Philippe Senderos

[pauliewalnuts]

What worries me is that TV, bless him, is one of our most positive and optimistic posters at the start of the season but is almost always as despondent as the rest of us come the end of the season.  Just once I'd like the team to live up his faith in them.

But, as walnuts says, Senderos wasn't signed because the club see him as a player who will radically improve us: worryingly it's the players we haven't yet signed who would fall into that category

I'm just not as down on things before everything has played out. A million things will happen between now and the end of the transfer window so why get fired up about what we don't know for sure until then? Find me again on September 1st if Okore isn't fully fit, Vlaar has gone and Senderos and Baker are trying not to fall over each other as our starting CB pairing and I might have a toaster in the bath with me. Until then I'd rather stay as calm as possible and not look at things from the bleakest perspective.

I agree with this.  The other thing to keep in mind is that last time we were taken over we had no time to look for new players, etc and ended up just getting Petrov in at the end of the window and relying on what we had until January.  The same happened to Man City with Robinho in the first window for the current lot.  I don't mind a couple of cheap stop gaps in positions where we've had major issues even if they have to be replaced in 6-12months.  I suspect we'll see a left back before long as well.

That's fine if we actually get taken over.

We could find ourselves still owned by Randy in a year or two. What happens in the meantime if that is the case? The longer we go on with this sort of frozen-reality scenario, the more likely it is that we'll go down.

[Toronto Villa]

Do you really believe Randy will still be owning us in a year or two?

[silhillvilla]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

[Toronto Villa]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

[silhillvilla]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

As recently as 2013. £125m.

[Toronto Villa]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

As recently as 2013. £125m.

There is a statement from the chairman that he is looking for a buyer? I don't remember that. Lots of rumours and suggestions but were they ever actually put up for sale?

[Dave]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

As recently as 2013. £125m.

There is a statement from the chairman that he is looking for a buyer? I don't remember that. Lots of rumours and suggestions but were they ever actually put up for sale?

All I can find is a quote from Stan Collymore saying that he spoke to an Everton board member who told him that the price was £125m.

[supertom]

Everton will be for sale for the rest of Kenwrights days. I can't see him ever wanting to let them go.

[olaftab]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

As recently as 2013. £125m.

I make that 1 not 10 however I do struggle with complex numbers!

[paul_e]

Everton will be for sale for the rest of Kenwrights days. I can't see him ever wanting to let them go.

Is the correct answer, they let the odd leak out (like the Collymore one above) that they're for sale but there's no will to actually go through with it from what I can see.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

Playing devil's advocate here, but why does a club have to be officially announced as for sale before it is actually for sale?

And even if that's the measure, Kenwright has been saying - "saying", I appreciate the vagueness of that - that he'd sell to someone who could progress the club if such a person came forward for years now.

[brian green]

I have always felt that Kenwright will not sell while Everton continue to punch above their weight. It fuels his dreams. Once the reality of a new Anfield and a revitalized Liverpool kicks in he will do a Randy and seek the company of Maggie May the scouse Sunnamite woman.

[pauliewalnuts]

Do you really believe Randy will still be owning us in a year or two?

I didn't say that I thought he would.

It is a possibility, though.

[PaulWinch again]

Do you really believe Randy will still be owning us in a year or two?

I didn't say that I thought he would.

It is a possibility, though.

Yes and a pretty worrying one at that.

[Toronto Villa]

It's possible . Just look how difficult Everton are proving to sell. 10 years and waiting.

When did they officially announce they were sale?

Playing devil's advocate here, but why does a club have to be officially announced as for sale before it is actually for sale?

And even if that's the measure, Kenwright has been saying - "saying", I appreciate the vagueness of that - that he'd sell to someone who could progress the club if such a person came forward for years now.

That's like saying everything that you own has a price. So by that definition everything is always for sale whether someone publicly says it or not. There is a big difference between Kenwright hinting at something every year to being any real conviction in carrying it through. Lerner making it public is a declaration that he wants out. Kenwright by comparison has no real desire to go but would do if someone offers him something utterly stupid. I'd sell everything I own if someone offered me something utterly stupid as we all would.