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Is relegation the aim?
19 Comments: This may appear an odd statement, however a number of South Coast Evertonains were talking and a question was raised, is the club aiming for relegation?
The club would benefit from Parachute payments and you would hope that we could bounce straight back.
The club would be a sleeping giant, a cheap buy for an investor. Kenwright would not have Green et al hanging out for a bigger payday.
Something is not right, Kenwright the mug that he is, is even more elusive than ever.
I personally hope this is incorrect and the club are aiming for Europe again; however, something makes me think otherwise.
Chris Perry, Posted 11/01/2012 at 08:58:44
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If it's the aim, we are certainly going about it the wrong way.
Winning those pesky 7 games an all.....
Winning those pesky 7 games an all.....
You maybe right, we have the Manager to do it!
The club wouldn't benefit from parachute payments. They are considerably less than the TV money generated from being in the EPL. They're designed to help lighten the load of doing down and to help pay players on premier league contracts.
Parachute payments wouldn't help since we have already borrowed against next year's TV money. They'd be swallowed up paying off debt. Same as everything else in Kenwright's Everton.
and anyway, Andrew at 584 nicked my own initial comment.
and anyway, Andrew at 584 nicked my own initial comment.
It's only January, and already the award for "most ridiculous mail bag post of 2011" has a home.
or 2012 even.
Note to self: When trying to be a smart-arse, make sure you get everything shipshape...
Note to self: When trying to be a smart-arse, make sure you get everything shipshape...
Silly southern fairies.
That's shipshape with a capital F
You would probably get the usual suspects on here that back Kenwright finding a positive somewhere along the line if we got relegated, something along the lines of "well look at what Newcastle have done since being promoted" !
The idea we're deliberately trying to get relegated, is the daftest post in a long while.
If we were relegated the banks would call in their loans taken out against future EPL revenue.
This would take us into admin' quicker than Doddy can crack one out thinking about Billy Liar.
Any player someone bid on would be sold to appease the creditors, as they are our only assets.
Net result would be starting our first season in the championship minus 10 points ( league rules for clubs in admin' )
with a bunch of kids.
Looks like oblivion to me Chris, so have a stiff word with anyone who puts forward such a STOOPID idea !
If we were relegated the banks would call in their loans taken out against future EPL revenue.
This would take us into admin' quicker than Doddy can crack one out thinking about Billy Liar.
Any player someone bid on would be sold to appease the creditors, as they are our only assets.
Net result would be starting our first season in the championship minus 10 points ( league rules for clubs in admin' )
with a bunch of kids.
Looks like oblivion to me Chris, so have a stiff word with anyone who puts forward such a STOOPID idea !
I don't understand people who come on this site and shout down people for being stupid because of a post like this.
I have been thinking about this too. Admittedly not directly that it is a ploy by Billy to send us down, but if there could be any benefit to it if we did.
We would sell the majority of our highly paid 'assets' and pay off a chunk of this rediculous (and unsustainable) debt we have.
Imagine: £20M for Baines, £20M for Rodwell, £15M for Felli, £10M for Jags, £10M for Barkley etc...
Yes, this is very much fantasy, but these are rough prices that have been touted around. We would have to use a portion of that to get some talent back in, but that is where it could really work for us. DM is a master at buying cheap players/spotting talent and if they could bed in a Championship level, DM could build a really good squad for little money, we'd have a vastly reduced wage bill and who knows, one league down, he might be able to win a game or two...
Now, shout away and hate me for thinking out loud, but isn't that the point of a site like this: to speculate debate about our wonderful club?
I have been thinking about this too. Admittedly not directly that it is a ploy by Billy to send us down, but if there could be any benefit to it if we did.
We would sell the majority of our highly paid 'assets' and pay off a chunk of this rediculous (and unsustainable) debt we have.
Imagine: £20M for Baines, £20M for Rodwell, £15M for Felli, £10M for Jags, £10M for Barkley etc...
Yes, this is very much fantasy, but these are rough prices that have been touted around. We would have to use a portion of that to get some talent back in, but that is where it could really work for us. DM is a master at buying cheap players/spotting talent and if they could bed in a Championship level, DM could build a really good squad for little money, we'd have a vastly reduced wage bill and who knows, one league down, he might be able to win a game or two...
Now, shout away and hate me for thinking out loud, but isn't that the point of a site like this: to speculate debate about our wonderful club?
Well we do have a Championship manager, a Championship approach to the game and the kind of results from the top ten teams in the table that you might expect from a Championship side. However, I doubt we are deliberately aiming for relegation as the downside is far too steep. If we were aiming for relegation the smartest way would be to go into administration, be docked ten points and reorganize the club's finances and the debt. it would be a dangerous maneuver and I don't think that's what is going down - no pun intended. No. We are just really inept.
I think this is a result of nothing else to discuss.
We have no money to spend, we play shite football. And there really is not much to say, so forgive this lad for trying to keep this website busy.
We have no money to spend, we play shite football. And there really is not much to say, so forgive this lad for trying to keep this website busy.
There is a reasonable gap between us and the bottom 3, hopefully we'll be strong enough not to get drawn in
I'd be pleasantly surprised to find that the club has any kind of aim at all & just hope it's contagious & spreads to the players, especially our forwards!
I don't get the feeling that anyone in charge of the club has any idea what to do to improve our future prospects... not even one as ridiculous as planning to get us relegated... nor do I get the feeling any effort is going in to coming up with a plan above and beyond "wait for a billionaire to come along and sell off our assets to keep the banks at bay in the meantime".
I bet Trust Everton have put more effort and more hours into thinking of a feasible strategy going forward to secure the long term future of our club than Uncle Billy-Liar and his cronies have in their whole time at the helm.
I bet Trust Everton have put more effort and more hours into thinking of a feasible strategy going forward to secure the long term future of our club than Uncle Billy-Liar and his cronies have in their whole time at the helm.
It's a very odd statement
Congrats for thinking outside the box but this is further outside the box than the Everton strike force.
Congrats for thinking outside the box but this is further outside the box than the Everton strike force.
?It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.?
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584 Posted 11/01/2012 at 14:24:03
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