My gut feeling is that Roberto and Dave Whelan have not finished their “project” of building a sustainable Premier League club from a club that was on the verge of extinction.
It’s obviously not about money but more about building a club to a model that doesn’t have to rely on a benefactor with deep pockets for it’s very existence.
I may be way off the mark but I also feel that, if he was going to leave, he would have gone to Aston Villa or Liverpool rather than Everton (can’t even contemplate him going to Stoke).
Attendances continue to rise and the new training facilities are in the pipeline so the “project” is still alive and well. I don’t think he will leave yet, but when he does, I think he’ll have a holistic football CV which no one else in the game could match.
Hope I’m right – don’t want Fil’s egg on my face ;)
I hope that your closing line isn’t some sort of euphemism :ohmy: