Dan Friedkin issues emotional goodbye to Goodison Park

I have a suspicion we finally have the owners we need and deserve.

Nice to see our motto remembered too. Its a long time since we heralded that.

This summer holds huge trepidation, but maybe, for the first time in a long while, some hope.

Lewis - Trust the new owners. They are intelligent, good businessmen, and know what they are doing. Look at what they did at Roma. They are long term looking and pragmatic. Be patient. They'll get us back near the top. Don't expect flashy signings, a catapult to the top of the table, or any such nonsense. They'll stabilize us, get us up the table, and long term have us battling with a team we can get behind for trophies and Champions League. I'll be a lot of money on that.

The words are from the heart and he has bought into Everton.

He respects Goodison, but is the person who has given us the future.

He's an Evertonian now. As we all know, there is no going back. Once you are in, it's for life.

Er... why has it taken the Echo at least 4 days to find this gem?

Just bizarre.

Their colour is red with a Liver bird in the red mix.

Excuse my OCD, but I like everything in alphabetical order. But no, on their website, it's LFC before Everton FC on the title bar.

I give them a miss and have done for decades.

Standby for the love fest on Monday.

Really nice to see your tribute to the fans and Our Grand Old Lady, would have been nice if you could have delivered those words in person on the pitch on Sunday.

Totally agree with Brian, actions speak louder than words and those words should have been spoken in person from the pitch.

Jury's still out for me.

I’ve had enough of owners taking the spotlight. Let them be in the background

But that doesn't matter. They want to make a return on investment. The only way to build value is success. They may be smart enough businessmen and football aware to do that. The proof will be in the eating.

We can do the emoting. What we can't do is the financing. To each, their own.

Despite the desperate efforts of one of our Yanks to show us that Dan the man and his lad were at The Old Lady [“the beating heart of English football”: straight from Dan’s pen, not] for her last men’s game, they were not. The son, apparently, chose to turn up for a meaningless match at Roma rather than hop on a plane for the 900 mile-ish trip to Liverpool where “a sacred moment in our club’s story” was taking place. Dad couldn’t even be arsed to fly his own super Gulfstream G650ER jet (registered as N28UD) over the pond for a quick turnaround at John Lennon (he loves flying it, apparently).

This love-message was probably penned by a secretary. I’ll bet 500 quid that Dan the man did not write a single word of it. He couldn’t even spare the time/commitment to drum up a thirty-second video for this “sacred moment in our club’s story [to] salute the Grand Old Lady” and with sad face send his "emotional goodbye".

So, don’t give me all this sugary and teary “breathe in that history” shite Mr. Friedkin. It sounds so plazzy. You should have been there at “a sacred moment in our club’s story”. A single appearance a season is worth more than this contrived piece of paper (you couldn’t even persuade the boy to hop on an executive jet for a short flight). But you chose to be elsewhere despite those ever so passionate, emotional, and wholeheartedly dedicated words. I’m a tad surprised that someone – anyone – who is so emotional and passionate about EFC did not show up, even though he had a nice comfy free seat.

Just keep on making big $$$$$$$$$$ you ace corporate bigshot. Your job is to give us some of it. Let’s see what you do for us over the summer – words/actions, actions/words. Meanwhile, you have to understand that whenever your corporate team comes up with some of this emotional drivel to placate some fans that others might not be prepared to drink them in at face value. There’s always another narrative. It’s not hard to find it.

G'wed lad, get typing, put ZCars on.

" For 133 years, this ground has been more than a stadium. It's been the beating heart of English football, where legends are born, generations unite, and hope echoes far beyond the terraces".

CORRECT DAN - SO WHY WERE YOU NOT THERE ON SUNDAY ?

You are the owner of our great club - show up - you should have been in the centre of the pitch speaking to the fans - you missed a huge opportunity.
Pretentious for me - only winning a trophy will change my mind, so get on it!

But if their cold professionalism brings us success, then we will embrace the new culture. But don’t make out you understand us. If you did, you would have been there on Sunday.

For 133 years this ground has been more than a stadium. It’s been the beating heart of English football, where legends “were” born, generations “United” and hope “echoed” far beyond the terraces.

Thank you for all you have given? We don’t want thanks Dan, we do it all off our own back and always will do, but we do want people who care and want to make us great again.

I personally don’t need words, but I’m very interested in actions though. The last owner fell on his sword, but his actions in building a new stadium, have hopefully paved the way for a much brighter future and the one before who was great with words, took a lot of us for absolute fools.

If it really was our passion and spirit that drew you to Everton, then why didn’t you come and see how great the Evertonians, can be on Sunday?

I also genuinely hope the women start winning things, but when is someone inside our club, going to start talking about triumphs for the men

Keep well, keep posting and keep entertaining Paul - I sometimes wonder if Chicago knew what they were letting themselves in for!!