a specific comment. Apologies I may have misunderstood.

The house of cards trick, all the ones below him removed. Checkmate, a masterstroke.

"Whatever position Kenwright is offered should be subject to the most massive protest ever see."

Offer him the position of Groom of the Stool to the new Chair, whoever that is.

It's possibly spin from Kenwright, as at least one executive member of the board has to remain in order for the club to continue functioning without shareholders calling for a General Meeting. Or at least how I understand the situation.

This is like a carrier pigeon from the Fuhrerbunker in 1945 landing on Churchill's desk with a note saying "Goebbels, Goering, Admiral Canaris, Himmler, Martin Bormann, General Kurt Student and the entire General staff have all been sacked. Can we call it quits? Yours affectionately, AH"

Just Fuck Off, Kenwright!

"With Danny living in London, I think he should take his 2 dogs round to Bill's place and let's see how he deals with 2 angry Everton dogs".

Ugh. Those fat, slobbering jowls...

It must have been the 2-0 away to West Ham. I think his comments were aimed more at the home game against Southampton though.

Of course they may have been kicked out and were asked to resign out of courtesy for their long and valued service, therefore, they wouldn't have to give a reason.

If they have all resigned due to the owner taking the club in a direction they didn't feel was best for Everton Football Club, then we should be really concerned.

[I'm sorry – it's just the Evertonian in me, every time we think we've moved in the right direction it often turns out differently.]

He actually is going, isn't he? I really couldn't stand seeing his smug face any longer.

It was okay when he (or Usmanov) could bankroll the club but those days are over. Kenwright will be out soon. MSP are calling the shots.

Little Miss Dynamite probably did a good job in the community and a few other areas but was out of her depth in
heavier matters. She had to go.

I know nothing about Ingles so no tears there. The big fish though has still to be fried, so once he's in the pan we can all move on.

MSP will know that the best way to get on board with the fans is to clear the decks. They will have seen the protests, tested the waters, and will not want to be tainted in any way by the previous board. Hence they are gone.

I would also say that Kenwright staying on until replacements are found sounds like bullshit to me, you don't get rid of a board without having replacements ready. I still think it's Kenwright trying to delay the inevitable.

The three people who have stepped down is 75% of the Board. I personally believe that the remaining Director will fall on his own sword, and that things will be changed for the better.

And who knows, the new board might be so pleased with 'the way Bill handled negotiations' they may even persuade him to stay on as a valued consultant.

"This is just the start' - analysis"

BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty

Everton's boardroom changes were the inevitable consequence of years of bad decision-making that led the club into a second successive near miss with relegation from the Premier League and the complete breakdown of relations with the club's support.

It was a dysfunctional situation that simply could not continue.

Everton's supporters continued to throw their weight behind the team but now only chairman Bill Kenwright remains and the forthcoming announcement on his future must be confirmation he is out along with Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Grant Ingles and Graeme Sharp.

The bottom line is that if, and it is highly unlikely, Kenwright somehow stays then the discontent and protests aimed at Everton's hierarchy will continue. It looks, however, that the increasingly untenable position of the chairman is about to end in his departure.

It is all the result of catastrophic policies at boardroom level and under owner Farhad Moshiri, who has now entered into an exclusivity agreement with MSP Sports Capital for investment in Everton, primarily for the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

MSP will want their own representation on the board and what looks like a clean sweep of Everton's boardroom hierarchy is under way,

The outgoing board have also presided over policies that have seen Everton referred to an independent commission by the Premier League over an alleged breach of Financial Fair Play rules - which the club strenuously denies.

Everton had to do something to clear the poisoned air around the club and inject fresh ideas to somehow avoid another season of crisis. This is just the start and it remains to be seen whether more big changes will follow.

Pat #166, agreed.

If he had attended games I'd have no issue with him at all. No issue. The fact he has been absent from home games boils my piss.

By staying away, he's sticking 2 fingers up to all of us and backing Kenwright in his pathetic "We are all in danger" pantomime.

Sharp gets no quarter from me. He's a sycophant. His actions show that. The entire board are pathetic. A lying bunch of cowards who have helped ruin us.

It's one way to upstage the release of the fixtures……Selfish bastard!!

As long as he does offer it, mate, that's all that counts.

I didn't see the word ‘catastrophic' in the statement so they must think waving goodbye to £350m and overseeing the decline of our great club as a fine achievement and as non-commercial.

Our fine fans deserve better, so the new owners hopefully will spot a few maths GCSEs amongst the new appointments.

Ha, that aged well. Deluded crack pot.

Consequently, if the other three directors resigned their directorships today, at least one director would be obliged to remain in place.

However, a check on the Companies House website this evening does not show any change in the status of the directors today, so, technically, all 4 remain in place as directors this evening, and will do so until the relevant forms are delivered to Companies House.

Nowadays, this is usually done electronically and will be filed and registered on the Companies House site within minutes. So, I shall keep a lookout tomorrow to see if there is any movement.

If anyone would like to see for themselves, here is a link.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00036624/filing-history

Sharp is part of that. I suspect that he was paid very nicely indeed for the role that was carved out for him which was, as some sort of fan's hero, to send a message to the fans that here is a presence on the board of someone you lot love. Sharp couldn't wait to start his new life as a Kenwright token gesture.

It genuinely grieves me as someone who came of age in 1984-87 to say that I do not have a drop of sympathy for Sharp right now. But if he can now do the right thing and say the right things, I for one will forgive quicker than you can say 'Rotterdam'.

"Three members of Everton's board left their roles on Monday and the chairman, Bill Kenwright, is expected to go in the next 48 hours in developments which signal the arrival of fresh investment."

Three Everton board members leave and Bill Kenwright expected to follow

Optimistically we have to hope that such changes will benefit the club sooner rather than later.

We have averted a near catastrophe in the last two seasons and one hopes the message has now gotten through to the owners that it cannot go on.

I will always hold Sharp the player in high esteem because he was a central part of a great team that brought great times and memories.

But as a person, he has a lot of bridge-building to do if he cares; if not, fuck him!

The board betrayed the Everton fan-base – who it is their chief concern to support and serve – in favour of their own cowardly narrative. It would seem to me that Sharp either lacks intelligence or integrity and that, when push came to shove, he stayed loyal to BK rather than the fans.

Legacies are built on such moments; if he'd turned his back on the board, I think he would have been elevated to standalone legend status in the eyes of the average fan. As it is, he's now got a real stench on him.

Baited breath time.

There had to be changes. That was always the first step. But we now go into the unknown, which is a bit scary. We're an unstable mess.

As you say though, scary times.

I for one wish Sharp well and hope he is welcomed back in the future. He was clearly out of his depth at boardroom level on this occasion. If that had been Big Nev in Sharpies boots at boardroom level, it would never have ended as it did.

Passive, dismissive and manipulated by Bullshit Bill. Best of luck to you, Sharpie...

I remember noting that the atmosphere was flatter than at any time since Rafa's days. That was the start of the end for this board. UTFT

To everyone at ToffeeWeb (and I know hundreds of Blues did their part too) but from me thank you for all your support over the years. Above all else, thanks for the personal support.

No apologies? These people think they have been doing a good job for years.

Yes, Moshiri wields all the power, but if you were an Evertonian and this was going on on your watch, would you continue?

If you were a half-decent CEO, finance officer, or director, you would have resigned after last season's shambles. That is unless you were complicit or to blame.

It's a start, but it will count for nothing if they are not replaced by professional sporting executives, with proven track records and expertise in the field.

I'm usually optimistic on the playing side of things, madness I know, but I'm not so optimistic that Moshiri can make the right appointments.

I hope that it's MSP who are advising and not Bill.

Bill was never going to go with the rest. He needs his own episode, his own limelight, his own theatre-managed exit.
He couldn't have the people he appointed stealing his spotlight.

Hurry Bill. The final curtain is coming down on the worst show you ever put on!

I had not noticed that "Persons with Significant Control" category before in my browsing... What do you make of the fact that it lists Moshiri and not Kenwright or any other director?

Am I naïve in thinking that his name being there since 2016 (and not that of a certain Uzbeki fellow) could help to deflect that lingering claim?

I, and I know many Blues, would be in the dark on many issues if it wasn't for your passion and dedication to our club.

You definitely deserve to get the plinth at new stadium that Bill had earmarked for his statue.

And it's a Grand Old Team to play with,
And it's a Grand Old team to own,
But when you know you're history,
It's enough to make your arse go worrrrrrrrr!!
But we don't care what the fans all say,
Cos why the fuck would we care?
Because we always know,
That we're gonna get more dough,
Even when us Everton fuckers ain't there!

Well done mate, and to everyone over the years who wouldn't rest until he was gone, Colin F, KEOIC et al., all the best!!! 👏👏

In most small private companies that are not quoted on any stock exchange (called "Close companies"), the shareholders, directors and persons with significant control tend to be the same person or persons.

The criteria for being designated as a PSC is one of two tests, relating to the size of a personal shareholding and whether they have the right to hire and / or fire the directors of the company.

This is the reason why Moshri is shown as the PSC - despite the fact that he is not a member of the board. He owns over 75% of the issued share capital of the company, so clearly has the right to hire and fire any of the directors, he is therfore, ipso facto the PSC for Everton Football Club Company Limited.

UTFT 💙

I totally agree. Sharp was little more than a nodding dog, placed on the board in an attempt to appease the fans.

He has well and truly destroyed any legend status (IMO a dubious label to start with) he may have had and I cannot see any way back for him.

Cahill, Baines, Coleman, Southall etc are legends; they have not insulted the thousands of loyal and magnificent supporters, like Danny O'Neill and Rob Halligan, who travel everywhere in support of our multi-millionaire half-arsed present team, but don't get the recognition that the board get from the likes of you, Ian!

Sharp was part of our best-ever team. Won trophies and scored goals. He is a legend and always will be.

I suspect those that criticise him are the under-30 "me now, fuck you" generation that never even saw him play.

Perhaps new investment equals a new start. All I care about is being a premiership club May 31st 2024. The new stadium means bigger gate receipts, from sponsors and corporate hospitality. To get that go and study the model used at the Emirates stadium. The Everton stadium is in a perfect location for concerts and other sporting events. To grow we must choose wisely our next CEO and directors. Business over sentiment comes to mind. Hopefully, we can move forward. Please remember such changes brings no guarantees.

Mr kenwright it's time to take a rest and let Everton start a new journey.

You got what you wanted. Heads on platters with no idea as to who replaces them. Mob rule.

As he was captain of the legendary '80s team, you would think he would get more of a mention. He lifted two titles, an FA Cup and our only European trophy.

He was always amongst my favourite players; he made his debut at Old Trafford in 1980 and went on to become one of the toughest yet elegant players Goodison has ever seen.

Anthony #169,

Little Miss Dynamite probably did a good job in the community and a few other areas but was out of her depth in heavier matters.

Memo from club, 26 July 2019:

Denise Barrett-Baxendale will oversee the work of Stadium Development Director Colin Chong and take responsibility for the new Stadium Project including the delivery of a community-led legacy at Goodison Park.

Yes, as listed as CEO of Everton FC Co Ltd she should have been stronger but, with a 4 person board, with Kenwright having the deciding vote in a split decision, the blame once again goes to Moshiri for not having a stronger board.

I'm sorry mate, but you're continuing to annoy and amuse in equal measure. Perhaps, you would have preferred "Everton relegated!" as the headline two weeks ago?

Au contraire, Ian, that might well make someone more likely to criticise Sharp because they feel deeply let down by him. I'm sure you understand that being a hero of Howard's Way does not make someone, anyone, unconditionally a hero beyond reproach.

So, I'm one little exception to your absurd 'I suspect'; I am 59 and am deeply critical of Sharp.

And have a bit more respect for those you label "the "under-30 me now fuck you" generation that never even saw him play', who are a large part of our magnificent support.

#216, think before you click submit, because I very much doubt that "deranged" is the word you are looking for as a response to your attention seeking.

"I suspect those that criticise him are the under 30 me now fuck you generation that never even saw him play."

Not true in my case.

In typical theatre teary style so all the attention is on him.

I'm a shade over 30 as my first match was in September 1958 and I've seen every Everton No 9 or, in some cases, No 10 since then.

I could list them all but Royle, Latchford, Lineker, Lukaku, Campbell, Cottee and Vernon were all better finishers than Sharp.

Yet deserves no place on the board.

What exactly did hid appointment change or improve?

Shall we get Big Dunk to lay the grass in the new stadium? Cahill to do the plastering? Baines banging the bricks up? Because they are Evertonians ??

No they have no experience of the job. No track record.

If we did, we would say they'd done a poor job, just like Sharp as a director.

We need the best people — not the best Evertonians!!!

Herein lies the problem – is he really serious? Under their stewardship, plus Bill's of course, we are financially fucked, under investigation, being sued by an ex-manager, selling the silverware to buy paper plates... We have fought two relegation battles and have a first-team squad with no soul.

Thanks, Bill – ya nutjob.

“It was a sad day for the club,” Sharp ­admitted, still struggling to come to terms with effectively being banned from watching a side in which he is second only to Dixie Dean as Everton's all-time leading scorer.

“It's still uncertain whether we will get the go-ahead to attend the next home game against Arsenal on February 4. No one could ever have envisaged things getting to this state where you are ­actually in physical danger.

“I don't want to miss games, Everton is in my blood. Of course, fans can have their say and I can ­understand the frustrations, but some of the protests have gone over the top.

“For instance, no one works harder than Denise. In addition to the day-to-day running of the club, she is also working tirelessly on the new stadium. For her to be targeted is so unfair.” Source – Daily Mirror

Sorry, Graeme, you gave me some of the greatest moments watching Everton FC, but I hold you in a little less esteem than I used to.

He won't of course. We are pond life to him. See ya, Sharpie!

Instead, it must be made clear that he will have all connection with the club severed forthwith, never visit Goodison again and never visit the new stadium – a relatively lenient sentence for the man who has single-handedly ruined our club over the last quarter of a century.

Ironic that the news of the departure of the three board members was overshadowed by City's treble celebrations in Manchester.

If the lying, egoistic, greedy charlatan had sold out years ago when he almost certainly had the opportunity, perhaps it could have been us celebrating instead of City's fans.

I think most, myself included, recognise what a great player Sharp was in a very successful Everton team.

I am 51 and was a season ticket holder at the time as well as following the blues around the country.

I think it's important to differentiate between Sharp the player and Sharp the passive, non-communicative, compliant board member who went along with the narrative that slated and accused the Everton supporters.

He made his bed. He has damaged his reputation, which genuinely upsets and disappoints me.

My hero was Alex Young, my favourite team was the 1963 team. Obviously I also witnessed the great 1970 team and the '80s.

All the above being the case and classing myself as a good an Evertonian as anyone, I would like to say to Graeme Sharp:

You are a parasitic prick and if you never darken the doors of Everton Football Club again, then I'll be happy. The charlatan threw his hand, willingly, in with Kenwright. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

And anyone who slags off fellow Evertonians about caring for and wanting the best for the Club can do one too!

This cull is not before time.

Good riddance.

Incompetents and parasites.

The beginning of the end of the Shit Show.

I refer to my comments #5 back in December on Barrett-Baxendale’s “strategic review”.

I'm not gonna rake up 40 years plus of dross but this hopefully can be a new starting point for Everton FC.

No big expectations based on all relevant factual finance and football permutations but hopefully before the start of next season Everton will start the new season as a club with no divides and a clear line of sight on and off the park.

Assuming Kenwright is removed or sacked by Wednesday, the new era must start ASAP with a very tough and slow rebuild of Everton FC over the next 5 years if not more.

Fuck, now to run and manage Everton FC properly as a football club coupled with the unprecedented force of nature – Evertonians… anything could happen.

UTFTs!

Let's hope it's not for whom the bell tolls, because that would be the end for Bell, the bell end so to speak, and we don't want another cock up.

There's decades to make up but with Evertonians' support, the new era can start with genuine belief once the cull of the board and chairman is completed.

It's the start of the new beginning for Everton FC.
UTFTs!

Purslow could be a decent addition, a slightly chequered time at Villa but did more good things than bad things I'd say.

I guess being an internet troll doesn't qualify you to turn on Graeme Sharp. Absolute no loyalty to a club legend, anyone calling him out is an absolute scumbag imo.

What power do you think he actually had...? And turning on the easy target of a woman, typical sexist stupidity.

The finance director, the scouts, Bill Kenwright and some of the players are to blame. Well done for people who actually stand up for others, there's too much hate in this forum. Spin in a circle and point your finger at everyone... grow up.

No more King's Dock, Arteta Money and Destination Kirby bullshit!!!

I wonder if the phantom headlocker replaces Denise on the board?

They may well have tried their best and given their all under difficult circumstances but just one look at where the club finished, the state of the finances, and the shambles of a team should tell it all. They were simply unqualified and not good enough to be running a football club and did everything Bill told them to. Incompetence and ignorance of their core duties.

We don't need lies or apologies but just straightforward words that they tried their best. You can't sugarcoat failure like this!

In the case of Graeme Sharp, he knew what he was getting into because Bill had already banished us supporters from having our say.

I'll go back to a tour in Holland in 1983-84 when we met players in and around Dordrecht. Sharp didn't want to mix. He didn't want to know us supporters.

Some years later, with my brother in Melbourne, he did not want to talk to the lads who had travelled big distances to watch them, so it's no surprise he took the big money from Bill and did what he was told. He sold himself.

He's no legend. Joe Royle is a legend.

Ian Edwards. People hide behind this modern-day bullying issue and it seems like you take every chance you get to do this once you have spouted some crap.

Everton is in our blood. It takes over our lives to a certain degree so supporters are full of passion when it comes to discussing the pros and cons of the club. I get it that we are all guilty of overstating things with the use of strong words, but for fuck's sake! You honestly sound like you about 12 years of age so stick to your football posts where you have made some good posts.

There is simply no defending what this owner, chairman and board have done. Luck and great support has kept us up two seasons running and if we had gone down then it could have been all over for this club.

Good news is finally coming our way and hopefully we can start seeing the light at the end of a very long dark tunnel with Kenwright hopefully banished from our club forever.

Let's hope they get it right this time.

If it was signed off by the board, he should have refused to be involved and realised enough is enough and resigned on the spot. Even if he wasn't party to it, he should have resigned as it was a step too far and only a fool would fail to realise that. He didn't and hence the anger towards him.

As for Blue Bill, roll on the next 48 hours. No honourary titles, he can relax and reflect on all those good times. It should take all of 2 minutes.

All this talk of legends had me thinking as to the reason why Kevin Ratcliffe is rarely mentioned.

Probably since he knocked us out of the cup with Shrewsbury.

How would it be 'known' as 'one of the closest'?

It's a very weird superlative.

I can't make any sense of what that actually means and why it would be written.

The real benefit to come from all of this is a unified fan base in tune with the board and the owners all pulling in one direction. I am hoping after 20 years I will now be able to say I support my club on and off the field.

I hope I see clarity of a shared vision, shared desire and delight in all our achievements. Trust is often said to be hard won and easily lost. Honesty is a cornerstone of trust, communication the key… we are almost there.

I reckon Sharpie would have left of his own accord, given the embarrassing lack of connection of the board with the fans.

So much we don't know. I wonder if Bill has a shower room full of documents?

Sharp was a big part of our great '80s team and I will always love him for that. Unfortunately he liked Bill's dollar and he chose the heirarchy over the fans.

