CB Fry

Why have you quoted my same post twice with the same reply just ten minutes apart? Are you actually mental?

He won't say that, or anything like that and you know it. We're not be selling him.

So what?

You effing love it.

If that's on offer, and he takes it, his departure is nothing to do with: Lazy useless Les Reed "Kat's summer plan" Lack of ambition Us selling players Not backing the manager Not convincing Koeman of our ambition Our lack of resolve Not tying him down earlier etc etc It's just silly money and off he goes. He's not worth wages of a manager who can win the league, and frankly Everton could as likely be the next QPR/Shinawatra Man City rather than the next Mansur Man City. Our next manager will be a big name and we move on.

And we've had our first "they got lucky" dismissal of two seasons of record breaking points totals and league finishes. Two entire seasons of progress. Take a fu cking bow.

"Kat's summer plans". Jesus wept.

WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!

How hasn't he been backed?

Indeed. He could get the Barca job, hr has Barca pedigree in spades. However it might be too late - it should have been his first or second job, as a fresh untarnished boss.

Probably will need a decent season on the Europa League plus a good league finish to be in with a shout. Still more likely to be Barcelona manager than Arsenal manager IMO. Dutch boss most likely.

Well, yeah.

But who here would give a f**k if in 2017 the Everton manager leaves Everton to go to Arsenal?

Like Alan Ball?

Because we're not run by mentalists.

You won't believe what these 90s footballers are doing now!

What?

Looks a bit click-baity to me. If it is happening the more connected and visible journos will be on it.

Well yes. It's possible they might offer to triple his money and he doesn't want to go.

Ultimately it won't be about "summoning resolve" if Everton genuinely are offering to triple his money and he wants to go. I know if he goes the forum will be a tsunami of div comments about how we didn't try, how Les can't close deals etc etc but we would have tried, we want him to stay. If he doesn't want to stay ultimately we can't make him. Personally it feels like an odd and pointless career choice putting him two years further back from a really big job bit if he goes for the money then he goes. Still think it won't happen.

The only reason the TV money stops coming in is if the interest in the sport in England collapses, and if that happens attendance will also go down as you'll be on a vicious circle no investment, best players going somewhere else etc etc, game retreating to its traditional hardcore fanbase. There won't be a scenario where there is a huge cut in TV revenue while at the same time 50,000 people are going to regular league matches. If interest in the sport falls away that much, then any newly expanded stadiums will start to look like white elephants, not insurance policies for the future. There was no Sky money in the eighties and even the big clubs were scraping 20-30k through the door.

There are loads and loads and loads of people in the media 'on our side'. Guessing you've missed the countless fawning articles in the press, on TV and radio over the last four or five years about how wonderful we are and how we do things is the way forward.

We'll definitely get a really quick trade deal with South Korea. The CEO of Kia will be banging on the door of the Korean President the minute the result is called.

Interesting it is just a comment piece, was expecting it to be built round a Les or Ralph interview. Seems fine, kind of chimed with my view on Mane - I am not convinced any CL level club (or Liverpool) will think he is worth what we'd want at this stage. I can't see anyone paying £40m for him. That said if he goes "on strike"/ kicks off etc etc then we could still sell this summer, but would still have to be about £35m.

This is just the ramblings of someone with no understanding of football or finance. Even basic maths show the gaping flaws in your plan you can drive a bus through and funnily enough the primary reason no other clubs have tried this plan - funny how it's them, not you, who don't understand football or finance isn't it? Basics: 40k at £20 a seat vs 30k at £40 a seat leaves you at least seven million quid down, the equivalent of five league places prize money on 2016 totals. Or a player we now can't afford to sign. Plus you've got the debt accrued on the seats you've built to lose money on. On decade old assumptions that's £30m worth of stadium. Or four year contracts for two or three first team players we now can't afford. So all you've got left is the "new fans" we will supposedly attract and all that merchandise they'll buy. Except that 10k won't be new fans, they'll be existing occasional fans attending more regularly because you've decided to lose money on seats the club don't really need. The proportion of that 10k that genuinely are new fans - never bought merch before, never seen the team play live before - will be miniscule. Any genuinely incremental merchandise sales are not going to cover the the fact you have massacred match day revenue by a third. And (obviously you being an expert I don't need to explain this) I've only talked about revenue not margin on your new exciting pricing plan versus the boring old way the club do it now. But your plan (unencumbered with the "short term attitude" that the club currently has) is seeing us saddled with debt potentially impacting our ability to compete on wages and making less money in every single match we play in our bigger stadium potentially impacting transfer fees we can pay out. And finishing sixth is no longer the sign of a healthy club progressing but a desperate financial imperative to try and match up revenues to pay for the expansion and hugely subsidised tickets. So no pressure there then players and manager. It's a brilliant plan and you really know your stuff.