Farhad Moshiri

[TheFinnFan]

Stuff like this is a conspiracy theorists goldmine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20150921093349/http://www.usm-group.com/company.html

The main shareholders of USM are Alisher Usmanov, Vladimir Skoch and Farhad Moshiri.

USM’s assets include Metalloinvest, one of the largest global metals and mining companies, MegaFon, a major telecommunications operator in Russia, Mail.Ru Group, the Russian internet and social network leader, and UTH Russia, one of the country’s fastest-growing commercial TV broadcasters. The group is also a prominent global investor in the digital space with stakes in Alibaba, JD.com, Xiaomi, Spotify, Airbnb, Zalando, Flipkart, ZocDoc and Klarna.

hah, yes.

so they continue being tight business partners ; )

maybe we will change chang to zalando next season !!!

 

[The Esk]

Where will this investment come from and go to?

In simple terms the investment will come from the company's 49.9% shareholder BHH, currently 100% owned by Moshiri. As you know BHH have the option to acquire circa 75% of Everton via the option agreement in place with BK, JW, and AA. I would imagine that all other investors would be offered the opportunity to sell at around the same time, or soon thereafter.

BHH can capitalise Everton in a number of ways - they can raise equity funding themselves either by subscription from Moshiri or from third parties, they can raise debt themselves, or they can arrange debt to be placed on Everton's balance sheet. Additionally they could allow a third party to take a minority interest in Everton by a new issue of shares.

The additional funding, from which ever mechanism/source is then utilised by Everton to fund team developments, and/or fund a new stadium assuming the stadium is to be owned by Everton Football Club. There's a different model of course, whereby Everton become the anchor tenant to a new stadium owned by a separate legal entity. I do not think that is likely.

I understand that Moshiri will be the provider of additional funding into BHH and that debt will be utilised partially for the financing of the new stadium. I have covered this in several articles previously.

 

[The Esk]

The Esk. Can you answer and give me your honest opinion, do you think mosheri will change our current standing in the game, to one of the top teams in Europe, that includes a state of the art stadium?

Unequivocally, yes.

 

[muckers]

Unequivocally, yes.

Whilst I love this answer, what makes you so confident?

 

[BlueToff]

I like this opening sentence, you start so confidently and then you start to doubt yourself, then you just bail out altogether.

Can guarantee they'll be nowhere near the title this year!... I reckon... but it's all relative...

It's badly worded. The 'it's relative' part was referring to their squad improvement compared to our squad improvement.

i.e. - we have improved our squad more than they have theirs, but they had a better squad to begin with

 

[BlueToff]

How does getting rid of Stones and bringing in a 32 year old Williams lead to long term gain?

Most people accept our squad is probably at best the 7th or 8th best in the league. We aren't going to be in a vastly different situation next summer than we were this year.

Short term I don't think many would disagree but long term we have sold one of the top young CBs in Europe for a player that will probably be finished in 3 years. Stop talking nonsense.

I'm not talking nonsense.

Short-term improvement means a better league finish. That in turn leads to better players coming in.

You harp on about the squad, but you're forgetting the MAJOR difference we now have on our side - the manager.

 

[Simon baker]

Unequivocally, yes.

Are you 100% sure you have no information whatsoever regarding potential additional investor or even investors as that's a big statement.

 

[The Esk]

Whilst I love this answer, what makes you so confident?

Moshiri's track record, the resources available to him, the potential that exists in the club, and certain pieces of information not in the public domain.

I can understand people's confidence being knocked by certain aspects of the window, there's clearly a lot of work to get us to the next level, but I am totally confident we can and will do it under Moshiri.

 

[The Esk]

Are you 100% sure you have no information whatsoever regarding potential additional investor or even investors as that's a big statement.

I have no knowledge of additional investors coming into Everton or BHH.

 

[muckers]

Moshiri's track record, the resources available to him, the potential that exists in the club, and certain pieces of information not in the public domain.

I can understand people's confidence being knocked by certain aspects of the window, there's clearly a lot of work to get us to the next level, but I am totally confident we can and will do it under Moshiri.

My confidence hasn't been knocked in the slightest, Moshiri is a self made billionaire. That suggests to me that he knows what he's doing!

"Certain pieces of information not in the public domain"

Come on mate, you can't say that and say nothing else!

 

[captainvindaloo]

The problem going forward is the club have already shown an abysmal level of communication, so off the back of that window everything will be viewed with increased cynicism (apart from the usual happy clappers who love everything Everton of course).