Of course Bill has cast his spell over many celebrity Everton fans. He also inspired loyalty from other good people who worked for the club.

In fairness, only people like Paul the Esk have enabled us lowly fans any insight into the cozy, old boy's club that Bill built. Cronyism, psychofants, and folks with their noses in the trough.

A fanbase that was taken for granted and finally insulted. Kenwright's kingdom is in tatters.

I hope that his name is not incorporated anywhere except the urinals in the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

Challenge opinion, discuss, debate, but let's not slate fellow supporters.

Sharp is being judged on this thread for his performance and compliance on a failing board that ultimately failed. Not as Sharp the footballer we all watched and enjoyed bring us success.

As mentioned, Ian's views on football can often be thoughtful. I don't think anyone minds a different viewpoint. Like everyone who contributes, welcomed and give food for thought. We all often have a different view of the game and Everton, but I would draw a line at calling fellow Everton supporters scumbags and disgraceful. That's stepping over a line just because of a different view and opinion.

I get shouted at on a near daily basis from Everton family and friends. But we don't fall out. You know who you are. Brian!!

Interesting recollection Pete @250. I haven't met many Everton players in the flesh. George Wood by the players' entrance on my first visit to Goodison that I remember. I've still got the photo somewhere, but the 70s clothes and haircut look embarrassing, so I don't roll it out often. Terry Darracott on my trials at Bellefield, although he was a coach by then. Very nice person, as was the head of youth development back then. I think it was Ray Hall? I had a brush with Neville Southall when we ran on the pitch at Anfield at a derby. I vaguely remember and when I say a brush, He basically swatted me out of the way and put me on my arse as he wanted to get down the tunnel!! I don't for one minute believe this to be the most intelligent thing to do, but we started ripping up the turf and stamping it back into the ground. We were young.

The word legend is used too often in the football vernacular. As Joe Royle said, Duncan Ferguson was in danger of becoming a legend before he became a player.

Pele was a legend. Beckenbauer a legend. Cruyff a legend. Maradona a legend. Messi a legend. Kevin Sheedy walks on water.

The rest are good or great players.

Colin, steady the ship?! This now past board could sink a barge on a calm watered canal.

As for the the under 30s, that should read the under 37s. As of next season, that is how long it will have been since we last won a league title. That's the bar for me. The under 37s. I have nothing but respect. They have had nothing. But they are still there believing. Hopefully the next chapter will give them just reward and make me content that we get our 10th league title, 6th FA Cup, another European trophy. And for god's sake, finally win the League Cup.

It's about the future now. Many personal messages last night to fellow Evertonians and family. The mood is optimistic. We have to seize the opportunity we have in front of us.

If reports are to be believed, the new board is planned. Two members from MSP. Founding members, so from the top of the business. And the two local Evertonian businessmen who have chipped in with investment.

Leaving Goodison is going to be emotional to say they least.

But Bramley Moore Dock is rising on the banks of the Mersey.

Believe. We've waited long enough. Maybe, just maybe, we can get Nil Satis Nisi Optimum back.

A bit of a ramble, but change is happening. Spirit. Forever.

I always think if we'd kept him he would have really established himself after the injury to Bracewell and the ageing of Peter Reid.

Another one that 'got away'.

I'm aware he can't slag the outgoing board, especially because of the way they have been so staunch towards him, but these are the words of a condescending bastard, a deceitfully sick individual, who has only survived by constantly using nepotism and telling lies, imo.

A great board? Everyone in football knows how close me and Denise are?

Everyone in football knows how much of an irrelevance Everton Football Club has become, except for the thousands of great and loyal Evertonians who deserve so much better. Hopefully things are finally going to change for the better.

I'm not concerned about Graeme Sharp, as he had no obvious duties, but the other two had major positions in a business which is already in turmoil. As usual, there doesn't appear to be any clear way forward and we continue to go from one crisis to another.

To make matters worse, it seems that Ancelotti is going to sue us. Presumably he has forgotten that he and his son were rewarded handsomely and he left as soon as he got a better offer.

I think it's another very sad day for our once-great club, we are a total embarrassment.

Richardson was a very good player. He went on to win the league with Arsenal and played more regularly after leaving Everton.

I think most of us are pleased that change is coming. But we are also cautious. I hope the new regime can take that on board in their approach.

We have been hurt, both with false dawns and accusations by those who held the keys to our club.

The sun is shining this morning. A new dawn. We move on and get this club back to being able to compete. That's all we ask. If we compete, the trophies and Europe will follow.

And Lee, you still need to meet up at a match.

Ian, I reckon most fans on here saw Sharp play, including myself, and he'll have to live with the fact that he let the fans who adored him down badly by backing Kenwright and calling them out.

Bill is not resigning and is staying pending a new man. He really has got something on Moshiri. Who will this clown saddle us with?

And yes, he was a success at Arsenal and Villa, so much that Atkinson took him to Coventry also. He won the league with the Gunners and the League Cup with Villa.

How many occasions has the club lost money on poor deals which have mostly protected the employee, rather than the employer?

Gentleman's agreements are fine in principle, but in this day and age and in this sport, they count for little as Everton has found to its cost on too many occasions, it's nice to be nice, but being nice in modern football can prove to be very costly.

The board hasn't protected the club, either due to ignorance or incompetence or both, but the new people have to be less concerned about public relations and more focused on hard-nosed business, they can still try to be nice, but not to the extent that they end up looking foolish.

Immediate resignation of Everton directors opens the door to change

Anyway, the optimist in me sees this as – finally – the opportunity to start rebuilding our club as a sustainable, well-run, community-based, successful icon of the sport. Everything depends on what happens over the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, what the feck do we do with Gbamin, Alli and Gomes? Three ridiculously expensive players who we currently can't even give away. Just looking at those three, who except Chairman Billy Bollocks could keep a straight face when claiming "This has been a great board"?

1) Why were the board absent?
2) Was there a real and credible threat to their safety and if so what have the Police and the club done about it?
3) Who told them to stay away?

The Police? Surely not…

I think we can all argue about the contracts given to these 3 players, but do we know all the facts?

The Dele Alli transfer was a strange one. Did it have something to do with the Richarlison transfer? Will we ever know?

Gnomes was a decent player, maybe too slow for the Premier League, certainly not a player we needed to make a tackle, but played alongside a striker?

Gbamin, well nearly everyone was singing his praises when he arrived, but the injuries finished him.

When we talk about injuries, you have to put a question mark against Patterson, far too many injuries for a young player who hasn't had that many games at the top level.

You may not be a million miles from the truth. His shares in Everton do put validity to Kenwright staying on the Board.

It was rumoured in April that Kenwright had told the other members of the Board that they could stay on with the MSP deal appearing to have faltered. If there is a chance that Kenwright can stay on in any capacity, he will be pushing it. He does not take the Fans under his notice one iota.

"The easy target of a woman"

Comedy gold, thank you!

The manager was asked over a week ago, Did he know what his budget was? He said he didn't, yet nothing from our owner.

As I said in an earlier post, this club will not move on till Moshiri has gone from this club. Let's remember how he thought contacting Jim White on TalkSport was the way he communicated with fans.

The late Sir John Moores must be turning in his grave at what has been going on since this stupid Iranian accountant and his boss bought into our club.

So I will leave the rejoicing of the board resigning until the prime reason this club is in such a mess has gone.

It was Moshiri who wanted Benitez, Moshiri who sanctioned Benitez selling Digne, and getting rid of our DoF only for Moshiri to sack Benitez 2 weeks later. We'd have had Moyes return as manager a couple of years ago if it wasn't for Moshiri and we'd never have been in the shit we've been in for the last 2 seasons.

Sacking the board but retaining Moshiri will solve nothing. Moshiri needs to go, but even if he does we will still have huge problems now thanks to Moshiri's legacy. Whether a new board could overcome them is doubtful.

As for the treatment of Sharpy by some of the fans, it's shameful.

I think many Evertonians would broadly agree with you, but your final sentence says to me that you might be a Kenwright apologist and would like to blame the fans and the owner for our current mess, rather than anybody connected to Bill. Sharp is a big bloke; I'm sure he can handle the criticism.

As an aside, if your assertions are correct about the meddling of the owner, what were Denise, Bill and company doing to help prevent that catastrophic interference? Were they acting in the best interests of the club?

And the argument that they were only doing as they were instructed to do just doesn't wash as they were in their positions precisely to prevent bad things from happening. They were the firewall that should have protected the club; if they were unable to do that, then they should have walked many moons ago.

My concern is that it still appears to be Moshiri's train set. That's the same Moshiri that has overseen the club since 2016 (what a fucking awful year that was), allowed the now departing board to be assembled, and to (apparently) run Everton on his behalf on a day-by-day basis.

As for some of the comments about Graeme Sharp: the guy is our highest post-war goalscorer. He was a key part of the team that won us two league titles, a European trophy, the FA Cup, and very nearly much more.

I have no doubt that he did everything he was able, or at least allowed, to do to help Everton and that any comments he made were based on what he believed to be the facts at the time. That he was a (very small) part of the club's board during such a disastrous era does not change how significant he is to Everton Football Club.

As it stands, the only positive for the club is its history. Without Sharpy, and his performances for us back in the day, we'd have far less of that too.

Okay some of the fans means you aren't labelling everyone. Granted.

Those criticising Sharp the board member is not shameful. It is a reflection of him being a part of a failing board. Not any reflection on what he achieved as a player.

I watched him and those memories will be with me for life.

He could have and should have spoken out. Moral courage. Walk to make a statement. He chose to remain silent. That was his decision.

Shameful. Disgraceful and Scumbags. Accusations thrown at Evertonians by their own on this thread.

Hope to see you all at Goodison and around the country next season.

Neville Southall won a lot more than Sharp. strangely enough though, he was never invited anywhere near the club, simply because he would not have stood for half the "yes, sir; no, sir" and would have spoken his mind.

They even refused him a complimentary ticket at Goodison, before finally backing down.

They tried to silence Stubbs for speaking his mind, Baines as well If I remember right.

This is not about Sharp, it is about the yes-men and yes-woman Bill surrounded himself with, to have allies fighting his corner.

Strange the likes of Reid, Big Nev, and Andy Gray (pre Bill era for Manager's job for Gray) we're never considered for jobs over the years, Frannie Jeffers says it all as jobs for the boys.

I have no ill-will over Sharp, but Bill played him like a fiddle along with the rest of the ex-players he found jobs for over the years.

He left the Echo to join the club and, as far as I can recall, I don't remember too many communications from David, but maybe those in power haven't allowed him to do his job, as a previous incumbent Alan Myers also had to leave the club. There is no doubt that David is a big Evertonian and being married to Dixie Dean's daughter, he knows all about our great history.

I would imagine the job of Director of Communications at any Premier League club must be a thankless task, but at Everton it must be even worse. Obviously fans are unhappy with our under-performing managers and players, so how can you put a positive spin on anything that has been achieved since Moshiri took over the club?

The only positive thing to happen in the last 6 years is the building of the new stadium, and very little else.

Nothing will erase Sharp's football ability from most fans' minds – just that he went from being a good player to become Chairman Bill's puppet.

What was his role? Duties? Any achievements or personally managed projects?

Basically, Graeme, sit there and don't say anything.

We got quite a few comments wishing us luck, we got comments saying it will achieve nothing and nothing will change and a waste of time.

I was half expecting to get a ban from Lyndon or Mike, due to my strong views against the board, but to be fair they allowed my article to be viewed, and I survived a possible ban.

But since then more Evertonians have got involved, with the help of other Everton fan groups.

Not for one minute did we think our views would be taken seriously, but we never gave up, we had two options, to remain silent, or to at least try to do something about it.

The board members Turing it back on the supporters was the big one that united almost all of the Everton fan base.

Even now there is still a small minority still backing the Chairman, the Chairman is a self centred, deluded, alto ego headline grabber, what’s best for Bill and not what’s best for Everton football club, and it’s supporters is Bills way of thinking, he is so wrapped up in his Everton ways that year after year, he found jobs, for former players, some without any winning mentality or success, instead of bringing in people to run the under 18,s and upwards.

How long did he cling on to Duncan Ferguson for, how much did he push for Rooney to get the Everton job.

It will be a great Day for Everton Football club, when we finally get Bill out of the Chairman’s role.

Was it worth it, damn right it was

Powers to the Evertonians.

My guess is it's being delayed by a couple of days in order for him to prepare a gushing speech, telling us all how lucky we've been to have him over the years, and how he's the greatest Evertonian that ever lived, or some such.

Maybe they'll do one of those Twitter montage things like they do when we sign another unremarkable footballer from a lower division or relegated team.

I'd actually quite enjoy that!

The pantomime may finally be out of season.

I'm slightly surprised they've let Ingles go. I would have thought they would need someone who knows where the bodies are buried if the Premier League investigation takes a turn for the worse. Sharp, from what I can see, had zero power and I read he wasn't actually paid. That somewhat mitigates but not totally; so you make your bed, you lie in it.

Kenwright is surely next, no doubt leaving in a wave of teary emotion which I think we can all ignore. I hope he is not given some kind of honorary role, things have gone way too far for that. I'd like to think he might reflect that had he left at the time new owners arrived (which would also have meant possibly not the same owners we ended up with), he might at least have departed with some gratitude and dignity, accepting that some on here regard his pre-2016 'achievements' with little enthusiasm.

Removing the current failing board is a necessary first step but does not guarantee things will be much better. I don't know the new people nor entirely understand their plans and motives, nor the existing owner for that matter. Time will tell.

For sure, things won't improve much for the next 12 months. We remain financially imperilled and I'd be amazed if we don't have yet another relegation battle which hopefully Dyche can pull us through. The outlook improves somewhat from 2024-25 and we should have the head room by that point to re-generate and aim higher.

Now, having met Parkinson, I can confirm he was no lapdog. Draw your own conclusions.

I always enjoy reading your comments as they are very balanced and focus on fact.

You are, without question, absolutely correct that Moshiri, the lackey and his reputed master Usmanov, are the main reasons behind our great club's current precarious position. Things have become progressively more critical since they became involved and I honestly cannot see things improving until they sell up and exit the scene.

As Andy Walker (#288) states, we would never have been in this state if David Moyes's return 2 years ago had not been blocked by Moshiri and Benitez appointed instead.

I suspect that Dave Prentice as Director of Communications has felt unable to express his real views on the unfolding disaster since his appointment for fear of losing his job ,which is perfectly understandable.

One minor point, Brian, I think Dave is actually married to Dixie Dean's grandaughter as opposed to his daughter.

In view of this weeks events Rob Sawyer may be worth listening to.

An evening with Lou Reed Foster
Liverpool
Thursday 15 June 18:30 - 20:00

Join us for a fantastic evening with local author Lou Reed Foster as we hear all about his book Fear and Loathing at Goodison Park: Everton Under David Moyes. The evening will be in conversation with Rob Sawyer of the Everton Heritage Society.

You must remember when Gray said on Sky, he'd put his hat in the ring, and when approached by Bill, I presume, he got a massive rise with Sky and turned it down. He stayed away from Goodison for a good while?

Ray #302,

Great point, Parkinson walked away because he was his own man and not influenced by Kenwright, and Sharp took over! Not taking anything away from Sharp the player, but we got tickets years ago, that had Craig Short's name on the envelope, inside connection! We sat in beside Bilic, Sharp and Horne, had a conversation with the two boys, but Sharp hardly said a word.

Written by and starring William Kenwright, leading lady Denise Barrett-Baxendale, non-speaking walk-on part and prop mover, Mr Graeme Sharp.

I have no doubt we could name a hundred titles for the upcoming masterpiece?

So, unless you have £750M stashed under your bed, or MSP or similar go for a full buyout, we are stuck with Moshiri for the foreseeable future. The only thing I blame Moshiri for is not appointing a Board of Directors with backbone and sufficient commercial and football knowledge at the time he bought the club. Kenwright performed his ultimate sleight of hand in retaining effective control.

Also, the Usmanov connection and his shadow directorship certainly hasn't helped. We have to accept that our owner is a very weak man who basically believes the most recent thing he has been told, so US investors who value profit over everything else may not be a bad thing for us right now. But remember they have absolutely no love for Everton whatsoever.

But we are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I very much suspect that we are just in a small clearing and pretty soon we will be plunged back into the bushes.

Regarding Sharp – his treatment by some of the fan base, whilst unsavoury, is entirely understandable once he aligned himself to the failing boardroom. He had plenty of opportunity to disassociate himself from what was occurring but chose silence.

My youngest lad is 25, follows Everton home and away with passion.

As the poor lad tells me constantly, he's never even seen us win a tin pot. Very rarely seen us beat Liverpool and rarely even seen us win three games in a row.

Entitled eh? I don't know how he does it as he doesn't have the memory bank of past glories to cling to such as older people like me.

My mate let me down at the last minute for the Wolves game so I didn't have a ticket after all!

In an ideal world, the temporary board members will be involved with MSP and will be introduced swiftly. Get Bill removed and focus on the squad.

You are quite correct: David Prentice is married to Dixie Dean's granddaughter – not his daughter as I said.

Thanks for your kind comments, I find most posters on T/W including yourself post interesting posts, we might not all agree with one another but we all want Everton to win trophies again.

It was Peter Johnson who was Chairman when Andy Gray was approached in January 1997, before Sky offered him a pay rise, not Bill.

Personally, I can't wait to hear from the likes of Trevor Birch and Keith Wyness. Maybe even Jon Woods? There have been more NDAs signed at Goodison than Hollywood since Boys Pen Bill took over – the mind absolutely boggles what has been going on all these years but it won't be good – hence the need for all the secrecy.

Seems like everyone that ever left had to sign one. The only one who hung around was Elstone but even he cleared off for pastures new in the end.

I was also just reading what Simon Jordan has been saying about the fans and mob rule. Makes no sense – like we all just turned on the board one day cos we were shit.

Typical lazy journalism that has only increased during the awful Kenwright years, which was exactly what he wanted. No questions asked, all about Bill and what a wonderful man/saviour he was. Everything else is fake news in Bill's deluded universe.

I've seen virtually every game Graeme Sharp played for Everton and, as far as I'm concerned, he can get to fuck.

I don't give a shit what he has done in his career. At this present moment in time, he is useless, just what has he contributed since he's been on the board? Absolutely sweet fuck-all.

It's about time we stopped harping on about the past and tried to get this club back to where it should be. Sharp and the other muppets on the board have proven that they are incapable of doing that.

It's going to take 48 hours to come up with language to make it sound like he has left, but is still involved...

Well said.

Whatever the issues with the Kenwright board, the idea any of 'em would have said "What an innovative idea appointing Rafa is - well in, Moshiri!" beggars belief. To a man (and woman), they would have sat in the corner thinking "He's getting worse this is an unmitigated disaster…"

Any new board will say all the right things to tickle the belly of supporters but, whilst Moshiri is the main man, it will matter not a jot.

Remarkable how people's hatred of Kenwright obscures the real issue at this club.

I am beginning to think Kenwright has got Moshiri stitched up and it is true that he has it in a contract that he remains no matter what. Moshiri must be going to offer him something or he would be gone already.

He found a king, responsible to no-one, a player of men, all-consuming, all powerful, a worthy successor to his crown. Albeit in the background, as his able Lord Chancellor, he could only watch as his power waned and his dreams fell about his feet.

Sacrifices need to be made, tossed aside, buying time, new allegiances to be made. Too late, the executioner becomes him up the steps… The day is here, he has played his last hand. The revolution has sharpened its guillotine… The Miserables, long live the revolution!

