777 Partners / Whatever the hell you like

[smileychap]

Post deal completion, I still want Goodison Park to be deemed unsafe for BK to attend.

 

[chrismpw]

Because being owned by a Thunderbird puppet operated by an Uzbek oligarch and Putin crony was sunshine and roses wasn't it.

It wasn't great, but US business has a track record of bringing poverty and misery to millions and vast profits to the few. We are now, in effect, a tory club.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Positives - Moshiri gone, Stadium will be finished without money issues, actual businessmen on the board

Negatives - the group’s reputation, given protests at some of their other clubs, Moshiri selling to who he wants to, not to the best for the club

 

[pfim]

I'm not worried now about 777. I'm fairly confident they won't pass the fit and proper tests..

I read this a lot here, I haven’t seen anything yet that would disqualify them. Being legal loan sharks isn’t a disqualifying event.

 

[micknick]

All feels so murky doesnt it. MSP loaning £100m, someone else loaning £40m, now Moshiri selling. Does that wi[e those debts out or will the club be saddled with even more debt.

Feel like theres a long way to go with this, early days for them to now get through the rest of the hurdles.

 

[CielosGrises]

Since Ukraine Moshiri has been neutered anyway - so if its a choice between him and somebody else - its somebody else.

At least this lot have some global involvement in football. The rest...who knows.

 

[Ferguson1878]

There's always a reasonable chance that if it's one man or one family owning us that Everton gets under their skin and they occasionally make decisions (particularly those that impact on fans) with the heart not the head. That they'll fight in our corner.

Admittedly that has been worth nought since the late 80's but hope springs eternal.

last owner who had our interests at heart was moore’s ,even carter didn’t want to appeal against the european ban incase it messed up his chances of becoming a sir or a obe whatever it was

 

[Blue_Eagle]

We're all of course looking at the negatives here and rightly so, but an interesting positive could be the ability to off-load some of our unwanted talent to some of their other european clubs they own and get first dibs on some of their wanted talent for our club (their most significant investment yet and you would hope, highest priority to get right).

 

[Neiler]

It's not really a morality thing at all. The firm my mate works for, and the other firms in that space, do work for some absolutely horrendous people. They do not turn down work on moral grounds.

It's a question of legality, and their view was that the club was operating on the very fringes of legality at best due to the owner and his "associations", and they would not take on the work due to the potential exposure that brings.

Ive no doubt, we've been gangsters we can call it morality or legality - we both can accept we've bent every rule going (at best) mate.

I still say the dude, forgave a lot of our sins financially and that inevitably creates a vacuum now he is going that will need to be filled. 777 show no evidence of adding value to improving management of clubs that they are at - or investing. We cant take on anymore debt. So there is only one other way of raising revenue, to fill the vacuum - selling assets.

My point being, we definitely can go rungs down the ladder to what we have experienced up to now. They can be worse then Moshiri - absolutely.

 

[tsubaki]

It wasn't great, but US business has a track record of bringing poverty and misery to millions and vast profits to the few. We are now, in effect, a tory club.

It all depends whether they’ve got their money off someone else. Bohely’s buyout of Chelsea and the subsequent splurge has PIF (the Saudis who bought Newcastle) in the background.

 

[CielosGrises]

All feels so murky doesnt it. MSP loaning £100m, someone else loaning £40m, now Moshiri selling. Does that wi[e those debts out or will the club be saddled with even more debt.

Feel like theres a long way to go with this, early days for them to now get through the rest of the hurdles.

Well, that is the real world - only oil-rich would throw money at a business like football.

The rest need to make a profit somehow - saddling the club with debt is effectively saddling the fans with debt and taking their money every year - see Man Utd.

 

[JLW]

I like the unknown factor of it, it’s better than what we’ve been witnessing! I mean it could go either way but with this current lot we’re only going the wrong way.

 

[Bazlar]

£550 mil according to Sky

 

[Dymak]

Any news on the structure of the deal?

How much is being paid for Moshiri’s shares, and how much debt will be remaining?

Is the delay in completing the deal usual; why wait until the end of the year?

 

[Bebeto]

£550 mil according to Sky

That's cheap...I hope that this includes everything, including the stadiums