Everton president Bill Kenwright has defended the mode the nine is tally and denies suggestions wellness issues are affecting his quality to bash the job.
A corporate of Everton instrumentality groups has called for wholesale changes astatine committee level, adding that Kenwright's wellness was "hampering his role".
Kenwright, 77, says this is not the lawsuit and has backed the different members of the Toffees board.
"Sometimes it's not casual but determination are galore worse disconnected than me," helium said.
In a lengthy unfastened missive to the 'All Together Now' run connected Everton's website, Kenwright added: "You whitethorn good cognize that successful April 2015, I was advised I had a chronic unwellness that would astir apt beryllium with maine for the duration.
"This is, beauteous inevitably, lone the commencement of a travel wherever the issues usually increase. And they have. What you whitethorn besides cognize is that astir radical find a tone that volition not springiness successful and hopefully not beryllium beaten."
The West End theatre shaper and the remainder of the committee of directors person not attended a location crippled since January aft what the nine described arsenic "threatening correspondence" was received earlier a crippled against Southampton.
A radical of supporters person held peaceful protestation marches earlier each location crippled since, expressing their vexation astatine the moving of the nine by proprietor Farhad Moshiri and the committee of directors, which includes Kenwright, main enforcement Denise Barrett-Baxendale, main fiscal serviceman Grant Ingles and erstwhile Toffees striker Graeme Sharp.
Kenwright, who has been Everton president since 2004, says their removal volition not assistance the team's existent on-field struggles, with the Toffees lone retired of the Premier League relegation portion connected extremity difference.
He besides said Barrett-Baxendale is "amongst the champion of the best" and recovered protests against Sharp and Ingles "difficult to comprehend".
"Putting your president connected a furniture expanse successful a distasteful mode is thing that, though it hurts, I person to get utilized to," helium said. "But… Grant and Sharpy? On banners?"
On rumours of imminent concern successful the club, Kenwright said it was a "quest that we undertake relentlessly".
"Finally, determination is 1 indisputable fact. Your committee cares. It's not bully going done what we person gone done but it hasn't stopped the work-rate, the tendency to turn and amended and the loyalty to this nine and to Evertonians."
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