You know, they could make a play out of this… but no-one would ever believe it, would they?

So, why should he have been given so much shit on here? It is the rest of the directors who should take the blame.

Let's go forward now!

In many aspects, you almost hit the nail on the head, but where the board really failed was in its inability, reluctance, for whatever reason, to advise, or even prevent the owner from committing excesses that placed the club in material danger.

Their ultimate sanction in such circumstances is resignation, never offered. They became compliant, focusing on things they could point to as justification for their tenure whilst ignoring their duty of care and ensuring the future of the club.

Perhaps they settled for what they could do, not what they should do. That's why it was a great board in the eyes of owner and chairman, because it failed to prevent or hold either to account for their excesses.

Personally, whilst Moshiri has presided over a near catastrophe over the last couple of years, it cannot go unnoticed that he has put in over £500M into the club, an amount of money none of us thought the club would ever see in such a short time only a few years ago.

He did not (as far as I know) get that involved in most transfers whereas Kenwright did and most of the money wasted has gone on bad signings. We've also been unlucky to an extent with injuries but, by-and-large, bad signings have cost us badly and these are more Kenwright than Moshiri (annoying example being bringing Rooney back, not just a poor financial decision but also a poor footballing one).

I think we can all agree collectively the club has squandered a huge amount of money (whether deliberately through corruption and/or incompetence is another debate) and along with that a real opportunity to grow and challenge. The manager merry-go-round has certainly made the problem worse, if not been part of the main problem, and that has to go on Moshiri.

To move the club forward, imo, footballing decisions need to be taken away from Moshiri and Kenwright. We've not won anything for 28 years (!) and most of that time has fallen under Kenwright's watch. Can't blame Moshiri for pre-2016. Neither is qualified to run any professional sporting organisation imo, so both really have to go in the end.

Let's at least get rid of Kenwright first as I don't see any value at all in him staying. Moshiri, if he leaves the footballing side alone and focuses on the stadium, is a different matter as the stadium is real and happening.

Hopefully Kenwright's departure is just 24 hours away. Whether Moshiri can avoid tinkering with the transit if he stays is another matter.

So the question no-one seems to be asking, is why? Why has he sacrificed his reputation and standing in the game when he could have and should have simply walked away?

As an advisor to the board, he may be held by a confidentiality agreement, but his absence would not cause a ripple in comparison to the executives.

Either way, he has gone down with the ship. I hope his final pay is worth it because it will be his last from the club.

With so the changes at board level, new investment the club needs somebody involved a senior level to ensure that everything that is 'Everton' is preserved.

Chairman, President with executive powers? He will be there.

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I think you have a continuing confusion of believing football boards work along the lines of successful multi nationals or civilised enterprises incorporating a creche, functioning HR depts and genuine shareholder accountability. The idea everyone has an equal voice and their views considered amicably just is not the case.

Football clubs are medieval fifedoms with a king and various underlings nominally called directors; their job is to act as occasional sounding boards but to not forget the final call is that of the King.

The tale about Usmanov telling Kenwright to shut up over the Benitez appointment tells you all you need to know about how input has been treated under this mad era.

As for resigning in disgust, I dare say they imagined a "turning of the corner" at any moment and hung on.

There's a little ditty
we could have been like City
but only if you've been on
the gin and the beer.

And in defence of William Kenwright,
it's not your fault Farhad insisted you stayed on
to be the fall guy!
You just don't deserve it William.

Apologies, my mistake. I have Kenwright on the brain, but my point was really about Andy Gray using Everton to get a big payrise.

He will be hoping that this shallow gesture will keep the fans off his back even though he knows that he is and always will be the big problem.

Just praying that he will now fall on his sword and then hopefully we can get some people in to sort out this mess.

"We'd have had Moyes return as manager a couple of years ago if it wasn't for Moshiri."

That would have gone down as well on TW as the appointment of Benitez!!!

The board is responsible for the running of the company both on and off the pitch and this includes maximising the revenue of the company

With this in mind consider the following lines from the last set of accounts available on companies house (page 24 - yes I was bored)...

"Turnover comprises the following.... other commercial activities - includes revenue received from hospitality, catering, events and all other revenue sources

The above turnover represents net revenue received from outsourced retail and catering operations.

Turnover would increase by £8.0m to £189m (2021: £6.7m to £200m) if these operations were not outsourced"

SO - bringing catering and retail in-house would MAKE eight million quid a year

What financially prudent company (run by the board) would not bring these items in house for that amount of money? I have no idea what someone like Daniel Levey would do but Spurs even brought the beer brewing in house

We are broke. £8 million would pay (for example) for Conor Coady plus Demari Grey and still leave change

I am not an accountant and have no-idea how to run a multi-million pound company but please tell me why this board and their financial advisors are not willing (or able) to maximise profits wherever they can be found even when it is in black and white in their own set of accounts.

Glad they are gone

Still, you get my point!

You knew this was coming, but the finality of it is still a blow (of happiness) to the system.

Surely this is the beginning of righting the Good Ship Everton?

Competent management coming. Bill out in hours. Now just survive next season and begin our climb back to respectability. It's the start of good times I'll wager.

MSP's co-founders, Jeff Moorad and Jahm Najafi, could take places on the board after their initial investment.

“Either way, two successful local businessmen, the property developer George Downing and investor Andy Bell, who are Everton fans, are understood to be in the frame for board positions as part of the deal.”

I just need to know Billy Liar is gone. Even The Muppets would be a better replacement.

In any business, if you do not reach the standards required (by the business or club) you are up for scrutiny, no matter how many tireless hours you put in (it's what you put into the hours, not the hours you put in analogy comes to mind). It is the lack of proven talent and scrutiny that brought us to where we (errr) were...

Not to pick nits but increasing turnover by £8M per year doesn't put £8m in the coffers. You appear to be confusing turnover with profit.

Not outsourcing those services may have increased turnover by £8M but may have actually led to a decrease in profits. Without diving deeper into the report from which you got the figures, it's impossible to tell.

Begone the blight of nepotism and amateurism that has seeped through our club for the past 24 years!

Now fuck right off and give everyone a rest from the absolute shit that you spout.

Keep it for the gullible luvvies in the West End of London.

Headlockgate allegedly occurred in one of the lounges.

A person, "maybe" a few drinks into a sesh "maybe not", during a friendly chat with DBB and others playfully put his arm around her shoulder, pulled her towards himself, maybe a bit too enthusiastically and said "now just buy some players."

Was he right to put his arm around her? No way.

Did he have her in a headlock? Definitely not.

If you read my #307, you'll see that your take may be similar!!

Yes, you are right. I realised this just after I posted and commented straight away after my original post.

However, even if they increased turnover by £8M with (say) a margin of 25%, that is still another £2M in the pot.

Let's all give him some space.

I saw passionate care and discontent. Chanting discontent at the plight of the club under the mismanagement of this board.

Chasing cars. Big Yerri stopped, got out and spoke to very dismayed supporters. No trouble.

Go and have that shower.

It might wake you up.

They are gone. One more move to make, then we move on.

Quite true although the profit margins are simply unknown. Yes, we could have taken in another £8M in sales (turnover) but it could have cost us £10M to provide the service without outsourcing. Unfortunately it's impossible to know.

There's a hell of a lot we can criticise the outgoing board for but I don't think we can draw any conclusions on that one.

Farhad Moshiri persuaded Bill Kenwright to stay put on the Everton Board of Directors amid the recent exodus and the Toffees majority shareholder could be facing more fan backlash as a result.

Moshiri is the main problem. He’s the one who needs to go.

Most of us didn't support Everton because of the characters in the board room, not during John Moore's years, not during Carter's tenure, it was always about the team and still is, why should any of us show loyalty or love for people who happen to be in positions of power, if they do a good job, great, if they screw up they get stick. The cult of personality is evident in every sphere of life, when it should be about anything but.

Just criticism of a board that failed. Of which Graham Sharp, a much admired Everton player, was part of.

Satisfied the heart has been ripped out of the club?

I don't think anyone is. We've been hurting for years watching our club decline under the stewardship of the now past regime.

To the future now.

Just criticism of a board that failed. Of which Graham Sharp, a much admired Everton player, was part of.

Satisfied the heart has been ripped out of the club?

I don't think anyone is. We've been hurting for years watching our club decline under the stewardship of the now past regime.

To the future now.

Just criticism of a board that failed. Of which Graham Sharp, a much admired Everton player, was part of.

Satisfied the heart has been ripped out of the club?

I don't think anyone is. We've been hurting for years watching our club decline under the stewardship of the now past regime.

To the future now.

I'm 59 years old, with a 21 year-old business. I watched Graeme Sharp join an Everton board that didn't notice it was overspending on seven years of scattergun recruitment, didn't notice it was breaking financial rules, didn't notice it oversaw the club repeatedly buying players who couldn't score goals.

I'm neither interested in nor Impressed by 'hard, tireless work'. That should be a given. I'm interested in simple competence throughout the club. That's what we need right now to restart things.

This isn't a 'witch hunt', it's exasperated people pointing out the obvious to people who are unable or unwilling to notice.

True leadership includes the humility to admit when you're out of your depth and don't know how to fix things. Then you bring in people who can.

That's where we are right now. And not a moment too soon.

I think this process is being forced upon Moshiri by financial and legal necessity. If the club weren't facing investigation and potential monetary disaster, I believe nothing would be changing right now.

Now, I’m not suggesting for one moment that Moshiri was in any way that devious or motivated in such a way, however his poor judgement has resulted in the very same happening to our club. We are now shafted for years, even decades to come.

No new stadium on the horizon, possibly not a top-flight club and, although the debts may have been more manageable, we wouldn't be a profit making club either.

The fact that the money has been wasted is very sad and it makes us all very angry, but that can happen when you try to run before you can walk. We are where we are, and we have to find a way of dealing with it; we're severely wounded but not yet dead.

A good take from above it all. MSP is being aggressive and while it will look painful for some it is necessary for structural improvements. I will bite my tongue while the fear and fury get expressed in these times but too much Everton flagellation or Red Shite worship and it gets real.

We are working our way off the floor here so not too much of the ‘oh we are soooo shit' stuff, please.

And circumstances are now forcing his hand, there's been no humility.

Now if Sharp didn't point out the failings, that's a different situation, but that gets back to my point, how do we know if Sharp did or didn't do his job properly?

Or … the guys who bought Newcastle bought us instead.

The problem with hypotheticals is you can spin them any way you want.

Suffice it to say that Graeme Sharp was a hero of mine as a young supporter, as were all the great players of the Howard Kendall era, and it is hard to see him in a negative light.

I totally agree that changes need and needed to be made, I just hope it can all be done with a degree of class and dignity which is worthy of our great club.

The other directors may not have been making the decisions, but they have been complicent in not stopping any of this. They have taken the kings money and kept quiet.

They had the opportunity to speak out. They had the ability to resign at any point. They kept quiet, and kept getting paid by the king.

Only the fans and financial sanctions are bringing this to an end. As guardians, they're just as bad as the mad man.

They along with others pointed out the financial decline of Everton FC since Kenwright took over, when the club owned Goodison Park, the training ground Bellefield completely, we were £20,M in the black, when Mr. Moshiri bought the club Goodison Park was mortgaged up to the hilt, Bellefield had been sold, Finch Farm was bought, sold before being leased by the club over a very long financial debt.

Mr.Moshiri wiped out the debts, sratarted the ball rolling in getting a new state of the arts ground, he made mistakes, none bigger than leaving his ‘friend’ in charge of the club, this possibly being one of the demands of Kenwright before selling the club.

All these things have been pointed out on numerous occasions but can’t be illustrated often enough, Kenwright bought a financially solid business and drove into the ground, Sharp along with a few more knew what way Kenwright operated but said nothing and joined the board, kept his silence and is now paying the price.

It could have been so different for him even up to a few weeks ago but he made his choice and preferred to stay on the absent board.

Now we can all blame someone or other but I don't care how good a player Graeme Sharp was or much much of a blue Kenwright professes to be.

As a board they have all failed miserably.

Keith Harris did the honorable thing and resigned citing Everton as the most dysfunctional board he had ever served under as did Trevor Birch after just 6 weeks. this current bunch of Kenwright cronies just continued on bumbling their way through each season and not one of them apologized or resigned until they were forced out no doubt with a huge payout, it's the Everton way (under Kenwright anyway).

The failings at our club over recent years have been under Moshiri’s watch and tenure. He’s caused more damage to our club by overspending £100m’s and leaving us with no real capacity to spend anymore on player recruitment without selling.

Are you and Julie some of Bill's patsies ?

Obviously you could be correct in your assessment of the situation, but as none of us ordinary fans know the real version of just who called the shots on various scenarios, then it is interesting that you (andy/Andy) have such a clear view of proceedings.

Can't say the same of your fellow Kenwright supporter, Jule(who doesn't seem to know the difference between Sharp and Stuart). Perhaps Bill or Denise should have briefed her more thoughoughly.

Moshiri should have taken action against that. He did all the things we wanted him to do. He invested in the squad, he invested in the stadium. He just never held people to account for poor planning and performance. Hopefully that is partly what he is now doing by bringing in expertise through new investment.

Bill is responsible for directing Board business and governance so he needs to go. Our failings are on the pitch and on the balance sheet. The board failed - so he failed.

Personally I struggle with the idea that Sharp should have been directing board business. Were expecting a lot of an ex footballer there! But I can't get past him siding with the board over headlockgate and that's enough for his role to be obsolete.

Denise and Grant can take the knock for us being in a FFP shaped mess.

Then you get to managers and players. Managers have been sacked. Players will be sold or let go.

It's probably Tom Davies' fault.

That's the reality. Either ignored, not good enough or a combination of both. No matter how hard anyone works does not matter, the quality of decision making and the outcome do. If not, what is the point of just being there other than to satisfy one's ego, or be a facade for show.

Secondly, Mr Grant Ingles. Little is said as to his role in the club affairs but he has been part of the senior leadership team since 2018. His remit was responsibility for all things financial. How anyone can look at the incompetence of our financial position and not question the decisions that got us into so much pain with the Profit and sustainability regulations is beyond belief. This has been squarely and solely the responsibility of Grant Ingles. He is the gatekeeper. He is the one who should know what can be spent, bought, the profit and loss of the business, the adherence to regulatory bodies, financial reporting and decision making. Clearly it didn't work, clearly as with Sharp, his advice was either wrong, ridden over or ignored. Once again, but more critically, he is the single person with responsibility for the financial health of the club. Failure to control spending anywhere in the organization is down to him. Just blaming Moshiri or Kenwright is not enough.

Then, our departing CEO. There is no doubt she can point to Eitc, the stadium and here work with the EPL as evidence of her ability, and in fairness, she has been successful in these areas, alas, running the football club operationally, with the dynamic duo of messers Moshiri and Kenwright at the helm was an enterprise beyond her capabilities. A good CEO needs to influence those with the power for the benefit of the club, to rein in excess and focus on a plan.. not a list of 120 bullet points. Where is the focus in that? Where is the culture of focused responsibility. A job too far despite her efforts elsewhere.

The buck may ultimately rest with Moshiri and Kkenwright, blame the board because of its weak or incompetent members, but control never left the top two. Failure of control and board management almost ended the club in the Premier league, still might, that was the responsibility of the failed board and owners.

Where do the fans sit in all this?

From my own personal perspective, we are one of the best supported clubs in any league, in any country. Right up there. The support, the knowledge and dedication is brilliant. But we are a sample of society, good bad and indifferent as often shown on social media and here on TW. But this club has had its fanbase split for 20 years because of the decisions made by Bill Kenwright. Good intentions but no means to improve, led to demise and ridicule, sale and mismanagement.xFans have been lied too, misled, accused, thrown under so many busses, in the end, even they said enough. There was a massive turning point that in years to come will be pointed to and people will say, "that was the moment they lost the club" but the club was lost years before Moshiri, bedfellows of Kenwright who had no interest in football or the club.

Bad decisions at every turn, eventually almost killing it, the fans had to endure the ridicule and incompetence for years.

Lastly, Moshiri. The man with the money. His connection to the Russian slush fund raised few eyebrows before the war or sanctions hit. His objective of having a successful club in a world class stadium may only become successful once he has gone,, but he left a man in charge of running the club who had oversee its demise then took it upon himself to make his own player and manager recruitment. Chaos in the backgarden.

BMD however will be his legacy irrespective of his future involvement, and it is a fantastic achievement make no mistake. One for which he will be remembered and one for which Bill Kenwright will be a footnote in the programme.

He was the one on the stage smiling, telling everyone that Farhad, was the man who just keeps on giving. Moshiri was Kenwright’s pick, and what they both have done to Everton, makes me fucking sick.

I agree with you about hypotheticals Barry, but the first thing the new owners of Newcastle did was to get rid of the old owner.

Bill Kenwright
occupation; influencer
level: world class.

Bill Kenwright
occupation; liar
level: world class.

Sharp never really had a role. He was apparently there to offer advice - but mainly he was just there to be seen and to make Evertonians think that one of us was on the board.

I don't hold him responsible for any kind of business or football related activities.

I hold him responsible for breaking the bond that was the only reason he was there in the first place. In the grand scheme of things, his role in both the club and it's demise was pretty minor.

I was going to resort to profanity but decided upon “Isn’t ToffeeWeb a wonder of diverse opinion. “

I’d call what’s happening now “major heart surgery “, on a club that was haemorrhaging on all fronts and put at risk of going out of existence according to our owner.

The board are/ were not fit for purpose. They are being sacked out of necessity not choice.

Ian, no need for you are a shower. Julie, hey Naybour that’s no way to talk after ‘vaffanculo’ was played earlier. Maybe those two are unrelated but some of the ‘greatest hits’ seem to get played on heavy news days so that’s why I mention it. And Andy, why the replay on Moshiri’s role now? That’s been played out and I don’t remember your contributions to those discussions. It could be me but I typically recall stuff like that. Moshiri has made public statements deeply implicating Bill in the problems so you’re posturing is not convincing.

Ok. Carry on.

We will go to our new stadium loud and proud.

Tony Everan, there is only one beating heart of this club.

The supporters. Those who walk to Goodison. Those who get the 81D and other buses. Those who get the train to Kirkdale or Sandhills. Those who travel on coaches and trains across the country. Those who take flights.

The vocal and passionate heart beat.

Not those who remained silent and left us on our own.

I'll admit to not being as suspicious to start with. It was the latter Moyes years when I turned. Some would say that was too late.

But when they turned on their own bread and butter last season, I don't know how they can look in the mirror.

The point being made by some is that he has tainted that reputation by his silence and compliance with the previous board.

Differentiate the player from the board member.

That's what I'm doing.

A key player in our most successful team.

A passive and submissive member of our most unsuccessful club board and structure.

That's all people are saying.

He's a shyster, devoid of any significance to us in the 21st century.

Mr Moshiri resides in Monaco and has rarely been in Great Britain or Liverpool since he bought the club, leaving Kenwright with the job of guarding the club's interest along with other members of the board appointed by him or, in the case of Ingles, recommended by Mrs Barrett-Baxendale.

Kenwright tried to block Benitez, Usmanov told him to be quiet, and Benitez was appointed with the remit to get rid of the highest wage earners and with no money to spend on bringing in new players except Townsend and Gray, total cost £1.7M.

