Kill Bill before he Kills EFC! No, not a new film by Tarantino but make no mistake this man is slowly but surely killing Everton Football Club.

The whole club is in meltdown, for example 3 hours before KO on saturday there were no Match Programmes available for purchase -no small boys kits in the store and Kopites working in the ticket office.

How anyone can still defend Kenwright is beyond me, he has not a clue it would appear how the club is being run commercially and cannot keep making statements knowing them to be his wish/dreams but in reality when push comes to shove total fabrication.

He must go or be forced out.

Here here!!!

Get the galute out!!!

Do you have the money to buy Kenwright’s shareholding? Do you know anyone who does? You may be able to force him to sell, but without anyone to sell to this would be a rather pointless endaevour, wouldn’t it?

Kenwright has already stated publically that he would be willing to sell to an investor with sufficient resources to take the club forward, which I’m sure is something most Evertonians, myself included, want to see. But how would organising a Kenwright out campaign move us any closer to achieving this? I’m neither a massive fan of Kenwright nor a detractor, but I really despair at the lack of common sense displayed by some people here.

No way will i be Campaigning. He,s heart and soul is with Everton, The man has no enemies, he loves everyone from Dave Hickson, walter Smith ect and unfortunatley tesco Terry latched on to him. So lets see what happens at the EGM.

This isn't going to go down well and I've never spoken out against him but I think this summer is down to one man and one man only ? and that's Moyes.

If you want it so much then stop asking others to do your dirty work and organise it yourself.

yeah great idea, get the Chairman out just after the CEO and 4 days before the season starts - thats just what we need!

Chris, its a really bad idea - think about it mate.

Ben
Kenwright has said a lot of things but how many have been true.

He could have sold out to Paul Gregg,who recognised that Bill’s management was poor, but instead came out with some bullshit story about Fortress sports fund and the "cheque will be in the bank in the morning" whilst running a media campaign to rubbish his former friend so he could hold on to his trainset for a bit longer.

The whole Kenwright era has been littered with "he’s looking for investment 24/7" statements while other "No mark" clubs are being taken over left right and centre.

I know some fans like him and swallow the bullshit but for me he is a proven LIAR and has no place as Chairman of Everton.

KENWRIGHT OUT!!!

I have defended BK for some time believing him to be a sincere Evertonian. Not any more. If we make two or three late signings I think it is reasonable to ask, if money is available, why was it not spent early enough to allow players time to settle in? Was the delay in order to save on wages?
Is there little or no money available? Whatever the outcome this week I feel that the club is being run by people who are no longer fit to do so.

Look at Man City, fat a lot of good a Sugar Daddy is doing for them. Beware men bearing gifts.

Keith, you see these sweets - well if you get in my car I’ll let you have some.....

James, I think you misread my post,I said MEN.Anyway I don’t like sweets,have you got any puppies?

i agree but any protest should be done arter the match on saturday we need to get behind the lads and the youth team kids. Bill thanks for everything but please give it up before you kill us

Jay,
Like I said, I?m not particularly pro-, nor anti-Kenwright. The fact is he has served a purpose for the club, and yes, now we ideally want someone with more cash than he has to come in and take up the reins. But simply getting all shrill, screaming ?Kenwright out? is not going to achieve that.

I seem to remember most fans I talked to being highly sceptical of Paul Gregg at the time of the wrangles between him and Kenwright. I tended to take the view that he wasn?t the kind of investor we need. His family wealth (and note it is family held wealth - not entirely his), though rich by most people?s standards, is not up to the levels which would allow him to invest several million quid of his own money each year on new players (or wages), which is presumably the sort of thing we?re looking for to compete with the ?big four? (this year?s Times rich list has him at 644th, worth about £120M - and remember that?s in assets, not just cash).

Again, the straight facts are that Kenwright effectively owns the club, because he was willing to shell out his own cash to do so (incidentally taking great personal risks in the process), and until someone else comes along with significantly greater resources, I don?t see how we?d be any better off. And again, screaming ?Kenwright out? is not likely to make this happen.

If Kenwright was as genuine a blue as he says, he wouldn’t have put us through many of the things he has.

He is a liar, an incompetent and his behaviour has been an absolute disgrace. It is time for our apathetic support to make his life uncomfortable.

I saw through him years ago for the charlatan he is. I hope the rest of you have finally seen through him.

