The Cult of Bill: He cannot cut ties and wields huge power

Not according to the league table!

"Sources reveal Ryazantsev's attempts to move the club forward while on the board were met by what was perceived as Kenwright intransigence.

'Sasha wanted to go from local to global, away from the image of the People's Club but felt he couldn't get Bill to agree,' Sportsmail is told."

Two things really stood out to me:

- Neither Moshiri nor Kenwright have ruined the club on their own. It is the fact that we have both of them, pulling in different directions, that's killing us. So why does Moshiri get rid of Kenwright? Well…

- Moshiri keeps Kenwright around to divert criticism away from himself. And, to be fair, it's largely worked until now.

Ultimately Kenwright probably does need to go. He doesn't own the club anymore and he's too personally invested to make it work. It'll be a somewhat sad end but he's only really got himself to blame.

I's gone now, but there was a great thread, with some excellent contributors. It was all about how Mr Moshiri was not looking to sell the club, but was looking for investment, maybe major, but certainly a junior investor from the USA.

A lot was to do with potential better commercial and investment funding (left me to be honest, but it was looking beneficial to EFC).

The bit that really got my interest was what could happen if we got major investment, basically, the major investors could call anl EGM and that could decide to break a contractual arrangement that may exist between Mr Moshiri and Kenwright.

To my eyes, it meant we could get rid of the man... brilliant but even a minor investor with 5% or more could call for an EGM to do something similiar and get shut of any contractual shackles that Kenwright might bind Mr Moshiri from sacking him.

If you can find the article about Moshiri selling or seeking investment, it's well worth a read.

Which is Kenwright pulled that stunt about the "threats" the day the potential investors were at the Soton game so as to scare them off and keep his toy.

I don't doubt that the comments and rumours are accurate. It's my belief that Kenwright has never, ever wanted to move on from Everton. I believe he had multiple opportunities to sell the club prior to 2016 but waited for someone who would allow him to stay on.

Whether or not Kenwright's position is contractual or simply a gentleman's agreement, I don't know. If such a contract exists and Moshiri decided to break it, so what? The financial penalty would surely be less than the cost of the damage the current setup has done over the last seven years.

I'm not sure why an outside investor would need to be involved in order to break such a contract.

Like many Evertonians over the last few weeks I've been supportive of the fans' calls for changes at board level. The Mail article has certainly galvanised my thoughts. We don't necessarily need everybody to know but these pissing contests between Moshiri and Kenwright need to stop, and we probably also need an experienced CEO with a decent track record. DBB is very serious, very intelligent woman but her sole appointment as a CEO has been a disaster from a business point of view. The CEO of any other company would have been given the boot by now.

Things are in disarray around him, none his fault,the result of his naivity. He is a die-hard a fan, a Evertonian and our brother.It along the lines of Moshiri saying everybody in football loves Bill.

Barrett Baxendale has just surpassed herself.

The truth is as Chairman of Everton Bill has been a unmitigated disaster, which inevitably result in the situation that Everton now finds itself.Bill and his actions have been a major causes of Everton s repeated woes and played a large part of management that resulted in them.

When Moshiri agreed to keep BK on he had to give him photos of a perverse sexual act that would ruin him if it was ever exposed.

Trying to escape things Everton and the cold weather, I booked into a hotel in the Canaries. Bloody place had a TV and I thought I'd be safe tuning into a programme about Tommy Steele.

But guess who was leading the talking heads yes our favourite impresario himself. He finished his piece by describing the aforementioned Mr Steele as his hero. And here was I thinking it was the Cannonball Kid. It's almost as if you can't trust what he says… 😶

- Sasha being blocked from implementing any meaningful changes

- not recognising your own faults is a terrible personality trait, and is now seriously impacting the clubs ability to function - time to let go Bill.

Bill's theatre business must have prospered enormously from his name dropping of the games great and the good over the years. Deals would have slipped smoothly into place as words like "leave it to me I'll speak to SAF, Arsene, Roman etc and get the tickets. I'll arrange a meet if you want" oozed from his lips.

The idea such a facilitating mechanism will ever be given up whilst he still trades just doesn't make sense. The theatre business is entirely based on facilitating deals and his ace up the sleeve has always been being a Prem Chairman.

He's here till he pops his clogs

No-one with a 1.3% stake in anything should be setting and reinforcing its culture. The days of local butchers running the local club are well over.

Does he see himself as our saviour? There's more evidence under his watch that he thinks we're more a plucky pub team than a global business.

To say he truly loves the place yet runs it how he does is to suggest no one would do it better. I fear daddy's got Munchausen by proxy.

One of the biggest challenges facing Thelwell and Dyche will be managing upwards. Their many predecessors have struggled with that owing to their own naïveté and inexperience as well as the blurred lines of accountability and decision making.

Thank you for contacting us about the Everton discussion in Match Of The Day on Jan 14.

Prior to the Southampton game, the club issued an official statement saying that the board of directors had been told to stay away due to a “real and credible threat” to their safety.

Club sources also claimed that Chief Executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale had been put in a headlock at a previous game.

This story was widely reported by a number of media outlets on the day, both nationally and locally to Merseyside.

It wasn't until 48hrs later that Merseyside Police revealed no threats or incidents had been reported to them ahead of the Southampton match.

During MOTD, Ian Wright and Gary Lineker both defended the right for fans to protest and the match edit and post-match interviews were careful not to link the peaceful protests at Goodison to the story about the board.

The programme was acting on the information released by Everton that day but should have made it clear that the stories were coming out of the club and had not been brought to the attention of Merseyside Police.

Ian has since addressed his own comments on social media and issued a personal apology to Everton fans - https://mobile.twitter.com/IanWright0/status/1615340602907828225 (The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites)

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People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.

Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.

It explains a lot about our glorious leaders, doesn't it?