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Forensic analysis of the club I love. Subscription free writings/podcasts, mainly on Everton's finances/ownership.

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18 days
A detailed look at the issues surrounding Everton's governance and the implications that has for the sale of the club going forwards & why it has been so difficult so far. Warning - tough read:
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This is Michelle, a life long Blue. Unfortunately she had a major stroke in Jan & was in a coma for 4 weeks. But she's a fighter & is determined to make a full recovery. Her family would like the Blue family to show some support & encouragement thru likes & RT's #rebuildinglives
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Have never done personal stuff on here so forgive me. At the age of 7 my daughter told me she wanted to be a doctor. Today, 17 years later she qualified as a doctor. An amazing day💙💙💙. Apologies from a proud Father 🙏
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His soul will be at peace. Thoughts and prayers for the family and friends of Kevin Campbell. A lovely man, and an Everton great. Loved by everyone
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Moshiri is set to cede majority control of Everton with a new share issue in favour of new investor (MSP) diluting Moshiri to below 50%. New investor will control budgets plus board composition allowing for change in key Chair & CEO positions
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Where would we be without Jordan Pickford? Kept us in the PL 2 years running, now the beating heart of our team, our club. Loves being a Blue and loved by every Blue.
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Can only say that the @premierleague punishment for breaking P&S rules is wholly disproportionate & that every Evertonian will back the appeal by @Everton . The punishment further demonstrates the appaling governance of the PL. On the positive, you have created a unifying cause.
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Thanks to the hundreds of best wishes received in the last few days. A coronary issue caused me to have a couple of strokes but l am well on the mend, no permanent damage done 🙏magnificent response by the emergency services, doctors and nursing staff 🙏 thank you
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Hugely encouraging day. Combination of Bell & Downing, wholly committed, successful Evertonians, MSD's funding capabilities & sports management expertise is a very powerful combination, stabilising the club & providing a platform to move to BM. Should be supported by every blue
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More detail to follow but @Everton 's incoming transfer activity will see £18.4m added to amortisation costs plus £17.25m to wages; total annual cost £35.65m. Outgoing annual savings total £28.25m. Net cost £7.4m p.a. - a truly remarkable summer. Congratulations to all involved
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I'm sure all Evertonians will want to give Vitalii Mykolenko an extra special show of support on Saturday 💙👏🇺🇦
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The threat to our PL survival has brought out the best in most Evertonians. Once the season is over, I hope we will continue as a re-awakened fan base, more supportive of each other, more overtly supportive of the club & much more demanding of the owner & board's performance
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If the proposed sale of Gordon to #NFUC for £45m goes through, that & the sale of Kean to Juventus, will likely see #EFC return to profit for the first time since 2016/17
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Totally inept by Benitez, wrong selection, wrong formation, players out of position, appalling substitutions. Team clueless in possession, terrible in defence. Difficult to over emphasise how poor that display was. (Gordon aside) Worst performance of the season Deeply concerning
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Congratulations to everyone at @Everton . Both the signing and the commercial plans around Rodriguez arrival are great news. Let's hope this is the watershed moment leading to success under @MrAncelotti 🥂🥂🥂
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2 years
Will take my time in publishing thoughts over the season, certainly not before the Arsenal game. Tonight belongs to the fans, every single Blue who hauled our club over the line. YOU THE FANS. WE SURVIVED BECAUSE OF YOU 💙 THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS TONIGHT
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There's a huge difference between being charged with a potential breach & not being compliant. An adjustment to Everton's previous accounts (permitted under IAS) makes us compliant. I will repeat again that we have not breached PSR for the three year period to June 2023
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At long last the CEO of @premierleague is being held to account publicly. The days of the PL being unaccountable & operating in secrecy are very much numbered. Well done @DCMS
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We have written to the Premier League CEO, Richard Masters, asking him to clarify points raised in our oral evidence session with him and the EFL earlier this month. See our Chair's @cj_dinenage comments 👇
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One aspect of a takeover is that (as demonstrated by Man City & Chelsea) the existing management has to go immediately. I hear the Chairman would prefer to remain for a period - that can't happen, new ownership, new leadership, new direction. There's no room for sentiment
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I've studied our finances & leadership for a decade plus. Now IMO only one solution remains. REMOVE MOSHIRI. We need new owners, board & leaders, a viable business & funding model. Then perhaps we will survive & we, the fans, can enjoy our club again. WE ALL MUST DEMAND HIS EXIT.
