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An impossible job?
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The news that Keith Wyness has walked out on Everton FC has understandably been welcomed by those who saw the man as a self-serving pariah. Let`s face it, Bully never sought to curry favour amongst the fans and a catalogue of PR disasters allied to the central role he played in the DK project guaranteed he would become ` the man we loved to hate`.
But although there will be few tears shed over his departure, some of us may wonder if the job of the CEO at Everton is a poison chalice. In his eight years at the helm, Chairman Bill Kenwright has `gone through` three Chief Executives, none of whom have covered themselves in glory.
Michael Dunford was seen as a hangover from the failed regimes of the past; Trevor Birch stayed but a few weeks and Wyness rapidly became known as `the man who flogged the company silver`.
Ironically, of the three, Birch was probably the only one who got it right. Although he was obliged to say nothing at the time, the well respected `company doctor` has been known to describe the job as `bloody impossible`. Now whether that refers to the financial state of the club or the vagaries of working with Chairman Bill, I know not ? perhaps both were good reasons to get out before he became tainted.
What I think we can be sure about is that DK or no DK, Everton are in a sorry mess and there is unlikely to be much of a queue of top operators wanting to take the job. Make no mistake, when history is writ, 2008 will go down as Everton`s summer of discontent . Whether it will herald a new dawn or yet another winter of missed opportunity will, I think, have more to do with the man in the chair than the man in the office ? or even the one at the pitch side.
Everton ? don`t you just love `em!
Brian Noble, Posted 30/07/2008 at 08:18:42
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?Keith is going but the club is unaffected.
It seems a very amateur statement to make and sounds a bit desperate.
It either implies that Bully didn’t add any value to the club with his role as Chief Exec......or it is blind optimism that he won’t be missed.
If the club is truly unaffected, then why does it need a Chief Exec in the first place?
Either BK wanted a hired thug to drive a ground move through or his CV was as honest as every utterance that followed his appointment.
Kenwright spouts off without engging brain shock!
His statement paraphrases Kilfoyle?s: ?Everton are going but Walton is unaffected'
Numpties, the pair of them
If the club is truly unaffected, then why does it need a Chief Exec in the first place?
I?ve just had a little chuckle listening to the mad professor Tom Cannon on Radio Merseyside explaining that the departure of Keith Wyness will have no effect on David Moyes or the transfer budget or the day-to-day commercial running of the club or Destination Kirkby and that it was in fact Bill Kenwright and not Keith Wyness who has been and still is leading the way regarding Kirkby on Everton?s belhalf.
Through Dominc King the Echo is toeing the party line and with the blood of Wyness still wet on the boardroom carpet, the erasure of his ?reign? as CEO has already begun - it seems the man was collecting his huge salary for doing sweet FA.
Keith Who?
The more rapid change in ownership has a lot to do with it, with each incomer naturally wanting ?his own man/woman? to suit his particular style of control. Even at Villa, where money is no problem and a new owner has seemingly brought stability, there have been three CEOs in less than two years and I believe a vacancy exists as we write.
But having said all that, it?s interesting to note this very morning that that model of good management, Peter Ridsdale, was finding it necessary to defend his £1Million a year salary ? and that?s at Cardiff City!
Impossible job? ? probably... But very, very, lucrative whilst it lasts!
The lack of communication with us, the fans, has been a disgrace.
Kenwright has treated Everton FC as his own private plaything to the exclusion of everyone else. Now some fools might think that, as owner, he?s entitled to treat the club like this but they are 100% wrong.
Everton FC, like all football clubs, belong to generations of past and future supporters and, as ?shareholders? of a kind, we deserve more respect than we?ve had from this bufoon.
The Emperor?s new clothes spring to mind, Kenwright's all mouth and no trousers.
One enemy gone, may more swiftly follow.
Our club has 3 inalienable rules :
Our name is Everton FC.
We play in Royal Blue.
We come from the city of Liverpool.
No compromises, end of story.
Spot on!!!
The boss of a team i work in left at the beginning of this year and the MD said the same things as BK and it’s true. Yes, we lost an important figure but we had a team in place capable of keeping things running in the interim.
Get a grip guys. I don’t know, stupid BK, he should have come out and said "panic, what are we to do, i’ve employed a bunch of fools unable to work on transfers or keep the club running, aaaaggghhhh".
Come on, Kenwright disbelievers some of you may be but at least be reasonable with any criticism.
"The Board and I would like to thank Keith for all his hard work and his unstinting efforts and unflagging loyalty to Everton Football Club. He was extremely popular with management, staff and the players. We wish him success in any future ventures; he leaves with my sincerest best wishes. He’ll be remembered as affectionately as the boys’ pen and the Cannonball Kid"
Now, I wonder why he didn’t
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There’s that many different opinions that I personally don’t know which to believe, perhaps one day the truth will out....
Good thing he’s gone, or bad?.....
Only time will tell.