Re- Colin Malone Yes, BK has his heart and soul in Everton FC and all things Blue, and I also will back his continued Chairmanship of the Club.
Trying to gain a business partner (TESCO) who made a profit of £2,803 million last year looks pretty good business compared to former Prime Ministers avoiding court, and Russian oligarchs/gangsters. We have to be careful what we wish for!!

BK has consistently said he would sell to anyone who had the cash and the desire to move Everton forwards in the financial environment the rest of the SKY 4 live in, and I don’t mean just the massive debts.

When two of those clubs have wages bills greater than our turnover what is he supposed to do turn us into Leeds United and spend all our existing and future money on a hope and a prayer??

It's all down to Moyes I'm afraid, he?s got the money but wants the players on his list. That's all right at the start of the summer but when it gets down to a week before the season and we have lost half our first team at least get a few squad players on the cheap, I would've been happy having Malbranque. Also Moutinho is a class player but you have to stump up the money for class and we offer around £12m ? never gonna get him.

I have always backed BK but I think he has taken it to far. Everton was on the up BIG TIME after last season and we all new what little we needed to improve the squad to challenge again for honours and possible top 4 spot. Instead we have a very bear minimum squad that seem to get smaller every week. We have not yet signed anyone since the window opened nor do we look close no matter what the papers have been saying.

The best manager since Kendall is yet to sign a new contract and the longer this goes on I don't blame him for jumping ship. This is simply down to bad management off the field and I do believe it is time for BK, a so-called Evertonian, to step down and get real people in to run this ship. As one of the articles above have stated, BK is slowly killing Everton.

Will people stop prattling on about Leeds being a reason not to invest in the team.

Leeds went belly up for one reason and one reason alone. Their ’young’ manager was useless and couldn’t win any trophies. Methinks if they’d had a decent manager, they would still be up there now winning things left right and centre.

Not true Paul, O?Leary took that great team to the CL semis where if Bowyer hadn?t been pulled at the last minute by UEFA they may possibly have reached the final. They collapsed because due to teh Woodgate/ Bowyer et al court case they struggled to qualify for the CL and therefor they were screwed as the budgets would not even out. Risdale is to blame for that one... but then if it wasn;t for the courtcase and possibly the qualification which may have happened, Leeds may be the dominant force in the Prem...

I cant believe that some people on here still fail to see Mr Kenwright's faults. It's not a crime to have no cash, although I wonder what has happened to the cash from Faddy and the prize money for last seasons finish. What I hate is the misleading of us fans knowing the situation as he must have how could Bill have sanction the signing of Ramsey when other positions are more urgent, which begs the question was this another of our long list of phantom bids. We are great at offering fees that are below what will be accepted. Yes, I know we have broken our transfer record three times but the fact remains our record payout would not get a world class player. So Bill, please stop the Bull and tell us how bad it really is.

He lied to us about Kirkby, he lied to us about this seasons transfer funds.

I?m sick of being lied to.

Time for him to sell up for any price offered.

I?m disgusted to see the talk of wanting an honest hardworking chairman who has given all he can to this great football club to be campaigned against and wanted to be chased out, would a Russian Billionaire who doesn?t really care about the club be better? There?s a lot more than the money and Kenwright ticks every other box for me, he works tirelessly and gives the money he can for spending and has always backed Moyes. Surely this is a time to say thank you for the lengths Kenwright has gone to, to get us to where we are. So Thank You Bill, Blue Bill always!!

Kenwright has done more damage and has more fuck ups attributed to him than P Johnson could ever have dreamed off.
The man is a fucking clown Ive said it for years
What makes matters worse for me is that this twat thinks we are STILL believing his fucking lies

I don't see any benefit in this, Kenwright is not doing much to convince us we are a club moving forward, but we won?t help anything by chanting "Kenwright Out". Let's get behind the young lads in the Everton squad come Saturday. Baxter, Gosling, Rodwell, Jutkiewicz and the rest of the lads. Come on you blues, remember, the players don't need to suffer for the board's incompetent behaviour.

BK is looking to sell. He openly admits that and to not having the funds to take us to the next level. I know he has is faults but who has been in charge for the last few years when we have been closer to the top 4 than we have since the mid 80’s. This man took over from the shower of shit of agent johnson and moved it forward. Yes it is time to go, he knows it, we know it but he loves the club like the rest of us and wants to leave it safe hands. Not a dodgy politician or sports tychoon who will fuck off at the first sign of a quick profit.
A campaign to get him out ? For fucks sake we need to be getting behind the team not chanting Sack the Board. BK will do what he can

If we go into the season with the squad we have, (which I hope we don’t) we need let them players know that we are behind them no matter what.
Come on EVERTON

Neil lets get things straight, Fortunatley for Billy Bullshit he has a manager who has done magnificent given what our luvvy chairman has gave him.
He has managed to paper over the cracks and keep the arsehole out of trouble otherwise Billy Boy would have been called in years ago.
He has fucked everything up and tld countless lies, Fortress Fund, Kings Dock,Kirkby, Alan smith deal, Michael Owen deal, NTL deal, the man is a fucking clown and should fuck off and concentrate on his next Joseph.
He only appears when the going is good and opens his embarrising fucking mouth about "I cried on my way home" and dissapears when the shit hits the fan.
How anyone can defend this joke of a man is beyond me!!
So if people do let the tit know what they think of him at the game then good, hopefully it will give him the shove he needs to fuck off

I take it that you have the money to replace him, Mr Regan? You should only need about £80M to cover purchase of shares and guarantees for overdraft and bank loans.
Oh, and the odd £30M for transfers might keep Toffeewebbers sweet as well.
If you want BB?s office number get back to me but make sure you have the dough handy before you ring him!

Nick

I listened to Ridsdale being interviewed on the radio recently....he said that,although he’s the one to take all the flak, O’Leary should shoulder much of the blame. The board at Leeds bought all the players that O’Leary asked for, but some of them weren’t good enough. And neither was O’Leary.

Shouting BK out after the game is pointless as he will be luvvied up in a lounge somewhere and just what has he done? Going by recent rumours he didn’t even buy the club but lent the money from one of his mates Phil Green who in turn lent money to Earl to buy out Gregg. When questioned what exactly he has done beyond employing the worst CEO in living history of the club, alienated the fans with a project that is woefully as far away from it’s initial portrayal as it ever could be and an annual litany of lies. He has had his chance of running the club and failed, time to move on and over so we can get a real businessman. I personally don’t care whether that comes in the form of dollars or rupees if the people have the business acumen to run the club properly and move us from being a laughing stock to real genuine contenders on and off the pitch.

Doddy if you really do have Black Bill’s number can you ring him and ask him WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON and then you can type away and let us all know what he said.

The way I see it Moyes has gone to Kenwright and said I want this player and that player. Players who are only ever going to go to the Sky 4 or other big european clubs for big money.

Kenwright just doesn?t have the sort of money to compete on that level and it?s no good everyone shouting and bawling , crying for his head on a plate.

I? m sorry but Moyes must know by now that we are not going to compete with the Sky 4 in the current climate and he should have brought in some players who may not be top notch but can do a job for us and maybe keep us in there fighting until such a time that we can compete.

If he?s not prepared to do that then he should walk away. I personally believe that he will walk away because he is ambitious and Everton cannot match his ambitions at this moment in time.

He won?t sign a new contract because that would mean any club coming in for him would have to pay compensation to get him.

It’s not that he’s been lying, I think at that level one has to tell the odd porkie to do the job competently....It’s that he’s told them consisently, been caught out (multiple times) and even started believing his own warped sense of reality.

How can you just say "don’t ask me, I’m just a fan"?!?

Whoever, and/or whatever is to blame for the situation we find ourselves in, action needs to be taken to put things right. While it may not seem like it - I?ve almost given up cruising the news sites for a sniff of a signing - doubtless, efforts ARE being made to fill the holes in what was already a sparse squad. So, booting out the Chairman at this juncture (like that is ever going to happen) will not help, at the moment.

Yes it would be nice if we got some new owner(s) who could be relied upon, and who?ve dosh to invest, but if you look at the recent track record of new owners in the EPL we?d likely end up regretting it.

With the exception of Randy Lerner at Villa (and they?ve hardly set the league alight - given they?ve had to battle to keep Gareth Barry) what shining examples are there?

Shinawatra at MCFC? No thanks!

Punch & Judy at Anfield? Nope.

That clown at Toon? Do me a favour - negotiating sales without consulting Keegan!

West Ham? Pull the other one (Ljunberg?s cost the equivalent of a half million a game etc.).

The only new owners encountering any real success have been Abramovic - one of the world?s richest men, and Glazer - and it would take a real eejit to fail there with SAF in charge of THAT squad!?



Nope. I don?t think it is safe to assume new owners would come anywhere near assuring any success! More likely a new owner would come in and look to make a killing by selling off our best players come January!



Backs to the wall lads. COYBB!

