Southall calls for club to be sold

Make up your own minds on why the club has not been sold - it certainly isn't because "no-one's buying football clubs these days"!

Thankfully and finally someone of importance to the club has come out and said publicly what many fans have been going on about for years. The simple fact that either i) the club really isn't for sale as the current management are just looking for 'investment' or ii) they are asking for a ridiculous price - i.e. £125M+, having spent a tiny fraction of that themselves buying a controlling stake.

If only more significant blues would speak up as opposed to brown nosing the current set up to either keep a job (yes, I am talking to you Sharpy) or get free tickets and other perks at GP.

24/7 my arse!

(Think we've been here before, don`t you all?)

But then Bills valuation and rhetoric is akin to someone on that crappy programme about hoarding my wife watches - they know they need to do something but they just cant let go.

But don't worry: there's another serious buyer who we are in talks with.

We are constantly fed the same old crap from Bill but maybe one day he will announce what the asking price is, there's always hope.

If the cost of developing Goodison is the main stumbling block for a buyer, what if the Old Lady was taken out of the equation?

Would this make the Club a more attractive investment opportunity?

What's Goodison worth in its current state?

Who would buy an ageing commercial property in Walton?

What would stop anyone from buying it?

Would the owners sell it?

Would the buyer have to "do it up"?

Is there the will for this to happen?

I'm just asking likes.....if anyone know's the answers fire away....

"You are either asking too much or you are a poor salesman and I don't think he is a poor salesman because he has got too much theatre going on."

Says it all and more.

Instead of getting the real skinny on the latest Kenwright claim of the umpteenth "potential new owners" through some real investigative journalism, they send out a trainee journo hack to corner Big Nev — or more likely, just call him on the phone — for a 'rent-a-quote' story that seems all-too-familiar from the Binman.

What is most telling — they don't even let the sprog put his name in the tagline,.... 'Merseyside Sport' — WTF? Is it any wonder newspapers are dying a death...

He is our 'fans liaison officer' at the moment, although am not sure what that role actually involves.

Good to see an ex-player speak out instead of the usual arse-licking.

If more people speak out like Big Nev, the board should hopefully take the hint. Or, we should vote with our feet, until BK, Elstone and the rest of the circus are kicked out of town.

Kenwright Out!

You can forget the likes of Snodin, and in particular Graeme Sharp. (who Nev dismissed as a 'brown nose' on Twitter recently)

Refreshing to hear a club legend refusing to tow the party line.

What a crock. Who has Graeme Sharp betrayed? You don't like him because he is an employee of the club? You may disagree with the administration of the club, I certainly do, but to start portraying one of the best centre forwards this club has ever seen who never gave a single inch in a blue shirt as a Judas is disgraceful. The man is earning a living. Has every employee of our club taken thirty pieces of silver?

Great statement from Big Nev, he certainly speaks for the fans and not for the shower of shit running this club

Baines could get another club easy, and this could be used on his way out (if he chooses to). Alan Stubbs may feel he may be on his way out, if Moyes goes. So to have a go at Sharpe is unjust — it's not really wise to slate your boss in public, is it?

I look forward to the day when the perfect owners take over our club but, unfortunately, few of the Johnny Come Latelys who've taken over clubs in recent times seem any improvement on the Kenwright model.

Sell, sell, sell is all we hear (that`s when it`s not spend, spend, spend!) but the hard fact is that there really are worse owners than the one we've got... however bad he is!

That's what me mam told me anyway.

No matter who they bring in to promote the sale, they are facing an impossible task. Don't forget, the first choice is to find "investment" while BK & chums keep a controlling interest.

When BK says there is no-one out there buying clubs, he is spot on, not on their terms anyway.

Fed up to fuck of this eternal roundless/endless Blue Unionless protestations on e-mail... One way and one way only to fuck 'This charming man' off is like me don't renew your season tickets.

Simple.

Doesn't that tell you then that the asking price is too much and should be reduced?

Doug #904, there's only talk of interested parties wanting to buy the Club when it's time for season ticket sales, it's a con by the PR machine.

He shouldn't work for the club and in the media at the same time.

It's sick, because irrespective of who buys the club, our future is not guaranteed. Our style of play is not guaranteed and an owner's financial pockets may not be as big as we would like. But it's no reason to stick with what we have, no reason to believe a man whose personal credibility drops every time he opens his mouth.

Neville Southall is not just another fan, he has the credibility of a playing great, someone who deserves to be listened too, he has a better insight into the club than any of us.

You think for some deluded set of reasoning that Bill Kenwright has been our savior, that he should be looked up to and continually thanked whilst we tug our forelocks and back away in gratitude.

We have no assets, no money, heavily in debt and yet you and others still think his financial management of the club should be applauded, this from a guy who, as chairman of a 100m club doesn't understand the accounts.

I don't care if a new owner is not a natural born Blue, I want them to put the financial strength back into a great club and regain some asset value. I don't care if it means we stay at a redeveloped GP for the next 10 years whilst we restructure.

That's never going to happen with Kenwright, Elstone and the current board of directors who have failed to secure a sound financial strategy for the club, have no known commercial vision or strategic plan post Moyes, and have alienated the fan base to such an extent that they actively blame others, fans and shareholders for the lack of transparency, lack of accountability and their own arrogance actual believes fans do not deserve to be respected for their concerns.

One thing is very clear Richard, fans support The Team, But not the running of the club. Many fans don't concern themselves with matters of control or finance until it impacts on the team. This year, if we do not make CL qualification, a significant reason will be because of the lack of backing this board and Kenwright gave to Moyes in January, indeed I believe this is the key reason that Moyes has not signed a new contract and will not do so without seeing the money to rebuild.

No one else will invest in the club without a controlling interest, why on earth would you do so otherwise? So Richard, to get that investment, either the rest of the board has to sell their shares to Kenwright and two others, I have yet to see any indication that BK will walk away without a size able return.

Of course I want a more businesslike `owner`than BK.Of course I want a Board who sees the club`s supporters as more than turnstile/merchandising fodder to be treated with disdain.But I don`t want the Venkys,Fernandezes and their ilk whose knowledge of the game as well as their judgement just guarantees failure.
Surely then you can lower the hate level enough to see that it really could be worse?

Surely even you can see that this is an untenable position. Repeating as nauseum that change doesn't guarantee anything other than change but the status quo at present is a failure leading in only one direction.

As far as the Sharpy digs go, I too have received this paid lacky's dismissive emails and his quote on the Blue Union march of one man and a dog was as hilarious as Comical Ali

Nor have I ever used any profanity against him, you or any poster on ToffeeWeb, I may showed anger but never hate.

I realize there are many potential owners who will never cut the mustard, many wannabes who have more money than sense. But there are many who are sensible, businesslike and experienced and might, just might, have a vision for Everton.

So please Richard, answer some of my points rather than take personal pot shots at me, which you hav e continued to do for a number of years now, I made a number of valid comments which you have ignored or declined to answer.

I don't need or want anyone to doff a cap or tug a forelock for me, I want Everton as. Club to be run properly, don' we all?

The truth is, nobody can ever know what might have happened just as we can`t be in anyway certain that a change of owner or manager would be for good or ill. But it`s good to argue about it on ToffeeWeb, isn`t it?

Do you work in the PR department at Goodison?

Are you sure she didnt say Pru ?

But we DO know that what we have isn't good enough and isn't working so stop with the 'better the devil you know' catchphrases or don't you aspire for the Club to do better?

Of course it is a dangerous game to find a Blackburn and Co type buyer, but this is being used as an excuse by Kenwright to keep the status quo. The countless theatrical "buyers are coming" quotes, as time reveals as lies are like Moyes being enabled, but equally by us the fans too, when little other than quiet dissatisfaction is shown.

Watch how much momentum, and rhetoric is gained when Moyes without a choice leaves.