Did folks see this (apologies if it's already been posted) - I believe it's the American buyer that was being harkened to a few months ago.
From an ESPN article:
Bernard Mullin, an Atlanta-based marketer who reportedly has sought a consortium to buy out Everton,
And it links out to this:
Life-long Everton fan and US executive Bernard Mullin seeks consortium to buy out the club
A US-based executive who was president of NBA basketball team Atlanta Hawks is seeking a consortium to buy out Everton.
By Amanda Andrews 10:04PM BST 30 Mar 2011
Liverpool-born businessman Bernard Mullin, a life-long Everton fan, has met leading shareholders in Everton and has approached a number of high profile individuals around the world.
The move by the US executive, who runs US-based sports marketing firm The Aspire Group, highlights how desperate the situation has become for Everton.
Bill Kenwright, who took control at Goodison Park in 1999, has made clear in recent years that Everton needs outside investment if the club is to compete with England’s top clubs. His search, though, has thus far proved fruitless.
A number of rumoured investments, both domestic and international, have failed to materialise.
Mullin met Kenwright in recent months to say he may be able to find a buyer for the club, although he has not been appointed to work for Everton.
Any formal process to sell Everton would most likely be handled by Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce, the investment banker hired by Mike Ashley to sell Newcastle United. However, sources said that Everton would engage with Mullin if he found a legitimate buyer.
Mullin has sent out a formal three-page document to potential buyers detailing Everton’s valuation and the amount of investment required at the club.
He believes the holdings of Everton’s top three shareholders, which total 75 per cent, could be acquired for between £75 million and £100 million.
In addition, he has told prospective buyers that any renovation to Goodison Park is likely to require a minimum of £250 million investment to create a state-of-the-art 50,000 seat stadium.
He added that Everton’s debt, which stands at £44.9 million, is covered by the group’s property assets — which includes the stadium, offices, training ground and retail outlet.
Plans to relocate Everton to a new stadium - thereby increasing match day revenue - both to a desirable location on the city’s King’s Dock and to a less popular arena, outside Liverpool in Kirkby, have been abandoned.
Everton will, barring a remarkable upturn in fortunes, be absent from the Europa League for the second consecutive season next year, making the funds its manager
David Moyes desperately requires appear even more distant.
Moyes’s last major expense came with the signings of Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, the Russian international, Holland’s Johnny Heitinga and Sylvain Distin in the summer of 2009, but even those funds came from the £23 million sale of Joleon Lescott to Manchester City.
Since then, the Scot has grown ever more outspoken on the subject of those rivals outspending Everton; it is not simply Chelsea and United, but also Sunderland and Stoke, he believes.
Moyes has said he will not walk out on Everton unless the fans directed their ire at him. Given the limbo the club exists in without investment, it seems a decision made more with his heart than his head.
With countless rumoured investments in Everton failing to materialise, sceptics have questioned whether Kenwright is serious in his intention to sell his stake. The roles of Robert Earl and Lord Grantchester, both shareholders at Goodison Park and men of sufficient wealth to offer substantial backing to Moyes, have also come under a degree of scrutiny.
From 2004 to 2008, Mullin was president and chief executive officer of Atlanta Spirit, which represented the ownership group for the Hawks, the Thrashers and Philips Arena.
Meanwhile, Moyes is disappointed with another season of missed opportunities having failed to reach the high standards he sets himself and his players.
The club are currently eighth, nine points adrift of fifth-placed Tottenham.
“I went into the season with more confidence in the team,” he said. “Last season we finished having lost two out of 24 games. If you just counted those 24 games I think we may have been Premier League champions; if not we would have been second.
“ I’m fed up of saying to the supporters every year let’s just avoid relegation.”