Digne was transferred after kicking up a fuss, we got a very good deal on him, a decent profit and he had had a bad run of form for quite a while before he went. I think he's lost his place at Villa since then.

Brands was doing a good job until he was invited onto the board by Kenwright after which he seemed to lose his way. I don't know why he went or who got rid of him.

The club seems to be in a financial mess over spending too much money, maybe – nobody seems to know what we are being charged with. If it is overspending, Mr Ingles is in charge of the accounts which are all in front of him.

Moshiri is in Monaco, Kenwright is guarding the club's affairs, or should be, so any mistakes regarding spending is down to Ingles, who is overseen by Barrett-Baxendale, who works very closely with Kenwright, which Chairman Bill pointed out in his last statement from the club yesterday.

Andy, you see no wrong with Kenwright but pin everything wrong on Moshiri's toes. It's patently obvious that's not true.

I'd hate to see a bad job…

Brands was in the process of organising the Academy as well as bringing in new players, he had a good reputation before he came to Everton and sees to be doing well back in Holland, maybe it was too much interference at Everton!!

So yeah, he's doing great.

The league’s smallest board with the fewest skills spaffed the biggest windfall in the shortest time.

Moyes’ limited ambition and eye for a bargain performed well enough to kick the impact of top level incompetency down the road for a few years but proved to be unsustainable in the long term. Moshiri’s money simply sped up our demise to where we are now, BMD hopefully an exception rather than a further accelerant.

Things can change quickly though and a positive relationship between Dyche, the new and competent board and a state of the art stadium might just be enough to alter our trajectory and repair the off the field damage. It’s on the field I worry most - who do we lose or gain in order to win more matches whilst balancing the books?

The stats on the legend that is Clarkie show that in our admittedly diminishing status his goals-per-game ratio was identical to that of Sharpie throughout our very peak. One in three or thereabouts.

Hmm - maybe Wayne too needs to be accorded legendary status eh?

Or can some of us just wake up and realise that the one sane thing Moshiri ever said all those years ago was that he wanted US to be no longer regarded as a MUSEUM - such as we now are in terms of being consigned to the "Chamber-Of-Horrors room for seasons to come on account of his bone-headedness?

All in all it seems to me that despite his very recent betrayal of all Everton fans some of us still, amazingly, still think Sharpie deserves a plinth alongside Dean, Lawton, Hickson, Pickering, Young, and Vernon!

Bizarre.

A profligate owner with no understanding of his product and market, working with an incompetent board and a club structure that was dysfunctional. Particularly as it related to decision-making.

What is factual is that the board failed in its financial and fiduciary responsibilities, resulting in huge losses and an investigation for financial irregularities. The board quite rightly has finally resigned. Moshiri owns the club, so despite his failings he is going nowhere until he receives a commercial proposal that matches his valuation of the club - after the stadium is completed.

Both delusional opinions, both ultimately lead to a his stubborn refusal to acknowledge he’d recklessly blown his money on many poor signings. He pursued a personal agenda based on a misguided view of our fan base and belief that he’d spent his money well on good players. Both fundamentally abysmal conclusions which lead him to pursuing ideological flawed long term football related strategies.

By the way, just because I haven’t directly criticised members of the board shouldn’t lead others to jump to the wrong conclusion that I think they are individually and collectively beyond criticism. It’s pretty pointless wasting time analysing the performance of a Board that was under the control of a single owner though. My point is they were effectively puppets of Moshiri and whatever other external forces may been influencing decision making in our club. Newcastle fans understood this point when Ashley was in charge, the guy who owns the club and controls the purse strings, is the guy who carries the can, not his lackkies on the Board.

If thinks had turned out much better, you can bet Moshiri would have been at the forefront taking the public plaudits, instead of him now hiding and letting the Boorad take all the flack fo what are fundamentally Moshiri’s misjudgments.

Don (436) no-one is ‘eulogising’ anyone…read it again. ‘Wayne Clarke’ eh? Yes, that’s a stunning piece of statistical analysis and what is ‘bizarre’ is your conclusion that there can be any comparison between the two players. If that’s your level of footballing intelligence, I’ll disengage. Enjoy your day.

I agree and think they all need to leave, but I think we will know more in a couple of weeks, when things should have hopefully moved forward?

If Moshiri remains the majority shareholder then I will still have my reservations, because I also agree that nothing much will change. We need professional people who are driven to succeed, otherwise it’s going to be more of the same at best, imo.

I suppose it depends how you look at it and I'm not suggesting you, I or anyone is right or wrong. We just voice opinion, sometimes emotively!

The owner is ultimately responsible. But it is not uncommon in many walks of business and life for the owner to be distant and empower the board. You run it for me.

So was / is Moshiri reckless and out of his depth?

Did he give his money to the wrong people, albeit people he gave the keys to and at the very least sanctioned their appointments?

Was the board to blame for it's incompetence and inability to run a football club of Everton's stature?

Probably a blend of all. A mismanaged club, whilst the supporters just got behind the team. Those supporters will be rewarded some time soon. They deserve it and have done it on their own with the team.

Without inner knowledge, I suspect a lack of communication and regular monthly or quarterly business updates. The perception is that he certainly didn't have a grip. But then did he interfere too much? I honestly don't know.

Many Evertonians' point is that regardless of Moshiri, there has been one consistent influential figure involved at the leadership level at Everton since the late 80s. He should be gone in days. If he isn't then this won't go away. Surely Moshiri can see this.

Moshiri has acted now, but almost too late. This should have happened when he took control. And maybe, we will see, influenced by the potential new investors turning the screw.

One thing I would pick up on, and I understand what you meant Andy, in terms of Moshiri's perception of the Everton supporters being awkward. We are not awkward. We are demanding.

We demand to compete, not survive.

Some may call that deluded and a blast from the past.

Well, I am demanding and I expect Everton to compete, as I am sure we all want.

Moshiri will have delivered the new stadium. My guess is he will stay to see that through and sell. But I'm guessing.

He can take that accolade. But his leadership of the club and those he empowered to run it on his behalf was naive at best and very nearly cost us.

To draw a parallel, the first commercial company I worked for was procured by an investment company. They didn't change the workforce, but the first thing they did was to bring their own people in and change the leadership.

That is where Moshiri failed. And the people he empowered failed. That is me being passive at best.

And finally, they turned on us and made a pathetic attempt to blame us. Apologies. I can't forgive that.

We move on. They are gone.

This has been a really good thread and read.

Apart from being labelled disgraceful, shameful and scumbags by some of our own supporters!

But we all have thick skin and big shoulders. You have to if you follow Everton and step into the ToffeeWeb bear pit.

I use the word legend very carefully with regards to footballers. Yes, there is a difference between what constitutes a club legend and a global one. And that itself is down to personal views.

In terms of Everton, it will be generational and opinionated. Dean, Ball, Harvey, Kendall. Some would say Royle, others point to Latchford. I only saw Latchford, the rest, I trust my Dad and Grandad's view and educational stories.

In my lifetime, there is only one, and regular readers will know who that is.

Then there are iconic players. In the 60s, apparently Tony Kay had the lot. Duncan McKenzie was magic in the 70s. Andy King and his derby winning stunner. Too many to mention in the 80s. The corner flag boxing kangaroo. We could go on.

Most are, or were, just great or very good players.

I am very reserved on the use of the word legend.

While each are icons in their own right and respectively hold some sort of folklore status to different fans, I count possibly only 4 "legends" in there - and I'm afraid Graeme Sharpe is not one of them.

Back on topic - has anyone managed to dislodge the limpet yet?

Read Google for much more details.
I would much rather these 4 making the decisions about Everton than the last 4
Onwards and Upwards

Kenwright eventually found a buyer, job done. He should have stepped down straight away or after a season handover.

Moshiri has pumped his money into the club and the new stadium will be his legacy. He should then sell up and step aside. Maybe the process has started in admitting to needing experienced sporting investment.

I have no personal grudge with anyone. I'm sure they all tried there best but it didn't work and a reset is needed and it has started. My fear is it's left up to Moshiri and Kenwright to appoint a new board. Doh!

Danny Blanchflower refused to go on this is your life, I’m more interested in those who refuse knighthoods and other honours than those who accept them, recently there has been a demand that the two rugby league ex players receive a knighthood, one with motor neurone disease and his great friend who has helped to get plenty of money to go towards helping to find a cure for this terrible illness, why would these two genuine honest people want to join the lists of many phoney people who have received and longed for these honours.

With regards to Everton I think Brian Labone, a very good player and a genuine man who really loved Everton before he came, when he played and died an Evertonian deserves to be called a legend but doubt it would bother him if he wasn’t.

I have 8 medals that I will frame and have mounted on my landing next to my Grandfathers WW2. I won't wear them again, even on Remembrance Day. I got given them for doing my job.

I forgot Alex Young, who my Dad spoke about.

He also spoke fondly of Brian Labone. And also "the Angel" Gabriel, who rarely gets a mention.

So, if it wasn't ‘his' money, why would you assume he was the one making the decisions? What you believe, Andy, has a lot of indications of confirmation bias where you imagine all wealthy men that you can't really relate to are consummate control freaks. Even if he was of the dictatorial kind, why would you let the board off for not exposing the truth as the club got ever closer to the precipice?

But of course you've stated that if you had massive wealth you'd use it to destroy a rival club, rather than use it for something worthwhile, so maybe expecting a balanced view (ie, one that looks at all the facts) is a little optimistic.

If you choose to take my comment about buying LFC so absolutely seriously, that’s speaks volumes about your judgement. Obviously, if I had £100 billions, in addition to fucking up LFC I’d give the rest away to the poor, whilst promoting world peace and love. I know you’d obviously do the former, whilst promoting the value of virtue signalling.

it used to be below the radar.

The club decision to stop AGMs is embarrassing, as they couldn't take the facts of the mess they've made of it.

That has to return.

Or maybe I'm just dead tired of watching this site and the EFC site to get some final confirmation one way or the other... ;D

That comment about it coming one hour before the announcement of next season's fixture list seem ever more likely, if he can only see the "slink away" as the one option left.

Everton events would make a decent Netflix series as no one could make this shit up!

So 2 earth days equates to 486 days on Venus. Don't hold your breath (unless you're living on that planet and you've not got adequate breathing apparatus).

How long is a day on Venus?

A planet's day is the time it takes the planet to rotate or spin once on its axis. Venus rotates much more slowly than Earth does, so a day on Venus is much longer than a day on Earth. A day on Venus lasts for 243 Earth days or 5,832 hours! A day on Earth is 23.943 hours. Venus also rotates backwards compared to the Earth and most of the other planets.

As does Everton compared to other premier league teams. Kenwright truly is a pioneer.

We know who isn't

Incidentally, my predictive text changed Kenwright to Me Weights, and Arteta to arrest…make of that what you will…

They don't even come to the game. They treat the fans like second class citizens.
If I performed like that at work I would be sacked and deservedly so.

Some people need to open their eyes and get in the real world and off their fluffy little cloud.

He is clinging on for as long as possible. Possibly until such a time that Moshiri's shareholding is such that he is no longer the majority shareholder.

The writing isn't just on the wall. It's scrawled in 60-ft-high letters and it says 'Kenwright Out!'

I fully expect a sympathy-inducing reason being given for the delay in the announcement.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the Chairman will be resigning or sacked does it?

Friday 16 June 16 09:00 am, Bill Kenwright is proud to have led the club and his ongoing commitment to the club is proven by his willingness to buy out 50% of Farhad Moshiri's shareholding and he looks forward to leading the club into a brighter future.

Another show of contempt for us, the life-blood of our club, from those narcissistic charlatans (or one in particular) who are shaming all of us.

But I'd be very surprised if the announcement isn't retirement. Commentary on his health. Platitudes about his service to the club. And some kind of life membership or long-term acknowledgement of him.

The only slight curve ball I can imagine is that he might have offered to serve in some kind of interim role while the new board and chair settle in.

Mr Moshiri, don’t be sucked in on this one. Before you know it we will have an upturn in form due to Dyche balancing the squad. Kenwright will then be banking on a softening of criticism enough for him to extend the interim role for the opening of the Stadium.

I've combed this town from top to bottom,
I try to get around but my legs are broken.
Every time I miss it cause I ain't got a ticket.
48 hours needs 48 thrills, 48 thrills.
Cheap thrills, and they got thrills.
Kicking for kicks.

Our local rivals (in name only) have just bought a 24-year-old, all-action, World Cup-winning midfielder for about the same price as an Onana, prior to the transfer window opening. Have we got any pre-planned, well-thought-out additions to our squad when the window opens? (Spoiler alert: No!)

The club announce that 3 of our 4 board members are leaving the club. Not being sacked, fired, resigned or are leaving for another job. They have left from being disappointed.

The club has said the fate of the remaining board member would be announced within 48 hours...

We have been told that the shiny new stadium will not be ready for the start of the 2024-25 season.

We have been told that we may face some sort of comeuppance in October through the previous actions of our financial activities, which may or may not be quite nasty.

Various players have left our wafer-thin squad (or bloated as Leon Osman seems to think) through either loans or contracts expired.

The transfer window has opened (see spoiler alert).

The fate of our one remaining board member was said, by the club, to be announced within 48 hours. As of writing it is 60 hours+ into the 48-hour self-imposed deadline. It is not clear whether he will be staying or leaving himself through being disappointed.

Honestly, as a fan, I am starting to feel a little disappointed myself.

Everton have been unable to find a pair of bolt cutters to cut Kenwright's chains (to the radiator) so he will be allowed to stay on for as long as he wants.

We will never get rid of this leech.

Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand.
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned

They couldn't be this bad accidentally.

I mean, they chose the timing of the announcement. They chose the 48-hour window. Why do that if there's even a chance that you can't follow up?

Between screw-up and conspiracy... It's usually screw-up. But not when the screw-ups are this consistent.

So the likes of Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Jobs and Musk have all dabbled in illegal schemes?

You are surprisingly imprecise for someone others apparently consult, Andy, or is the art of consultancy only appearing to know what's best (or possibly ‘generally' best)?

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think I'm the sort of person who thinks all's fair in love and money-making. I question the morality of loads of stuff that is considered legal, which is (one of the many reasons) why I won't ever be a billionaire (though shouldn't that be a multi-millionaire since we are British?). My dreams of lottery money are empty of settling grudges and full of altruism though.

My only experience of the mega-rich is from interacting with some of Jim Ratcliffe's trusted lieutenants, but the point is that the head honcho did have people he delegated stuff to (that seems to be true for Alan Sugar and Richard Branson from things I've observed or been told) and so I do easily imagine that Kenwright had some things he was trusted with doing in the Kenwright - Moshiri - Usmanov organisation. You, however, insist it's all on Moshiri although you offer no proof.

You say it's only black and white, Andy, but I'm seeing shades of grey.

There appears to be an agreement between BK & FM going back to 2016 for Moshiri to acquire any or all of BKs shares. The price & FM's willingness/ability to buy may be problematic.

That potential contractual dispute should not stop FM from removing BK from the board.

BK's departure was always going to be more complex than other directors. One factor may be his shareholding (1750 shares) which I assume he will want to dispose of. It's not immediately obvious who the buyer would be & the price will reflect the current difficulties the club faces.

There's a window of 14 days in which to announce on Companies House, new directors/departing directors.

In March 2022, several Russian oligarchs were placed on sanctions lists with all of their assets frozen by the UK. Uzbek-born Alisher Usmanov, with a (known) minimum net worth of US$19B, was one of them.

This is the story of how Usmanov, 'Putin's favourite oligarch' was caught trying to skip sanctions and continue building his property empire across the UK.

So let's take this opportunity to stick one in the club as the most difficult of actions are taken. It is obvious that these dislocations imply future progress but hey it's still shitty enough to have one last go before Dyche undeniably improves the situation.

According to Everton Daily.

That is quite narrow.

I hope it is regarding the loans because if a bloody accountant can't sort that out and clear us then who can?

Mind you, having said that, it's still a case for "Don't believe everything you read" – until it's proven to be that.

However, it seems strange that the charge is not down to our losses of over £300M against the £105M allowed.

Clubs need to balance football-related expenditure - transfers and wages - with television and ticket income, plus revenues raised by their commercial departments.

Money spent on stadiums, training facilities, youth development or community projects is exempt.

Everton FC fan tycoon George Downing thrown out of Manchester City Directors Box – Liverpool Echo, 26 March 2020

Capex costs are exempt from consideration, therefore, if the issue really is tax write-offs linked to stadium loans, that is a pretty narrow infringement.

My question still stands. When did we beat Man City or lead them by two goals to nil at their ground?

Or is it just more shite reporting from that rag?

There appears to be an agreement between BK & FM going back to 2016 for Moshiri to acquire any or all of BKs shares. The price & FMs willingness/ability to buy may be problematic.

That potential contractual dispute should not stop FM from removing BK from the board.

He also stated that It seems that Moshiri is too accommodating to Kenwright.

Yakubu and Lescott

Cahill and Arteta

Cahill and Baines

I have looked it up on "Everton The Official Complete Record" unfortunately it was printed in 2010 so two of the last entries were:

2007-08. Manchester City 0 Everton 2 (Yakubu, Lescott)

2009-10. Manchester City 0 Everton 2 (Cahill, Arteta)

I'm afraid that my memory is not what it used to be, but I'm sure that someone will be able to help you out.

Under the Articles of Association for Everton FC, is it possible for the Company to be run by two directors, one in Monaco?

"That potential contractual dispute should not stop FM from removing BK from the board."

It would appear that Paul the Esk doesn't subscribe to the view, often aired on here, that Blue Bill has some sort of legally binding agreement with Moshiri which means he can't be removed from his role as Chair.

Will he be right?

GULP!!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/15/everton-fans-urge-farhad-moshiri-to-remove-bill-kenwright-as-chairman

Assuming Joe has interpreted the tweet correctly, the Esk appears to suggest that there is some sort of agreement dating back several years that Moshiri will buy Blue Bill's remaining shares but there seems to be a problem around the valuation of the shares or Moshiri's ability or willingness to acquire them.

However, this dispute won't prevent Moshiri from dispensing with Blue Bill as Chair.

I'd have thought that, if the Esk thought there was some other agreement between the two also relevant to ensuring Blue Bill remains as Chair, the Esk would have thought it worth mentioning at this juncture but perhaps not.

Admittedly though you are correct in that it is only the Esk's opinion but hopefully it's a slightly more informed opinion than most.

If you follow Stephen's #521 link, the Guardian are reporting much the same story as the Esk.

The point I'm making is that whilst it's mentioned regularly on ToffeeWeb, I've never actually seen any significant source suggest that the "Keep Bill" clause exists.

He is latterly reduced to feeding stories to his various mates in the media about how badly treated he has been by the fans. Hardfaced doesn't do justice to this guy's brass neck. 77, and still not out.

Nobody has seen anything which says Usmanov is our real owner, and nobody saw Barrett-Baxendale getting put in a headlock.

Moshiri took over Everton, over seven years ago, and surely part of the deal would have been for him to purchase the rest of Bill Kenwright's shares one day?

That day is hopefully coming, but it would feel a lot better to me if Moshiri also follows Bill Kenwright out the door. I live in hope.

Link

2010 0-2 game. City still not 'CITY!!!" yet and we're the well-drilled, veteran-led team.

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Everton fans urge Farhad Moshiri to remove Bill Kenwright as chairman

The time is surely coming.

Not sure I follow the logic.

