The Friedkin Group reaches agreement to buy Everton

[GrandOldTeam]

@GrandOldTeam

That's an interesting theory

 

[degsy]

With this lot pulling out I now no longer want them near us. All this conjuncture about coming back to the table? No dice boys. Our fan base have gone through the mill too many times. They don’t desrve this treatment from you.
Hopefully get somebody that really wants us and are not time wasters

That assumes that anybody gives a tinkers damn about the fans and what they want or how they feel.

Fans are filed thus: shizzy end of the stick - fans for the use of.

 

[billyblue80]

I swear this is the longest takeover saga ever

The most despairing dead end

 

[Swartzy]

With this lot pulling out I now no longer want them near us. All this conjuncture about coming back to the table? No dice boys. Our fan base have gone through the mill too many times. They don’t desrve this treatment from you.
Hopefully get somebody that really wants us and are not time wasters

Was It really them just playing games with us and then leaving us dry, Or was It that Mosh kept changing the terms of the sale.

 

[Geoff Nulty]

I'm not 100% convinced Moshiri actually wants out tbh.

From the outset he only wanted "investment"
When that wasn't forthcoming he switched to " for sale "

To me he has found a way to muddle through this time period getting the stadium paid for.
Now it might just be me but him being a madman with a huge amount of money behind him , think if he really wanted to sell up completely he would have found a way to do so.
It's no coincidence there have been multiple bidders wanting to buy the club & 4 failed exclusivity periods speak for itself.

I've heard a similar theory from someone who was involved in a previous bid. Moshiri is just looking for sticking plasters until the stadium is built and - hopefully - the war in Ukraine ends.

 

[pfim]

Was It really them just playing games with us and then leaving us dry, Or was It that Mosh kept changing the terms of the sale.

Moshiri controls the situation. Blaming others is foolish.

 

[Swartzy]

Moshiri controls the situation. Blaming others is foolish.

Exactly, unless you were saying I was blaming others..

 

[pfim]

Exactly, unless you were saying I was blaming others..

No. I was agreeing with you

 

[Moderatelywarmwater]

Sorry Dave can you elaborate on why? Every Iranian I’ve met are lovely people.

Racism.

 

[MikeH72]

I've heard a similar theory from someone who was involved in a previous bid. Moshiri is just looking for sticking plasters until the stadium is built and - hopefully - the war in Ukraine ends.

Everyone’s worst nightmare is Moshiri still being in charge. That is the worst possible outcome from any of this. How can you honestly be “hoping the war ends”, how is that a strategy? Even if it does, who is to even say that all sanctions are immediately lifted anyway, why would they be? He probably is that thick to be honest.

 

[MikeH72]

Oh, a happy belated 1st birthday to our interim board too by the way.

 

[chrismpw]

Everyone’s worst nightmare is Moshiri still being in charge. That is the worst possible outcome from any of this. How can you honestly be “hoping the war ends”, how is that a strategy? Even if it does, who is to even say that all sanctions are immediately lifted anyway, why would they be? He probably is that thick to be honest.

Quite ... and the tory government filled with self interested ministers and a prime minister happy to schmooze with wealthy Russians for personal gain, is no more.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

@GrandOldTeam

I think we can say with a degree of certainty that the Kaminski group and 777 where never serious takeover options but the fact he's used MSP and the Friedkin group as a credit facility does make you think.

 

[davek]

I'm not 100% convinced Moshiri actually wants out tbh.

From the outset he only wanted "investment"
When that wasn't forthcoming he switched to " for sale "

To me he has found a way to muddle through this time period getting the stadium paid for.
Now it might just be me but him being a madman with a huge amount of money behind him , think if he really wanted to sell up completely he would have found a way to do so.
It's no coincidence there have been multiple bidders wanting to buy the club & 4 failed exclusivity periods speak for itself.

Moshiri's position at Everton was determined by the Ukraine-Russia situation.

If the political heat is removed I suppose his presence here becomes less of an issue.

Are things changing in that respect? I cant see it just yet, but maybe it comes into play the longer matters drag on with our sale.

 

[Kev The Rat]

He has more or less finished the stadium now - and remember he said he could pay for it himself if he wanted to - I know @MikeH72 laughed at the suggestion, but if its true - and yes I know he used interested purchasers as credit lines - then he may well be in for the long haul.

I dont think hes serious about selling at all, basically. I agree with those who maintain he is looking for investors rather than buyers.