EVERTON MAKE £12,651 PROFIT ON LAST SEASON   
Liverpool Echo - Monday 04 June 1962
By Michael Charters
Everton's balance sheet, published to-day, shows that the club made a profit of £12,651 last season, compared with £25,054 the previous year.  Principal reasons for this drop are the startling increase in players' wages and bonuses and large sums spent on the ground. In the first season after the ending of the maximum wage, the club paid £44,336 in this respect as against £28,195.  The club carries forward a credit balance of £41,774 however. Last year the figure was £6,533. Included in the profit and loss account is the amount of £20,000 under "donations received," which is the major item on the income side of this account.  The annual general meeting will be held on June 25.  The three retiring directors are Messrs. R. E. Searle, F.  Micklesfield and J. Taylor, who offer themselves for re-election, No other nominations have been received.  On the income side, the club received £265,123 compared with £217,908. Gate  receipts from League games  amounted to £145,975  (£135,867), from Cup ties and  other games £54.920   £ (34.472), and altogether  nearly a quarter of a million  pounds (£248,096) came in  with gate receipts, away  games, season ticket sales  and the F.A. Cup pool. The figure the previous year was £210,065.  A total of £40,470 was paid out last season on transfer fees, compared with £53.300. Major items of expenditure here were the fees for Dennis Stevens from Bolton and Gordon West from Blackpool.  Travelling and match expenses  were cut from  £9,457 to £8,795, but the  share of home gates paid to  visiting clubs rose from  £22.221 to £24.811. 
More on ground 
There was a massive increase in expenditure on ground expenses and maintenance.  This took £50,232 as against £13,593, so that when this is taken into account, the profit from the year is all the more notable.  I understand that a great deal of work was done on strengthening the stand supports which became more than just routine maintenance.  Fixed assets of the club, after depreciations, on freehold land including properties are £56,530. The stands and fixtures at Goodison Park are valued at £7,844, the floodlighting at £24,513 and with current assets the total figure is £112,710 compared with £89,462 the previous year. 

EVERTON WINGER FOR PLYMOUTH
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, June 5, 1962
Terms were agreed yesterday for the transfer to Plymouth Argyle of Mickey Lill, the Everton winger.  The fee is understood to be £18,000.  Lill cost Everton £25,000 in 1960.  The player will travel to Plymouth today to complete the transfer.  Everton’s gate receipts were up last season by another £38,021 to £248, 696 but increased wages and expenditure on Goodison Park meant a drop in profit to £12,651 from £25,054. 

EVERTON AGREE TERMS FOR LILL 
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 05 June 196
Visit to Plymouth 
LONG TALKS 
By Michael Charters
Everton winger Mickey Lill was expected to sign for Second Division club Plymouth Argyle to-day after the clubs agreed terms yesterday.  Preliminary negotiations by Plymouth for Lill began some time ago but they did not make a firm offer until yesterday. Everton manager Harry Catterick told me that talks on a figure went on all day.  I understand that a fee of about £18,000 was agreed and Lill went to Plymouth this morning to discuss the terms of his contract and to see a house there.  Lill, a Londoner, on West Ham’s books as a youth, was signed by Everton from Wolves for about £25,000 in February. The following season he had a double cartilage operation and only played in the first few games.  TAKEN OFF 
Last season, when he was unable to regain a regular first team place, he asked to be placed on the transfer list and Everton agreed.  There were no moves for him then, and his request to come off the list was granted.  Since then end of last season, he had not re-signed for Everton as he was dissatisfied with the terms offered.  Lilt's enthusiastic footballing style will be missed at Goodison Park, where he was unlucky to suffer injury to his knee an accident which cost him his First Division place when he looked like being a regular for some time. 

