[新聞] 'Pauper' Kenwright wants billionaire for Everton
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'Pauper' Kenwright wants billionaire for Everton
Updated: September 3, 2008, 9:58 PM UK
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Everton owner Bill Kenwright wants a billionaire investor to buy the club to
allow them to compete with Manchester City.
At an EGM tonight at Goodison Park to discuss the proposed new Everton
stadium in Kirkby, Kenwright outlined the financial might now needed for the
club to survive in the current football climate.
Kenwright insists the club must have a new ground to even begin to compete
with the new money flooding into the Premier League.
He withstood two hours of argument from shareholders against the club's
desire to move out of the city to Kirkby, but made it clear that he was not
able to produce the money needed to continue to bankroll the Toffees at their
current level indefinitely.
Kenwright reckons that the amazing takeover of Manchester City this week has
already changed the footballing battleground that Everton are fighting on.
Kenwright desperately wants to see the new stadium built in Kirkby to give
the club more financial clout.
He said: 'I cannot go on like this, we need a new owner and we will continue
to try to find one.
'I cannot see an alternative. This summer's transfer window has been the
worst and most difficult I can remember.
'Now Arabs have bought Manchester City making it even more difficult for
Everton football club. I am a pauper when it comes to other chairmen.
'I want this club to have its billionaire, but it is not me. My shareholding
has been for sale from the day I bought in.
'Every year it becomes more difficult to find the money. It is impossible to
continue in the financial way we are at the moment.'
He added: 'I do not know how I can continue to serve this club the way we are
doing at the moment.
'Everyone knows this club needs investment. People are looking. I would sell
tomorrow.'
Mark Grayson, the shareholder who helped forced this EGM - it needed 20%
support to be called - said: 'Manchester City has been sold twice in 18
months to billionaires, that is what we need to support our manager David
Moyes.
'But I believe we should still be able to find a site for a new stadium in
Liverpool.'
Acting chief executive Robert Elstone outlined the reasons for the Kirkby
move, saying: 'We believe that there is no other financially available option
in Liverpool. We have been offered only two other sites in the city, and they
were not viable.
'If we try to develop Goodison Park, we will have to revise our club budget
and expectation.'
Elstone also reviewed the possible ways of expanding or rebuilding Goodison
Park, using comparisons with Manchester City's Eastlands, Bolton's Reebok and
Arsenal's Emirates, all of whom he claimed, could not be squeezed into the
current Goodison footprint.
Elstone added: 'This club has always punched above it's weight with a great
manager in control.
'It is unwise to continue to rely on that to be successful as a football club.
'There have been several sites over 12 years of searching, from Kirkby golf
club, the King's Dock, Scotland Road and now Kirkby.
'But there is no site in the city, Liverpool FC have been looking, Tesco has
been looking at us. There is nowhere.
'It will cost ￡230m to rebuild Goodison Park, and that is not viable. The
board will not put this club at risk and we retain our commitment to Kirkby.'
大意就是太妃的 owner Bill Kenwright承認他不夠有錢XD
Bill Kenwright 認為現在的英超越來越競爭 資金不足是太妃糖一個重要的問題
在看了曼城迎來了新老闆 Bill Kenwright更有此感
因此認為球隊需要新的資金來源 來強化球隊的發展與新球場的建立
曼城新老闆可以來資助Everton啦 XD
有一個厲害教練 Moyes 可以來跟他搭配
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