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Evans Joint-188th in Rich List
Sunday, 17th May 2020 10:17

Town owner Marcus Evans is ranked the joint-188th richest person in the UK with his wealth having dropped £50 million to £750 million, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List which is released today.

Last year, £800 million put Evans joint-174th in the annual Rich List, which is based on "identifiable wealth"; land, property, significant shares in publicly quoted companies and other assets, but not bank accounts, to which the compilers don’t have access, or small shareholdings in private equity.

According to The Sunday Times: “Evans’s Ipswich Town dropped into the third tier of English football for the first time since 1957 at the end of the 2018/19 season.

“The London-born entrepreneur has a conferences business that operates in 59 locations worldwide and his agency, The Artists Partnership, acts for stars including James Norton and Naomie Harris.

“In 2018/19 the group’s profits rose slightly to £34m ($43m). Because of the impact of coronavirus and the relegation, we pin Evans, 56, this year.”

Town sources have previously dismissed Rich List estimates of Evans’s wealth as highly speculative.


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Carberry added 14:52 - May 18
rabbit, you have no complaint that large sums of money are being spent and we find ourselves in the third tier of English football with no sign of getting out of it? That can't be right, can it?
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planetblue_2011 added 15:35 - May 18
Says it all really! You have been here long enough Evans now is the time to move on.
We need a owner with ambition & some money for players!!! YES I SAID SOME MONEY FOR PLAYERS😆
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rabbit added 19:44 - May 18
Carberry, it is simply not possible for you to spin what I have clearly stated by insinuating that I don't care what league ITFC are in.
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Carberry added 23:12 - May 18
rabbit, I'm not spinning anything. Are you satisfied with the performance of the owner since he took over the club? Yes or no?
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bobble added 23:14 - May 18
i wonder if all that money has made him happy
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StavangerBlue added 23:29 - May 18
He may be on the Rich List but he has no strategy and no plan to get the team from League One to the PL. The club is poorly run - if you have to have your Manager point out the shabby paintwork on the stadium, poor training facilities and your scouting system is shot..etc it shows the mentality of the club.

With the likes of Skuse and Calamighty Chambers staying League Two is our current trajectory.

Successful clubs are also well-run clubs with a team that has a desire to win from the first whistle to the last. I miss the days where Magilton, Wark and others would fight for a win. Too many times we just roll over and throw in the towel. Pathetic.
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TBT added 00:00 - May 19
Worse than nauseating, completely wrong to boot, there were other suitors. Rabbit obviously is looking forward to Division 4, thanks Marcus.
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rabbit added 08:22 - May 19
Fair enough Carberry, I quite reasonably thought that as you commented on and asked me to clarify a point I had made, you had actually read my response to BBP., but in order to clarify I have copied and pasted the very first paragraph of my response

"BeattiesBackPocket thanks for the post and I am happy to respond to all your very relevant questions,firstly I do not believe that Mr Evans has done a good job, neither have I ever said or suggested he had."

Hopefully that clears it up for you.
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rabbit added 08:30 - May 19
TBT thanks for your information and to avoid you being nauseated in the future and to clear it up once and for all, who were the other suitors?, because it will be interesting for us all to be able to assess what we missed out on.
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TBT added 06:42 - May 20
Rabbit, we have been here before but these details can't be revealed.
The likes of David Sheepshanks and Holly Bellingham, lifelong Ipswich Town supporters, chose Marcus Evans out of a handful of others (they can't be named) because they bought into his pitch about his ambition for ITFC. They also quite liked the fact ME was UK (there was much less overseas investment in English football than there is now). It is true that ITFC was a beggar and therefore could not be a chooser but they still passionately wanted the club to recover and blossom. What followed was the opposite.

BTW, I was personally involved in a potential overseas consortium approach a year ago (believe it or not they happen all of the time but only a few of the deals actually stick, there are quite a few finance brokers working full time on just football) but Mr Evans' office didn't respond to the initial email so the investment went elsewhere. I do not personally believe Mr Evans is ITFC's “saviour”, more “destroyer” and yes, as a lifelong fan I find it nauseating that people still believe he actually cares about ITFC.
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rabbit added 13:35 - May 20
Thanks for your response TBT it is unfortunate that anyone is nauseated by others opinions.
Anyway the fact is you are right there were other suitors, one in particular was a small consortium of local business people, for a while the board tried hard to work with them but there was simply no substance, the rest frankly were no better than the local chip shop owner, ( probably harsh, but you get my drift ), so whilst you accuse me of being wrong about other suitors, if you care to check my previous comments I did say there was no credible offers.
Bellingham did do a lot to preserve DS and without her there may have not been time to get the Marcus Evans deal over the line, at the time ME could have been reasonably considered an overseas investor as his larger interests were based outside the Country and he was only in the UK for 60 odd days during any one year. No idea by the way what the situation is now, my interest in actual business and the financing of it now very limited!!
With regard to your comment about money from overseas it had been gathering huge momentum since deregulation in the 80's from the early 90's there was substantial overseas interest and investment but nothing compared to the early 2000's.
The Ipswich Board did attempt this market but sadly there is nothing in the business to inspire such investment and so as you quite rightly say ITFC were the beggars here.
We do now see a lot of consortium's attempting, and succeeding, to buy into football and mostly there is a huge foreign investment involved also not many of these consortium's want anything that is not able to be monetised with the potential of expansion, it is my and most other peoples view that ITFC as a brand has little scope beyond its current capacity whichever division it is in.
Your involvement in a consortium approach is interesting, but quite relevant that there was no reply, if ME were desperate not to own ITFC you would think he would clutch at any straw.
The fact that he does not rather suggests that he intends to continue with the business, despite the monetary evaporation.
What I think we can agree on, is that he was initially the ITFC saviour whether or not he will prove the ultimate destroyer is for the future but if he is, he will have thrown a substantial amount of money at it.
What I don't believe is that he is doing it deliberately, as I have posted before there is something wrong but unlike times gone by I am no longer in a position to find out or understand definitively what it is.
So from one life long supporter ( I've probably been one longer than you but that I am afraid is through dint of age! ) to another I respect your points and opinions even if I have alternate ones.
What I can't abide is those that offer only abuse and unsubstantiated facts.
You never know TBT we might bump into each other at PR one of these days ( if we get through this current turmoil any time soon ) and share a beer or three arguing away about our team and what they can do to make us smile again!! As they say football is all about opinions.
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TBT added 00:28 - May 24
Cheers Rabbit, I hope you see this acknowledgment of your exceptional post. A beer at the next game would be a pleasure! Best T
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