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StevO

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  1. Have you seen the shit show in this thread? I was away for three days, I started reading it and then just wanted to hit delete on the whole thing.
  2. It’s Saturday afternoon, Everton aren’t getting beaten, I can’t be arsed getting into the depths of how badly run the club is. We’ve got a well earned weekend off. But the bit quoted above; I’m not acting like anything. I’ve not commented on your opinion. I’ve just given mine. I’ve not criticised yours. You may think your opinion sounds like you’re against a new stadium, but I’ve not commented on anything about that. Without Moshiri I don’t believe the stadium happens, he may not be the name on the loans but the company he owns is. I believe with a poorer owner we get worse interest rates. That’s just my opinion from seeing how it happened in the past.
  3. That is true, they loaned and borrowed the money (billionaires don’t like to use their own money) but then being so wealthy is what has led to us being able to borrow that money. Our previous owner would have struggled to borrow so much, Moshiri has the wealth to guarantee it. The stadium being built isn’t what has put the club in financial trouble as such, the man pulling the strings has put us in trouble by how the club has been run. Not be building the stadium. It’s the one things he’s got right from start to finish in my opinion.
  4. Quite a few news outlets saying “conditionally approved” for 777, but I’ve not been arsed enough to read them.
  5. This idea they don’t reject is nonsense. They are a board to decide a decision one way or another. The outcome is pass or fail, there will be one. Seems there was a lot of smoke and mirrors with Jim Ratcliffe. From the outside he was signed off in a matter of weeks, but apparently he applied months before and took as long as ours have. So I heard last week (some online news source).
  6. Moshiri/Usmanov are the financial reasons we got it off the ground. Something to be grateful for to a bad owner after he’s gone.
  7. The man is dead, we all have our opinions on him. There is no benefit to anyone in bringing it up again.
  8. Hiring Dan Meis, Laing O’Rourke and Colin Chong is how they got it right. Colin has been the driving force. As he was an Evertonian and worked high up at LoR for a long time before joining the club he is ideal to oversee the project. Amazing what can happen when you hire experts to do things they know best.
  9. A lot of my previous managers are the ones that bring coke for everyone on a staff night out. Not really a culture of going to HR. I handcuffed an apprentice to a bottle of oil once. She carried it around all day. Fun times.
  10. Yeah, does that make it not a gag that went wrong?
  11. We don’t even have anyone running the club on a full time basis but we’ve got a fee out there for our biggest asset? I don’t buy it.
  12. The players will have forgotten about it by the time the flight landed back in England. Lost respect after a bit of a gag went wrong? But had the balls to apologise? I have more respect for someone who holds their hands up when they make a mistake. If it’s the first mistake he’s made then I’m sure he’s forgiven most of the team for their mistakes in his time here.
  13. Fair play to Forest for their statement. Very strong words.
  14. Coleman can’t stay fit, Godfrey has been garbage, Young has been playing further forward and also can’t stay fit. Would make sense to start Patterson anyway, right?
  15. Just one man at the top, and his four kids (I say kids, they are all around retirement age). He’s very adverse to paying tax. Threatened to move the company offices out of Germany into Switzerland to cut a deal with the government. It worked too. The extra £500 was nice though
  16. They sell the stock to the UK from Germany and Switzerland, make the profits on the inter company sale. Very little tax paid in Germany and Switzerland. Breakeven in the UK, less tax to pay. No shareholders to pay dividends, the family at the top of the group keeping the profit.
  17. The company I work for normally loses a million or two in the UK each year. We have two head offices, one in Germany and one in Switzerland. Both profitable, often in ten figures. Last year they “accidentally” were on track to make a profit in the UK, they gave everyone £500. Finished the year with a loss of about £100k.
  18. I think they get in. Always have. Putting them (and us) through the wringer to look like they are being stringent. Jim Ratcliffe getting a free ride, he’s got friends in high places. Sir.
  19. I thought you were all talking about Dyche? And a little bit about pizza.
  20. Not seen how it was done in Emirates, but when it was done at Goodison the turf was laid in full and then the artificial turf plugs were inserted after the pitch had settled in by machine driving them into the ground.
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