MyFootballClub

I bring this up here as ToffeeWeb offers a similar way of many thousand football and indeed Everton fans to voice their opinions on many issues from the way the club is run to who should play next saturday. Now under this scheme at Ebbsfleet those fans can do just that. But could you just imagine what would happen if we tried this with Everton?

This is not specific dig or an opportunity to criticise individuals, or conversely to overly praise people for their opinions but the sheer scope of opinions on here would make this a nightmare! Many fans offer their opinions and cause many discussions and arguments ? for example, Dutch's idea to sell the injury-prone James Vaughan.

I'm not saying he is right or wrong, personally I'm with the latter, but if we were in control surely we would have to look at it from two ways ? the benefit to the team and benefit to the shareholders. Like the Ebbsfleet supporters will now have to face it is now beyond simple FM pick your best 11 and formation etc. To most Evertonians the idea of selling him turns the stomach.

But from a shareholders point of view... well that is different. Firstly consider his value around £10m ? and his importance to the team. With having five strikers and Tim Cahill maybe he is not as indispensible as some people make out he might be, the Yak and AJ are on 5-year contracts, Mcfadden may find his Scotland form, Anichebe looks like he could be a top player, Cahill is all but a striker and in reserve we have Scott Spencer, Lukas Jutekiewicz from Swindon, Kieran Agard and Jose Baxter coming through... mybe the £10m looks quite good. On a £35 investment the return is in the thousands, not bad for a player who only plays 5 games a season at best.

Now looking at it like that I'm sure some people will agree and others disagree which is exactly the problem to why this whole idea will fail. Although MyfootballClub has a 51% majority it probably needs a 51% majority from its stakeholders to make a desicion meaning the club is run by 25% of its Board.

Then consider our own transfers ? we get names branded about on here that would make the tabloids look boring! Yes we all would love the likes of Riquelme and Fernandes back, but sadly that isn't going to happen. I for one would not want Fernandes back, if he really wanted to join us he would have in August wouldn't he? In my opinion he is no better than the likes of Barmby, Jeffers and Rooney and a lot of us wouldn't welcome those three back surely?

We woudn't just be able to hit a player search button and see what comes up. We would have to listen to the advice of the manager and his (hopefully accurate) scout reports on players. Imagine doing that for Arsenal - I want to by this 15-year-old called Cesc Fabregas or some Ivorian centre back called Toure... We would want immediate big names and maybe we possibly could overlook such gems as Arsene found.

As for team selection, the only time wher that would never cause arguments would be when we only have 11 players that fit 4-4-2 perfectly! Which is ironic as I'm not an advocate of that formation as I'd pick 5-3-2! For what its worth I'd pick: Howard; Yobo, Stubbs Lescott; Neville' Baines; Arteta, Carsley, Cahill; Anichebe, Vaughan. How many other fans would agree with that? OK yes the Manager would get the final say and pick his XI but that seems to defeat the objectives of MyFootballClub who want to run all aspects.

There will never be a case where we will all agree on something and all progress will be slow ? asking every fan for their opinion to run a football club is just insane!

Also consider what you would do with AvdM at the moment, are there still Moyes Out activists around, who would you pick next week? All are questions the Chairman and Manager will be asking MyFootballClub over the season excpecting answers. All it would succeed in doing is turning the running of the club into a bureacracy.

Reader Comments

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