Season › 2024-25 › News The Rumour Mill TFG may have found Everton’s new CEO at Leeds United 20/02/2025 13comments | Jump to last It is being reported in The Telegraph that Angus Kinnear, who is currently CEO of Leeds United, has come to the attention of The Friedkin Group, with some claiming that negotiations are ongoing for him to replace Colin Chong at Everton. Kinnear, an experienced football executive, has been a successful chief executive at Leeds for nearly 8 years, is often outspoken, and has shown he is prepared to engage directly with supporters. Kinnear has extensive experience of new stadium moves, having been commercial director at Arsenal when they moved to the Emirates Stadium in 2007. Before Leeds he was managing director at West Ham United when they took their tenancy of the Olympic Stadium, a deal so beneficial to the club some considered it effectively the gift of a free stadium. He joined Leeds in 2017 and was running the club with former owner Andrea Radrizzani when Marcelo Bielsa won promotion in 2020, ending a run of 16 years outside the Premier League. Reader Comments (13) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Colin Glassar 1 Posted 20/02/2025 at 22:56:55 I thought David Weir would be the logical choice but maybe Friedkin is already looking beyond Moyes. Paul Hewitt 2 Posted 20/02/2025 at 22:59:31 Colin. Angus Kinnear is coming in as CEO. I think Davie Weir is being lined up as sporting Director. Colin Glassar 3 Posted 20/02/2025 at 23:02:43 Thanks for clearing that up, Paul. Mike Gaynes 4 Posted 20/02/2025 at 23:41:12 Seems like a helluva good resume. Jeff Armstrong 5 Posted 21/02/2025 at 05:53:17 I presume Chong will deployed elsewhere within the club, he’s done a great job under difficult circumstances. Eric Myles 6 Posted 21/02/2025 at 07:47:05 Jeff #5, Colin Chong's expertise is in construction rather than the running of a football club, although he HAS done a great job up to now.I'd expect him to be looking at a role in stadium development for an upcoming World Cup or similar event to progress his career in his field, rather than being shoe-horned into something with us. Eugene Stalker 7 Posted 21/02/2025 at 16:08:22 I went to university with Angus. He was a good guy and a pretty decent footballer as well. Luton Town fan. Not seen him for over 30 years so not claiming to be a close confidante like. Darrel Pugh 8 Posted 23/02/2025 at 11:17:00 Met him a few times Angus, good marketer ex Arsenal too, works well with owners, low key type. Think he would work well at Everton. The search firm charged with finding the CEO know him well too and placed him previously. (Nolan Partners), run a by a scouse blue Paul Nolan. Bob Parrington 9 Posted 24/02/2025 at 11:43:36 Do any of you have insight as to Angus's current contract with Leeds and, so, whether or not we would have to pay substantially for attracting him to Everton??? Eddie Palin 10 Posted 24/02/2025 at 15:29:12 I wouldn't worry too much about that Bob, unless they are asking you for the money? Andrew Ellams 11 Posted 25/02/2025 at 08:45:03 I'm not going to claim to be much of an expert on CEOs of football clubs but the number of Leeds fans offering to pay his taxi fair to Goodison on social media does not fill me with a lot of optimism. Dave Abrahams 12 Posted 25/02/2025 at 09:07:49 TFG were prepared to let Sean Dyche carry on as manager until he threw his hand in which makes me think who is advising them about the running of Everton FC on the field and off it, but for those who are grateful that Moyes is now manager they have Sean Dyche to thank now he is here. David Israel 13 Posted 25/02/2025 at 19:46:38 It sounds like a pretty sound and wise appointment. as far as I'm concerned. After all, foitball executives that can handle a character like Marcelo Bielsa do not exactly abound. May be achong can take the opposote route.,should Leeds object to the move. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb