New CEO Angus Kinnear takes up the reins at Everton

He'll bag us twenty...of what I don't know 😀

On a serious note he's held some senior positions at Arsenal and West Ham when they transitioned over to new grounds.

Do we know what exactly he was responsible for? Interesting to see how he devlops especially on the commercial side, notably naming rights of the ground and who our new shirt sponsors will be the season after.

Earlier than expected even though I would imagine talks have been going on in the background.

Impressive portfolio. Stadium moves, marketing, commercial and economics.

Our marketing and commercial department must be nervously looking over their shoulder. Time to stand up and be counted. No more plucky little Everton.

Seriously, from the reporting, it seems Nick Hammond as Director of Trading will be the next announcement.

Director of Football Operations and Head of Recruitment remain vacant. The first summer transfer window opens 1 June.

Paul #4 it doesnt affect us in any way except as a bad reflection on Moshiri's judgement. TFG paid off the loan so it is only Acap and 777 that are involved in the litigation.

As for Hammond ? hopefully he Organises some good signings ?

Everything seems to be coming into place.

I expect a brilliant sponsorship deal to be announced soon, followed by Colin Chong telling us that we have purchased Nelson Dock.

Such excitement is likely to bring on mass incontinence and loss of bladder control amongst the blue masses I feel.

A joint letter from Leeds United’s (Angus Kinnear) I take it he is the one and the same? and Burnley’s Alan Pace is thought to have prompted the Premier League’s investigation into Everton.

According to The Athletic, the Championship side’s CEO has played a key role in kicking off the investigation into the Toffees, which resulted in a 10-point deduction penalty.

Everton were found to have breached the top flight’s profitability and sustainability rules, which has led to a punishment that has seen them immediately docked 10 points.

Micheal,why didn't you mention this?

Angus Kinnear, new CEO at Everton as his reward. The more things change comes to mind.

Didn't we sign some greats from the RS? Didn't Beardsley even score against us in a Derby before we signed him?

Surely the gobshites wouldn't post on here to just wind us up?

They do seem to post on every Everton story online

Every Everton thread or story online, they're always there with their comments, gobshites the lot of 'em.

Just so we're clear, I hope it's a case of "Present company excepted", Brian.

There are Evertonians who predict us to lose — always have been. And some have even expressed unhappiness with the manager [Nooo!]

But I like to think that ToffeeWeb is a kopite-gobshite-free area.

Let me know, in specific detail please, if you think that is not the case.

Their ethnic fan base is truly bitter as a result of this. They are now the worst supporters in the Premier League.

Decades of steady decline and having expectation almost deliberately managed out of us, has created a very cynical and suspicious fanbase that is almost afraid to believe.

That's not the supporters' fault and I understand it and can sympathise with it to a degree.

Fortunately, there are dreamers and idiots like me still around. Keep believing. Good times (real ones) are coming back.

Martin, as I said to you and Mark at Fulham, there are many things I despise them for (my sister tells me off for calling them "them"). But to rub salt in the wounds, they ruined my favourite Irish song, Fields of Athenry. I grew up listening to that. Now it makes me feel uncomfortable, even though they've changed the words.

Personally, I found that disturbing. It was a negative or pragmatic acceptance of our diminished status under Bill Kenwright that everyone reacted as if he was Seamus Coleman leaving Ireland for the big time when in fact he was joining a club we were better than for most of our lifetimes.

Obviously the TAA is at the other end of the spectrum as he has helped the RS have success. But I feel like there is a happy medium somewhere. Maybe we don't laud people who walk out on the thing we care about most but neither do we boo them.

Perhaps we just shrug and say “the club is bigger than an individual” and react with indifference?

Welcome to Everton, Angus.

I hadn't come across this guys name, so I did the obvious thing and went on the Leeds fan forum sites to see what they thought of his departure. Overall people were OK with him leaving, maybe a good moment to go but also regarded his tenure as moderately successful which given how hard fans are to please, is only just short of a ringing endorsement. At least we have a chance with a professional running the show, not chancers like DBB.

A final word, to thank Colin Chong for performing the utterly thankless task of interim CEO during that dark period of no functioning board. Hope he re-engages quickly with the day job.

His relationship with Everton fans should be monitored, by that I mean there was a pretty much non-existent one at Leeds.

Given the price people pay now to watch Premier League football, I personally think fans should be treated like customers. Yes, they are emotionally invested, but they should be treated like they are making a discretionary choice to invest in Everton and consume the Everton product.

I would like to see fans have more access to understanding key operating decisions that impact performance on the pitch, as well as the overall standard of the new Everton Stadium.

Accountability in Sport has been lacking for too long at board and leadership level; Evertonians should be drivers for changing this expectation… after all, it is a two way street.