The Friedkin Group

[Indiantoffee75]

Serie A is a slow and substandard league.

The premier league and Masters will ensure there darlings (top 4/5 teams) remain at the top of the league and are as competitive as they have been for the last 30+ years.

[bigmanbob]

Yeh that's fare

[Indiantoffee75]

Took over Everton officially one year today.

Good progress to date.

[toffee_scot]

Interesting article about some of the changes TFG have made.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football ... JvrA%3D%3D

[Toddacelli]

The squad is not fixed/balanced yet and we’re probably all frustrated with the fullbacks situation, but stepping back a bit - the squad is younger, has better footballers and a lot of talent yet to mature - and we’re getting more youngsters out on loan to get game time with a variety of different clubs.

This does feel like quite a bit of progress to be fair.

[Lazarou II]

Just feels there is an opportunity this season to maybe miss a step and do better than we thought we would be able to do, not saying there has not been progress on all fronts but if they had addressed the long standing squad issues we may be comfortably looking at Europe, it's still on but more difficult because we don't create enough mainly because we don't have attacking fullbacks.

[StirlingBlue]

Just feels there is an opportunity this season to maybe miss a step and do better than we thought we would be able to do, not saying there has not been progress on all fronts but if they had addressed the long standing squad issues we may be comfortably looking at Europe, it's still on but more difficult because we don't create enough mainly because we don't have attacking fullbacks.

I see where you are coming from but even with 2 or 3 signings we'd still only be maybes for europe, not guaranteed.

I'd rather we take our time and get long term solutions to fullback than take stop-gap players now in the hope of getting europe a season earlier.

[Matt1878]

This is something people are probably missing in the Moyes debate too, when we talk about ceilings. Quite happy to see him continue and see where he can take us over the next copule of years. But equally, 2-3 years under a safe pair of hands will give us a better understanding of what the new owners are about. Having Moyes in as a great opportunity to see how it develops with someone who has an abundance of experience and love for the club. Ideal way to bed them in and set some expectations, I feel.

It would be interesting to see how it would have gone if he had oversaw the Moshiri era and that big influx of cash that they threw at consectuive managers to spunk on awful plaers with no sell on value. Filter that through Moyes, even as a transitional manager, I am sure it would have panned out a bit better.

[kramer]

They’re doing a tremendous job.

It gives me more confidence in them than I already had to see that they’re not pushing the throttle based on how this season has gone.

We’re simply not that good. Better to stick to the long-term plan. If something good happens through overperformance, that’s found money and will help us out even more in the summer.

[Granite]

You’d say Villa’s owners have done a tremendous job.

The dury is still out on TFG, imo.

We’ll see how the rest of this season pans out and then a big summer ahead. Will also be interested to see how our turnover improves.

They’ve done nothing more than elevate us above the status of perennial relegation fodder and secured their asset, thus far.

[Jamokachi]

You’d say Villa’s owners have done a tremendous job.

The dury is still out on TFG, imo.

We’ll see how the rest of this season pans out and then a big summer ahead. Will also be interested to see how our turnover improves.

They’ve done nothing more than elevate us above the status of perennial relegation fodder and secured their asset, thus far.

They've only had 13 months like!

[Escalator]

“They’ve done nothing more than elevate us above the status of perennial relegation fodder”

Well that’s not bad for their first 12 months in charge, add to that re financing of short term debt which was costing us £1m per month in interest in their first quarter, securing events like the RL Ashes test, Rl Super Weekend, Brazil v Scotland match plus other events in the first year of an unproven stadium is no mean achievement
Overall I’m more than satisfied with them.

[brap2]

You’d say Villa’s owners have done a tremendous job.

The dury is still out on TFG, imo.

We’ll see how the rest of this season pans out and then a big summer ahead. Will also be interested to see how our turnover improves.

They’ve done nothing more than elevate us above the status of perennial relegation fodder and secured their asset, thus far.

I’d have complaints personally as a villa fan.

Constantly signing OK players on massive wages and having to sell them or cut them 12 months later. Struggling massively to kick on and if they hadn’t hit the jackpot with Ramsey and the manager they’d be in with us right now after about a billion spent.

[TheRam]

They’re getting by because they have an incredible manager.

Once he goes, they could be in huge trouble.

Their transfer dealings have been a mess.

Signing players then trying to get rid after six months. Resigning players they’ve previously sold who are worse than when they left, constantly signing finished players on loan, on huge wages.

They’re a shambles. They have PSR issues but they made that mess with some of the contracts they were handing out.

The Morgan Rodgers sale in the summer will probably bail them out though but I wouldn’t be happy with how they’re being run if I was a villa fan.

[StirlingBlue]

I think you're all massively underestimating what Villa's owners have done as they've done the hardest part for sustainable growth really well - growing their revenue.

2020 their revenue was about £130m - for last year it was £450m.

2020 our revenue was was £186m - for last year it was £234m.