EVERTON’S MR. X GIVES £20,000
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, June 26, 1962
CLUB SUPPORTERS PAYS FOR COURT ACTION
The cost of the court action which led to settlement of the John Carey- Everton F.C dispute has been met by supporters, club shareholders were told at their annual meeting last night.  Mr. H. Holland Hughes chairman of the Finance Committee, said; “The amount involved does not appear in this account and will not appear in next year’s accounts because I tell you that all expenses incurred over that have been defrayed by one of our supporters.”  Mr. John Moores, club chairman added “One of the terms of the agreement was that the amount would not be disclosed.  An item in the profit and loss account was “Donation received £20,000” Excess of income over expenditure for the year was £12,651.  Mr. Holland Hughes said; “It is only proper for me to mention that the profit and loss carry forward could not have been so satisfactory had it not been for the generosity of a benefactor of the club who had made a donation of £20,000.  “This benefactor desires to remain anonymous and we of course are bound to respect his wishes.  We are none the less very grateful indeed for the most generous gift.”  Mr. Holland Hughes gave no indication of how the £20,000 had been used. 

NINE EVERTON PLAYERS
Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, June 26, 1962
NEGOTIATIONS WITH MANAGER THIS WEEK
The nine Everton players, who have not yet resigned for next season, will be negotiating with Mr. Harry Catterick the club’s manager, during this week, said Mr. John Moores, the chairman’ at the club’s annual meeting in Liverpool last night.  Mr. Moores emphasised that the players involved –seven first-team men and two reserves-had not refused to re-sign.  They are now about to get that extra pound or so from him Mr. Catterick” he said.  In reply to a query from one of the eighty or so shareholders present, Mr.Moores said that there was a very good team spirit in the club.  “The players are very satisfied and very proud to belong to Everton,” he declared.  In his review of the past season, Mr. Moores said that it had been a memorable one for the club with the team finishing fourth in the First Division, the highest it had occupied since the war.  It had also been notable for the support they had received from the spectators.  To cater for them the club had either spent or provided, more than £50,000 on an ambitious plan to improve the ground and its amenities.  “Much yet remains to be done, and this policy of ground improvement will continue,” he said.  The improvements included better refreshment, toilet, and seating facilities for the spectators as well as the installation of licensed bars as additional amenities.  Mr. Moores said that it would be imprudent to make any forecasts for next season.  What could be guaranteed, however, was that the Board would make every effort to maintain Everton’s long and proud traditions and recapture its past glories.  Mr. Catterick in his report also steered clear of forecasting, but he did indicate that he was a little happier about the club’s reserve strength than he had been at the start of last season.  One or two good reserve players had been signed and he was still continuing his search for players to strengthen both first and second teams.  He paid tribute to the members of the first team defence who had finished with the best record in the First Division but in a reference to the team away record, said that the forwards would have to learn not to depend so much on the vocal support they received at Goodison Park.  Mr.Catterick added that he was anxious to develop “home grown” talent at Goodison Park and he was pleased to report that three of last season’s English schoolboys international team had been signed.  The club was getting together a fine group of ex-schoolboy stars and although some of the boys would, inevitably fall short of the highest standard he was satisfied from their performance in training sessions that many of them would make the grade. 
RECEIPTS INCREASE
Presenting the club’s accounts Mr. H. Holland Hughes chairman of the Finance Committee said that there had been a very satisfactory increase in receipts which at £265,123 were £47,215 more than last year’s.  On the other hand, there had also been increased expenditure, largely accounted for by a very substantial increase in players wages as a result of the removal of the maximum wage rule, and the costs incurred in the very substantial improvements made to the ground.  Players wages rose from ££28,195 to £44,336, and ground expenses and maintenance at £50,232 were higher by £36,639.  These two items alone more than offset the increased receipts but the club still showed a profit of £12,651.  The three retiring directors, Messrs R.E Searle, F. Micklesfield and J. Taylor, were re-elected unanimously.  Mr. W. Dickinson, the club’s secretary, was also congratulated on the award of the Football Association’s long service medal. 

