That's why the EPL & PGMOL will do all they can to ensure they don't go bust.
Well yeah! Easier said than done though I guess!
They are just prolonging the process. There is nobody waiting to step into save them
Oh yes, that's absolutely where their problems started as I understand the situation. Pumping absolute fortunes in, including the ludicrous training ground sponsorship deal that the removal of they used as an excuse for failing PSR. Shame Abramovic didn't get sanctioned years earlier.
I’m sure if you went back ten years on The Mix, even then we couldn’t understand how Everton had no money. Then it turned out directors were squeezing the Golden Goose for every penny they could. Getting dividends but using debt to pay for players and running costs. Similar to what’s happened at Thames Water, albeit at a smaller scale.
Floaters in the Mersey?
Koeman spent over £200m on players in 15 months including £45m on Gylfi Sigurdsson and £25m on Michael Keane
Hard to criticise another club for vastly overpaying for players after our disastrous purchase of Silva.
We've had some doozies over the last few years but at least the signings generally looked good on paper.
Which is surely the only criteria to judge them by. All of our signings made sense at the time, even Fabio, but some of those Everton ones looked like shockers right from the beginning, even before the players had signed
There is an oddly blissful ignorance among their fanbase it seems. Like the lobster in the tank, ready for the boiling pot.I love the fact though that their fans forum still has a Summer 2024 transfer thread full of hope and more or less fanciful transfer suggestions.
Summer 2024 transfer thread.
Is it not 20 / 25% of the profit as opposed to the fee? Could make a loss on a sale if not! Yes, I would assume that has to be the case. Would be nonsense to do it based purely on the sale price at those high prices, no sane team would agree to those transfers. A bit different than when you...www.grandoldteam.com
I can only imagine Rooney was on not much less when they signed him back as well.
Fabio signing never made sense. Yes we needed a striker, but we didn't need to break our transfer record for an 18 year old whose reputation was all about potential, not when he was available seems earlier with a buyout clause of €10m.
Everton signed him back for a season in 2017
I didn't see it as criticizing, but answering a question as to how Everton were in the doo doo.
He signed for Everton for a second time after Utd. He’d have been on £100k plus for that season.
Agreed. It's equally important to get the right characters. We got Moutinho on £100k/week they got Rodriguez on considerably more.
Dodgy ownership hasn’t helped them still some shocking decisions behind the scenes. Maybe best for them to drop a few levels and clear the decks of those leaches
But then we get owners vs fans debate. Do we really want Everton to go bust or teams feeling they have to overspend to achieve? I’d sooner controls were put in and meaningful points deductions to stop the situation of debt fuelled excesses happening (I’m more relaxed re capital injected spending).
It’s crazy!! I guess they got past the point of no return in terms of finances and had no option but to push through and try to get into the top 4/6.
The general overview of our signings and sales is a good one since Fosun took over. The opposite is true of Everton for as long as I care to remember.
Ha they’ll prob go and outspend us now
Well we are a second grade club, we're one of the ones trying to challenge in the middle of the table, sneaking a European place is our ambition.
Thing is, the sport probably needs a PL club to go bust to wake up and smell the coffee.