On Usmanov... there was a close relationship between him and Moshiri before Everton, it was reported that Usmanov had gifted Moshiri his Arsenal shares which enabled him to buy Everton and Usmanov came on board with Moshiri at Everton at least in terms of sponsorship.

So there are some actual facts mixed in with speculation which lead people to the conclusion that Usmanov is really the owner of Everton.

On "headlockgate" no one apparently saw the incident, there was no CCTV and the police weren't notified of the incident...all of which led people to suspect the incident never happened.

On the "Keep Bill as Chair" legal agreement between Blue Bill and Moshiri... cue the sound of the whistling wind and the sight of tumbleweed blowing across Goodison. Nothing!

Have to agree, however, much, much better if both Blue Bill and Moshiri go.

Yep, come on Bill, time to move on.

Given that we had until very recently a women Chief Executive Officer, the decision and the way the girls were ditched was doubly disappointing.

Shame on you.

Love it, we are the punk team/club, always do the unexpected. Back in the park end with my bullshit detector!

Kenwright said the boardroom changes had been planned for 6 months but if that was the case surely it would have been a seamless changeover, last Monday. It seems Chairman Bill is lying to the end.

I honestly think that the only time Bill Kenwright has ever been genuine and told the truth, was during the interview when he was getting quizzed on going to Kirkby, and being asked about “certain fans” accusing him of sucking the lifeblood out of the club.

”I'm alright, I've got a great seat upstairs” he smugly said, “and I definitely understand this football club.”

I couldn't disagree with those words because, if he didn't understand us, how else would he have known how to appease enough fans, who helped him play his perfect solo game?

I know you're locked in to a daily rant but I'm not sure Kenwright gets a ‘wage' as such from Everton. I don't think I've seen any indication of this.

I'm sure he's given himself a swath of benefits and privileges in his elevated position, but not a ‘wage', I don't believe…

Yes, the directors' emoluments are recorded as a line item in the Annual Accounts, but I'm sure these are for the executive directors who have done such a great job in running the company…

I think he gets £1M per year and all expenses paid. Happy to be wrong on that though but that was my understanding.

He never at any time hoodwinked the Everton fanbase, the vast majority of whom understood exactly what was going on or at least more than what you know.

Remember that you did exactly what that hoodwinked fanbase did: exactly nothing. What do you know about how the club has been run in detail? Absolutely nothing.

That framed newspaper from 1994 that he has on his wall, says to me that he sees survival and continued existence as more important than competing in the top league, which is ironic, given the many issues that surround the club today.

Whether Chairman Bill goes or stays, doesn't really bother me as much as the idea that without a CEO in place, Moshiri and Kenwright can make unilateral decisions that could have major impacts on the club for the near and long-term, without any other executives being involved. Perhaps that truly is business as usual and the three directors that left on Monday, had no say in major decision-making?

How is MSP going to react to this state of affairs, will they continue with their proposed plans and investment, I smell another scenario where Chairman Bill has no option but to carry on regardless, but I genuinely hope that I've got that wrong.

Pretty sure you are correct. I think the Articles of Association state that only the Executive Directors are salaried.

He must know there is no way back.

Moshiri needs to be decisive.

Despite having varying ways of expressing it, we have a fanbase the is predominantly united in wanting the removal of the last part of a failed board.

Yes, you could be right, Bill, but I hope to God you are wrong.

It should have happened a long time ago, and yes I have become very boring with my incessant rants against Bill Kenwright, but that's only because I hate what this man has been allowed to do to our club, and I'm not just going on about recent history, I'm more concerned about the longest barren spell in the club's history.

When I was growing up, Everton was all about competing and not surviving, my oldest is 27 and has only known his club for surviving rather than competing, and this has all happened under the tutelage of a man who said we would never get a better owner, or was it salesperson?

He's been an absolutely owner, and look at the clown he sold us to? Chairman Bill has had a ball.

The nuance that the Guardian has nothing against the fan base only the owner will be entirely lost on many Everton supporters.

This supposedly left-leaning paper has not forensically investigated the owners of Newcastle and Manchester City, for example. In fact, they have not really investigated them at all as they want access to relatively successful clubs.

They are repeatedly targeting a club in a working class city like Liverpool for scrutiny as an easy target. The majority of Everton fans come from Merseyside and are grounded in the region.

It's just a question of when now.

'Supposedly' is the operative word. The Guardian is a liberal paper which supports the status quo. If anything challenges that, eg, Corbyn, they hide behind the sofa.

Can somebody explain to me, how the board can democratically trade without an AGM? I know they've done it, but through my naivety, how can this go unchallenged?

I can't see Kenwright leaving, maybe a sideways shunt… but the stench and odour of his presence must make working conditions for Everton's employees unbearable, ducking for cover whenever they see him approaching.

I've said it many time: just go, Bill.

Does anybody have another definition of 48 hours?

I don't post that often through choice, but I find myself constantly looking for news that I know isn't forthcoming!
Joys of being a lifelong Evertonian!

What do you know about how the club has been run in detail? Absolutely nothing.

Errr, becuase falling foul of the financial rules Premier League clubs are subject to, having an ex-manager take the club to court over financial breach of contract, coming within one game of being relegated twice on the run doesn't mean the clubs been run badly?

For fuck’s sake, even Stevie Wonder could see in detail how badly the club's been run.

But the way they target a club like Everton over Newcastle is really cowardly.

What you say speaks for generations who remember Everton competing.

Generations who won't accept any less or lower expectation.

My son is 28. As passionate an Evertonian as me, but has seen nothing but mediocracy, a bit of stability and relegation scraps.

In some of the conversations you often wonder who the senior is.

But there's no chance of me giving in.

It's nothing to do with Kenwright, it's the sneering attitude that some like you have on other Evertonians. It's a patronising faux superiority that's totally unwarranted.

Would anybody be even the slightest bit shocked if the Fraud Squad raided the club tomorrow? Something's not right and there's lot more pain to come.

Getting rid of Kenwright isn't like lancing a boil. The stench of mediocrity pervades every facet of the football club, like some massive tumour sucking the life out of it.

The #AllTogetherNow statement sums up your position

“That ‘great board' have left us in a perilous financial position with constant poor decision-making, leaving the club in a dire situation with an FFP court case hanging over our heads. They have brought us zero trophies and two back-to-back relegation battles. Not forgetting in recent times throwing the club's biggest asset, its fans, under a bus with no remorse or apology.”

Meanwhile, in Kenwright's parallel world, he described the outgoing directors as “a great board” when their departures were announced on Monday.

We can look at the characters we've been involved with, Green etc

We can look at our financial situation over the years. From the shoestring budget Moyes operated with to the recent past with Benitez spending his allowed £2 million.

We can look at the joke of a Club we have become with supporters taking the piss out of us every game. Never mind the shit football we've produced — look at the league table??

So with all this staring us straight in the face, no ifs, buts or maybes – I find it quite incredible, beyond reasonable rational belief that anyone, even the most ardent passionate supporters of Kenwright, can still speak up for him?

Yes, we can blame Moshiri for many things but this club was up Shit Creek long before he appeared on the scene.

God only knows what Kenwright has to do before his sycophant acolytes change their tune? I doubt they ever will…

Kenwright has created a cult using the same methods as other cult leaders. Here are the characteristics from a psychology website:

A charismatic leader
He is that.

Ideological purity
He banishes dissenters be they ex-players, Birch, Gregg, media.

Conformity and control
His name is involved in every transfer deal and he employs yes-men.

Us-vs-them mentality
Plucky Little Everton fighting the whole world

Apocalyptic thinking
Goodison will lose its safety certificate, he has to mortgage his house to save the club, he is protecting us from ruin under Johnson, Moshiri etc.

Time and energy
EitC does a lot of good with the unpaid help of thousands of Evertonians, and financial contributions from the same. While all the credit goes to him and Denise Barrett-Baxendale.

Isolation and love-bombing
Hand-picked Fans Forums etc keeping people out of AGMs, not engaging with other fan groups who dissent, just creating this special connection with the chosen few who get a handshake from him or a tour of the ground by his acolyte Sharpy.

He literally is a cult leader and while many have now escaped the brainwashing and smelt the roses there will always be those unfortunates who are irreparably mentally and emotionally ruined and unable to control their own faculties outside of the guidance of their cult leader.

In 2022 our highest paid director earned £868,000, the Board's total remuneration was £3,050,000. In 2021 the highest paid director earned £2,041,000, the Board in total earned £4,214,000.

I suspect that the top earner was Brands as he left part way through the year ended 30 June 2022.

On a lighter note, here is some good news for you. I just received a birthday package containing my new Everton scarf. I'm now going into Santa Cruz to get a few looks on my bike ride.

"Up The Fucking Toffees" will be the response to any stuffy quizzical looks I get.

The problem now is the owner. A burglar will continue breaking in and stealing if the chief of police issues a no-arrest against him, so why has Moshiri persisted with him for so long?

Moshiri is the major problem at Everton as, being major shareholder and owner of the club, he can hire or fire anyone in the club and that includes a Chairman who only holds 1.3% of shares in Everton.

If you feel it helps you ranting and raving over Kenwright, go ahead, but let's get the owner to accept he is the problem in allowing the Chairman, with help from the Board, to ruin the club.

Haha – too true!

Moshiri needs to get his fucking finger out...

You're stinking the place out.

Apparently they met earlier in the week and Moshiri can't stay in the UK for that long so I assume he has gone back to Monaco and left blagger Bill in situ.

I'm hoping the delay is for MSP to get their ducks in a row and it may be after the end of the accounting year before we get new directors appointed.

I can't bear another minute of that charlatan's reign. Please let it be over soon.

Kenwright has no sycophant acolytes unless you would like to prove it? Did you idiots read the fan survey? I'd like to see so-called fans like you gone as well as Kenwright.

We must not criticise other Evertonians with imagined crimes. They are all entitled to their opinions, we need only to try to get them on side.

I would urge the mods on here to ban people for this sneering attitude. You are no better than them believe me.

1984 😂

This from someone who in the next breath refers to fellow Evertonians on here as idiots.

One fucked-up individual for sure.

(Eds: I readily accept the ban should it be forthcoming).

I don't want this to turn into another "Benitez" summer, with anxious morning walks. Lack of communication is getting us spun up into a frenzy. Well, it is me.

We sense and almost see a new blue dawn rising. We can feel it. Just do it, because my dogs have got enough to worry about with the hot weather.

As per former Everton dealings, we then may see some desperate moves for incoming players. Here is hoping they get a new board and chairman in to get some deals done in the weeks before then.

Those that have met him said he's a decent bloke. Maybe communicating via typing versus in-person isn't Martin's forte?

ps: Happy birthday, Dale, hope Okie is treating you well.

So to blame Moshiri for all our ills, even before his time here, is a bit silly in my view. I'm sure there are Blues who think I'm silly for holding the views I hold, but facts are indisputable. Kings Dock was disastrous for us, but very nice for a senior manager of North West Water, who found that his dream of having a canal gurgle through the middle of the Pierhead to the Albert Dock, magically come true. If my memory is right, he was also a director at Everton FC.

We, on the other hand, were protected from getting involved with nefarious characters who would have lent EFC our share of the building costs, by that noble chieftain, who still resides at the head of our almost broken club.

There are other actions he fought on our behalf, such as fending off Sheik Mansour.

Inviting us to a "virtually free", world-class stadium in Kirkby (the plans for which were overruled).

Finding a True Blue Father Christmas who fended off the attempt by Paul Gregg to become the Chairman and who sent many millions of £££'s by post to stymie the evil plot. Unfortunately, the Millions of quids were sent to the wrong address.

Apart from these little hiccups, the mighty EFC have been riding the crest of a slump ever since Moyes left.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the man, he played a true Blue in the Liver Birds, so must be a good Boys Pen Veteran,

Now, from my view as an illiterate resident of the fair hamlet of Kirkdale, Mister Kenwright, who reckons he's been in charge when we've had good times (er... when?) has been an absolute disaster for this club.

Mr Moshiri, hand-picked by our Glorious Leader, has put getting on for £¾ Billion and we're seeing a stadium rise on the banks of the Mersey. But my guess is he knows little about the ins and outs of football. He probably wants to take part in the redevelopment of the North End of the Liverpool Waterfront, and us who live up this end welcome any progress, from the Bootle border to the Pier Head, for the first time since the War.

Anyway, I find it appalling that a form of censorship suggested by fellow supporters, akin to those Woke Loonies, who are like the second coming of the Witchfinder General's supporters, truly awful.

"Did you idiots read the fan survey? I'd like to see so-called fans like you gone as well as Kenwright."

We've put up with a lot of crap from you in recent weeks but this crosses the line.

I would urge you not to use this website to call your fellow Evertonians 'idiots' or to suggest they should be 'gone'.

Absolutely disgusted in your reply to "Keating @569".

Although it was directed at me personally I reckon it was one of the most disgraceful replies to any post I've witnessed on ToffeeWeb.

There are a few posters on here who reply using surnames rather than Christian names which I find out of order.
Your posts are sometimes up for serious comment, however, I can't recall anyone ever calling you "Mason".

You should be ashamed of yourself. You know nothing about me or my supporting our Club for over 60 years.

You are totally out of order.

I got it on very good authority today that Moshiri is also speaking to a consortium that want to buy Everton, lock, stock & barrel.

I have always been of the opinion that he must want to sell, but after hearing this news then, now I'm not so sure.

Well said, sir.

Are you a match-going Evertonian? If so, I very much doubt you would express your opinion out loud at the game.

Charismatic... falls spectacularly at the first hurdle.

Stephen won't unless he has access to information other than the published accounts. The figure paid to the Directors includes Barrett-Baxendale, Ingles & Brands (at least for part of the year) salaries as full-time employees of the club.

It's not as simple as dividing the figure in the accounts by the number of Directors.

I think you got that spot on. I don't think it's going to change Tony's rants much, though.

On that score, the post at 584 – compare with the attitude that is hauled over the coals at 562 – tells us all that we need to know.

See Michael #605.

Seems your logic confuses more than me.

(Apologies, MK)

Moving on though, there is to me startling and worrying similarities between Kenwright and Boris Johnson. They both deny 24-carat truth, and they both find enough gormless supporters to sustain their self-projected fantastical and absurd behaviour despite the fact they both still openly spout shite.

That said, even the abhorrent so-called Tory Party have, since Johnson was eventually decreed a serial liar to the enormous personal cost of so very many millions of us, begun to distance themselves from him and his dreadful career.

Meanwhile, Kenwright remains in post and the only informed opinion of him (Mason's aside, I suppose), and that's us, is largely ignored by the world, not least because our profile as a "big" club was dead in the wider world almost immediately Kenwright took over.

Obviously, Martin Mason is an odd duck but I was simply pointing out that Brent (who I have never met but seems like a solid bloke) vouched for him and Neil Copeland who I have met and is a solid bloke concurred.

As to Martin trying to silence rival voices, it's funny hearing criticism from you as the self-appointed custodian of ToffeeWeb recently suggesting Ian Edwards, Don and Mark should desist from posting as their comments didn't meet your approval based on your (what was it 50? 60? years) since your vivid memory at Goodison as a 2-year-old apparently gave you some kind of kudos above other posters.

Give it a rest with the know-it-all self-righteous censoring schtick, mate. You're no better or wiser than any other fan.

Thanks for handling it sensitively!

Yes, I realise the window has only just opened and there is still a fair time to go which is why I bracketed that part of the comment. However, given how long we seem to take to put deals to bed, every second counts as they say.

I did meet Martin, for the first time, at the most recent Wolves away game, along with Neil who you referred to (also a first meet for me), Mark Murphy (also a first meet) and Danny (a frequent "meet"). Solid blokes, all.

On the basis of one meeting, I have to say, again, that Martin seemed a really nice guy. At the same time, I have to say that Martin can be a tad acerbic in his posts, and would probably acknowledge that.

Martin, all I'd say is you're a lovely fella in person; you might want to just dial it down a wee bit online. And I really hope you take that in the right way, Martin.

A case of two truths being possible at the same time: the Martin I've met (lovely fella), and the Martin online, occasionally.

All together: Two Martin Masons, there's only two Martin Masons...

‘A decision will be made in 4 - 8 months' (or quite possibly years?). Blame the Everton communications office!

Who really cares about Moshiri buying Kenwright's shares? Kenwright owns just over 1%, so surely this is an insignificant amount to have any real power moving forward?

The Esk never said “there was or there wasn't” a contract between Kenwright and Moshiri that enables our saviour to stay on as chairman (something you jumped on, as if to say – this was proof there isn't such a contract) but considering what little power Mr Kenwright still has the fact that he has remained does seem very strange imo.

Everton Football Club is a shambles and also a total embarrassment right now. Why get rid of three directors but keep one on saying there will be an update in 48 hours, even though every person who is cynical (but not really cynical) could have predicted nothing would happen (and this is not me trying to be wise after the event).

Why didn't they just wait until everything was in place before getting rid of the whole board, instead of sacking three and leaving the one that most people want out the most to remain?

If the highest paid director was on £870,000, this means that at least three other people were receiving wages, which can be confusing considering how small the Everton board has been. How many paid directors did Everton have in 2022, because there had to be more than the three you mentioned Brendan, otherwise the sums don't add up.

I've been away a couple of days but I'd just like to say, from a personal point of view, I have different views and opinions to many on here and quite often phrase my thoughts, erm, unwisely. As is possible with others, this is usually dependant on the time of day I post.

Pre yard-arm, I can be reasonable; in the evenings and a few drinks down, I make “errors of judgement” and pick fights. It runs in the family.

What I would like to make abundantly clear is that I am not a Kenwright acolyte, fan or defender. I think he's a fraud and useless in his role as Chairman and should not be anywhere near the posh seats or the boardroom of any football club, let alone ours.

Regarding my learned friend, neighbour and occasional match company, I would add that he is also not a Kenwright fan. He sees some things different to me and we have friendly disagreements about those but he is most certainly not as he comes across in some of his posts.

He just seems, like me at certain times of day, to be a tad more confrontational than he needs to be. He's not the only one though. Brent has it about right in his post earlier.

For my part, I'm going to avoid posting in the evenings. In fact, I'm going to avoid reading in the evenings as sometimes the temptation to respond is too great.

We're all Blues we're just all different.

UTFT

Perhaps the hardest thing to do in these circumstances is to take a step back (actually… quite a few steps back) and reassess what we really know as fact, then try to dissociate that from the speculation and misinformation that has become accepted folklore about Kenwright and such related issues.

Now I'm no expert on this, and keeping up with every inference and innuendo that has been put forward about what he may or may not have done over the past 20-30 years is simply not possible with any degree of certainty.

But your 'logic' is compelling: Kenwright is Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Directors are paid a vast fortune according to the accounts, Everton having one of the highest-paid boards in the Premier League. It's therefore obvious beyond any doubt that Kenwright is paid handsomely for his role at Everton. Compelling… but just not true as far as can be best established from published information, taking the emotion and the 'Evertonian wisdom' out of the equation for a moment.

I would then revert back to the facts that can be established. For many years while Kenwright was Chairman and there were no executive directors, the Directors' Pay in the accounts was zero. You can check this yourself if you look back through the published accounts. (You're not going to do that, are you, Tony?)

So you're left with a choice: believe the compelling 'logic' that sits fine in your head? Or look for some evidence that would support the facts?

For fear of labouring the point, here's another facet of your 'logic':

Considering what little power Mr Kenwright still has, the fact that he has remained does seem very strange.

