Show Me The Money.

By Tony Marsh : 13/06/2007 :

Comments (8) :

You can please some of the people some of the time and then some Everton fans seem to be so easily pleased it's frightening. I can't believe the relaxed attitude some of our lot have at the moment. They just don't see the same picture? All the new money which is starting to hit the English game but worryingly by-passing us doesn't concern them one bit. In fact, some think we dont need any of it.

Heres a question: If most of clubs being linked with big money buy-outs actually do sell up ? which they will ? then the likes of Manchester City, Blackburn and Birmingham will join all the other clubs who can spend big and pay big salaries. Where does that leave us? Does any one really believe Arteta and the other quality players we have in our squad will stick around at Everton on Championship wages while thier fellow pros pick up £80,000 plus a week elsewhere? I don't.

There is no way Everton can match even a small club like West Ham for spending power now that the Icelandic Alf Garnett has hit town. The millions he has made selling Jammy Dodgers to the Eskimoes far out-weighs the money Bungalow Bill gets from filling the local Playhouse. If we don't get Bill out and someone in with financial clout then we are well and truely fooked. We need to get with the programme, people.

John Moores knew he was out of his depth at Liverpool and he is hardly skint is he? The mighty Arsenal are looking to cash their chips in as well and David Dein has had to face the harsh realities of the premier League. No Dough, No Go.

Kenwright 10 years ago was one of those novelty chairman we used to see a lot of back in the day. They take over the club they supported as a kid and all their dreams come true. Kenwright is a Doug Ellis without the cash or a Peter Swales with a better hair do. That's all he is. In today's game where the Dollar or the Rouble is God, Kenwright doesn't stand a chance. He is like like a mouse trapped in a Tiger's cage or a Goldfish in a tank full of pirhana. Dead meat. Still, that won't worry some fans who are oblivious to what's happening all around them. "At least Moyes is a better manager than Smith," they will say.

Why are some still posting that crap? To me comparing those two is like comparing Rod Hull and Emu against Kieth Harris and Orville: Both pretty crap but still got on telly and made a living from the game. Next time, try comparing Catterick v Kendall; at least they both won something at the club. What did Moyes or Smith ever win?

The removal of the deadwood is starting to annoy me as well. Fans calling for the return of Killbane and the retaining of Beattie are just the type I am on about. Clueless cannon fodder for Bill. Why bring Killer back a year older when the younger version was terrible? As for swapping Beattie for Jason Roberts, I would swap Beattie for Jason Donovan if I could. At least Donavan score occasionally.

No, it's as plain as the giant nose on Phil Thompson's face. Kenwright has to go and very soon. The big 4 are already a million miles away so what happens to us once the second tier of the Premier League over take us as well? I dread to think... It's time to put up or shut up, Bill. A skint chairman these days ain't worth a part in one of your soppy plays. Please, Bill, show us the money or slam the door behind you on your way out, mate.

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T Towers
1 Posted 14/06/2007 at 08:46:42

I agree most fans are oblivious to these facts either because they want to bury their heads in the sand or are just not bothered.
If no investment comes into the club to buy quality players i agree the likes of Arteta, Cahill, Lescott and Johnson will leave, leaving us with a team of Championship players at best.
Can anyone tell me why it is we can’t find an investor?
With all Blue Bills contact throughout the world of media and business surely it should be a bit easier for him than most.

Danny Welsh
2 Posted 14/06/2007 at 08:53:09

Its a bit better to read Tony; I agree that BK have to go but as Colm or Lyndon stated a while ago, via his American pal he strengthened his position. Now with the impending move to Kirkby it will be even harder to dismiss him, so if you expect him to step down just forget it. Oh... and not to forget:

Richard Dodd - "Gratitude,brother Evertonians,gratitude, please!"

Art Greeth
3 Posted 14/06/2007 at 10:23:49

Well here?s a surprise ? a reasonably controlled rant from the boggy Marshlands. But that is all the sum total is ? a rant and not a particularly coherent one at that.

I don?t subscribe to your often expressed view that Everton fans that have a different perspective on the club affairs to your own are blind, sycophantic, easily-pleased fools. The Toffeeweb mailbag clearly demonstrates more lucid critical thinking than that, rather than the barely concealed hatred of nearly all things Blue you often offer.

In answer to your first question, it is not a given that:
? all or indeed any of the clubs currently linked with big money buy-outs will actually be bought
? that they will have considerable sums spend on player purchases and bigger salaries
? that any or all of these clubs will benefit from the presumed investment
? that our quality players will leave to follow the lucre

Secondly, there is absolutely NOTHING we can do as supporters to ?get Bill out? and replace him with ?someone with financial clout?. Rant, boo, jeer, insult him on match day if you will, but that ain?t gonna shift him from the boardroom. It will only be BK?s choosing as to when ? IF!! ? he steps down.

