Stability at the top
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The advice I was given at the start of my career about the need to create stability at the top was to think of a pyramid. When the top stone goes on, there are cheers and celebrations; but in reality, the congratulations should go to the architects who designed the base that provided the top brick to be put in place, meaning you need a solid base to build on.
In running a football club, the architect has to be the owner, who has to provide a solid base, to provide his vision for the future, and not just financially. This has been a problem with Everton FC for a number of years now, with poor ownership allowing incompetent people to try and reach the next level… failing, and leaving one of the founders of both the Football League and the Premier League, and one of the most loyally supported clubs, in a precarious position.
The interest now is what will the new owners bring? Will they start with a new Board of Directors, leading up to a new visionary progressive management team? Or will they continue with the present organization until safety in the Premier League is secured?
The only way we can celebrate putting that final stone in place is with competent ownership, and with their experience in business dealings the Friedkin Group appear competent enough, but running a football club – especially a club with the history of Everton – is far from an easy standard business dealing.
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2 Posted 11/11/2024 at 02:37:48
We as loyal supporters of course have absolutely no say in the matter. Who the manager is is one thing. The quality of a) the owners and b) the board members and assorted staff are entirely another thing altogether.
3 Posted 11/11/2024 at 16:04:23
But then, so were the pyramids!
4 Posted 11/11/2024 at 21:07:00
The first pyramid was built 4700yrs ago, the last pyramid built for a pharaoh was built 3500 yrs ago so I think the new stadium should be ok. It may appear that it is built on sand but there will be more stable ground below it, that is what foundations are for.
5 Posted 12/11/2024 at 07:04:02
Can't argue though that we need somebody to sort out the administration. TFG have had experience and success, possibly limited, running a football club in financial difficulties but is there an Italian version of PSR?
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Billy Bullshit kept on repeating his mistakes and Moshiri was a deluded clown!