Usmanov

[Tin-Tin]

I can't see any motivation for him investing in another team. Why put the spadework in elsewhere? Newcastle are in a right mess.

Neither can I but like I said, we are Everton. Everytime we have a bit of potential positivity, it all goes horribly wrong.

 

[RomanReigns]

 

[catcherintherye]

I can only assume more Kopites buy it than Blues, hence they feel the need to keep their clientele happy?

Pretty much a chicken or the egg situation really

They have always been quite close to Bill as well. I don't think he wants to let his train set go massively now, after the recovery he had.

 

[degsy]

Here's a question...

If Usmanov did buy Everton, will Bill Kenwright be vindicated and remembered as our saviour?

Not in public - KD, DK, etc. loom or should loom, too large...but maybe on the quiet, in the manner of Jacobites when toasting the King, they would pass their glass over their water glass...meaning the 'king over the water' Charles Edward Stuart

But it hasn't happened yet...It may not ever happen...could all be 2+2=5

 

[catcherintherye]

Neither can I but like I said, we are Everton. Everytime we have a bit of potential positivity, it all goes horribly wrong.

Well you could say it's about time our luck changed!

 

[Tel001]

My guess is that Premier League football clubs are playthings to the super-billionaires. Sure, they need to be run as healthy investments but they’ll happily take a hit sometimes because it’s more as a symbol of their prestige than for large gains in fortune. For me, they’re status symbols, like yachts. Like this oneView attachment 48140 100m long, 100m high. Imaginatively entitled ‘Sailing Yacht A’. Eur 300M. The Ruskie billionaire who owns that monster is in the same cabal and income league as Usmanov, and the dude has another boat called ‘Motor Yacht A’, similar size and price tag, but no masts / sails on it, just a pure motor yacht- in case you get bored of sailing, I guess.

Football clubs started to take on trinket status a long time ago with Abramovic and the Emiratiis. The yanks look to turn them into profitable US franchise-like businesses.

So my point and pet theory (all conjecture) is that Mosh and Al are trying to see if they can elevate the status of Everton to a similar level to that of The Arse - annual CL qual, stadium, win a pot, attractiveness of the club to top talent, etc - before Al will jump ship and shift his backing and prestige formally to L4. The Project in the beginning (and still) has many risks in it, on the pitch and off it.

For mega billionaires like Big Al, I think using Mosh only and 150-250M play money for 3-5 years, as a risk mitigation, around a set of larger and (at the time of the initial stake purchase) much more risky investments (stadium) is a good approach. Why would Al immediately put his name to a high-risk dud? We may be approaching that tipping point with the change in manager, Brands joining, stadium moving forward, etc.

I think it’s a positive sign for us and the longer term Project he’s thinking more seriously about selling his Arsenal stake.

If Everton was a boat it would be a dingy or life raft, with ex actor captain that refuses to get off the ship or hand over the controls dispute the fact that everyone knows he’s about to run the boat into the rocky shallows

 

[Axlswhk]

I can only assume more Kopites buy it than Blues, hence they feel the need to keep their clientele happy?

Pretty much a chicken or the egg situation really

I hope one day we will take Salah away from them. That, to me, is the best indication that we are the biggest team in the city. Can’t wait to see how hurt they feel about it.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Wonder if he's supposedly not getting involved so he can plough money in through sponsorships etc without being investigated like City/PSG

 

[Goat]

Ha. He's now running this...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...isher-usmanov-farhad-moshiri?CMP=share_btn_tw

Why run this when he has said Usmoanov is not interested?

Oh he mad.

Think im gonna have to have a word on Twitter.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Looks like some in the media are getting a tad worried...

 

[Firhillfill]

Ohhh what a burn there from Usie...

I read that as 'Everton will no be the best football club in the world...'

 

[ashwuk76]

Oh he mad.

Think im gonna have to have a word on Twitter.

Go get him tiger....

 

[technojoe]

It’s off people.

Usmanov not coming, Chelsea about to hijack Bernard, Mina to United, normal Everton service is resumed.

UTFT

 

[fandjango]

I believe he already did. As many had mention, this transfer window is like playing FM in an editor mode.

I recall man city getting bought be the sheikh on the last day of transfer window and within few hours splash a world record fee for Robinho. Of cos things might not be as dramatic here but to think that nothing is happening in the background between Moshiri and usmanov is living in denial.

Apparently Bernard wages is an example £200k

 

[Fedlingen]

Well, he's not likely to say, yes i'm investing billions in another club just before the transfer window shuts. Transfer fees would go up like crazy.