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Yeah, it's now about finally sorting the attack so we don't have to go through this again. Conceded like a top half side, despite the shellings at Villa and Stamford Bridge. If we score like a top half side, we can have a nice boring midtable mediocrity season to close Goodison out, and maybe...

Amazing how one result can rewrite the narrative of a season.

Maybe we could tell him to defend the opposing goal.

It's the sort of idiocy van Gaal might try, which means either it works a treat or fails miserably, with no in-between. The fact that Ancelotti didn't try it in the no-recognized-striker game suggests it's the latter.

I would take a draw and run like we stole something. Sending Klopp out with an L is the dream, but goals border on miracles of late. It's a bit much to hope for. Even Dyche has to see Young is a spent force after the most recent horror show, doesn't he?

No, net worth is assets less liabilities. Everton has ample assets, with the shiny new stadium on the way. The problem is that the club owes more than they're worth, which is causing cashflow problems. Interest rates on the debt are high because the club owes so much, which exacerbates the...

It's because no one else will give him anywhere near as much for his shares. If I offered to give you a hundred million dollars for your coin/stamp/rock/insect collection, and you knew I actually had the money, you would probably bend over backwards being nice to me until the deal closed. This...

Great story well told. Love all the context up-front and the cartoon as the clincher.

That can be tough when clubs come around offering a massive wage packet, Champions League footy and Three Lions visibility. His agent stands to make a percentage, and will tell him to snap their hand off.

That's always curable by having someone else take them. I'm always skeptical of contract year performance when it's been preceded by rubbish. The player often reverts to form. He's also a thirty year-old mid. I think we thank him for his service and let him walk. If he turns into a...

It's because we have a six-pointer against them. Draw against them and draw against anyone else also sorts them on goal differential, but things get a little dicey if they take three from us.

If we get relegated, expect creditors to accept haircuts because it will beat administration. Rights and Media would be better off taking a lump sum that's larger than a first-year parachute payment, as an example. A club with a points deduction in danger of going down to League One is worth...

That's ridiculous. They lent the club the money after borrowing it from someone else. They just pocket the spread. That's letting them buy at full leverage, then cure the deficiency by selling a club asset. The league can call it whatever it likes, but it's against the rules.

That means 65% to the purchase price, not some third party's valuation. You don't get to put less than 20% down on a conforming first mortgage in the US just because the appraisal comes in for more than the sale price, and you're not allowed to borrow any of the remainder in any form without...

This is when the league should step in to accelerate the vetting process for anyone who would like to step in. The problem here isn't a lack of takers, and never has been. It's a lack of takers at Moshiri's valuation on his shares. Put his back to the wall, and he'll take less, because he...

There are limitations on leveraged purchases that were put in place after Hicks and Gillett. Using the club's assets to provide the required share of equity a prospective owner must stump up runs afoul of those rules.

Can we burn him in effigy annually? He didn't try to blow up Parliament, but he did succeed in blowing up a fooball club.

All that has to happen is the Prem saying "no" to 777. Moshiri will be forced to his knees, and his ability to demand the absurd valuation on his shares will collapse. Someone else can purchase the club in a whirlwind romance of a deal that pays down debt, leaves him with less and doesn't...

Conclusion: Moshiri must need the money now, for some reason. Nothing else makes sense, because he probably makes out better in the end selling a club with a stadium down the road. Which is why people think Uncle Uzzy told him to pay up if he likes having kneecaps.

I don't think they're buying us to leverage against the club. I think they're doing it to smash the stadium piggybank with a sale the day they walk through the door, use the proceeds from the sale to cure their cashflow problems, and hope to grow their way out of debt by selling sporting assets...