Kenwright says Everton could have gone to Man City owners

[SWP's back]

shame

That`s me in the background, feeding her goat, no wonder she looks happy.

Curried?

 

[S04]

The lovely Amanda..Who got all the Sheikhs private number

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Haha...i can just hear the self proclaimed peoples club fans saying...
"Thank god for our proper football ground,or else the Arabs would have
bought us and ruined us"

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kenwright is evertons Peter Swales, efc running through his veins, which is why he hasnt sold everton, nor will he, he will destroy a once great club, which since we gave them lots of money for lescot has become a ramshackle mess, skint, shit ground, bitter deluded fans, they still think they are a massive club. They have a great history, but no future til kenwright goes. Does this sound familiar, remember the nineties

I think there's one major difference. Swales hung on to us at least partly because of his position at the FA. Once he lost us, he lost that. So you can understand his motives.

Kenwright just likes Everton as a plaything to show off to his showbiz mates. I also seriously think he's mad or suffering some sort of psychotic syndrome whereby he thinks that he and he alone is Everton's messiah.

 

[Balti]

 

[lancs blue]

shame

That`s me in the background, feeding her goat, no wonder she looks happy.

Curried?

Surely Jerk?

 

[SWP's back]

That`s me in the background, feeding her goat, no wonder she looks happy.

Curried?

Surely Jerk?

My original was "curried or jerk?" but I was afraid someone would think I was trying to make an in-your-end-o.

 

[M18CTID]

Some interesting comments here - surprisingly there are very few that say they wouldn't want to have been bought out by ADUG and most of them seem to be hugely critical of Kenwright above all else. Perhaps the penny has finally dropped with many Evertonians that what City are doing isn't all bad, especially now that the problems at their own club are coming to the fore:

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[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Couldha, shouldha, wouldha.

But they didn't and now they are staring down the barrel. Hang on...didn't Kenwright join the bandwagon that City's owners are ruining football? So is he admitting they would entertain the idea? Hmmm..

Translated into English and Manc dialect this means 'ruining our slice of the football pie'.

 

[MrLeeC]

Jealousy is unhealthy mr kenwright!!

 

[Gary James]

The only club that was in contention was Newcastle United, but Ashley got greedy and the books were in a mess.

Staveley pushed for City because of the surrounding areas in terms of development, Manchester as a city, the price and the prospect of making us successful.

Al Fahim and Staveley played the biggest role in Sheikh Mansour buying City.

That doesn't tie up with the interviews I have recorded with the key figures. Obviously, I can only go off what I've been told and the research I have performed. My book should have been out by Christmas which would have explained it as told to me by key figures in the negotiations but GC's departure inevitably has an impact. I can't say when that book will now come out, but I will say a few snippets here about the purchase that might explain...

- Inevitably reps of Sheikh Mansour did look at several clubs (Newcastle, Everton & Arsenal were some of the possibles)
- City were selected for several reasons - fanbase & stadium being 2 of the reasons. Others included opportunity for growth, GC's vision (that's right - his plans/ideas were impressive and a significant positive) and the fact City had a single owner also helped.
- I have been told that the role of Amanda Staveley has been exaggerated somewhat.

The up shot of all this is that the club that Sheikh Mansour and his advisors found offered most potential and opportunity for success/growth and so on was MCFC. It should reassure all City fans to know that the Sheikh and his advisors saw something in City that we all knew was there, but that the general footballing world had forgotten.

Joe Royle told me in 1995/96 when I interviewed him at Everton for "Manchester The Greatest City" that the one thing he recognised that City had that few other clubs had was the ability to grow at an incredible rate. He reckoned that if City could turn their mid-90s situation around (okay, this was before it got worse, but it was still fair) and start to challenge for real success the fanbase would grow quickly and the business community would invest in a way that few other clubs (including those on Merseyside) could ever manage.

Royle knew that because he'd played for City and understood what the Club was all about, and in 2008 the Sheikh's reps, thanks to Cook & Co., got to understand the potential.