New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

[barneygumble]

I see FSG are persuing Getafe within a multi-club structure. That will hardly pose an issue for European competition you would think, but it underlines that not only is the model here to stay, but it will expand into the future.

It won't mean that clubs get a free hand with regulation but I do think that any reform of the rules in future will have to take account of its increasing prevalence.

I think Nottingham Forest have done it the right way.

I think you'll see more of cha ginger hands of ownership should it occur.

I wouldn't be surprised if Watts ended up as "owner", should we clash with AS Roma.

 

[barneygumble]

Yup. We've done it now. Suddenly it is deemed unfair and any team trying it faces a 10point deduction

Yepp.

They were fuming that Villa got around it last season, they'll hate that now.

But transferring Goodison to the women, makes our women's team have justifiable value now. Very Smart.

 

[MikeH72]

It isn't. People were debating which of 777 or MSP were the better option, when there was still plenty of information out there to doubt the legitimacy of 777.

And while we can doubt that 777 would ever have been approved, the fact of the matter is that they got to the last step.

I’ll never forget “period of exclusivitygate”

Gives me the heebiejeebies thinking about how close Moshiri was to burying this football club. He stalled for a year to try and get that sale over the line.

 

[Bally1989]

Not sure this is accurate gents.

I recall taking a fair bit of stick on social media just for asking should we be concerned about 777.

Some of the big accounts as well were calling for them to be given a chance/spinning positives around them.

I was far from 777 didn’t take much to see they were dodgy as they come.

Think most agreed apart from some lad on twitter who kept making montages of that Wander fella

 

[Fonzy]

Going to be paying £10m a year to use GP hopefully, to boost the men’s teams PSR position……

Sell them to ourselves. Saw Villa might do the same

 

[Rich1878]

Sorry if already posted. Not sure if this is true, like

Everton are about to sell their women's team to avoid PSR sanctions while City continue to laugh at Richard Masters.

Everton set to sell women’s team for PSR deadline as City continue to dodge punishment – The Toffees Online

thetoffees.online

 

[Neiler]

Sorry if already posted. Not sure if this is true, like

Everton are about to sell their women's team to avoid PSR sanctions while City continue to laugh at Richard Masters.

Everton set to sell women’s team for PSR deadline as City continue to dodge punishment – The Toffees Online

thetoffees.online

Interesting.

Wonder will they also move Goodison to the holding company.

 

[barneygumble]

Interesting.

Wonder will they also move Goodison to the holding company.

The whole point of it.

It'll be worth £50m on its own goodison (if not more), making it justifiable when the PL come knocking.

I dont think Goodison will last for long after that.

 

[Rich1878]

Interesting.

Wonder will they also move Goodison to the holding company.

Im not clued up at all, regarding all this business malarkey.

But, i for one, was hoping we'd do something similar to Chelsea.

If we can wiggle our way round PSR, then why not jump on the bandwagon?

We've needed owners with balls for years. People might have different opinions, but I'm all for this.

Isn't PSR ending next year? Thats not to say something else will come in to try and hamper the 'smaller clubs'

 

[Neiler]

Im not clued up at all, regarding all this business malarkey.

But, i for one, was hoping we'd do something similar to Chelsea.

If we can wiggle our way round PSR, then why not jump on the bandwagon?

We've needed owners with balls for years. People might have different opinions, but I'm all for this.

Isn't PSR ending next year? Thats not to say something else will come in to try and hamper the 'smaller clubs'

There will be a new ratio model (maybe season 26/27). come in mate but it will be similar to PSR in the sense you will be restricted on what you can spend by what you make.

If we are doing something similar, then we have £200 mil as a fair market guide - what we have to add to overall package Chelsea didn’t was a stadium.

As PSR goes if we get anything like 200 mill for the women’s team - we can essentially spend what we want - just like Chelsea, be an actual and a PSR bonanza.

 

[Rich1878]

There will be a new ratio model (maybe season 26/27). come in mate but it will be similar to PSR in the sense you will be restricted on what you can spend by what you make.

If we are doing something similar, then we have £200 mil as a fair market guide - what we have to add to overall package Chelsea didn’t was a stadium.

As PSR goes if we get anything like 200 mill for the women’s team - we can essentially spend what we want - just like Chelsea, be an actual and a PSR bonanza.

If we were to spend more money on our training ground, or in fact buy it, would that go against psr? Im just thinking because we have bought in new backroom staff and an online scouting thingy *cant remember the name*

Would that not be money well worth investing in?

Or, can we use that money to start building around Nelson Dock, and use the incomings towards the psr? Or am I chatting waffle?

 

[Bally1989]

If they do what it looks like they might do then I’ll change my mind.

Not just because it’s clever it’s Everton saying a big F you go masters etc.

That’s worth a lot to us as fans we won’t be pushed around like we was under Kenwright for example.

 

[mistuhp]

Seem to remember quite a few people on here getting upset with Josimar’s reporting over 777. The were sounding the alarm incredibly early on a some just didn’t want to listen.

That was one of the weirdest narratives I have ever seen on here and on Everton twitter; people were posting stuff about how ridiculous it was that the Josimar people were "obsessed" with 777 and acting like the sources weren't legitimate. In reality it was obviously a massive story in world football, with an ownership group that didn't seem to have all that much real wealth somehow having control of clubs in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Brasil, and Australia, plus a large stake in a big club in Spain and trying to buy another big club in England. And the sources were almost uniformly public filings, not rumours.
Like, people were having a go at journalists who could best be described as trying to help save us from scammers taking control after they did so in other places with disastrous results, and who based their judgments off ironclad proof.

 

[Dixie D]

Yup, the professionalism on display so far has been a profound change from the clown show we've endured in the theatrical style over the last three decades.

That has certainly assuaged many of my worries. For now. And the new regime should most certainly stand to us in the near future and beyond.

However, July will tell a tell. There is no denying that. On the evidence of the steady hand that we have seen since January from these fellas, I'm quietly expectatant that the summer will go well and we can be safetly ensconced in mid-table without any worries next term as we position ourselves for an assault on the European places in 2026.

 

[Dixie D]

That's kind my expectations, a steady move up the table...And I'm happy with that