Who is the best owner?

[SheffieldVillain]

Everton have a good owner. Sensibly run, competitive for the guts of a decade, can keep hold of their better players when big clubs come sniffing and can finance big deals for the right players.

Take note Randy.

Remind me again who Arteta and Rooney play for?

As it happens I agree that they do seem well run, based on stability and long term planning, but like almost everyone else they have to sell from time to time to help finance it.

And Fellaini and I have no doubt Barkley will go in the summer. Everton have become the flavour of the day now as they have been lucky with some loan signings but no doubt will finish 7th.

Plus Lescott, plus Rodwell. In fact, they've made a huge amount from selling their best players over the last decade

[rob_bridge]

Stan Flashman

[dave.woodhall]

There's always a club/owner you can unfavourably compare your own to. I remember Peter Ridsdale driving into the North Stand car park and being applauded by our supporters.

[eastie]

Everton have a good owner. Sensibly run, competitive for the guts of a decade, can keep hold of their better players when big clubs come sniffing and can finance big deals for the right players.

Take note Randy.

Remind me again who Arteta and Rooney play for?

As it happens I agree that they do seem well run, based on stability and long term planning, but like almost everyone else they have to sell from time to time to help finance it.

And Fellaini and I have no doubt Barkley will go in the summer. Everton have become the flavour of the day now as they have been lucky with some loan signings but no doubt will finish 7th.

I also think they will finish 7th but considering the money spent and income of the clubs above them thats about where they should be expected to finish - they have been around the top 6 for the best part of a decade and spent less than we have in doing so - they have not been lucky with loan signings they were good shrewd deals .

[hilts_coolerking]

I think the point with Everton is that while they have to sell their best players from time to time they seem to be able to do it without becoming significantly weaker.

[supertom]

Everton have a good owner. Sensibly run, competitive for the guts of a decade, can keep hold of their better players when big clubs come sniffing and can finance big deals for the right players.

Take note Randy.

Remind me again who Arteta and Rooney play for?

As it happens I agree that they do seem well run, based on stability and long term planning, but like almost everyone else they have to sell from time to time to help finance it.

And Fellaini and I have no doubt Barkley will go in the summer. Everton have become the flavour of the day now as they have been lucky with some loan signings but no doubt will finish 7th.

I also think they will finish 7th but considering the money spent and income of the clubs above them thats about where they should be expected to finish - they have been around the top 6 for the best part of a decade and spent less than we have in doing so - they have not been lucky with loan signings they were good shrewd deals .

Definitely. Extremely well run club. There's no luck about it. I also expect Barry to be signed permanently. They're not struggling for cash at all, but they've always chose to spend wisely, and not suddenly spunk all their money willy nilly when it's at hand. They have Fellaini cash in the bank to spend. Furthermore, losing key players has never crippled the club. They've always moved on fairly seemlessly to be fair to them. If they lose Barkley, I'm sure they'll come up with a replacement of good value, while milking Barkley for all he's worth. He'll 20 mill in the coffers at least.

We've been a disaster since Randy took over. He's run things very naively and we've had to have too big a polar shift from spending more than we should, to struggling to balance the books. Losing Milner, Young and Downing in 2 summers, absolutely killed us.

[PaulTheVillan]

Carson.

[eastie]

Seem to have a decent youth policy with a lot of young players developing into quality players , Rooney, rodwell, Barkley, being the stand out ones .

[rob_bridge]

The Bhatti Brothers

[rob_bridge]

Ray Ransom's syndicate

[rob_bridge]

Terry Ramsden

[Richard E]

Michael Knighton

[Toronto Villa]

Michael Knighton

What a complete bell end he was. Fucking juggling the ball in front of the crowd at Old Trafford. Massive twat alert. To think he could have bought them for something like 20m as well. Amazing what has happened to the game.

[dave.woodhall]

Michael Knighton

What a complete bell end he was. Fucking juggling the ball in front of the crowd at Old Trafford. Massive twat alert. To think he could have bought them for something like 20m as well. Amazing what has happened to the game.

A very misunderstood man. When he wanted to buy them he said that with him as owner they would have a £100m turnover within twenty years and was generally laughed at. In 1988 it had been £7.5m. When he couldn't find the money Martin Edwards basically stole his business plan and they hit the £100m figure in nine years.

[itbrvilla]

What's wrong with the Man City owners?

They've poured money into the club, but they've also barely put a foot wrong, done lots of work in the local deprived community etc etc.

They're members of a family which, in their own country, throws not only political opponents into jail but also their political opponents' lawyers, routinely employs slave-labour on a mass-scale, is deeply connected to many nasty climate-change denying propeganda organisations in order to protect the oil by which they make the astonishing sums of wealth that remain conspicuously monopolised by the extreme wealthiest in that country and never to help their population, a population squashed under the most strictly-imposed aspects of Sharia while the Mansours live their astonishing playboy lifestyles. They're evil, dictatorial, hypocritical murderers and crooks.

Sorry. I just really hate those people.

Well said Monty. Dreadful horrible people. Last year something like 700 young men died working on construction sites around the Gulf due to diabolical health and safety issues.  Their poor families on the Indian sub-continent had to pay to have their bodies returned home.

And the support for Islamic militant groups now causing great misery in Syria.