The Friedkin Group reaches agreement to buy Everton

[HTCHERO]

Probably the best possible ownership we could have wished for given the state of the club.

Pro's:

• Not a consortium
• Has invested heavily in Roma
• Has made Roma competitive in Europe: Europa League runners-up in 22-23 and semi-finalists in 23-24.
• He will have learned lots of lessons since taking over at Roma, we aren't his first rodeo (unlike other interested bidders)
• Serious businessman, with lots of successful businesses, will know a blagger working at the club when he sees one.
• Cash rich, both individually and business empire.

Con's:

Time will tell...


I for one, welcome our new American overlord.

It's a con that it's his son that is likely to run us?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

First

 

[Milk]

Out of the Mosh pit and in to the Friedkin ....


And the only Toyota I owned was a bag of spanners.

I'm in

 

[Rich1878]

First

Page 5 mate

 

[aazak]

I, for one, welcome our new Texan overlords.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Page 5 mate

No one else had said first on page 5 - have a look if don’t believe

 

[Exeter_Gently]

It's a con that it's his son that is likely to run us?

Am sure it won't just been him.

 

[Martin Alvito]

That's hardly anything to recommend them though is it?

New owners who come in and take cash out the club to pay for their purchase of it.

Surely we can do better than that?

It depends on how much they take out. It's one thing to remove some cashflow at market rates, and another to loot the joint the way the Glazers did.

It looks like their objective is to turn the club into a functional going concern, which is more or less the opposite of the Glazers. It's not perfect, but it's an improvement.

 

[Blueberry Muffin]

Freakin' Friedkin's Texas Toffees. Put a bull on the badge and hope that Dybala wants to fling crosses in to Beto.

 

[Kever10]

Maybe they should all get together and make 1 super bid. The Friedkins, Bell, Downing and Dell, Manoukian and his Saudi Prince, MSP, Paul Gregg, Lord Granchester, Tim Cahill and the Qataris (great band name btw), Curtis Warren and Guy Incognito (who is this Usminov looking fellow?).

Just not ACAP or 777.

 

[Connor]

We'll see.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Am sure it won't just been him.

He’s 12

 

[Exeter_Gently]

He’s 12

He's not

 

[dublinbluenose]

Has something substantive happened that they have their own thread? What did I miss?