Still absolutely zero concrete info on what money they've got
Terrifying
Terrifying
You don’t know that at all. I can tell you that Moshiri’s spell as Everton owner has ended in disaster and there’s observable evidence.
h8kurdt
Player Valuation: £1m
Gotta love a bit of nepotism. We're on a burning train off the edge of a blown up bridge.Everton fans: "we need clued up sportspeople on the board"
New owners: "lets put our frat boy sons on the board with no experience or knowledge about football"
And peeps dont think this will end in disaster
Our current owner has absolutely no money without access to his Kremlin sugar daddy.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
You've hitched your wagon to these lads.
Lets hope they dont drive us into the ground otherwise you'll look very silly over your hard on for these blokes just because they aint Moshiri.
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
Got to say doesn’t sound good with these fellasThe American consortium leading the way to buy Everton believe their bid is progressing positively after they toured the club’s training ground and the site of the new stadium on Liverpool’s waterfront.
Former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon is leading the group made up of real estate tycoon Maciek Kaminski and gold magnate John L. Thornton.
The three, along with their sons — Mikhail Kaminski and John-Randolph Thornton, known as JR — have held talks with Everton’s current owner Farhad Moshiri in Monaco and chairman Bill Kenwright in London. Some members of the group also travelled to Merseyside where they were also shown around Everton’s offices in Liverpool’s iconic Liver building, the Finch Farm training complex and Goodison Park.
John L. Thornton and son JR speak to Yahoo in 2016
The Athletic understands that the exclusivity deal they have agreed with Moshiri is close to expiring but there remains hope a deal can be concluded that sees the consortium become the club’s majority owners within weeks.
Other parties remain interested but, should the Kenyon-led takeover go ahead, Mikhail Kaminski could be in line for a hands-on role in the day-to-day running of the club.
His father’s firm, Minneapolis-based firm Talon Real Estate, owns and manages a huge portfolio of retail, office and industrial properties in America, and they are interested in the potential for hotels and other associated businesses around the Bramley-Moore stadium site in Liverpool’s North Docks.
The group have scrutinised the current plans for the stadium and the community-focused development of what will occupy the ground Goodison Park sits on in the city’s Walton district.
At this stage, it is believed Kenyon could also take a role within the club after a successful takeover but he would need to consider whether that involved moving back to the north west from Jersey, where he currently lives.
Agreeing the sale price remains one of the final barriers to the purchase. The consortium are thought to be working off an equity value of around £380 million.
Within the heads of terms agreement the parties are working with is also a commitment that the new owners will invest a further amount on the stadium and provide funds for team-building. This is believed to be a key element of any deal for Moshiri, who values Everton at £500 million.
The Iranian-born former accountant was believed to be initially reluctant to consider a deal but changed his view after early talks. The Athletic understands that he does not want to sell all of his majority shareholding.
Moshiri would like to retain a stake in Everton after any takeover (Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images)
In January he increased his stake in Everton to 94 per cent after converting a £100 million loan into equity. He has also spent in the region of £500 million on transfers and appointing new managers, without any tangible sense of progress on the pitch.
Earlier this month he broke his silence after a disastrous season that saw Everton narrowly avoid relegation to reaffirm his commitment to delivering the club’s new stadium.
It is thought that his ideal scenario would be to remain in a smaller, reduced majority owner capacity or as a significant minority shareholder. Given that he has played such a pivotal part in reviving the club’s dream of a badly-needed new stadium, he still wants to be involved in the 2024-25 season when the ground is on track to be ready.
For their part, the Kenyon-led consortium want to buy all of Moshiri’s shares eventually but could be prepared to do it incrementally.
It is unclear how exactly the distribution of shares would play out between Thornton and Kaminski, but the latter is believed to be providing more of the funding.
Kaminski ensures he keeps a low profile and Thornton is also a private individual, tempered by his involvement in some of the banking world’s top jobs. He was a senior figure at Goldman Sachs before joining the Canadian mining and gold giant Barrick Gold in 2012.
He is also a scholar who has been a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His son JR, 30, spent time living in the Chinese capital and was an internationally-ranked junior tennis player who has written a novel, Beautiful Country, which was published iln 2013.
I haven’t “hitched my wagon” or have a hard on for anyone, you are once again, to the surprise of no one, lying.
Anyway let’s hope your hero doesn’t add selling the club to skint cowboys to his dossier of failures as owner of Everton football club.
He's a headcase but better the devil you know until we get concrete info on what they have access to
Clueless folk throw out the 30b figure but that's what one of the companies is valued at. Not the fella.
The estate agent isn't flush with dough and has defaulted on a fair bit (from what I've seen people dig up on here) but again its very limited
Absolutely no talk of their vision for the team and club... Absolutely disgusting.
All about expanding their "portfolio"... Classic Yank takeover ... Go away you horrible rats.
All about expanding their "portfolio"... Classic Yank takeover ... Go away you horrible rats.
At least we knew where the dough was coming from... Hicks and Gillette this crowd.
Stinks to high heaven this.
feels like that scene in taken where they parade the kidnapped girl in front of the wealthy men to bid on except the girl is replaced with bramley moore stadium as the enticing carrot on the stick for the potential suitors
Well in that case let’s hope our current owner looks out for the best interests of the club and makes sure they’re fit and proper before sailing off into the sunset with his profits. I’ve been assured he’s in it for the love of the game and not just financial benefit so we should be in safe hands.
"both like to keep a low profile" yeah bet they do... If you're worried about lack of fan engagement with Moshiri wait till these rodents take over.
Everton fans: "we need clued up sportspeople on the board"
New owners: "lets put our frat boy sons on the board with no experience or knowledge about football"
And peeps dont think this will end in disaster
….I don’t pretend to know if this takeover will be good or bad, but football is big business and we absolutely need top class business people on the Board.
The key to football matters is them appointing the right people to the key football positions and supporting them within business constraints to do their job.