Toddacelli wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:28 am
I think this is all bullshit.
The reports in Il Tempo are just fan-appeasement pieces. If anyone thinks that a serious business group would approach running Everton with the mentality that they are always going to be second best to an upper-mid table Italian side - then you need to have a word with yourself.
Plans for both teams will be to make them the very best they can be. Any mutual beneficial overlaps would be opportunities to exploit, but entirely secondary to the primary goals of both teams.
They'll have aspirations for us for sure, but from a multi club perspective there 100% will be a hierarchy within that, and i dont think we will be top of that. They are a significantly better option than 777, but there will be caveats.
A majority of their thinking will be financial, that's why they're in this. For both clubs, the biggest financial windfall is in qualification to the champions league, but when you consider that under the current rules we both wouldn't be able to compete in this, you need to ask yourself who would you prioritise?
Would it be, Roma, who have finished in the Champions league position in 4 of the last 10 years, and Europe the other 6, or Everton, survived relegation the last few years and haven't been in Europe for about 100 years.
From a purely financial perspective, the investment in Everton to get them to a position of competing for champions league positions, and then sustaining it, would be astronomically higher than the investment to get Roma there, especially when you consider the financial muscle each team is competing against. From an investment group perspective i think its a pretty obvious decision, but it's not necessarily what fans want to hear.
I think it's a bit of a mute point anyway as we aren't anywhere near this, but i do think we will play second fiddle to Roma
