Takeover bid by Peter Kenyon

[navidson]

Do consortiums ever work as an ownership model?

 

[Carlito]

It will be interesting to see if Mosh wants to sell up, or possibly looking for an investor(s) to fill the [cough] Uncle Uz void to lessen his exposure to risk.

It's starting to look like him and Usmanov are just Kenwright and Green all over again.

 

[deipnosophist]

the times they are a changing...not sure whether too many have tuned into the very end days of money-printing 'can-kicking'.
Interesting times lie ahead.

 

[Mrk]

Not really bothered about the political persuasions of any potential owners - I mean, Kenwright is staunch Labour and was utterly useless, and for the past 6 years we've been funded by a guy who has strong links with Putin, who is practically a war criminal.

The important thing is what they plan to do. They can't do a leveraged buyout, they can't strip any assets (we don't have any), so their model needs to be communicated with the fans if they're serious about this.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I actually don't mind Simon Jordan.

I think he is a dic* but he does challenge traditional pundit logic. Atleast he doesn't go along with narratives

Being a contrarian for the sake of it doesn’t make him cool. He was an utter failure as a football club owner and now spends his days taking shots at others who, however incompetent, have still done a better job than that Just For Men guzzling little gremlin.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Being a contrarian for the sake of it doesn’t make him cool. He was an utter failure as a football club owner and now spends his days taking shots at others who, however incompetent, have still done a better job than that Just For Men guzzling little gremlin.

He hates Kia Joorabchian with a passion so it can't all be bad though.

 

[Axlswhk]

Just to add to this...

The play for the Americans would be to buy the club from Moshiri.

Restructure the business from top to bottom + open the stadium.

Then bring in the Chinese.

That will be disaster.

 

[Mashtray]

Being a contrarian for the sake of it doesn’t make him cool. He was an utter failure as a football club owner and now spends his days taking shots at others who, however incompetent, have still done a better job than that Just For Men guzzling little gremlin.

Haha ok ok you win.

Guess I'm just tired of all the pundits working with a hive mentality and being I'm the privileged position to work in football but contribute very little

 

[Zatara]

That will be disaster.

Thats what the Man City owners did.

 

[Axlswhk]

Man city is funded by a mega rich Arab billionaire as a vanity project. Americans are leveraging.

Can’t believe you didn’t realise that after 77 pages.
@Zatara

 

[davek]

Agreed. The one thing this story probably illustrates though is that Moshiri is likely receptive to buyers now in a way that maybe he wasn’t a year ago. I mean there’ll always be parties interested in Everton but for hacks to start talking about heads of terms without any denouncement from the club is an indicator that it’s a bit more than just window shopping at the moment.

It's simple enough to understand: the Ukraine War, the following sanctions that took place and the marking of cards of any football club with Putin associations (direct or otherwise) ended Moshiri's reign here at Everton. They obviously put a bomb under Chelsea to get Abramovic out as he was low hanging fruit; Usmanov and Everton were slightly less obvious and less in the public gaze (regardless of the efforts of that freak MP Chris Bryant).

Moshiri got a bit more time to sort his and Usmanov's affairs out. That's all.

We'll see a sale sometime in the near future, but that Kenyon connection looks ropey to me. Maybe there was an enquiry and Moshiri asked way too much but it suits him to leak the talks. He's trying to get an auction going would be my suspicion.

 

[bcblue1878]

Flush out interest and drive down price.

Alternatively flush out interest and drive up price ??

 

[Melchizedek]

Unless Mosh wants to sell...he's pressed the big reset IMO (again) and I'm more comfortable of the future now (Lampard, new DoF, restructuring) than I was last season. If he'd not done anything, then I'd be worried.

This new group popping their head in doesn't scream like greener pastures.

If he is hearing proposals for a consortium to buy the club, I think he's looking for a way out. He tried to play real life football manager, and failed spectacularly, and it's cost him hundreds of millions of his own personal wealth. Usmanov can't back him anymore. They might have both decided it's time to find another hobby.

This consortium doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence, but according to the rumors there are other interested parties. Hopefully if we get bought, it will be someone like man city owners.

 

[wm02]

Of course. But like I said...one is a carefree hobbiest billionaire...the other is a business and profit first billionaire.

Can't really find an example of a successful American owner that hasn't ruined a club in some form. FSG over at the RS but even then are heavily reliant on Klopp. If they had anyone less of a success than he is...they'd be closing the bank accounts down

Roma?

 

[Kev The Rat]

Just to add to this...

The play for the Americans would be to buy the club from Moshiri.

Restructure the business from top to bottom + open the stadium.

Then bring in the Chinese.

hahaha no Chinese owners will be allowed near the premier league