The Question that Must be Asked

Seeing that you are in a position to know the details of the proposed bid then you must also know why the board are reluctant to accept the offer.

This makes perfect sense while waiting for the next retail enabled ground move.

But Bill's a blue, so it's all ok.

I can only second what Brian Harrison has said – if you know this much, then you know why it has not gone through – so tell us...

You do not know and therefore it is just more hearsay.

Michael/Lyndon, I am all for free speech but surely the site should perhaps impose a no source/authentication = no publishing of article/letter?

Although this could be 100% true, it's no better (as it is) than what the rags are saying about who we might buy this summer. Which makes it great craic. Keep it coming.

Fragrant Bullshit wins hands down...!

Don't know why this is even on the site TBH.

While I am posting, the new TV money won't land in the bank until May 2014.

Here is a suggestion, which I have made before.

Privately email Michael and Lyndon, who I am pretty sure will respect the confidentiality. Give them the details or describe (without naming if need be) your source or authentication. I trust them to make an assessment as to whether your credibility is there or not. They can then relay this to the rest of us without compromising the details.

Otherwise without hard evidence there is very little reason to believe you as things stand.

To be honest to you though, that was a really good sell for the first 6 paragraphs. And then we get to paragraph 7, and a familiar theme seems to appear. It just stinks of somebody deliberately trying to increase the discontent by suggesting there is a buyer ready who will not only buy the club, but also wipe out the debts and fund squad improvements. How convenient for this to surface the week the EGM will take place eh? Its almost as obvious as the suggestions of takeovers when season tickets are going to be renewed....

If this is true and we get taken over with tens of millions to spend, I will have never been happier in my life to be wrong, and will gladly take how wrong I was being rammed down my throat day in day out....

Did someone actually say that? That is awful! I don't know about anyone else, but I have never and WOULD never accuse ANY Evertonian, even if I disagreed with them on EVERY Everton-related issue, of living in a bedsit in Salford.

There has been plenty of rumour over the last decade suggesting that due diligence was done by at least one interested party from the Middle East four years ago but, again, there's nothing substantive to back it up.

So, we return to the question: Why have we not been sold?

Is Bill merely holding onto the train set? Is he beholden to other, less transparent individuals seeking too high a price as a return on their investment or loan? Has there just not been enough interest from the right kind of buyers - i.e. too many Venkys-types and not enough Fenway Sports Groups (the latter, it should be said, were incredibly reckless with their cash at the outset, what with the ridiculous sums forked out for the likes of Carroll, Henderson and Downing)?

We're no closer to knowing after 13 years of the Kenwright reign.

Sorry Richard, but you posted 6 months ago just before that joke of a window opened and here you are again a week before the next. Not to mention the AGM.

If what you say is true, the Blue Union, KEIOC folks, even Michael and Lyndon would have gotten at least a whiff of something in the wind regarding the Club near to sale. And the indisputably-connected local press haven't said ANYTHING?

How about this? You been going to the games for 40 years. A season ticket-holder? Where do you sit at the games? Must have a favorite spot. There are plenty enough match-goers in here who either know or can ask friends if you even exist.

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Simply put, Kenwright could give a completely unrealistic answer and the questioner has no back up in facts so would be stymied. More to the point, this is probably the sort of response Kenwright is looking for in not granting an AGM.

As much as I would love the question to be asked, if it were me asking the question I would certainly want some facts to back up any follow up question rather than an unsubstantiated article on ToffeeWeb.

What Richard is asking is for someone to put their head in the noose while he sits back knowing there will be no comeback on him.

I am not suggesting that the article is a fallacy. Far from it. Kenwright has sufficient history to back up Richard's allegations but I think without the necessary facts, Richard doth ask too much.

Why Richard isn't coming forward with whatever proof he's got, might be because, he's got none or it might be because he'll drop someone in it... maybe himself.

But, whatever the truth is, the question could be asked. "Is there a bid on the table for EFC and if so, why hasn't it been accepted?" I don't know how many times in the last few months Kenwright has come out and said there is someone interested in buying our club. Then it all goes quiet again.

Perhaps, as someone has suggested, Richard could come forward to Michael and Lyndon and submit whatever facts he has, in strictest confidence and let them make of it what they will. If there is any substantive evidence, then it would hopefully show up this bunch of chancers who are strangling any chance of our club challenging up at the top end.

Unbelievable that someone agreeing £120 million and wiping the debt going through due diligence etc could slip under the radar – just not feasible.

(Yes or No).

"If Yes, why did you not sell it?"

He then compounds his cock up over the King's Dock, with lies over the Kirkby debacle. I do not trust this man whatsoever, to do his best for Everton. He'll only do it (should the opportunity ever arrive) after he has trousered megabucks for himself,

We would only receive the stock answer, "We are in the process of talking to interested parties, as we always are, in fact, someone came forward only recently."

From the floor: "Who are these interested parties?"

Elstone: "Well, we can't say as we don't want to jeopardise any future sale, and we have both signed NDAs."

Floor: "You're a bunch of lying twats."

Elstone: "See, that's why we stopped these meetings in the first place."

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This sentence proves it's bullshit.

Unless Richard turns up at the EGM himself and asks the question and is prepared to show the board are lying if they say no.

Sounds like a press release from the master himself. Well done that man.

cant believe for one second that a supposed deal to take over a top EPL side would not've been leaked after 6 months. Even the supposed buyers would of come out in frustration by now and have exposed King Billy. Sorry it's absolute bollocks.

They didn't seem to care when they ran up the debt, and financed us in the BVI, but we are expected to believe they won't sell because they are hugely concerned about the financial planning after they leave the club????

Sorry, just doesn't make any sense whatsoever, does it?

At best (and I mean best), investing in property would have yielded him about £5M; keeping it in the bank less than that... So roughly an extra £500k per year of ownership on the basis that (as we are informed) he receives no remuneration. To me, a fair deal.

What a steaming pile of crapola.

If media coverage is the goal, Tolman should deliver his evidence not to Michael and Lyndon but to any reputable sports journo in England, His identity would be protected and it would ignite a firestorm of competing coverage from every sports page in the country.

Why hasn't that happened?

Because there is no evidence.

For all I know, there is no Tolman.

I believe Kenwright will be at the club until the day he passes away. Not that I wish him harm. I base my opinion on what I have heard and seen and the rhetoric that comes from him and the club.

If, as some people claim, you are just mischief making – to what ends? I, like many on TW, look forward to hearing your reasoning.