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Glorious. How, we the fans, have deserved this. Never felt more like singing the Blues, when Everton win & Liverpool lose 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
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Hi all, I won't be on social media much in the next few days. Unfortunately I suffered a potentially serious medical event, although thankfully all seems stable at present. As a result there will be no podcast @TalkingTheBlue1 this week. speak soon 💙🙏
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If we appoint Martinez as permanent manager it proves entirely we are run by romantics, idealists, fantasists who have no idea what strategy, governance or planning means. Another roll of Moshiri's dice. When will he Listen Engage Act? #27years
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The inevitable at last has happened. Momentous day. This appalling board has gone. Chair announcement to follow in coming days. Time for good people to come in & return sanity, business acumen to our club & a return of normal relations with the fan base.
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Before today we needed 5 wins from 12. We now need 4 from 11. No one should care how those 4 are achieved. It's all about how many points we end up on. Dyche is leading the way, no matter what it looks like on the pitch. Results are all that matters Keep going Sean & our players
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Delusional, mocking, self centred, an angry letter, devoid of self awareness & the true needs of our club at this time. Gerald Ratner could not have done worse Sadly no greater proof required of his unsuitability as Chair of our club. Moshiri must act
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@theesk
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So the Premier League submitted what it thought was the appropriate sanction to the Commission & the club 2 months before the hearing. So what was the purpose of the independent hearing, & how could the PL judge what was an appropriate sanction before Everton presented its case?
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A year ago today I had the first of two major strokes within a week. I have virtually no memory of the first few weeks thereafter. What I do know though is that I owe my life & my recovery to the amazing skills & dedication of first responders, doctors, nurses, therapists &
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RED AND WHITE SHITE HELLO
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I'm pretty sure the board will fire Lampard to protect themselves. They'll take the "responsibility" of finding another manager, whilst the board & Moshiri accept no responsibility for the utter mess this club is.
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One of the commission members Nick Igoe was WHU finance director at the time of the Carlos Tevez affair.
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2 years
Tarkowski, Coady, Maupay; bit of a theme in terms of character. Player's players, people you would want in your dressing room & on the pitch. Been a long time since we've seen this type of recruitment. Good reasons to be more confident about the challenging season ahead.
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For years we have been calling out for leadership, direction & ambition, leadership in particular. Step forward @MrAncelotti who is taking the bull by the horns. Grazie mille !!!!
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I have an apology to make to Niasse. Watched him when he first arrived & thought he shouldn't be a professional footballer, let alone play for #EFC & said so. I was totally wrong, heart of a lion & has never given up - a great example of determination & self belief 👏👏
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1 year
Congratulations to every single Evertonian who has campaigned for the removal of this board.
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5 years
The only club that matters 💙
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I know I am going against the grain of media reporting & the views of many in the game but we, @Everton will be compliant with the PSR for 2022/23
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Given our circumstances, given the options open to us, Dyche represents the best chance of survival this season. Honest, direct, no nonsense. Pragmatic. Good luck to him. COYBs 💙👏💙👏
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We've been asset stripped on the pitch despite FM's ££. Sold our best players & either failed to replace or just replaced badly. Less than budgeted revenues, huge losses, no external funding for the stadium, P&S issues, all part of our failure to recruit. All down to FM & board
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Dyche is delivering. Making the most of the squad he has. Has instilled belief & work effort. All we can ask for. Huge effort from everyone at Goodison, fans & players. Let's keep believing 💙👏💙👏
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Just to put @LFC furloughing decision in context, half the non-playing staff at £2,500 a month would cost the taxpayer £840,000 approx a month. Liverpool in the last accounts spent £25 million a month on wages
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3 years
Congratulations to Farhad Moshiri, the @Everton board, the executive team and all involved in @PeoplesProject_ on the awarding of planning approval for Bramley-Moore
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Moshiri's failure to make changes at board/exec levels would always risk us running out of money for the squad or we would become so disfunctional that a move would not represent a decent career choice for ambitious footballers. I never expected us to reach this point so quickly
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As the biggest critic of @Everton lack of ambition & achievement, let me congratulate the Everton Board on the Ancelotti appointment. May this be the stepping stone to great times in the future 💙👏💙👏💙👏
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Re the latest comments on takeover/funding of Everton. Who in their right mind would take a minority stake with Moshiri holding control & with the existing board in place. Get real Moshiri, stop playing with our club. Sell to professional investors who know what they are doing.
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If Benitez goes in the next few hours or days, it doesn't change the totally dysfunctional way the club is run. 27 years is still 27 years. We must call on Moshiri to Listen, Engage, Act #27years
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Critical week ahead. That is fact. However a good number of highly qualified, experienced, influential & well resourced Blues are working virtually around the clock to secure our future. Keep the faith the solution providers are working harder than those who caused the problems.
