The Friedkin Group reaches agreement to buy Everton

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Don't we?? Depends entirely were we are up to with the financial fair play rules. We can only spend up to certain strict limits (and neither you nor I know what these are). To increase the ability to spend we have to increase our income, and in the short term that inevitably means sell someone. We haven't currently got any other income streams.

I think what could be telling is the keeping of Thelwell if reports are true.

He’s proved so far a key skill of his in operating within the limits placed.

If you didn’t have to manage that - then why would you keep him on as a new broom.

I very much think we are still operating in limits.

We lost 90 mill in our last set of published accounts, I doubt we turned that around in the last financial year - so I think we can presume with pretty much certainty that PSR is still going to be an issue. Fiedkins or no.

Which takes us to unineviable decisions.