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"Green played a major role in the acquisition of a key 23% stake in the Merseyside club by Planet Hollywood tycoon Robert Earl from Everton board member Paul Gregg, the cinemas and leisure multi-millionare."
"just the culmination of a longrunning relationship with Everton's other major minority shareholder, impresario Bill Kenwright, which also saw Green play a key role in the controversial sale of England superstar Wayne Rooney to Manchester United."
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-1603795/Green-at-heart-of-Everton-battle.html
"However, this summer the club secured a £15m credit guarantee, understood to be from Philip Green, a friend of Kenwright's and the owner of BHS."
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...nwright-is-looking-east-for-cash-6161455.html
"Florida-based businessman Robert Earl's decision to buy into Everton, as revealed by The Daily Telegraph last week, was engineered by his old friend, Sir Philip Green, the billionaire who owns British Home Stores and the Arcadia Group."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-the-wheels-of-so-many-deals-in-football.html
"Green already enjoys Svengali-like status at Everton, having helped friend Bill Kenwright lead the True Blue Holdings buy-out of former chairman Peter Johnson in 2000.
Then last year, he was at the heart of the deal which saw Planet Hollywood founder Robert Earl buy Paul Gregg's 23 per cent stake in the club for £9m, a sum Green described as no more than a bad night for him at London's Les Ambassadeurs casino.
Green had a role in the transfers of Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney and Louis Saha to Manchester United, but his first love is Tottenham"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-484718/Greens-friends-market-Spurs.html
"Wyness refused to comment on his departure but friends said he had done nothing wrong and was helping 'an old mate' while on annual leave. It has been suggested that his departure was linked to Green's influence at Everton.
Wyness's departure prompted Green and Earl to sail from Sardinia to Mallorca for a confrontation with their former chief executive."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/03/everton
"Word is retail billionaire Sir Philip Green, a not-so-secretive backer of Everton, could be about to take his ball and play elsewhere. Green has long been said to be the financial support behind his relatively impecunious friend Bill Kenwright, the Merseysiders' chairman, and played a role in the acquisition of a 23% stake by Planet Hollywood entrepreneur Robert Earl.
The talk is Green may be preparing to liquidate his Goodison commitments and focus his financial firepower on the club he really loves: Tottenham Hotspur. "
http://www.standard.co.uk/business/chairmens-pay-on-rocket-fuel--and-not-just-at-bp-6695398.html
"Last Tuesday, the dozens of expensive yachts in Puerto Andratx were somewhat overshadowed by Lionheart, a 208ft, £32m vessel Sir Philip Green had just sailed into town. The billionaire retail tycoon was accompanied by Robert Earl, the Planet Hollywood founder and substantial shareholder in Premier League club Everton. Green and Earl sailed from Sardinia on a mission. Before going on to Ibiza, they had some unfinished business with Keith Wyness, the Everton chief executive, who, the previous day, had resigned his post. The north London duo wanted answers. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/03/realmallorca.business
"the rumour mill keeps suggesting that Green either loaned the club money, guaranteed part of the debt, or even helped pay for striker Yakubu. Former chief executive Keith Wyness, who left Goodison Park following concerns about who was actually running the club, intriguingly had a meeting with director Robert Earl aboard Green's super yacht before his recent exit"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1052610/Manchester-United-struggling-shift-prawns-.html