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Our last 19 PL games LLLDLLLWLDLLLLWLLLL 2 wins 2 draws 15 losses. 8 points. The manner of the last 2 defeats is the most worrying. Lack of belief, application & fight. The team (Gordon/Pickford aside) have no spirit. The club leaderless & directionless. The fans almost broken
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It's going to be an incredible day when the modern state of football faces the anger, passion & integrity of the game's most important stakeholders in the game's most played in, top level stadium. Generations of proud custodians versus pernicious, contemptous administrators.
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Great game of football. Well done everyone. Super, committed performance by Everton. Benitez has got us playing with an intensity for sure. Mistakes yes, but generally fabulous match 👏👏👏
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DCL could become football's new Beckham (in terms of media) Articulate and confident of his own identity, a growing reputation on the pitch. The world is his oyster. Good luck to him, but most particularly on the pitch. A really +ive role model, great for the club too 👏👏👏
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I'm not an advocate of over-reacting but the time has come to no longer accept such blatantly poor decisions that are killing the game as a fair contest. Pull the players off the pitch the next (inevitable) time this happens. Refuse to play. Make a stand. Force a change in order
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@TeleFootball @SamWallaceTel The idea that the @premierleague is not morally corrupt says a huge amount about the values of @TelegraphSport @TeleFootball @SamWallaceTel
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Interesting developments on stadium financing not only with MSP, but I am told that JP Morgan/Mitsubishi bank having worked with the club for 5 years are now much more comfortable with funding. Described to me as "Light at the end of the tunnel"
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Tonight's result wholly irrelevant to our survival, that is in our own hands. Focus on FA Cup 6th round then 2 weeks to prepare for next league game. Our destiny is in our control. COYBs 💙 👏 💙 👏
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Word from several sources that Brands is firmly in charge of the recruitment process. Of course, Moshiri may act unilaterally as is his want, but in the absence of that there seems to be an orderly process driven by Brands himself.
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Some speculation that we will have breached profitability & sustainability rules for the period to June 2023. This is not the case. I am told we are compliant & have not breached the limit given we have re-stated the 2021/22 accounts (capitalising interest payments)
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Fantastic to see so many fan groups & social media accounts coming together and writing to Farhad Moshiri #AllTogetherNow
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Mathematically our destiny is still in our own hands. Mentally it is not. We have to hope Burnley (possibly Watford) are as weak as we are. Shameful for all involved at Everton. No one at the club can escape criticism or scrutiny. Who can shake us out of the malaise we are in?
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I don't buy Ancelotti's faux attachment to Everton. IMO it is an unwelcome & irrelevant distraction to what has to be our sole focus, PL survival. Our final 5 games are much more vital to our survival than some showcase event between 2 highly unrepresentative, manipulative clubs
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Nothing against Sharp, the individual, a truly great player for us. However if you ever needed to understand the governance issues at Everton his appointment to the board is a perfect example.
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25 years in a few minutes since my Dad died. Quarter of a century. Incredible really. Love those around you every day & tell them of your feelings as you never know when they are no longer there to receive & reciprocate that love from/to you
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Wow, a huge amount to talk about in the next few days. On a personal note, thank you to everyone I met/was introduced to before the game. Don't mind admitting I cried standing outside the Winslow a couple of hours before the match. Thank you to great Blue fans who were with me xx
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Why would any due diligence process still be at least "weeks" away (from Richard Masters) 4 months after the process started? Time for Moshiri to acknowledge 777's unsuitability, reject them & allow other suitable parties to rescue the club.
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Everton's rule breach is a result of poor decision making & governance. How ironic that the same lack of judgement could be laid at the feet of the @premierleague commission @everton
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2 years
Whilst excitement may grow over the prospect of a takeover, let us not forget how badly Moshiri, the board & executive have let down Everton FC. Despite huge investment, looking to sell is the ultimate acceptance of a job done badly & having no solutions. None fit to stay
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We're a product of the lack of planning since Moshiri arrived. A clueless owner, a weak board & exec team. Horrendous recruitment on the pitch & football management. Gross financial mismanagement. Time to sell Moshiri, we need an owner/board/exec who knows what they are doing
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The truth behind the Appeal of the PL Commission is that there are no winners here. Football has lost. The Premier League Commission has been proven to be wrong in law. It's decisions & sanctions are flawed. It's no victory for Everton either. Moshiri's appalling stewardship has
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Notwithstanding the idea that the @premierleague feel it appropriate to charge twice the same "offence", I am happy to explain & justify why we are not in breach. Capitalising interest costs for 21/22 & 22/23 plus allowable deductions bring us comfortably within the £105 m limit
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Assuming Brands report is correct, we now have a board of Kenwright, Barret-Baxendale & Ingles. Genuinely frightening. Moshiri has to address the governance & leadership of our club. Bring in a corporate re-structuring expert and a couple of non-executives at the very least
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Deepest condolences to the family and friends of Bill Kenwright CBE. May he rest in peace
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Romelu Lukaku leaves Everton as our joint 16th highest scorer with 87 goals. He shares the honour with Alex Young, but not his affection
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Tomorrow would have been Howard Kendall's 76th Birthday - would be rude not to raise at least one glass of something to the great man. I'm sure with a host of other Blues he watched & celebrated from above on Thursday evening!
