Blue watch: Keith Wyness' Everton exit not news we wanted
Jul 31 2008 by Mark O'Brien , Liverpool Daily Post
WELL then, we’ve all been a bit concerned about the lack of news coming out of the club in recent weeks, but most people were hoping for the announcement of a couple of new signings, something definite about the ground move or at least progress with David Moyes’s contract.
Few could have foreseen the chief executive, Keith Wyness, handing in his gun and his badge.
But gone he has, and speculation is rife over just what motivated the ex-Aberdeen chief executive to tender his resignation.
The club are obviously playing their cards close to their chest, apart from going out of their way to stress that this development is not in any way tied to the future of the proposed new stadium in Kirkby.
Unsurprisingly, that is never going to satisfy the dot-joiners and conspiracy theorists, with many now surmising that Wyness has jumped ship early having got wind of Government plans to call in the whole Kirkby project.
Why anyone would leave a highly-paid job like his because of something that is totally out of his control doesn’t seem clear, although apparently that is the way things often work at chief executive level.
If a project becomes your ‘baby’, as Kirkby has for Wyness, then apparently the done thing is to fall on your sword if it gets derailed.
Granted, that seems plausible, although would the club make a statement declaring so strongly their continued commitment to the new stadium if they knew that it was potentially dead in the water?
Equally, if not more believable, is the theory that Wyness fancies the lifestyle out in Mallorca, where his close friend has apparently taken over their local side, Real, and could very possibly be looking for someone to head up their commercial affairs.
Evertonians’ opinions of the departing head honcho seem divided.
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