Source: Liverpool_Echo
BILL KENWRIGHT EXCLUSIVE: My search for a Blue billionaire for Everton FC
Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright faces his critics[LNB] BILL KENWRIGHT'S office is on the top floor of his company's imposing building in London's Maida Vale, but to match his mood today it would have to be high above the capital on cloud nine.[LNB]It is the morning after his team have beaten champions Manchester United 3-1 and only ten days after they have beaten league leaders Chelsea 2-1. The smiles around Bill Kenwright House are as broad as those of a West End chorus line.[LNB]After the final whistle, the Everton chairman admits he was tempted to do cartwheels all the way back down the M6.[LNB]The growing evidence that David Moyes' team can beat the best, cemented by last weekend's terrific victory over Hull City after the disappointments of Lisbon and Tottenham, is a welcome boost in what has been another season of extremes.[LNB]From a difficult summer when fresh investment again failed to materialise and Joleon Lescott's protracted transfer complicated player recruitment, to an injury crisis which saw the first team squad decimated for months - few would have predicted the campaign could be poised to end with another challenge for Europe.[LNB]But Kenwright knows he can only savour the moment so much. The Wavertree-born majority share holder is aware that soon the season will be over, and familiar questions will re-surface.[LNB]How long can David Moyes succeed without the level of financial backing which the top four clubs have?[LNB]Where is that elusive sugar daddy who can transform the club into world beaters?[LNB]The newspapers on his desk are heavy with the details of Portsmouth's sad financial slide.[LNB]Some have speculated that the demise of the South Coast club, coupled with problems closer to home across the park and up the M62, indicate that mega-rich ownership is not a passport to instant success.[LNB]But Kenwright is unequivocal in what he insists Everton still need.