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It looks very much like we have moved from "if" to "when" with regards to board resignations/removals. It is unlikely before new investment comes in. That is close. Change is coming, new investors & no change is not possible.
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Regarding today's announcement of an agreement between Moshiri and 777 partners I stand by my assessment that 777 do not have the resources to successfully acquire the club, nor will get the support of all parties that are required to give that support
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Surely the time has come when in the interests of Everton Football Club, & in their role as responsible employers, it is no longer appropriate to have an elderly man in such obvious poor health remain as Executive Chairman given the most critical time for the club & its future
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Wishing every Blue a fantastic season where the team defies expectations, plays good football & competes at the higher end of the league. May the season bring much joy, travel safe & enjoy the unique experience of being a bluenose! Up the Toffees 👏💙👏💙
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Good luck to every single Evertonian going to Selhurst Park. Good luck to every Evertonian watching on a stream, a TV overseas or old school radio. Good luck Sean Dyche & the team. All that matters for the next few hours is the result on the pitch. COYBs 💙 👏 💙 #AllTogetherNow
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I am looking forward to speaking to 777 later today. So many questions & answers required to establish their suitability as appropriate & worthy owners of Everton Football Club
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Huge fan campaign: 27 years without a trophy is unacceptable. Show your feet on 27 minutes during the game against Arsenal on Monday evening and leave your seat. Let’s show that the incompetence from the top at Everton Football Club cannot continue. #27minutesfor27years
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At last someone in the club calling it out. We can't continue to live in denial. We all know the culture across the club has to change. Well said Frank Lampard
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So it seems we still have some Neanderthals that attend Goodison. You don't support our team, our club because we stand for a world without discrimination. For you, taking the knee has a different meaning. You deserve one in the b******s.
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BREAKING NEWS MSP have raised $165 million for MSP Everton Investors
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If you haven't read it I was allowed to present a fan's view by the Guardian. It focuses on the grounds for mitigation and the inappropriate punishment put forward by the commission. Punished for incompetence not a desire to cheat.
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Re the appointment of a new permanent manager. Surely we must appoint a director of football first?
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No time for the idiots throwing stuff at players. Grow up and behave yourselves
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Assuming the Super League collapses there can be no mercy for the six PL clubs who acted in their own misguided interests. Kick them out and re-boot, re-engineer football with greater equality & integrity
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This is not a criticism it is a request. I really want to see our club @Everton use it's position of influence & visibly lead the response to the TSL. If as the Chairman stated we are revered, then there is no better time to assume that leadership role for the benefit of football
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Sharp's comments are another PR disaster. The protests were acknowledged as peaceful & respectful. Our fans lauded last year are now criticised. Noone condones threats & stupid behaviour outside the ground. How about the board showing leadership, understanding & unity with us?
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We are supposed to believe 777 partners who cannot seemingly meet normal operating costs of @Standard_RSCL & @VascodaGama can afford the 100s of millions required to buy & refinance @Everton Time for Moshiri to face reality. Time for @premierleague to call an end to this farce
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Two key points from yesterday (i) the lack of leadership shown by the board, their dereliction of duty on a day when the new manager at a critical time called for unity, called for support - they were nowhere to be seen, yet the fans to a man, woman & child responded (continued)
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Historically over 29 years of Premier League football at least one of the bottom three with 6 games remaining have ultimately escaped relegation on 19 occasions
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No words needed 💙
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Benitez, not without fault or cause to question. But he is not the problem. The problem is our absent owner & the board. How after all the investment are we left with this board, this manager & this squad? That is the question that needs to be answered by Moshiri. No one else.
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This is fantastic news. Subject to the usual DD conditions our future is secure. We can relax a little
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Everton enters exclusive sale talks with billionaire Friedkin family
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Momentum is against us, we've been in decline since Koeman's 1st season, a bit if a blip with Carlo but the trend is there & this season has accelerated. Management selection & appalling recruitment. Lampard can maybe provide enough to survive but Moshiri & board this is on you
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@jamesdrodriguez Shameful lack of commitment to your club, team mate and fans.
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Congratulations David Moyes. Life time of work. Silverware at last 👏👏👏
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