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A negotiating position?

I think TW?s slightly tired response to DM?s ?Another five or six years? comment misses the point. I think we should see Moyes's comments not necessarily as his opinion but as a negotiating position in his attempt to get more money to spend over the summer.

The reality of modern sport is that these kinds of negotiations are conducted in the newspapers as well as the Boardroom and I think DM's message to Kenwright is clear: "we've gone as far as we'll go without a spending a lot of money on the team ? so get the chequebook out".

Over the next week or so I expect Bill to happen to mention to a journalist about just how much we spent last summer and how we?ve broken to club transfer record three years in a row. Blah, blah, etc. etc.

This may not be Bill?s ?Everton way? but I think we?re going to see quite a lot of similar comments from both sides until DM?s contract is signed and the transfer budget agreed.

And the truth is, Moyes is right about this. Our increasingly crap end to the season shows that we?ve come a long way over the last 5 years but still are too dependent on a few good players, lack strength in depth and have some real problem positions such as right back. Only significant spending over a few years can solve these issues.
Richard Watts, London Posted 20/04/2008 at 10:52:02

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Michael Kenrick

You are free to intrerpret it however you want. It's like someone scoffed at the naive idea that he really believed (when he said it last week) Chelsea were out of the title race, and it was no longer an important game for either team. It certainly helped me understand how we approached the game and how we competed on the night.

Keith Glazzard
1 Posted 20/04/2008 at 16:12:36

The impression that I have built up of David Moyes is that he wouldn?t take this kind of ?going public? route to deal with the owners (unlike fatso, incidentally). But the comments he has made are significant.

If Davey hasn?t realised by now that we need a bigger squad, we are in real trouble. But the cheque book - even if it is available, which I don?t know, is no guarantee of getting what we want, as many clubs down the table can demonstrate. Is he asking for more money to spend, or for more patience?

And what will the current crop of players make of this? I suppose they read the papers too.

Darren Gough
2 Posted 20/04/2008 at 17:52:08

Blue Bill Kenwright needs to realise that it is himself who is holding the club back by consistently failing to secure investors with serious financial clout which they are prepared to put into the club, and not these two-bit investors he seems to get on board who never seem to put enough money into Everton Football Club to enable us to have the finances to complete at the top end of the transfer market.

I find it both laughable and insulting that clubs like Manchester City, Aston Villa and Sunderland have all got people who are prepared to back their managers with serious transfer budgets to enable them to compete for world-class players and we won't even shell out £2.2 million for Steven Pienaar without dragging it out for as long as we can, pissing off the player and potentially threatening the deal.

You can't tell me that any tycoon out there would seriously pass on taking over a club like ours, were it available (or made available), rather than clubs like the ones named above. I'm sorry, Bill, but if you truly claim to love the club as much as you say, then put it up for sale and sell it to someone with the money and capability to provide the funds to take us to the next level while we are still capable... or else watch us fall back into mediocrity and all the hard work of the last six years will amount to nothing because that is the harsh reality of what this club is facing next season if we fail to compete in the transfer market...

Keith Glazzard
3 Posted 20/04/2008 at 18:57:49

Darren - and I hope your knee gets better - didn’t you just make my point for me? Man City did us a favour today, but for all their investors facing criminal charges, they haven’t bought a good team. Year on year, billions down the drain like the Shite, they may creep up a bit. We have done better than that on a legal budget.