Dan Friedkin

I compared that piece I did over the weekend, Paul, didn't I, to... to a house and saying that you know the recruitment that they did do was all nice all well and good but it's no good having like a lovely front door and clean windows when the roof's missing off it and that's that's how the freaking group left Devon in the summer in terms of the squad ill prepared for the It's all well and good when the sun's shining, but now we've got the autumn winds and rains, literally, and the bleak midwinter ahead, and this squad's ill-prepared.

So yeah, who is making these decisions? Because ultimately, as we were discussing before, It's got to be at the moment, it's got to be Dan Friedkin.

But this is a man who we know has never attended a match.

He's never even had a conversation with Dave Moyes.

And then there's other areas, as we outlined, right-back, left-back, striker, there's just one player in each position.

So it's not only small, the squad, it's unbalanced as well.

So, yeah, they've really got to do that sort of protection asset because if Dan Friedkin wants his 800 million or whatever, it's no good if the club are like... down there fighting for their place in the division.

Not because necessarily they haven't got the quality, but they just don't have the bodies.

Is he, yeah? Yeah, he's worth a lot more than Mr.

Dan Friedkin.

So I'll view that...

And they don't spend money either.

David Moyes, who returned to manage Everton in January of last year, stated that he was caught off guard by the news, but that he shouldn't have been surprised.

Just last month, Moyes admitted to never having met nor spoken to Friedkin Group chairman Dan Friedkin.

Clarence Seedorf has been appointed as New Corinthians head coach in Brazil's top tier.

Seedorf, who remains the only player to win the UEFA Champions League with three different clubs, last coached in 2019 when he was at the helm of Cameroon's national team.

[laughs] You know, if we hadn't been playing Roma, he wouldn't have been there.

Um, yeah, and Dan Friedkin clearly has not had, has not wanted to have anything to do with that.

I mean, to not even have spoken with the manager to, you know, be... apparently, they were in the, in the country to play golf while we were playing and didn't bother coming to the, you know, to, to the stadium.

It's-- There's obviously a, a decision has been, has been made.

That's not news.

Earlier this year, billionaire Dan Friedkin's business group agreed to pay a $2 billion fee to bring a new pro hockey franchise to Texas, and the league said it could announce by the end of the year whether Houston or Austin won the expansion sweepstakes.

I'll admit I'm no sports writer, and I couldn't begin to explain what it takes to build a professional hockey team with its arena deals, owners' votes, and Zambonis in the country's fourth largest city.

But I love talking about how Houston sees itself in the teams that generations of us have cheered for and loved, and what those names, colors, and mascots say about who we are as a city.