Chris,

Do you have anyone in mind to buy his shares and take over running the club - taking home no salary of course?

How anyone can think that Moyes has not spent money that was available to him is beyond me. He has stated what everyone knows, that the squad is grossly under strength; he has also voiced his wish to get players in to enjoy a full pre-season.

Surely if there was money available he would have spent some of it on one of the numerous names mentioned. I believe he is staying loyal to Billy Liar and being a man of principle will see out his contract/stay until a decent offer comes in from a chairman who can support him.

We all know that despite the Fernandes money supposedly being there, it never was and we will get told by the liar that we always had the cash but decided not to spend it/ran out of time and we?re all happy to have a squad that even on the best of days can hardly fill a team sheet and bench with proven professionals! Just wait for the January window!

Mark, you ask...


"Do you have anyone in mind to buy his shares and take over running the club - taking home no salary of course?"
Er, nope, and nope.

Anyway, I think if you re-read what I said I think you?ll see I make it clear that I am NOT calling for BK to be ousted, far from it.

Yes, a future change might be beneficial, but then BK himself has said he?d be happy to sell to the ?right buyer?.

Cheers, and COYBB

I think everyone is sooooo frustrated at this last minute transfer rush. All we wait for now is the failed medicals. to happen. I am just totally pissed off at the happenings of a club, who at the end of last season I thougt was going to push on.

There has never been abetter time for the blues to advance. All we needed was 2 good midfielders. The problem is nobody believes Billy Liar anymore.

Nick:

"Risdale is to blame for that one... but then if it wasn;t for the courtcase and possibly the qualification which may have happened, Leeds may be the dominant force in the Prem..."

Sorry Nick, but O’Leary really does have to shoulder part of the blame. Part of a manager’s job is to buy players within the long term strategy of the board. O’Leary himself (when at Villa) said something along the lines of "a managers job is to talk the chairman into giving him as much money as possible now; he shouldn’t worry about the long term at all", which sums up the man. It’s complete bull - the manager should buy within the long term strategy of the club, like O’Neill did at Villa.

Leeds spent a crazy amount of money, and O’Leary bought every player that took his fancy (£5m on Dominic Matteo, £7m on Seth Johnson, £11m on a past it Fowler - and kids, you’ll have to trust me when I say that seven years ago that was a lot of money). To spend that much money and not win anything is frankly incredible.

Ridsdale was worse, of course (the Seth Johnson wages story will go down in football folklore as the worst piece of negotiation ever), but O’Leary was clearly not blameless.

£7m on Seth Johnson. And that was 7 years ago (and 2 Sky TV deals ago). The mind boggles.

Chris Jones my questions weren’t aimed at you mate, they were aimed at Chris Regan - whose post this is.

If I was the club?s accountant, I would do exactly what Wyness has insisted on and wait till the last possible minute to snap up the bargains without having to pay a penny in summer wages. It?s probably cost him his job but when the bank is screaming blue murder what else can you do. The money was there to be spent in May and Moyes just pissed off to earn dollars at the Euros. Since then, things have got tight all round.
Big ?own goal? by the ?golden boy?!

Colin, there are no last minute bargains - the price goes up for decent players as deadline day approaches.

And if the money was there in May, why isn’t it still there?

2 points I want to make.

1. Moyes is not responsible for buying the players or negotiating their contracts.

He,and I’ve no reason to doubt this, gave the board before the end of last season an A and a B list of players he thought would fit the bill.

The A list was to challenge the top 4.

The B list was to hold the status quo (and I don’t mean rocking all over the world).

Allegedly when pushed about signing his contract he asked to know his budget first and was shocked to find not only that W’yness hadnt followed up on anybody but there was only a small amount available for players.Moyes blew a gasket, BK got involved and Wyness was history. since then despite the assurances both we and Moyes have had there appears to be nobody pushing to sign players.Moyes has his hands full trying to prepare the players he’s got for the start of an important league campaign and BK is either too busy or being made to hand the dealings to Green who it is now apparent no longer gives a FF.

2. We did not sign Fernandes last August for 12 million,we sold McFadden for 5.5 million and Johnson for 10.5+million.

We also finished fifth (Worth at least 30 million) and released 12 players(7 first team squad) with a consequent saving in wages since of around 3 million.

Thats over 60 million besides gate and other receipts and we havent even signed 1 player.

Now you can all go on all you like about poor Bill but that is a sizeable chunk of money for any chairman to manage and if BK is not capable we don’t need a billionaire to provide funds we just need a proper sensible business manager.

