Kenwright claims Moshiri wouldn’t have taken Everton into ESL
Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has reiterated that club owner Farhad Moshiri would not have accepted an invite to the European Super League.
The Toffees were one of the first clubs to release an official statement condemning the proposed Champions League alternative when it was initially announced last weekend.
Everton described the ‘Big Six’ as having ‘preposterous arrogance’, while Moshiri followed the statement up by further slamming the proposals on talkSPORT.
However Everton’s defiant stance rather predictably led some opposition fans to call into question how the club might have reacted had they been pitched the idea as a potential founding member.
Speaking to Mail Online, Kenwright strongly dismissed the claim by declaring that the club would never have agreed to sign up.
Kenwright said: “I’ve heard some people saying that Everton would have signed up for it, if we had been asked. No!
“I have a great relationship with Farhad and I admire what he is doing for our club and I know he would not have signed up for it.
“He loves football. He wouldn’t have done it. He understands Everton.
“Everton, particularly under our magnificent chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale, is the most caring club on the planet.”
Fully agree
Everton have always been a club built on community, family and passion for their local area, and nothing opposes those values more than the European Super League.
It is incredibly easy to point fingers and claim that any owner of a football club, any businessman who would value the financial gain, would have accepted an invitation to the ESL. However that is nothing more than a baseless assumption.
Ultimately we’ll never know for certain if Moshiri would have taken Everton into the ESL if the club had been asked to join, but we can judge based on how the former Arsenal shareholder has taken to being an Evertonian.
Since Moshiri bankrolled the club we’ve deeply invested in the local area, maintaining the club’s strong community roots in spite of its newfound wealth.
The Blues’ charity department, appropriately named Everton In the Community, further deepens the club’s roots in the area and the people that originally built it.
People can be cynical all they like, but we don’t believe they would have accepted an invite. It goes against everything that Everton are.
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