EVERTON PLAYERS COULD AVERAGE £3,000 A YEAR
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 27 June 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Some followers of Everton F.C. think the players ore paid too much; others think the club are being too cheese-paring. They have written to the club saying so. That is what Manager Harry Catterick is anxious that the public should know the facts. First, he maintains (I am sure he is right) that to use the word revolt in connection with his players' refusal to re-sign is misleading, to put it mildly. The position is that nine players,  including, some reserves, have not re-signed, but  only three of them (two from the first team; one  reserve) have indicated to the club that they are  dissatisfied with the terms offered to them some  six weeks ago.  Football League law lays it down those footballers should accept or refuse terms offered a fortnight before the last day, at the end of this month, for re-signing. Six players offered terms six weeks ago have not even intimated to the club whether or not they are accepting them. There is no punishment for failure to give proper notice to a club, but it is common courtesy to do so.  Mr. Catterick tells me that the average earnings of first-teamers last season was £2,500, exclusive of perqs. With success next season, when a better system of crowd bonuses is to operate, he expects that the average could be lifted to £3,000 per player.  The terms offered, he says, are generous and in keeping with the high standards of the Everton club.  So there it is. It is hard to be sympathetic to players who are receiving more than £2,500 a year for doing what many others are prepared to do for nothing and for the love of the game. True, the footballer's life is a short one, but at between £2,500 and£ 3,000 a year, the rate many are now getting, you would think that their acceptance of terms would come by return of post.

EVERTON STAR WHO WANTS TWICE AS MUCH!
Liverpool Echo - Friday 29 June 1962
By Leslie Edwards
Three of the six famous Everton players who had not earlier this week intimated to their club whether they would be accepting the terms offered for season 1962-63 have been in touch with Manager Harry Catterick. They left him in no doubt that they were dis-satisfied with the terms proposed. One, at least, wanted his salary to be so increased that the club would be virtually doubling the money he received last season! It is clear that Everton, who have more star players than most other First Division teams, are going to have a pretty rough ride next month and in August before the claims of their unsigned players are settled.  The position of the three players who have seen Mr. Catterick is that if they do not re-sign by June 30 they will be called to sign a monthly contract covering July at a salary of £15 per week. Assuming club and players are still in dispute at the end of that period a further monthly contract at the rates already offered by the club may be signed.  Maybe is the operative word, since if any or all of these players have any other means of income they may refuse to sign the August contract and thus denude their club of their services at the most vital stage of the season.  If the players who have not even intimated to Everton whether they are prepared to sign the July contract they could find themselves without wages during that month.  From what I hear this is a possibility in one case. 

THOMSON AND HARRIS BOTH RE-SIGN
Liverpool Echo - Friday 29 June 1962
OTHER YET TO ACCEPT TERMS
DEADLINE
By Leslie Edwards
Two of the famous Everton players who had not re-sign for next season- full-back George Thomson and half back Brian Harris- visited Goodison Park today and accepted the terms of the contract offered.  Everton manager Mr. Harry Catterick had a chat with Harris yesterday.  Thomson, holidaying at home in Edinburgh, made the trip from Scotland to sign the new contract just 24 hours before the dead-line of June 30.  He said he though the terms very fair.  Another first teamer is expected to agree to re-sign today or tomorrow, and it is not anticipated that the two reserves who have withheld their hands will fail to re-sign.  The question is whether the other four first-teamers- and they include some of the “pillars” of the team-will be in Liverpool in time to preclude the possibility of their having to sign a provisional contract for the month of July a 15 per week.  Mr. Catterick is not hopeful of the possibility, much less probability of their beating the June 30 dead-line. 

THREE AT EVERTON UNSIGNED PLAYERS
Liverpool Daily Post –Saturday, June 30, 1962
By Horace Yates
With contracts due to end this evening the position at Goodison Park this morning is that of the retained first team players, Roy Vernon, Alex Young and Alex Parker have not accepted the proffered terms and have not re-signed.  Appearances suggest that the position with Everton and their three players may not be easily resolved. 

FREE TRANSFER 
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 30 June 1962
David Gorrie, the young Everton half-back who was, not offered terms for next season, has been given a free ‘transfer. Originally Everton had asked a small fee for Gorrie.