Okay, how do you know what little power he has? He is the Chairman of Everton Football Club. He has held that position since 2004 and has apparently wielded that power to considerable effect. Yes, his personal shareholding has declined to insignificance, and shareholding is the ultimate power within Everton, but he is still in the role of Chairman, while the CEO actually runs ran the club, so I would not want to conflate those things.

I think he has remained because Moshiri has not wanted to oust him. I don't think there needs to be a contract or an agreement (although there might well be, but as Brendan says, we just don't know).

This is the problem with spewing forth a bile-filled rant on a virtually daily basis — you have to believe every snippet of what have heard (or thought you heard) and of course it all has to be 'true', or at least accepted as true by most right-thinking Evertonians...

Well, no. That's the problem. None of us have a real grasp on the truth here, which is why no one bothers trying to challenge 95% of what's said. But when you say something that is demonstrably wrong, someone might pop their head over the parapet and point it out to you.

Under the Articles of Association for Everton FC, is it possible for the Company to be run by two directors, one in Monaco?

The Articles of Association require that the board consist of a minimum of three directors, so No is the short answer.

But the Company is not actually run by the directors – they just sit on the board. The CEO and the rest of the so-called C-Level mob of executives are supposed to run the company, and confusingly in Everton's case, some of them did sit on the board, but they have manifestly failed to do this properly, and Moshiri has finally seen sense and dispensed with their services.

I don't think there is any requirement for the directors to be or live anywhere specifically, so some can be in London, some in Monaco – although the one you might be thinking of who does live in Monaco is not a director, never has been a director, and I imagine is most unlikely to ever be a director of Everton FC.

I don't know why it has to be this complicated. Seems passing the buck by all members of the 'great board' was an unwritten clause in their Articles of Association.

The author used to write for the fan mag When Skies Are Grey.

Probably 12-13 years ago, I worked for an investment bank in London part-owned by the Qataris. As such, the CEO had regular conversations with them about all kinds of projects as you can imagine.

He shouted me into his office one day and showed me an email: headline “Proceed Project Everton” — The Qataris wanted to buy EFC.

He told me the following week he'd spent all day Sunday at BK's place in Little Venice trying to convince him they'd be good owners, but was told that discussions were already too far down the line with Sheik Mansour and it was too late. For those with long memories, I posted on here at the time that we had a contested bid situation.

Nothing ever came of the Qatari approach more than that, no idea why we didn't go back after Mr Green stuck his nose in to block the other deal (which a certain friend of mine was coincidentally also leading on behalf of the Sheik, so I got told a few of the things that happened.…).

Presumably it went no further because Sheik Mansour had been told we were no longer for sale, to him or the Qataris?

This potential purchase of Man Utd now (albeit years afterwards) made me wonder just how many times we can miss out: NTL take stakes in clubs…. and go bust before we can agree, win the dock stadium (after bidder #1 goes bust at the last minute)……& have no finance in place, turn down oil money twice….and Russian war whips our legs away with Usmanov.

It's a fair old saga of what could have been, innit?

In fact, I don't think anyone I have met through TW has been anything other than a decent bloke, even Martin Mason (just teasing, Martin).

I think Mark at 620 sums it up well, we all do daft things at times. Written word can be interpreted differently to the intended meaning and sometimes the keyboard warrior inside just takes over.

So, Martin, chill out a bit, mate – you are better than that.

Don't make a statement saying 48 hours if you can't meet it. Simply say a decision will be made in due course. It's not what fans want to hear but sometimes these issues can be complex.

It's just another example of a club that can't do the absolute basics. If something has halted it for whatever reason, make an announcement – don't just leave an entire fanbase hanging on.

It's prime Tory tactics. No leadership, leaving everyone in a state of confusion so everyone has a go at each other about what's best, dividing us when in reality the leadership are to blame.

I want Kenwright gone but the day Moshiri finally leaves will be a good day for this club. I honestly have no idea how he has ever made money because the bloke is the most incompetent owner I've ever witnessed. What we need now is leadership that the fans can at least respect, even if we don't agree.

On another note, the longer this get dragged out it's going to affect our summer business which needs to be perfect. Teams are signing targets. Yes, I know the window opens in July but teams are still pre-signing players and the longer we're stuck in Blue Bill's theatrical farewell, the less time we're going to be focusing on the actual squad, the thing that's been neglected for years now.

Does anyone know what's going on with MSP? I guess it's still happening but it's been "imminent" for half a year now…

The short answer, but probably the wrong one, to why Mr Moshiri has never been a director and is not likely to be a director is that Moshiri has always been the messenger acting for Mr Usmanov who has always been the money man behind the purchase of Everton and would have eventually taken over Everton when the time was right. Unfortunately, the war in Ukrania put a stop to that.

Just a thought!

Bill is currently last man standing.

I don't think anyone would ever consider you boring but judging by Michael's #621 post you may cross the annoying threshold occasionally but most of us do that.

On the point of the "Keep Bill" clause I wasn't jumping on anything merely pointing that The Guardian and the Esk were the first "sources" to imply there is no impediment to Moshiri getting rid of Blue Bill.

Surely that's a positive, Tony?

ps: I haven't addressed any of your other points as Michael #621 seems to have answered them much better than I could.

Are you the JK I used to know from the old NTAS?

If so how the devil are you?

If not, hello anyway! 👍

2) How can we get rid of him if he is the only one left? It's impossible not to breach the law. Sacking him leaves no one.
Does our Accountancy Genius need to employ another person to give them the title of Vice Chairman in order to hoof St Billy of Blue?

3) If our greatest-ever chairman keels over and disappears up in a puff of blue smoke. what happens?

Presumably we return to the Premier League / High Court naughty step that we've made our own?

Thanks in advance for any sanity in your reply.

According to all the press reports, Kenwright wanted to resign when the other board members resigned but Moshiri asked him not to. So I don't think we have to worry about him not wanting to leave.

Probably Moshiri realised that, if Kenwright walked when the other board members resigned, he would be left without a director which is against the rules.

Also everybody on the thread about summer transfers mentioning who we might sign but, without Kenwright, we don't have a director to negotiate with potential signings.

I don't like the fact he's made a lot of money out of Everton Football Club for one reason only, because I believe he has not only held us back as a football club, but he has also taken us that far backwards, that we have become an insignificance to anyone but Evertonians.

If you think Brendan is insinuating that we don't know, Michael, with regards wether there is a contract between Moshiri and Kenwright, you have read his post @531, totally different to me mate.

I think Brendan is leaning towards there not being a contract, and he might also be correct, but either way I just want both Moshiri and Kenwright, gone.

I found it strange that Brendan brought what the esk said, about Moshiri having an agreement to buy Kenwright's remaining shares in place, to probably mean there is no such contract in place, especially whilst Bill Kenwright is the only director left.

The last man standing, so to speak, and the more I think about the clubs actions this week, the more incredibly embarrassed, bemused, and sick I feel, with what I can only describe as absolute amateurism.

Maybe I am cynical, but anyone who believes the only reason Kenwright has stayed on is to help Moshiri, definitely thinks a lot differently than me.

Everton stuck in limbo as boardroom turmoil stalls Dyche’s rebuilding plan

The Russians left in 2021, and Brands left in December 2021, so although they might still be on the club's books for tax purposes, they should not have still been receiving money in 2022, although this might not be the case with Brands, because he never left the club until the end of the previous year.

This just left a list of Moshiri, Kenwright, Barrett-Baxendale, Ingles and Sharp. Moshiri is not a director; it is said that Kenwright, receives nothing, and I've also read that Sharp, doesn't receive any money for his position (which I find hard to believe – simply because very few people do anything for nothing, especially whilst undoing a fantastic legacy for standing behind his boss, who is paying him nothing for saying nowt!) So that just leaves Barrett-Braxendale and Ingles, who should have received money.

Maths was my strongest subject at school, and although I haven't got all the facts, £890 thousand definitely goes into over £3 million, a lot more than twice. What else am I missing? No wonder there are rumours about the club's hearing in October being over tax.

"I found it strange that Brendan brought what the esk said, about Moshiri having an agreement to buy Kenwright's remaining shares in place, to probably mean there is no such contract in place, especially whilst Bill Kenwright is the only director left."

I didn't.

I was referencing the fact that the Esk had apparently stated there was no impediment to Moshiri getting rid of Blue Bill. I even copied and pasted the statement I was referring to. I never at any point mentioned the proposed purchase of Blue Bills shares by Moshiri as being in any way significant.

Maybe if I spoke with you verbally we would get on really well, but I sometimes see your little snippets as adding nothing whatsoever, although I'm sure some people might put me wise, and say you often speak a lot of sense.

Bill Kenwright, has had his time, and so as Moshiri. One kept us stable (I'm being kind) whilst going backwards as a football club, imo, whilst the other has got the ball rolling on the dream of a fantastic new stadium (better than any trophy hey Bill) but has helped to take every single ounce of professionalism out of our club.

One of the first things I learned as a child, was to only annoy the people who annoyed me Brendan, so this probably explains quite a few of my posts, mate👍💙

ps: With it being reported that Kenwright was leaving, I assumed that what you wrote had already been dealt with, Brendan. Sorry, mate.

Some good stuff in there... maybe:

"Moshiri can remove Kenwright as chairman whenever he wishes, irrespective of the 77-year-old holding 1,750 shares in the club, but has so far failed to do so."

Otherwise, pretty much a rehash of all we already know. In other words, another day rolls by…

So another fact is that the Chairman is answerable to the Shareholders. The Shareholders can remove the Chairman. Just go through the process, and do it. It happens daily, especially where it's not a quoted company.

Back to speculation. If he's not been removed, and he's not resigned, there must be a reason. Any removal and the announcement of any new interim directors could be simultaneous.

That may be because of the sale and valuation of Bill's shares. It may be to do with the wording of any announcement made, or Bill's “legacy”.

It may be to do with an NDA.

It may be that he's angry and pissed off, or trying to make Moshiri sweat.

Who knows… but it is possibly holding up the appointment of new directors, who may be reluctant with an existing Chairman in place.

It may even be to do with an existing agreement with Bill about his status.

But the longer this goes on, with no resolution, the more damaging it can become.

I think I've read that about Usmanov before. In fact, I think it's been posted before… actually, quite a few times.

I've been reading there's a newly defined internet rule (perhaps just for ToffeeWeb): If enough people repeat the same unproven speculation enough times, it eventually becomes established fact.

You forgot one option - Moshiri may still want Kenwright there. :-O

Very well written and you get your points, that I mostly would concur with, very well.

We get a range of views and opinions on here about the one thing we all agree with. Sometimes it gets a bit passionate, occasionally, we may go a bit too far.

The written word is sometimes very different from the spoken. It's easy to boil over and hit send as opposed to having a face-to-face conversation. Some are good/bad at getting their opinion across in writing. Some are good/bad at getting their opinion across in talking. We are all supporters of Everton. No one is better, no one is worse.

On Martin, fast becoming the star of this thread, Brent sums it up. I met Marton at a couple of away matches last season, and he's a good person and passionate Evertonian.

Meanwhile it's day 3 in the Big Everton Brother House after the 48-hour deadline. Nothing, not even a communicative update.

Yes, the shareholders in a company can pass a motion of no confidence in a chairman/woman but in Everton's case this is irrelevant because i) we don't have AGMs and ii) Moshiri holds over 90% of the shares.

The Everton shareholders are completely powerless. The only person who can remove Kenwright is Moshiri.

Meanwhile the transfer window is open and clubs are doing business.

Meanwhile at Everton FC, Kenwright is still trying his best to ruin this football club for personal gain. Have some decency for once and just fuck off.

He couldn't direct anyone to a notice board – slimy snake-oil salesman waits until the rest go so he knows he has to stay. 🤡😡

Absolutely spot on about the alternatives that Moshiri has, as I said in an earlier post maybe the fact that Kenwright is the only director also gives Moshiri a problem.

As I said a few days ago, while Moshiri is the major shareholder, nothing at this club will change.

“It's funny hearing criticism from you as the self-appointed custodian of ToffeeWeb recently suggesting Ian Edwards, Don and Mark should desist from posting as their comments didn't meet your approval based on your (what was it 50? 60? years) since your vivid memory at Goodison as a 2-year-old apparently gave you some kind of kudos above other posters.”

Do show me chapter and verse where I say these three should "desist" from posting. I should be flattered, I suppose, being called a "custodian" if that's what you manage to squeeze out of my post. Still, I'd rather be that than an organiser of Dr Who or is it Star Trek conventions!

My take is thus: I have said before that the two men are cut from the same cloth, but I actually think they have each other's back.

Consider Kenwright’s vitriol with fans and the fact he has stymied as much as he can; any communication links to the fan base, when he does, it's to blame or condemn. Moshiri appears to hold the fans in the same regards, as trying to blame managerial changes on the fans etc.

I think the delay may well be an attempt to include Kenwright as well as Moshiri in some capacity, hence the time for negotiating with MSP who don't seem to want to play ball.

One has to ask why, if Moshiri knew this was coming, why there are no interim appointments in place as CEO or Finance Director (w ho is driving the bus?)

I think the Articles of Association could easily be sorted with interim until MSP have a green light.

So.. incompetence or someone pulling a last-minute fast one to try to stay involved? I am starting to believe the latter…

What else am I missing?

You seem to be missing the possibility that it's not quite as simple as dividing one number by another and concluding that, yes, Bill is getting loads.

For example, you say Brands left in December 2021, and I think it's probably safe to assume that his was the highest salary, listed at £2.041M (per year?) in the 2021 accounts.

Now the thing about the accounts is the Financial Year actually run from July to June, and I think it's safe to speculate that therefore roughly one-half of Brands's final year salary would appear on the Everton books for FY 2021-22.

So let's take the Directors Emoluments, £3.050M and subtract ½ of his salary of £2.041M before we do the division:

£3.050M – (£2.041M / 2) = £2.0295M

Now divide that number by the highest director's salary in 2021-22, £868k and it goes in 2.3 times. Does that help?

(Remember, it's 'Emoluments' not salaries. Emoluments are money or other forms of payment which a person receives for doing work. So unless you are working for the auditor and can see exactly how these numbers are made up, you haven’t got a Scooby.

But I feel sure, thanks to Brendan's input, that Bill isn't getting any wage or salary.

You're right, it's now getting annoying. Any chance we can finally please just drop this???

You’re quite right, about that.

There were only ever a couple of reasons for Kenwright’s continued tenure.

Moshiri wanted him there

Moshiri couldn’t get rid of him for whatever reason

I doubt the former is the case currently, Will, so the answer is the latter perhaps, or some of the other possibilities mentioned, or a combination.

And down the rabbit hole we go again.

I think we need to think on that the Financial year is approaching rapidly, plus the window is also open.

The accounts need to be pristine and above reproach, and the budget for the window must be similar

Thanks for the advice

Bill Kenwright is played out as a pantomime villain on this page, which is kind of ironic given how he made his money.

All of these 'truths' which have built up over the years (Kings Dock, Arteta money, takes a huge salary, takes expenses, made 5000% profit on selling his shares, sold Rooney, sold the training ground, train set etc.) have become concrete facts. There are some people I have spoken to who genuinely believe Kenwright is trying to get a statue of himself at Bramley-Moore Dock.

One of the biggest failures of this board (in my opinion) is listening to our fans too much. Protests for the sacking of Martinez, Koeman, and Silva were all acted upon, resulting in the unbalanced squads that have plagued us for years. The club (rightly) wanted to bring in Pereira after Benitez, but more protests influenced the board to bring in Frank Lampard instead.

I hope whoever comes in will be brave enough to have some stability, even in the face of fan pressure. Arsenal is a good example: it wasn't that long ago there were protests against the board and Arteta.

Yes getting to the truth of some things is hard to do sometimes.

I'd like some definite proof on two things:

(1) That Kenwright was ever a genuine Everton supporter growing up;

(2) How much money he paid for his share of buying into Everton, that's if he ever paid anything?

Sorry, I was not trying to criticize your posting. I was just trying to say that, knowing the way Everton operate, we will be trying to get in a player we needed from the beginning of the transfer window in the last hour of the transfer window.

The Ash-Solomon experiment is where a shorter line is shown with a larger line and subjects are observed to express what is exhibited by those around them. I think Cass Sunstein is credited with confirmation bias in his book on 21st century info environments

So you believe in confirmation bias, Dale. That's confirmation bias.

For the second point, I'm not sure Bill Kenwright, Farhad Moshiri (or any other business owner) paid anything from their own personal wealth. People own companies or shell companies that are used for these types of business transactions.

It is the same when companies or shares are sold. They don't just pay a cheque into people's personal bank accounts. As mentioned above, people just throw out a statement such as 'Kenwright made £80 million from selling his shares', which becomes true in people's minds. Hence the vociferous hatred. In reality, he may not even have seen a penny from that transaction.

Which of the following is not in your opinion a fact?

Kenwright and his misldeading/amateur handling of Kings dock?

The Arteta money was not reinvested on much needed players or anything else that benefitted the club?

Kenwright made a massive profit on selling his shares?

The sale of Rooney was sanctioned for "much needed" money (I believe Rooney on this - that he wanted to stay for one more season - by the way)?

The training ground was sold, wasn't it?

Salary? Expenses? Well salary is a bone of contention on this thread right now, and the balance seems to suggest that he does not take one. Expenses? Well, do you think Kenwright pays his own travel to the match - when he goes, for one?

You conveniently left a few things out Dan, like the alleged refusal to entertain Mansour because, in your words Dan, he wanted to keep hold of his "train set" (there is more to support that on this thread); "I mortgaged the house"; the Kirkby travesty; the they always ask what would Everton do lie; the attack on fans; and so on and so on.

Far worse for this club Dan are people who offer some sort of smokescreen for Kenwright and who offer some sort of defence or justification of someone, Kenwright, who has on more than one occasion acted against the best interests of the club, so that the. narcissistic "he" keeps his grubby hands on the reins.

The real sickness at them heart of this club is not the fans (as you and one or two others suggest on here) but the common denominator, the one common denominator, who has been in the boardroom since 1989, and presided and directed over the worst years in our history. Kenwright the narcissist who has done more damage to this club than anyone since Heysel and who was a member of the board who so destructively failed to take on board the new commercial and financial imperatives of the Premier League era.

My hot-take on whether or not Usmanov 'owns' or has 'influence' at Everton is that it is almost improbable that he doesn't.

I don't have to know much other than how oligarchs have been proven to operate and then balance the probabilities.

Is it likely that Usmanov moved money into his confidante's name in order to obfuscate it's ownership, as oligarchs routinely do with friends and family, partly but not exclusively to avoid sanctions.

Or did he feel rather generous to his accountant and give him enough money to eventually buy and sell enough shares in Arsenal to be wealthy enough to 'own' Everton.

Hard to prove isn't it, especially as the entire purpose of such activity is to be as obscure as possible, and doubtless the money is very much in Moshiri's name (which is the entire effing point). But little breadcrumbs like USM finch farm etc. suggest that the alternative possibility is hardly some fringe loon theory.

Oh to be trying to decipher the accounts as part of due diligence!

Did you really just post that Dan?

So, what? Kenwright sold his shares for nothing? Kenwright pumped more money into Everton than he got for selling his shares?

Can you provide a single scrap of evidence/feasible speculation to make us think that Kenwright got nothing from selling his shares.

You do, after all, mention false truth in your post.

First of all, you didn't get tickets when you paid your entrance fee into the Boys Pen, the place where Kenwright said he watched Everton from as a boy.

