Bill Kenwright left an incredible £36M from the sale of Everton shares

Why he wasn't on Dragons Den I'll never know.

I still think he was a bit of a parasite on our club's fortunes. He made a lot of his wealth through us and left us on the brink of disaster.

And he didn't even take a salary.

I would give the profit to family too though rather than pay some overpaid players.

But I would be willing to explain to TW et al on how I got that tenner in the first place from my day job.

I thought after he sold those two lots of shares he still had some when he passed away and they were sold on by his partner, Jenny.

So, all-in-all, he made more than £36M and I think he got Everton into well more more debt than he made out of the club with borrowing at huge interest rates, selling Finch Farm and leasing it back on a long-term deal from the council which is still running, I believe.

And yet he still has people telling us he was one of us and you knew he loved Everton more than anyone.

The guy's dead. Give it a fucking rest.

But when I saw this earlier today, my initial thought was why would anyone put this thread up on a match day?

To be fair the O/P had been ignored for quite a few hours before a few posters began to bite.

I think I suffered your not so Blue Bill views more than most... so respect to you for that post.

That Bill and his cronies enjoyed before they got the big money offer from Moshiri. Then, they quickly exploited a quirk in our Articles of Association to exclude small shareholders from the changes.

At clubs like Arsenal, the standard takeover rules were applied with every shareholder large or small getting paid the same settlement per share. At Everton, under Bill Kenwright's chairmanship, small shareholders ended up with nothing … just like Trophy Cabinet under his leadership.

To use a phrase that Michael used to describe myself on another thread, it really has become very tiresome, and I feel sorry for the people from faraway who use ToffeeWeb to feel a little bit closer to all things Everton, because this website is currently swimming against the tide, and needs to sort itself out before it becomes too late.

For once, as someone who lives relatively far away, let me put your worries at rest

Yes... the Betting ads are abysmal...

Yes... the Articles (okay, not all of them) are juvenile...

But the comments... the almost "live" reflections, the insights, the camaraderie and the humour…

I've used this one before but as it's almost December "Its a Wonderful Site!" Tony.

He never to my knowledge put a penny into the club apart from buying a block of the Moores shares for buttons and Peter Johnson’s shares out of which he's walked off with massive profit.

His Chairmanship was a disaster on the playing field with rapid turnover in managers based more on whim than planning — and the only thing that didn't change was the empty trophy cabinet

His cronies got all the plumb jobs - Little Miss Dynamite… for fuck’s sake and he had chauffeur, paid for by the club from London while.. he let our best players leave -- not just Rooney. All the time filling his own nest while doing nothing for the club.

It’s not true other Chairmen have done nothing. Jack Walker left £millions but he made his money elsewhere and never claimed to be the greatest ever Rovers supporter while emptying their assets.

How much did you lose on your shares?

I kind of get your perspective but feel Michael is in a bit of a lose-lose situation here.

The new owners churn out AI-type fluff a couple of times a week. Posters complain it's not engaging enough.

Michael posts some stuff about matchday experience and one poster complains it's not football oriented.

Michael posts about news that just came out today about financial matters related to a divisive character who's stirred up engagement on this site for the last 20 years and knows you are among those complaining about that.

I don't think it soured the mood on matchday as few even commented until the mood had been soured by the team.

Plus Michael more so than Lyndon always posted relevant news in a timely manner and that's mostly what generated chat as Lyndon only really posted twice a week — before and after the game. So I'm puzzled that a few are not citing this article as another sign of decline.

That being said, I didn't comment on it myself earlier as I knew the Bill Kenwright brigade would be on criticizing and ill words about the deceased.

But I think your Dad said it best, it's not so much what Kenwright made off Everton, it's the debt he encumbered us with in the process that was the issue.

Anyway, you can't take it with you, as they say. God have mercy on his soul.

Yes, he fleeced the club, but give his passing some sympathy.

I doubt MK wrote the article himself, he's just copy pasted it from a news source except for the headline.

If I had any inkling whatsoever that you would be disturbed, unnerved, or otherwise affronted by this news, I would have done my utmost to stop you from seeing it.