I’ve known for years whats only obvious to some of you now - Bill Kenwright aka Billy Liar aka Bullshit Billy aka Kenwrong is full of shit.

The charges -
1: Constant lies: Kings Dock, NTL Deal, Fortess Fund, Rooney transfer, etc
2: Total inability to advance the clubs financial situation one iota.
3: Inability to appoint anyone remotely competent in the non-football side of the business - including our recently departed CEO Keith "Outsource it!" Wyness.
4: And, I think a now proven inability to give up the train set.

Kenwright is holding onto power for powers sake. At no time has he said he would be willing to sell the club and relinquish control of it. "Seeking investment" is a euphenism for the sort of shit he’s been up to over the last few years - trying to find some sucker to pump money into the club whilst leaving him in control of it. This is obviously a difficult thing to achieve; very few of the mega rich are stupid enough to invest money without any input on whats going to happen with it. From Paul Gregg to NTL to
Chris Samuelson - they’ve all balked when it’s time to hand over their millions to BK.
He finally found someone to pump cash into the club in the form of Tescos, largely you’d guess through their Evertonian chairman Sir Terry Leahy, in the form of Destination Kirkby. I’ve no doubt Leahy - and even Kenwright - are die hard Evertonians who thought the scheme was the best thing to happen to either of them. Everton get a new stadium, Tescos get a guranteed profitable supermarket, with the added bonus of a 30 000+ football crowd twenty odd times a year. Do you have any idea in retail terms what that adds up to? I don’t doubt this is how Leahy sold it to the board anyway.
Now it looks as if he can’t even get this one over the line {and why else would Wyness leave?}. Johnsons sale raised 10 Mil - does anyone want to bet that Everton spend more than a million or two more than this before the window shuts? Essentially Andy Johnson IS the transfer kitty - his late sale means our late entry to the market.
Crazy, the mans a total incompetent, and has to go now. KENWRIGHT OUT!

Ask yourself one question would such a fiasco have happened at any other Club and been tolerated by its fan-base. The article written by Brian Reade was on the money, we are a club bankrupt of ideas and bankrupt of finances. Kenwright has well and truly hoisted the white-flag, we are a laughing stock and unfortunately it seems that total apathy has set in amongst the fan-base. Disgrace -Kenwright out !!

Anyone who still thinks Kenwright is still the man for the job, please go for a brain scan. Yes, sure he took us to another level, 20,000 leagues below sea level.

So he wears is heart on on his sleeve and he has sleepless nights etc.... so what? I too can't sleep because he has destroyed my faith in my beloved club. Sell up and write another play for that gang of wools across the park; good riddance.

The sale of AJ was purely and simply to repay the paymaster general Philip Green who lent the money last season for the Yakubu transfer. Philip Green called in this debt knowing that DK and the cash-cow promised to Robert Earl was dead in the water. The EGM will be the platform to oust Kenwright, without the usual charade at recent AGM’s presided over by that fat lying gobshite Wyness aiding and abetting the deceit and tissue of lies peddled by Kenwright. Three key facts remain ; the behaviour of an apparent crest-fallen Kenwright at the ESCLA meeting, the unsigned contract of David Moyes, and the complete lack of funds available to strenghten the squad this summer. Take a look at the OS squad profile it really makes quite frightening perusal.

The only thing Kenwright can run is a joke shop!! I hope he gets what's coming to him on Saturday, that's if he?s there to face the music. Kenwright OUT investors IN

Being second best, Kenwright, isn't an option to us true blues. Your lies and deliberate deception is unforgivable. As for "I'm selling the club" bullshit, that is just a smoke screen hoping that all this Kenwrightgate crap will blow over ? dream on bro. You're living on borrowed time, you have embarrassed our club. I can't wait to voice my opinion on Saturday. We have all had enough.

A lot has been written by fans on this site, and others over the past couple of weeks. The optimists tell us to. "Be patient." The so-called doom mongers tell us to. "Panic." Personally, I have stopped caring.

I have gone through every emotion in the past couple of weeks and I don't give a shit anymore. Promises of signings have not materialised, and the people who manage the club (Moyes apart) to my mind have sold every fan of this club, from all over the world, short.

Don't tell me anymore to be patient, I have run out of that particular virtue. In fact I have run out of every emotion with regards our club, including panic. I and everyone else has been taken to the cleaners. NSNO. Fuck off!