Newty82

I think, realistically, with 777, we can look forward to, at best, midtable mediocrity for time to come...which is better than relegation scraps!
I mean, that's what we've been for most of the last 30 odd years anyway.
I just hope there is a plan that involves reigniting the youth set up...I find it very hard to believe we don't develop players good enough for a bottom of the table scrap...and a young manager with a vision...that we, as fans, allow to develop for more than 12-18months.

But there has to be a sense of reality and context too, doesn't there?
We've flirted with relegation 3 years in a row. To finish 7th next season would be a great season!
If, as we've seen, the man who gets us 7th, then has a wobble for a period the next season, and gets sacked...we'll not see any progress.
We were multiple league winners 40 years ago.
We've won one cup in 30 years.
So the 'accepting' 7th comes from being pretty shit for the vast majority of the last 30 odd years.
I could walk into a room full of rich fuckers and pretend I drive a Ferrari. But at some point I have to accept the reality of where I am...(I only don't drive a Ferrari because the roads in Cumbria are shit 😂).

Oh, I dream of such a thing! A couple of tenth places, the occasional foray to the QF of a cup, a big win over someone in the Top 4. Nice and stable. 👍 

From what I've read of Usmanov, I don't think we were exactly dealing with angels before. Football finance is a murky business. It would be nice to have a mega-rich Everton fan benefactor who could buy the club out but, at the moment, even the vultures aren't interested in picking at our carcass.

If they can turn us from a financial fuck up to a potential cash cow of a club - all credit to them. Aren't we looking for somebody to unlock our 'potential'. Then they will have done a significantly better job than anybody else in the past +20years. 
The main thing that has been wrong with Everton is its been poorly run at the top ownership level -  so why wouldn't they favour sorting our how the club is run and managed in the first instance rather than selling tangible assets for what would most likley have to be sold cheaper than what they have just raised the funds to purchased - the sum of its parts are not worth as much as Everton as a whole . 777 are doing the exact opposite of selling asset at Genoa - they are buy and looking to improving them there. I would be looking at what they are doing in Genoe (the current biggest football club in their portfolio) to mabye get the best idea of what they might do with us, rather than speculation on what the doom mongers are writing about. To me there are easier less risky ways to turn a quick buck than buying a football club. I really don't think thats what this buy out is all about. 
I am aware of the warning signs and all the negative stuff thats out there about them, but I want to be causiuosely optomistic about 777 Partners as it looks highly likley that they will be the new owners. I don't want to focus on negatives before they have even stepped foot in the building - been nothing but negatives about this club for far to long. 
I am not nieve, and I realise it's all about making money. The best way to make money - and big money in football is to make the club and everything around it better and grow the Everton brand. 
I think 777 Partners see us very much as a sleeping giant and believe they can awake that giant and bring us in to the modern footballing arena to the benefit to both shareholder and fans alike. isn't that what we all want as fans from a owner?
I don't have a problem with that - smart, current and innovative people running the show is what this club need more than anything and I think this is what 777 Partners beleive they can bring to the show to get best value out of purchasing Everton. If 777 Partners are pulling together the best part of a billion to aquire us, then we will be getting the upmost attention and efforts from their very best people. This mob are going to be about running us effectively rather than chucking money at problems.
We have had autocratic leadership at this club for to long, individuals who think they know best in running a football club making all key desision, and doing it badly - time to go for a more democratic and stratigic leadership.
This cup has the potential to be just as much half full as it is to be half empty. 
 
 
 

I think, realistically, with 777, we can look forward to, at best, midtable mediocrity for time to come...which is better than relegation scraps!
I mean, that's what we've been for most of the last 30 odd years anyway.
I just hope there is a plan that involves reigniting the youth set up...I find it very hard to believe we don't develop players good enough for a bottom of the table scrap...and a young manager with a vision...that we, as fans, allow to develop for more than 12-18months.