It's strange that he details how his Uncle Cyril used to take him to Anfield on the crossbar of his bike to watch Liverpool after being passed up the Kop to where Cyril stood but gives no details of how he got Goodison to watch Everton or who took him there and who he watched Everton with — and Everton were his favourite club!!

As for the details of his shares, how he bought them is a bit of a mystery and as for no money being passed on buying them, surely now after 6 years, the money he received for selling them must be on record in his bank details — along with the second lot of shares he sold at large profit.

I mean, you do believe he sold them — or is that another myth that poor Bill has to put up with?

Bill Kenwright is an actor… Fact.

Bill Kenwright used Everton as a stage… Fact.

Bill Kenwright made lots of money from selling his shares… Fact. or

Everton and its fans (the actual club) got nothing back from this arrangement… Another fact.

Facts, facts, facts. Fact.

I'm one who doesn't care how much Bill Kenwright has been or not been paid.

I don't know if he is hanging on to get a good sevrerance deal or not. I don't actually care.

I don't know if he is just being kept in place until the new board is put in place. I hope that is the case and we get an announcement shortly.

But what I do believe is that he has been in place in one form or another since 1989. The longest steady decline in our history of being able to realistically compete. On the pitch and off it

He has been the consistent influence in the transition from being Champions to plucky little Everton.

Given the big Evertonian he is, he was compliant in turning on his own and falsely accusing them. That won't be forgiven by those who turn up every single match, home, away and watching from distance.

No going back now. No return.

I consider myself a big Evertonian. They mean everything to me aside from my family. If I was in his shoes, I'd have gone years ago and gladly sat amongst the supporters again as he once did, in his own words. The time for change should have been when Moshiri took over. Thanks, Bill, here is the clock, thank you and goodbye.

He cannot remain and the owner needs to act. Then we move forward.

We could tear down each other's theories for lack of proof but, with these clowns, it is more productive to speculate in as careful a way as you can until you get bored and leap to a conclusion. They could have cleared up or at least obscurely addressed any of the questions if it was in their interest.

Damn. I wish i had used the FACT format Nick just whipped out.

It does though, show the nonsense of certain attempts at supposedly advancing understanding (whilst it's actually used mostly as a put-down).

Pagerism is frowned upon on this forum.

Not really sure what I’ve said out of line.

Martin, please look post #596, which includes portions of your post @584. These are the things you’ve said that are unacceptable.

John Keating @597 also has some views on your post.

Q) "Can somebody explain to me, how the board can democratically trade without an AGM? I know they've done it, but through my naivety, how can this go unchallenged?"

A) Because, with one guy holding 94(?)% - it isn't a Democracy.

Bill will go when he's made to go - and not before.

We can maybe assume he's effectively gone now, but until the new guy is 'In', and is seen to be In, we, the Munchkins, can't sing our song and / or have a body to dance around... which is what we think (hope) we need to crack on towards the Bright New Jerusalem.

I don't think I'd disagree with any of what you have written there to charcterize the probable relationship with Usmanov.

The distinction I think I was trying to draw was the point where speculation and supposition become accepted as fact. Rejection of it as being a fact, and wanting to revert instead to it being recognized and acknowledged as speculation, is not quite the same as calling it "some fringe loon theory".

It's speculation; it could quite possibly be true; but it's not evidenced fact.

Whereas this thorny one Dan raises @665 about Kenwright's shares is a bit more nuanced.

Everton shares were certainly issued to and held by or in the name of William Kenwright MBE. His holding has been listed in the Annual Reports. His name appears in various forms on the list of Shareholders submitted to Companies House.

Those shares had a value, which was widley published at the time they were reportedly purchased by Moshiri. (Strictly, as you rightly say, by his shell company, Blue Horizon Investments Limited.)

Did the proceeds go to Kenwright? Of course we cannot know this for sure but it is not such an outrageous inference to make.

Did money go back to entities that lent him money to buy the shares originally? Again, we cannot possibly know.

But the shorthand is that Kenwright sold the shares and that Kenwright benefited from the proceeds. The figure I have estimated so far, conservatively, is £40M. I don't think £80M is realistic, but it could be more than £40M.

I think on balance you'd have a much harder time trying to show that he did not profit from the sale of the shares that he definitely held. But a good one to throw out there as an example of just what it is we do know and what we do not know. (At risk of doing a Dick Cheney, so I'll stop now!)

Martin (or should that be Mason?) appears to be being cited as a potential 'sycophant'. I don't personally know anyone on here but my impression is from his posts generally, he has as little time for Kenwright as the rest of us but regards the owner as even more culpable (correct me if I'm wrong, Martin).

It is our laughing stock position that is making us all angry and it is but a short step to starting to get angry with each other – something I imagine might please Kenwright. Let not our passion about this get too much in the way.

I think recent events suggest we as fans do have influence but we do not have control, and certainly not over what happens next. We'll just have to wait and see, however frustrating – and potentially damaging – the wait becomes...

Will (various unending) if only we had a drunk TW simulator we could get somewhere on our philosophical differences. In print it always runs the risk of getting edgy since it goes to beliefs and identity. Always up for a ponder though or just a good line will do as well.

I can think of one reason.

Given that he presumably was at the heart of the discussions about our finances, he might just be needed to help defend us against accusations of financial impropriety or whatever.

That wasn't aimed at you or TW, but whoever coined the concept of cognitive bias.

Btw, if you think 3 posts is "unending", stick around and you'll see infinity.

*Rustles paper*

I was actually taught when growing up to ignore people who annoy you... I don't ignore you. As for your "annoy people who annoy you"... you rarely if ever annoy me.

I don't always… often… ever agree with you but feck we've all got mates, family members like that.

I haven't been to Goodison in a long time... back in the Moyes days actually. I'd like to see the Grand Old Lady one more time and our magnificent, awe-inspiring new home at Bramley-Moore Dock when finished, as something of a bucket list that I've still got time to enjoy. So maybe one day we'll meet and chat.

But feck, I'm only down the road and me and Andy Crooks haven't even managed a meet-up yet!

I'm hopefully going on holiday early in the season, so if you want to get to see Goodison one more time before she closes her doors, then I will be able to tell you by next weekend, if you want to arrange a weekend in Liverpool with our mate Andy C.

If I go away, there should be two tickets available, so I'll check the fixtures and let you and Andy (who I haven't asked yet) know, if they are available. It will be in August, so let's see what happens this week.🤞

And that's why the Abrahams duo, pere et fils, are two of the best on here.

It's good to have challenging disagreements in good faith. It's also good to have entertaining bad faith back and forth as long as it is in good humour.

That's a very heart-warming, thoughtful and generous offer.

Me and Andy Crooks meeting for the first time & travelling together to Goodison.

There's a sitcom in there somewhere!

Can't help thinking you'll be getting a text from Andy reading "For fuck's sake, Tony... alright for you... you'll be on holiday"

Took me a second post to come back with a wisecrack... I am genuinely touched and unusually stuck for words.

It looks like the game will be against Wolves on the last weekend of August. This might mean it's going to be on a Bank Holiday weekend so I've just got to hopefully book a holiday now and give you both a bit of time to get sorted on what is normally a very busy weekend in Liverpool.

Maybe you and Andy could also get tickets for Creamfields, and bring a tent, which might be cheaper than trying to get a hotel! (Kevin & Perry springs to mind) but let's see what happens in the next few days first!

Aaarrrgghhh... fucken aaaaarrrrgggh!!

48 hours?

Hmm, 96 by now... ;D

Due to Tony's typical generosity, I've got to say I'm up for making this sitcom happen. I can see us at Belfast International with the new robots bringing us our £11 glasses of wine.

Time before last, I was right in the middle of a hen party and could have done with some backup. "Granny there's a wee Everton man here!!!"

Brilliant gesture from you, Tony. Brendan, would love you to be with a fellow Belfast man at the Harlech Castle, meeting the best people in the world before we walk to the game. Let's do it!

How can Moshiri not have the money to buy out the meagre percentage left of Kenwright's stake?

I mean, Moshiri hasn't been sanctioned (yet), just his mate Usmanov. And Usmanov's nephew, Sarvar Ismailov, who for some reason once held "commercial positions" and a place on the board at Everton.

Was that Moshiri helping out a mucker by giving the lad some work experience or was it somebody else keeping an eye on his investment?

Moshiri is a stakeholder in USM (apparently) so maybe it is all fine and dandy. But that'd make Usmanov a very atypical oligarch indeed. All we've got is the hunch.

What is worrying for me is Moshiri is asking Bill to stick around until a replacement can come in as Chairman, meaning there is a possibility Bill could have a say in the matter of choosing.

Me personally, I think it is a case of with 3 board members already leaving, Bill had to remain through legal issues, until we get a few board members into place.

You can picture Bill saying to the other three, we all need to resign, Bill knowing that at least one has to remain, pushes the other three under the bus, knowing full well, until we get someone in place, Moshiri will ask Bill to stay short term.

I have said it many times over the years on here, Bill is one slippery guy, he has played the other three board members, and Moshiri like a fiddle. He will go, possibly go early next week, but he is going on his terms and will have one last hoorah and press speech ready.

"Are there actually any people on here at all who think it's a good idea for Kenwright to continue?"

I just enjoy the drama. Whoever is to be the new scapegoat, I can't think it will be as much entertainment as it is now.

Moshiri doesn't need to buy Kenwright's shares to remove him from the board. I can only surmise that Kenwright is insisting on divesting the shares as part of any mutual agreement linked to his exit as chairman.

You keep mistaking me for a Belfast man but I'm from Derry, well Derry and Donegal now that I'm retired.

I'm chilling in Donegal this weekend but will be back in Derry later today. I still have an email address for you so I'll be in touch.

"Only 5% interest, you're not kidding!".

Simply, you don't have to be a shareholder to be a director, and you don't have to be a director to be a shareholder. 1.7% is a meaningless shareholding other than its fiscal worth to the holder and carries no weight regarding the decisions of a 97% stakeholder.

Granted, a Ltd company does have to have at least one sitting director and a company secretary (who can't be the same person) but surely it is not beyond the wit of Moshiri to leap this particular hurdle – even if the Toffee Lady was made a temporary director.

Or even himself…!

I've already said he may have sold the shares for £200M, or could have been for a £1 nominal sum. I am not sure why you are asking me to provide evidence, I've already said I don't know.

Up to now, I have only seen people quoting figures say 'I heard off someone in the know', or quoting newspapers that suggest figures come from 'sources close to the deal'.

There are several simple reasons to dislike Kenwright and want him gone (in my case, the two seasons of relegation battles and piss poor recruitment). But those suggesting they have unique insight into the club (Moshiri is Bill's puppet or Usmanov is pulling the strings) is absolutely cringeworthy.

It reminds me of several people I know, that just constantly spout shite down the pub about things they clearly have no idea what they are talking about. They just seem to enjoy projecting this illusion that they are 'in the know'.

Coincidentally, they also believe they know how to run the pub better than the owner, with no other qualification beyond the fact "I've drank here all my life!"

I just can't see this being true, simply because most rumours aren't, and as Peter G said, surely Moshiri would be able to find the money, if this was the case? But something is obviously holding up proceedings, and it's making a lot of Evertonians both impatient and very angry.

I'm quite calm myself because I didn't expect anything else, because my own view has always been that I expected Bill Kenwright to be very demoralizing until the very end.

Yes, that thought occurred to me also, especially given Ingles was fired or resigned. I would have thought you would need someone who knows where the bodies are buried.

I don't know Ingles or his capabilities (or lack of them) but it would be a lamentable, albeit understandable, reason to keep Bill on. Or maybe he's just still got the pics of Moshiri in bed with a goat…

I know this sounds negative, and of course new directors are not responsible for the sins of the past, but given the near disintegration of our club to laughing-stock status, maybe the position of Director of the club is something few would fight to have. At least not until they are the new owners with a mandate and resources to clean things up and make a fresh start.

Just highlights his incompetence and lack of leadership, and we now appear to be in a state where nobody knows what happens next.

We are told MSP won't or can't proceed until Kenwright's shares are sold. I don't understand why somebody owning 1,750 shares could possibly be delaying any involvement from MSP. Also wouldn't this have been discussed between MSP and Moshiri before we got to this stage?

We are led to believe from press reports that MSP are looking to buy 25% of the club, which we are told will help Moshiri finance the completion of the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. Yet only months ago he told us he can afford to complete the stadium without any investment.

He told us and presumably Sean Dyche we would sign a striker in the January transfer window… surprise, surprise, it never happened.

So when is this liar going to come out and tell the fans what does he intend to do going forward? Under his watch, we have survived relegation in successive seasons, yet nothing from the owner.

We are under investigation over our alleged overspend and the decision on what penalties we may face will be concluded by an independent commission. And all the ramifications that could come from that decision, yet nothing from our owner.

Has Sean Dyche been given any indication as to what his budget is for transfers, and who will conduct those negotiations with those players and clubs?

Despite looking like all the protests are finally coming to fruition, until this owner is removed, I don't see any respite from our problems while this man is in charge.

We have a chap who has sunk a billion pounds into Everton, but who clearly can't stand the place, not having been to a home match in years. I've seen footage of him at games previously, he doesn't even like football.

And we have the Chairman, who is powerless, but who doesn't want to shift, and nobody knows why Moshiri doesn't just give him the push. It doesn't all make sense, cos we've never been levelled with.

We can't see the full picture, we are being kept deliberately in the dark. I mean, what other guy buys a footy club, but lets the previous owner carry on as Chairman? It's a total farce, and we can all see how dysfunctional it is.

For some reason, Moshiri won't sack Kenwright, perhaps cos he fears Bill will give something away to the fans about what's really going on in a kamikaze interview with the Echo, who knows?

I can't believe though that the MSP thing is being held up by Kenwright; hopefully, there is some other minor delay with MSP coming on board but that, once that happens, that's the trigger for Bill to fall on his sword.

But then I read this morning that 'an insider' says "Get rid of Kenwright and you leave Dyche vulnerable"… so the old boy is still spinning even at this late stage.

Incredible statement really when almost everyone can see that our club is already in a very vulnerable position, and if things don't change soon, it will possibly lead to an absolute catastrophic position.

I thought Dan's post summed up Bill Kenwright sitting in his local boozer, Jim. He doesn't know much about footy, but he's allegedly been an Evertonian all his life.

Sorry Michael, I only came back onto this thread because Brendan acted in a very mature manner, but I'm going back to silence now, mate, I promise!

Thunder only happens when it's raining and players only love you when they are playing… Brian W below - you know how it is Brian, demoralizing until the very end, unfortunately, mate.

For "insider" read Daily Mirror making shit up!

You're spot on about him not knowing much about football. But he is an expert at spinning yarns and making millions of £££'s

I know nothing about all the legalities of businesses but I can only see two reasons for Kenwright still being there:

1) So Everton as a business can still function properly; or the other, dreadful, scenario 2) is that he stays on as our beloved Chairman!!

Maybe there's a 3rd scenario where he stays on while all the negotiations on any takeover or investment are taking place.

Whatever the situation is, I hope he's gone sooner rather than later... a lot sooner!

Where did the headlock leak come from? Even now, we are being called a mob rule for wanting change, yet our neighbours across the park were getting praised to high heavens for demanding change. The only difference being one was loyal fans doing a terrific job and fans matter praises, while ourselves are labelled as mob rule.

Expect more stories to come out of the press, blaming the owner, the fans, while poor Bill will get very sympathetic press coverage.

I agree about this:

"But those suggesting they have unique insight into the club (Moshiri is Bill's puppet or Usmanov is pulling the strings) is absolutely cringeworthy".

Although I would probably not use "cringeworthy".

Kieran (Kinsella), I'm still waiting to hear back from you about the direct quotes about your word "desist". Sadly, this seems to be a pattern with you.

Maybe the media has their stories mixed up???

Dr: Now to see to the others, Halligan, Self, Glassar, Abrahams, Ferry et al, it's a bloody fandemic. Nurse how much of that new stronger anti-narcissisticus serum do we have?

I suggest those that can and know how to search on TouTube, type in "The Liver Birds S03 E12 Liverpool or Everton", and watch that clip about our most loyal Evertonian.

Apologies, it's been removed off YouTube, but if you type the above in Google search, the video comes up there, you only have to type in "The Liver Birds Liverpool or Everton" and the video will come up in search results.

Just been having a word with my next door neighbour.
Now, the topic has not been about the weather, it's about "What's happening... hasn't the bastard gone yet!"

He's more demanding than me, and want's to know what this club is doing and, equally importantly, what role is our (I assume he still is our Chairman!) Chairman playing, during this interregnum between the dismal, dark days of the past; and the bright new future that awaits us... hopefully.

I've got more patience than my neighbour, I'll be able to tell when he's packed his bags and gone, when I see a puff of nice grey smoke coming from the ground and bells chiming from the Gwladys Street church.

The Liver Birds. S03 E12. Liverpool or Everton.

Another first for Everton, Kim Jong Bill deserves that statue!

Who would have thought that after winning the League and European Cup-Winners Cup all those years ago, we would end up like this? I'm not blaming Heysel, although that didn't help, but seriously, what the fuck did we do to deserve this??

We had a great model of a football club. A young manager who had done the hard yards and had us ready to take over the world with a brilliant team. We all know how it went from there but to end up where we are is just not right.

I have always been one who was against being taken over by some rich foreign bastard but right now I wish we had got some ruthless fucker like Abramovich who would have given us a few trophies before we became a mess.

God, I hate Moshiri almost as much as Kenwright.

Worth a click on that link what Barry put on.

Not a failed Everton safety certificate to get us to go to Kirkby, or a training ground sold off, then rented back, with our star youngster Rooney sold within a couple of seasons.

To be fair to Johnson, what happened was his main food business got into serious trouble and was going bust. He had to sell EFC to save it.

Whatever people think Kenwright saved us from, it couldn't possibly have been worse than what we got, Kenwright.

That's crap... players follow the money. Who is in charge of the club is about as important as what's the nightlife like for the WAGS?

When I think about that wish list I realise that I am probably hoping for more than any other fan of a premier league club. It’s a big ask but the reality seems to be that that is what we need to give us a future.

We live in hope.

The league finishes before and after Kenwright took over speak for themselves. He stated very clearly his ambition as chairman: find someone who will fund a new stadium.

I remember at that time, our club was lauded throughout the football world as the best run in the country, based on our spend vs points. The results since Moshiri came in and started getting involved in football matters, bringing in DoF people, also speak for themselves.

The old ones are the best.

I seem to remember we were offered a world class stadium in a world famous waterfront for £20 million and the best run club in the country refused it.

But the elephant in the room remains. Until that elephant is removed, all of the above are moot points of discussion. We will continue on this merry-go-round until we are, literally, blue in the face.

It's now clear, to me at least, that there is no real will to change at the top. The three stooges were sacrificed to dampen down the calls for change.

Moshiri and Kenwright are hoping we move on from them being under the microscope and I'm worried as the days pass, and nothing happens, this will become more likely.

I hope I'm wrong.

It's like trying to get a GP appointment – Getting really painful this now, the boil needs lancing.

It's funny you should say that, because I rang our doctors this morning at 8:15 to try and get an appointment, and was told could I get in for 9am, a mere 45 minutes later. Keep the faith, Kenwright will be gone very soon.