And just what do you mean Tony by ?get with the programme, people?? Whilst buying into Premier League clubs seems to be flavour of the month at the moment, mainly because of the huge windfall from TV money, just what are those investors buying into and why? Just yesterday I saw Alan Sugar comparing the current craze for English football to the dotcom boom of a few years ago when venture capitalists poured money into Internet start-ups with no product, no business plan and BILLIONS of pounds went down the tube when they flopped. This is the same Alan Sugar who just recently sold his own £20 million stake in Spurs, who is a wily wheeler-dealer and who is totally bemused as to how investors are going to get any returns on their monies from football.

Given the above, maybe ? just maybe ? Everton FC is right NOT to run with the herd at the moment. Whatever you might think of the current management, we are doing OK on the core industry of the club ? playing football; the CEO has improved the club?s income streams; we have the prospect of moving to a new stadium (a whole different debate, I know?) and from the outside, there seems to be as much unity between the management key figures as there is amongst the playing staff.

No Tony. Things are not as black and white as you consistently wish to portray them.

Oh! And surely there must be some Lancet study that carries a health warning about the overuse of analogies in a single article???

john prior
4 Posted 14/06/2007 at 11:26:52

Well said art, tony that is what a balanced mindset is like, take note!

Typical Tony at work, arrogantly putting words into other evertonian mouths.
And ranting over speculation, conjecture and innuendo.
Baseless transfer rumours of kilbane etc are hardly worth getting het up about ’yet’ but never one to let an opportunity go, eh Tony.

Your hardly giving us an insight by telling us if we dont pay arteta et al what other clubs will, they’ll consider other options.
Everybody knows there is a new influx of cash, and wages are about to go up another increment for most players.
The board will of course realise this, despite what you may think they are not completely incompotent businessmen.
And if someone like arteta leaves because we didnt pay enough, then the board should be held accountable by us fans.
But unless I missed a memo, none of this has happened yet, and if areteta gets a better offer, I expect the board to match it(even if you dont)unless it is a completely ridiculous figure.
Even if we had Man u’s money real madrid or someone else could always make a ridiculous offer we couldnt do anything about.
Its the way of things right now, no matter what, no matter who you are, there will always be a risk someone out there could make a ridiculous offer to your better players.

But 99% of things you rant about or tell us will happen;
no chance of europe....it all turn to shite......moyesie will cock it up....arteta will leave because of style of football...vic & vaughen will never get a game, they’ll be sold to championship sides.....blahblah etc
just never materialise mate.

Take the hint.

Tony Marsh
5 Posted 14/06/2007 at 13:03:35

John Prior.
Nice reply mate but you only serve to strengthen my resolve on this issue of finance.

Go in to denial all you like but the facts are there for all to see. Buy outs are gathering pace

Oh and by the way John I do happen to think Wyness and Kenwright are useless buisnessmen.

Wyness has stripped the club to the bare bones and Kenwrights watched him do it.We own nothing any more and dont make a penny from anything we sell to our own fans.

Drinks, pies, Shirts etc Wyness out sourced the lot.He makes a nice drink from it though.

Matthew Fearon
6 Posted 14/06/2007 at 15:32:03

Tony, Tony, Tony, your writings are pitiful frustrations that one can only hope are motivated by a desire to provoke and nothing else. Your statments of the blindingly obvious are becoming embarassing and using these fans who wish to see Kilbane return (who must number 1) as your target audience means that in effect all the rest of us lucid fans here at TW watch is the one polar extreme screaming obscenities at the other. But please keep provoking as those fans who respond really are worth reading.

Gary Carter
7 Posted 14/06/2007 at 20:22:21

Spot on, Ive been saying this for 18 months now, Kenwright is going to be our Doug Ellis. And when its brought up a lot of fans use the excuse of not wanting foreign money, or you cant trust a businessman if hes not a supporter etc etc all these bizarre paranoid ideas they have that if the person taking over isnt a fan or isnt local to the area they must have some money making idea that would involve selling the club from under our feet. But no one can ever give me any examples of investors that have done this, I mean look how stupid those breakaway Man Utd fans look now, Man Ure have spent nearly 50 million on players already and show no sign of slowing down

Gavin Ramejkis
8 Posted 14/06/2007 at 21:22:02

Strangely Richard "Keith Wyness" "Dominic King" Dodd let slip from BK towers that this year’s Sky money has already been earmarked as the downpayment for the Kirby shit-o-dome. BK is an awful chairman, an accomplished liar and as I’ve said too many times his lapdog Wyness has filled his pockets by asset stripping the club, once GP has been sold expect to see Keith dragging his bulging suitcase out the door to a waiting car never to return.

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