If we weren't a cash cow, or rather a potential cash cow, there's no way an investment firm would be looking to buy us, let alone put up with all the shit around the acquisition. These groups, and 777 by its own admission, buy clubs to strip them to the bone and rebuild from scratch, assuming they can continue to load debt onto the club a la Glazers.
Seeing them asking for extensions to gather the cash because they don't have a positive cash flow isn’t fear mongering, but it sure as hell is scary. The issues at their other projects, like not paying players, isn't fear mongering, but again is extremely concerning. The shiny "crown jewel" quote is nothing more than propaganda that any sane person representing an interested party would say and it may well be true, until the next opportunity presents itself.
It's not a matter of fear mongering, it is a matter of seeing the warning signs and being wary. They will be hard pressed to not improve us but the cost to the club is going to be high and I don't mean monetarily.
"777 Partners have been sued by multiple organizations for unpaid debts and contract breaches with lawsuits describing their financial practices as a "house of cards"[28][29][30] and a "sprawling fraudulent enterprise".[31][32]"
Just fills ya with hope, dunnit 
 
 

I hear a lot of scare mongering about what 777 Partner are going to do once they aquire us.
Everton are not a cash cow, our revenue is pretty poor in PL terms for anybody at the moment and I don't see how a 'quick buck' is going to be turned by buying something for more that it's potentially worth, and then 'selling off' the best part of the business. 
Evertons biggest issue over the past 5-6 year (and beyond) is that its not been properly run as a world class PL footballing business.  
To me surly the best way to make money out of a poorly run football club is to actually run the club properly and increase the Everton brand globally.
We have seen club run by some very nieve owners who have thrown money around all over the place, with it pretty much all wasted.
I am fairly sure 777 Partners will.be putting their top sports business  people to work on the Everton project. It will not be about how much money they can throw at the project, I will be about making Everton a good or great footballing business.
Although, I say it with a degree of caution, I think the 777 Partnership takeover has the potential to improve this club massively - time for new blood and new approach. 

....other than that, we should be sound 👍

....other than that, we should be sound 👍

In the middle with Gana picking up the scrappy bits.
We need 'a Gana' in there aswell as 'a Gomes'.
Onana ain't doing it. Garner is...way off boil. I think Garner has more to him...just not alongside Onana.

In the middle with Gana picking up the scrappy bits.
We need 'a Gana' in there aswell as 'a Gomes'.
Onana ain't doing it. Garner is...way off boil. I think Garner has more to him...just not alongside Onana.

unfortunately that's a big only. it's go to the point now that teams smell blood around Everton. Forest and Luton will be look at us winnable games. 
fucking hell do we miss Gana when he doesn't play.

If any of you lot are religious please pray for him to be fit on Sunday.

Wanna recognise his performance yesterday.  Nothing good to say about it but I just wanna recognise it. 

If they get in then be prepared to be milked for everything you have, mate.
It'll be the fans that pay for their takeover, not them.

Or they've pumped so much money into a company that's clearly going bankrupt and they can't afford to lose that investment...
They're keen because it was a potential cash cow for them. But at this point, if they get to take over before the summer transfer window, they'll be selling everything they can to reclaim their losses. 

Needs to work harder...all of them...
Limp through.
We need to show more fight than Forrest & Luton.
After a 6nil drubbing and Forrest at home next, 3 home games on the bounce, they really now need to shake this off, and any self pity, distraction around points taken off and all that, and fight fuckin hard!
 

He also needs to look at himself.

Needs to work harder...all of them...
Limp through.
We need to show more fight than Forrest & Luton.
After a 6nil drubbing and Forrest at home next, 3 home games on the bounce, they really now need to shake this off, and any self pity, distraction around points taken off and all that, and fight fuckin hard!
 

6-0 eh.
Nows not the time to argue over who's this, who's that.
This team needs every single fan behind them...as painful as that is...to help them limp over the line.
We shouldn't be losing 6-0 to anyone. Let alone an 'average' Chelsea.
Fuck all is going to change in terms of tactics and players so we are just gonna have to rally and hope 🙏

The absolute minimum required.
Dyche needs to tear this lot to shreds for that.

Needs to work harder...all of them...
Limp through.
We need to show more fight than Forrest & Luton.
After a 6nil drubbing and Forrest at home next, 3 home games on the bounce, they really now need to shake this off, and any self pity, distraction around points taken off and all that, and fight fuckin hard!
 

But he won't.
If we've seen anything about Dyche during this torrid run it is that he keeps going back to the same old same.

The only thing Dyche can do is rip that team. If he starts the next game with the likes of Young, Doucoure, Coleman & Onana it shows he is actually okay with that performance. Beto was honking but the lad was at least honest.
Our problem is our players who have a slither of talent don’t seem to care so much & our players who are yard dogs (of which there is a few) do care.