Ok, maybe not keep the faith, but hopefully Kenwright will be gone soon. 🤞🤞🤞

I read that no less than seven of the retained squad have experienced relegation and have little doubt that the re-enforcements identified will bring that figure up to a full team!

Unless the 'right people' complete a takeover 'ere long, the journey south (relegation) will be completed before the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock becomes our home and a noose around what is left of a bankrupt Everton.

'Be patient' they tell us at every juncture – but just see where our tolerance of Grandad Bill has brought us to… Chaos! – with the final chapter still to be writ!

Just read his thoughts on Barrett-Baxendale and Kenwright…
I think he's been duped!

Therefore we were better to pass up our preferred bidder status for Kings Dock and suffer 23 years of financial and commercial stagnation?

There are two issues with that:

1) Paul Gregg offered to fully fund Everton's required commitment to stadium costs provided Kenwright relinquished his role as chairman;

2) The financial basis for construction of the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock not even being confirmed yet.

It might prove more onerous than any arrangements that would have needed to be put in place to advance with the Kings Dock stadium.

I get that you want a more reflective discussion on relative culpability between Moshiri and Kenwright, but let's keep it commercially sensible.

I mostly enjoyed Andros's co-commentating during the World Cup; however, when a certain Liverpool player played a routine pass down the line to Saka against minnow opposition last Friday, and Townsend claimed it to be wold class – I thought to myself another former player / pundit who has chosen to toe the party line and follow the money.

I can't swear to it but I thought Paul Gregg suggested a reverse mortgage rather than him funding it.

There was definitely an instruction to push the performance of one particular player on Friday night. The half-time analysis was spent almost entirely discussing him.

They were obviously helped enormously by playing in the champions league, but not really on the playing side, because I’m pretty certain Wenger’s net-spend was one of the very lowest for many seasons?

I do hope the new stadium doesn’t saddle a lot of debt onto Everton, but I’m not convinced this is going to be the case. I just hope I’m wrong for obvious reasons.

I do agree with you about our directors of football, Dan, because they have all been an unmitigated disaster imo, but when someone would sooner have a new ground than win trophies, then surely this ambition is a long way away, from the average football fan?

You’ve overstayed your welcome

Off you pop - self proclaimed “worlds greatest Evertonian”

Disgrace the way you have treated the lifeblood of this club.

Can we hear from MSP please. What's your plan? Moshiri, what's your plan? Just give us an idea.

I'm resigned to Kenwright staying as Chairman and he won't know what's happening. He couldn't run a bath, let alone a football club, so MSP and Moshiri, let us know your plan for the club, please.

Kenwright is basically de facto Chairman, CEO, COO, CFO and chief scout. He is the board and he's not going anywhere fast.

This is an embarrassing, shameful episode in our long history. Maybe it's time to call in the receivers and take the club away from Moshiri and his flunky.

They'll have a long wait. He's not going anywhere. I just want MSP to say this is our plan or Moshiri to say this is my plan and this is where Kenwright sits in all of this.

I'm not impatient; I can simply see that he is staying.

It's sickening. The good name of Everton Football Club, has been diminishing with the help of an alleged truly great Evertonian for years, but to tell everyone there would be an announcement in 48 hours, and then have nothing but silence for the next 168 hours, is totally demoralizing, but I suppose that's nothing compared to how long it's been since we genuinely competed like the Everton of yesteryear.

I didn't expect any kind of announcement in the next 48 hrs, once it wasn't me - stayed, but it was the other three - left, but waiting for news to come out of the silent circus, is definitely starting to wind people up.

How many times has Moshiri spoken in 2023? I heard him say he would buy us a striker (he didn't) and I heard him embarrassingly say that it wasn't his decision to sack Lampard, after we lost at West Ham (he was sacked) and I'm not sure if he even spoke after headlockgate?

We have survived relegation twice by the skin of our teeth and it looks like we are only going to be preparing for another season by playing amongst the dead men. It has now reached the same type of soul-destroying levels, similar to when a lot of people used to say: be careful what you wish for.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by anything that happens in our club these days.

This would not be in our interests, you need people in the club to manage the operations. Show some patience, This idea that one man leaving is suddenly going to result in everything immediately changing is very wide of the mark.

I'd suggest it will be years before any effect of a management change is actually seen on the pitch. There seems to be a lot more financial cleanup before cheque books open again.

I've said it already, the biggest failure of this board was appointing Frank Lampard because the fans wanted it. Shocking appointment.

He can't stay. It's as simple as that. Why prolong it and the frustration and simmering anger of the supporters, who will quickly turn and are doing after the sense of relief on the last day?

Surely even Moshiri can't be that naive or Kenwright that blatantly arrogant?

I think a few will answer that one for me, so I know what's coming!

I don't know what is going on behind the scenes, but every day is delaying what could be investment that could help us compete again.

Not wanted, not needed. Just go. Or be had gone with.

Act and be decisive.

The removal of one man who has been front and centre of that won't change it overnight is a logical statement. Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say.

But it will remove the toxic relationship that has developed between board and the now vast majority of the support base. It will change the mood.

The relationship is not just fractured. It isn't even broken. It has been severed. Lying and turning on the people who keep you in a job and executive position. Shameful and unforgivable.

I'm generally positive when it comes to matchday. It's about the team.

But when I hear very loyal Evertonians threatening to down tools until he is gone, that speaks volumes. The club is in dangerous waters with its supporters right now, but the silence remains loud and the indecision alarming.

We unified twice in the last two seasons behind that team. We are pretty unified about our feelings about the Chairman. A failed Chairman. Not good enough for our club or to take us where we want to be.

We've used 4 of our 9 lives under his guidance and stewardship.

Time to go. Time for change. As much change is a risk, it can't be much worse than what he has overseen.

We start again in a few weeks. Behind the manager and the team. But it has to be without this Chairman or the air could be toxic blue.

Why get rid of the other three and say there was going to be an announcement in 48 hours? Surely it would have been more normal and much better practice to get rid of everyone at the same time?

I agree with you about one man leaving and suddenly everything will change is probably going to be wide of the mark because this nepotism and total ineptitude that has ran right throughout our club for years is highly unlikely to just disappear overnight.

If you can learn from history, both Peter Swales and Doug Ellis hung around for way too long; this is my biggest worry for Everton right now, especially with our financial worries.

Hopefully my fear is short-lived and we can bring in sensible people who are also full of professionalism but asking people to be patient after the way we have failed to prepare for the last two seasons is genuinely very hard to comprehend imo, Dan.

Appointing Lampard was only a "shocking appointment", with the gift of hindsight. Went badly wrong in the end but did you actually predict that with confidence?

"Shocking"? No it wasn't

Indeed it might appease fans if Kenwright is finally removed. But I don't think we'll be happy if in two weeks suddenly players, stadium contractors and staff aren't being paid as there is no-one there to manage the club.

He has overseen the standing and reputation of the club on and off the pitch tumble exponentially under his watch and, in an attempt to cling on, turned on the club's saviours.

Throughout not one word of regret or apology. The man has had his day.

"It's not my decision," said Moshiri. (No wonder some people say he's only our alleged owner!) This is what he actually said to one reporter when being quizzed underneath the city of London stadium, right after the game.

With so much to speculate on, then I often genuinely think that Usmanov might have appointed Benitez to try and get Bill Kenwright to resign but Bill is still standing right until the end of his very demoralizing tenure.

My rant for today is over – I'm actually sorry I started, but the life is getting dragged out of me very quickly right now. I love football but, since we beat Bournemouth, I've watched the last 30 minutes of West Ham beating Fiorentina but I haven't watched a single second of any other game. Thank god it's the summer.

Every minute he hangs on delays Dyche making plans for the new season.

He is a total disgrace and Moshiri is little better for not firing him off with the other three useless buffoons last Monday.

We do need people lined up. I think they are, we have had reported names from reputable sources.

But we need to act and be decisive. We should have already done so. The season is weeks away.

I hope they are negotiating, but it should have been done by now.

As Tony said, we were told 48 hours. Nothing, not even an update.

It's not only us fans patiently waiting for an update which was promised to come days ago, it's the club staff. I'm sure the PR, communications and marketing departments are frustrated too.

Of course, they know we should have had an update on Wednesday. They haven't forgotten. And I'm sure they also know the club looks very foolish right now.

What I find incredible is that we've had absolute silence. Not even a holding response once the 48-hour deadline expired. Even a one-liner along the lines of "The club is still working to finalise the make-up of the new board. An update will be provided in due course." would have sufficed.

Whereas it should have been: "There will be an update about the chairman's situation in the next 48 hours. Honestly". Lol.

Joke of a club!

On Venus, one day lasts 5,000 hours. Did the club ever say the deadline was based on two Earth days?

Those of us who had the misfortune to go to Bournemouth (fortunately I only went to the Premier League game) knew Lampard's time was up.

That he wasn't dismissed until about 7 weeks later was negligence in the extreme and almost got us relegated.

The club is run in a totally shambolic manner and the 48 hours debacle is just the latest example.

Up until then, Kenwright had fully expected Gregg to fund the stadium, hence the "ringfenced" money. He just didn't know Gregg planned to oust him.

We know about the resignations from the board by 3 directors – but does anyone know if they actually still work for the club, the business?

It's not like a managerial sacking where the out going person/people are 'handed their cards' and sent on their way, but a board resignation still suggests a continuance with the club. For example, we have heard that DBB has been highly instrumental in progressing the stadium development with Colin Chong. Is she still involved in that or could she be in an ongoing role somehow?

Just sitting here peering into my cup of tea and thinking about things Everton when these thoughts came into my head.

This is the fundamental issue with the non-communication from the club.

What do we know?

The three board members were relieved of their duties.

Bill Kenwright is still Chairman. Possibly running the club on his own at board level.

Your parallel to a Manager leaving. Normally a replacement is lined up or a caretaker put in place until one is found.

Do we have a caretaker board operating in the background? Or is Bill playing with his Everton Hornby train set and chess board in his office?

Who knows. We don't know because apart from the vague 48 hour state that feels like it's turned in 48 days, there has been nothing at such a critical time for the club.

We want to go into this season with optimism after the trauma of the past two.

The silence is deafening.

Since their board positions are distinct from their everyday jobs with Everton FC, and there has been nothing about them resigning or being sacked (other than such assumptions by desperate Evertonians), it would be natural to think that Barrett-Baxendale and Ingles just carry on as company executives, and Sharp does whatever it was he was doing.

The last time I checked, which was a couple of days ago, they were all still listed as 'Our People' on the Everton Website…

But not any longer! Their profiles and job descriptions have all gone!!! (Except for Chairman Bill of course, who still remains.) So I think we can safely say they have left their roles as executives as well.

Phew!!!

I think it would be fair to say that not everything that DBB and Ingles have done (I can't say about Sharp because I don't know what he does, or did, apart from playing football) has been bad.

Clearly as directors, as officers of the Company, they have been found wanting but I wouldn't have been surprised if they continued in their executive roles. However, as you point out that would seem not to be the case. So it appears that things are happening although the announcements are being kept pretty low key.

I do not include Kenwright in the above because he has been, for the most part, just bad. I'm sure he did some good stuff somewhere along the line but broadly speaking his influence has led inexorably to the decline of the business. That is clear as day and really he should have been the first to fall on his sword.

I wonder who is now doing the day-to-day work of those other two (three)?

God forbid it is Kenwright.

It illustrates that our board and Chairman do not feel any compulsion to keep us informed on anything. The stadium updates have been used strategically in an attempt to placate us at regular intervals.

The owner is even worse. Firstly using that sycophant and brown-noser Jim White (TalkShite) as a conduit and then granting the royal interview with the bloke from the Fans Advisory Board ("We will get a striker"). It all demonstrates just what an unstructured organism Everton FC has become.

Now we wait for the news. The club is in turmoil. Until the ownership and Chairmanship are sorted, who in their right minds is going to come and play for us?

The summer window is open and pre-season will start in a few weeks. Dyche needs his squad in time to integrate new faces. The clock is ticking.

We should all be relaxing, forgetting the stresses of that shitshow of a season but this summer doesn't even have the titillation of compiling likely targets for our preferred players... we are way behind every other team in the Premier League.

At this rate we will be scrabbling around for more Maupays.

It is remarkable that a board can resign and yet the owner makes no comment. That says to me he couldn't give a toss about our fans, he will continue to run this club till his boss gets back some of his losses and that will only happen after the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is complete.

So it looks to me as though we will have him in charge for at least another 18 months to 2 years.

I doubt MSP will have any impact on how Moshiri will run this club, yes they may have 2 men on the board but while Moshiri is in charge of the purse strings their input will be negligible. We will still have a dysfunctional club run by someone who has overseen 2 consecutive years of relegation, and with him in charge I don't see things improving. The only person I have any faith in is Sean Dyche and he must be shaking his head at how this once great club is operating.

Just Everton's luck; when we finally get a billionaire, he turns out to be Mr Bean!

I'm unsure whether the two mooted directors are a part of MSP (I think one is and one maybe isn't) but having those seats will by definition give them influence over the direction of the club, so although a "minority" shareholding, a powerful position nevertheless.

25% would be the minimum they would be looking at as shareholder with their potential involvement. Over 24.9% is the point at which the veto becomes usable.

Whilst three Directors have resigned, two were always expendable. Both Barrett-Baxendale and Sharp were obviously out of their depth and were very dependent on Kenwright's patronage, which he withdrew.

Ingles had to take the heat for the financial woes, especially the slip-up that resulted in Everton being referred to an independent commission. It will be interesting to see what his serverence package was.

As for Kenwright, the 48-hour press release appears to have a been a bluff to appease the leaving directors, because he has not gone. There are reports of interim officers upgrades to the board to cover mandatory requirements but Kenwright seems to be going to maintain his position. No change then since in truth it was always a Board of one anyway, as far as objectives were concerned.

So why is Kenwright being kept on?

He does have shares, but Moshiri I can still replace him on the board. Apparently there is an agreement for Moshiri to buy his shares since his entry into the club.

Is there a shareholders agreement?

Is Kenwright, Moshiri's proxy on the board? With the appointment of an in-house director and two MPS directors, this would still leave Moshiri in control.

But the MSP loan appears to be to the stadium company, so it could be that board representation is related to the stadium company, not Everton FC.

Anyway, it is not going to be straight-forward, since Moshiri's priorities are related to the control of his investment, not the development of the team, which is full of knots anyway, both on and off the field.

Yes, many of you may think we were awful in the Kenwright/Moyes era because we were just the Best of the Rest with regular European football, no relegation worries after 2006, but never challenging for the title. But give me that any day over the crisis we are in now.

And it all started going downhill when Moshiri came in.

Contrast what the owner hasn't said to what the previous owner and current chairman has said, trying to tell us that the board has worked tirelessly to help the club despite not appearing at Goodison since Dyche became manager, using lies to justify their absence.

This ‘brilliant’ Evertonian has seen the decline of ‘the club he loves above all else' since he became the owner and is still clinging on although a sizeable number of fans want him gone.

I think that the people who have put nearly a billion pounds into the club are entitled to try and get some of it back. I hope they make a good profit because it should mean that Everton FC are eventually making progress. After all Kenwright made millions out of the club without, possibly, putting anything in.

You only have to look at Man Utd with the Glazers and how long Newcastle had to protest to get rid of Ashley.

The reality is that, whilst the board going is exactly what we asked for, I was naïve in thinking replacements would have already been lined up but I can just envisage our glorious leader on his yacht in Monaco thinking that's his job done for the summer, he's appeased the plebs.

Out of curiosity, if nothing changes now the board have gone, what's the plan of action? Do we sit and just accept things or protest for the next 10 years?

It's early days and I could very well be proven wrong but this is how I see the summer being played out:

1) Kenwright eventually leaves, but only when fan tension boils over and more banners are seen outside Goodison so the rags can say how awful Everton fans are.

2) The new board and MSP buyout happens at the very end of the window and is announced as the big signing on the summer.

3) We make very few signings as "who would want to come to Everton where the atmosphere is so toxic" is spewed all over TalkSport.

4) We're left with an even weaker squad than last season with Onana sold late in the window and it's down to us "toxic fans" to get behind the team to save Everton from almost certain doom.

Apologies for what might come across as a pessimistic, insane rant but I just don't see any sign of change? Last season for me was a season of utter anxiety, from results on the pitch to every news article pushing points deductions.

My expectations this summer aren't to see us spend £200 million and buy a new squad. My expectations are pretty low; when an announcement is meant to be made in 48 hours, make it! The only time we seem to get any form of communication is when the fanbase is up in arms.

It's just tiring when the only thing I expect from the cub is disappointment.

"We were just the Best of the Rest with regular European football."

According to EFC Statto, we qualified for Europe 4 times (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009) in 11 years of Moyes.

Not exactly "regular" for the 7th highest spending manager in that period.

I think we were involved in four semi-finals under Moyes, and two under Martinez, but at least we never had to worry about relegation? Wow. (Since Klopp went to those bastards, he has been in four European finals.)

I have always expected Everton to compete so, on that basis, Bill Kenwright has always been our biggest problem, imo, but this Moshiri, who was Kenwright's choice, has also proved himself to be out of his depth and totally inadequate.

Moshiri and Kenwright, are like a pair of ostriches – but even I'm shaking my head and smiling at the audacity of Chairman Bill. He might not be welcome by many at Goodison, but he made sure he put his picture back on his dead timeline, above the ticket office on Goodison Road, just to let everyone know that Bill Kenwrightisn't sleeping with the fishes, just yet. Un-fucking-believable! 😢

There would be huge questions asked in the House but, because it's Everton, there is silence. They would be so curious as to what was going on if it was Man Utd, Liverpool or Arsenal but, because it's us, they could not give a shit.

How far we have fallen in the public's interest?

We have become irrelevant to almost everyone outside of our club. 1995 and the Dogs of War was an eternity ago and we are now just another club with very little to offer other than a great support.

The way things are going with Kenwright and Moshiri it could easily be ripping the hope out of that great support we have and there will be very little to go to the games for. How long do we just accept this shit?

We need both of these dickheads gone ASAP and need some kind of action to get things moving. The only focus towards us at the moment is the Stadium so we need to get something going down there with some banners to get the attention of the press which may then force these absolute morons into action.

We have definitely been too passive in the past and they are riding on this. They can just hide from criticism but the stadium is not something they want bad press on. Time to get nasty I think and degrade these bastards for all the damage they have done and continue to do.

It's because of Kenwright that we had to find a Moshiri and Kenwright even lauds that as an achievement: "I found you a billionaire, like I said I would."

So, if Moshiri is such a bad thing, it's because Kenwright got us into this shit!

Someone needs to invent a sarcasm font!

"Brian - assuming MSP do successfully acquire a 25% shareholding, that will give them the power of veto over Moshiri's decisions whether or not they have seats on the board."

Where do you get this from?

The silence from the Club is deafening - several players gone - 3 Board members gone - the main dickhead is still there somewhere and Moshiri is nowhere to be seen.

No news on the MSP takeover/investment - no news on any players being sold - no news on any players coming in (if they are mad enough?)

There are a few snippets on the stadium - nothing saying the money is there. Plenty of speculation on players we are supposedly going for – daily rag bullshit as every season.

I think the bastards have not only degraded themselves but the fanbase themselves with Headlockgate – pity the gutter press and the Red Shite-loving Sky don't investigate that instead of we may have breached the Premier Leagues Rules for one (Man City).

I definitely blame Kenwright but Moshiri is as culpable letting the moron (and himself) waste his £750M on crap. 🤷