But as it was, it just popped up and the knee-jerk in me kicked in, and bingo — there it was. Unembargoed and causing untold havoc amongst sensitive Evertonians, especially no doubt those who loved and revered our former Chairman.

A subgroup, incidentally, that I did not think you had much truck with, judging by your blanket posting campaign against him. But there we are. It just shows how wrong we can be sometimes.

They are his good points.

You're right — Kenwright still had 1,750 shares when he died, so at the original £5k a share he got from Moshiri, he had spurned the chance to cash that lot in too... for the incredible sum of £8.75M.

Last time I checked the list of Everton shareholders (Confirmation Statement, page 48) -- which rather embarrassingly lists my paltry holdings immediately before his by mere alphabetical accident -- the 1,750 shares and the man himself is still there!!!

He's not even registered as 'deceased', which I find rather disturbing…

Sorry for disappointing you again, Brendan. (I'm still waiting for you to write down those good things Blue Bill actually did, mate, which obviously means you have disappointed me a lot more) but the reason I couldn't believe you had posted this on a match day, Michael, is because I thought you knew that Bill Kenwright was nothing but a poisonous jinx?

It wasn't Kenwright's fault Everton played so poorly yesterday but the minute I saw this article about how much money the dirty, deceitful, lying, phoney bastard, made out of his tenure helping to turn an English Institution into also-rans, I just had a feeling that last night's game wouldn't turn out well.

Everything that has been written about Bill the Jinx has already been written a thousand times, and because I actually agree with Tom, that he doesn't deserve any sympathy, I just questioned why something like this had to be put up before an important game?

The begs another question, did he really write off £400M? Is he somehow involved, as he has attended more games than Dan fried chicken…

This could all have been avoided. No story on ToffeeWeb about ‘Bill the Jinx'… and no embarrassing defeat to the Skunk Maggots!!!

Oh dear, Tony, this is looking like it's all your fault for not giving us due warning! Hide your head in shame, lad.

He's probably hanging out with his mate Elvis, who isn't really deceased either.

I read that his 1,750 shares worth £8.75m, had £5m wiped off their value due to TFGs shenanigans with the shares they sold themselves at below par value.

Isn't every game important?

If I would have told you not to mention him, Michael, I would have been mentioning him myself, which is something I think I've said I can't believe you have done yourself, in every post I've written on this thread.

Was it me posting the story that jinxed us last night? Or was it the newspaper that posted it, not realising they would jinx our game? Or was I merely a powerless minion relaying the news story to our faithful readers... did that really jinx the game?

Or are you blowing a serious cloud of vape smoke?

If you don't want news put up before an important game, and every game is important...?

Michael, I didn't understand why you didn't consider leaving a thread about Kenwright making a load of money until another day, because I'm sure that even you would acknowledge that he has never been anything but a curse, with regards Everton.

I did say Bill Kenwright had nothing to do with us playing poorly in an earlier post, but do us a favour and stop trying to drag me in the water with you please.

Don't tell me no one else would if they had the chance.

Although Chairman Bill did leave something to EitC and an actors charity as well.

But many will probably consider that humbug.

I remember getting a nil-nil draw, against Newcastle at Goodison last season and thinking we had done very well to get a point

From the minute Newcastle exposed our failure to defend the middle of our 6-yard box from a corner, then (other than for a brief little flurry) the ghost of Christmas past returned.

The confidence that many thought a victory at Manchester United should have brought evaporated into the cold night air.

Every genuine Evertonian I know would have looked after Everton's interest first and foremost and the King's Dock stadium would have been built, for one instance.

Kenwright wouldn't let Paul Gregg take more control in the club, he wanted to keep his position safe, looking after his own interests first and always —- never Everton FC's.

To me, Kenwright was always a pseudo Evertonian, never once did he describe going to an Everton game as a youngster but could describe going to Liverpool's games with his uncle Cyril which was a load of nonsense to me.

I've read of other people on various sites defending him and saying he was a proper Blue but never saying they went with him to the game.

Really I couldn't give a fuck if he never supported any team as long as he looked after the interests of the club he bought. It's patently obvious that he looked after himself first when it came to the interests of the club he was owner and chairman of.