The Friedkin Group reaches agreement to buy Everton

[Blue peter]

People bought into his shtick that he was searching “night and day,” for a wealthy buyer - that he was doing us a great favour attempting to steer us through an underfunded decline.

Him finally finding a buyer - who just so happened to be willing to allow him to stay on in a position of power and influence - was, according to his cheerleaders, merely a coincidence.

Thinking back to it (and I could be wrong here) I’m not sure he ever used the term ‘buyer’, I think he used the term ‘investor’