So we're now in a position of having to be permanently against the club unless proven otherwise. Yes, I get it's essentially a private business and they don't have to communicate anything, but it's a business ran on fan loyalty, and when the only communication is in the form of braindead comments to Jim White by text message, then it's hard to actually be enthused about the whole thing.

At this point, I'm 90% convinced the aim for Moshiri is to build a stadium on the cheap, and maintain the club in the Premier League, then sell on for 3x what he's put in. As a businessman, that's smart of him, but football isn't like your usual business, and if this happens then Kenwright needs smacking for not doing due process on this guy.

So, you are saying he is purely an opportunist, on a par with those suspicious Americans who came sniffing about last year? Quite understandable, considering our club's history with phantom stadiums going up all over the place and the lack of key signings this past window.

However, nobody but those close to Moshiri really know what is going on, we can only look at it from the outside. Logic would dictate there are no fast bucks to be made here - Not without a lot of investment. Buying the shares was step one. This is not an overnight event. Besides, I am not so sure there is such a thing as an "on-the-cheap" stadium. I have a neighbour who is a senior architect for a company that specialises in stadiums. They even drew up the plans for the one that the red lot across the park had wanted a few years ago. I saw the drawings. It was impressive, but not magnificent. Nevertheless, it was not cheap, and hence, not built.

If I was a billionaire with single minded ambitions of making more billions, I would be chasing after something a lot easier, and less risky than football teams, I can tell you. I mean, just imagine for a moment a situation where your hopes of growing your wealth lie in the hands of eleven temperamental ball kickers, surrounded by thousands of fickle judges watching your every move.
Obviously he has a plan. Obviously he will not share the details of it with the likes of us. It will be unveiled, piece by piece, and we will be driven crazy here with page upon page of wild speculation.
Next game is still a week away! Six more days of post window gloom and doom.

 

[davek]

In simple terms the investment will come from the company's 49.9% shareholder BHH, currently 100% owned by Moshiri. As you know BHH have the option to acquire circa 75% of Everton via the option agreement in place with BK, JW, and AA. I would imagine that all other investors would be offered the opportunity to sell at around the same time, or soon thereafter.

BHH can capitalise Everton in a number of ways - they can raise equity funding themselves either by subscription from Moshiri or from third parties, they can raise debt themselves, or they can arrange debt to be placed on Everton's balance sheet. Additionally they could allow a third party to take a minority interest in Everton by a new issue of shares.

The additional funding, from which ever mechanism/source is then utilised by Everton to fund team developments, and/or fund a new stadium assuming the stadium is to be owned by Everton Football Club. There's a different model of course, whereby Everton become the anchor tenant to a new stadium owned by a separate legal entity. I do not think that is likely.

I understand that Moshiri will be the provider of additional funding into BHH and that debt will be utilised partially for the financing of the new stadium. I have covered this in several articles previously.

So, we'll likely see Moshiri providing money - over and above that received for player sales and that part of the tv cash handed back to us from RMF - for transfer market activity; and the stadium will be secured via bank lending and commercial deals struck in advance (naming rights etc)?

I cant see Moshiri needing to make too much investment into Everton in the first couple of seasons while we had/have talent ready to be moved on. Lukaku alone is likely to cover the bulk of next summer's transfer fees.

I suppose we'll see over the fulness of time exactly how much of his own cash Moshiri pumps into the club.

 

[brieverton]

Moshiri's track record, the resources available to him, the potential that exists in the club, and certain pieces of information not in the public domain.

I can understand people's confidence being knocked by certain aspects of the window, there's clearly a lot of work to get us to the next level, but I am totally confident we can and will do it under Moshiri.

That is so very good to hear. The window was an overall disappointment but there will be others. I just want to see us being able to compete on as near a level footing with the elite clubs as we possibly can in time, and get a new stadium. It would be great to see us in the Champions League group stages even, or win a domestic cup. As much as we all bang on about things, for me at least, winning things again and taking our rightful place with the leading clubs is the aim.

 

[ham2]

Moshiri's track record, the resources available to him, the potential that exists in the club, and certain pieces of information not in the public domain.

I can understand people's confidence being knocked by certain aspects of the window, there's clearly a lot of work to get us to the next level, but I am totally confident we can and will do it under Moshiri.

Go on tell us, you know it makes sense

 

[Kendall's Dream]

I have no knowledge of additional investors coming into Everton or BHH.

Think I saw your take on the Usmanov rumours, you mentioned the biggest problem would be him selling his Arsenal stake. Just one quick question on it, surely a multi billionaire has enough contacts to find one person who'd be interested? Even if Usmanov lost money out of it, surely that's small change for him.