Who's your money on in the takeover 'battle'?

[DanB90]

….i remember many years ago before the Moshiri take over, Paul sent me a message about a US takeover Consortium he was involved in. I had no reason to doubt him.

He’s badly Walter Mitty imo.

 

[Neiler]

….i remember many years ago before the Moshiri take over, Paul sent me a message about a US takeover Consortium he was involved in. I had no reason to doubt him.

Wow, i wonder was it the lads who eventually took over Swansea.

 

[jazzy]

The Dell blag really doesn't sit well with me.

I reckon that was an intentional bum steer and I've had enough of owners blagging fans over the years.

Textor or Friedkin would be my preference at the moment. Even Friedkin at 45% to put the money in we need.

Does "with backing from the Dell family office " lead most people to conclude that
A. Dell himself is going to take a shareholding or
B. The Dell family office will loan B&D the money to complete the deal.

My initial impression,and it hasn't changed is B.

I'm not sure what in the initial statement leads anyone, thinking logically, to conclude that Dell himself was in board.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Do we think it was the two lads who leaked it though or could it have been Moshiri, its a dirty game.

They're liking tweets mate about their bid. I'll leave it at that.

 

[Neiler]

They're liking tweets mate about their bid. I'll leave it at that.

Fair point!

 

[Azza]

Possible to have an explainer post outlining what we know about each bid pinned to the top of this thread?

 

[Drico]

Our ceiling is much higher than Romas.

Only because English football is run by right-wing gangster capitalists (and the Italians have yet to properly catch up). People moan about English football selling its soul - which it has - but then take a little pride, apparently, at its status as the "richest league in the world". It keeps Richard Masters and Sky Sports in clover.

AS Roma is a huge club. So are we. If this fella wants to ditch Roma and come here, it's not because Everton Football Club is a significantly bigger club. It's because the Premier League, which is now run by human rights-abusing head-choppers and is, essentially, a kleptocrat's fever dream, is a better financial proposition right now than Serie A. We should remember that when people who already have control of huge clubs abroad start sniffing around our carcass.

 

[DaChunk]

Does seem like Paul has some skin in the game.

Maybe im reading too much in to it mind.

In this article published on the 27th of May he's saying nobody will buy us etc, now a bidding war is bad news for us....?

 

[Eggs]

Possible to have an explainer post outlining what we know about each bid pinned to the top of this thread?

…..not sure we know any detail and the situation is very fluid. Much of it seems like opinion and conjecture to me.

 

[BullensRoad]

Shouldn’t we all be picking sides and arguing endlessly over which owner is the right one and mercilessly shaming anyone who disagrees? Or is that tomorrow

The Dell blag really doesn't sit well with me.

I reckon that was an intentional bum steer and I've had enough of owners blagging fans over the years.

Textor or Friedkin would be my preference at the moment. Even Friedkin at 45% to put the money in we need.

I got a bit excited too with the initial press release, especially with Kaveh saying “want to spend big with their own fortune, life long Everton fans back with the owner of Dell one of the richest men in the world”. Seems they are just using his financial support only as debt and he doesn’t give one about the club.

Still all guess work. I wanted Downing involved when he got wrongly kicked out for celebrating at the Etihad, a time when someone worth circa £1bn could help us compete (not to city’s level, but back then you could still make a challenge until more clubs got loaded or PSG inflated everything with Neymars tranfer).

 

[Zatara]

I agree with you it is almost becoming personal with him.

I was fully behind Bell and Downing but in all honesty and joking apart if their judgement is so bad that Esk is actually part of their consortium ( as opposed to him hitching his fortunes to their bid ) then you would have to doubt them.

I think the Esk and the Dell story (which still may actually unfold differently to be fair) have very much put me off them.

Of course if they did have DFO or MSB in as more of a partner then i'll be gobsmacked.

Well.....that's pretty much what Ratcliffe is doing

Big difference imo.

United have servicable debt while we do not

The Dell blag really doesn't sit well with me.

I reckon that was an intentional bum steer and I've had enough of owners blagging fans over the years.

Textor or Friedkin would be my preference at the moment. Even Friedkin at 45% to put the money in we need.

Yes the Dell BS as it currently seems really annoyed me yesterday. Clearly been pushed to the media and is really poorly advised.

Imagine if they bought the club today and it was a 11%+ refinancing with MSB.

Every media outlet would surely wonder what the lies were for and be against them/us.

It can happen mate - look at Textor at C.Palace.

The Premier League is what it is as well. It'll cost him more to buy Everton than it did Roma.

Textor wants to invest more in Palace to try and build them up but he hasnt/cant.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

 

[ToffeeTim]

Any minority investment option that means Moshiri keeps involvement, is a very very bad outcome for the club.

We need a full takeover of the club

 

[Drico]

Does seem like Paul has some skin in the game.

Maybe im reading too much in to it mind.

Promoting the idea that Bell, Downing (and Michael Dell) are the only game in town benefits only The Esk and his cronies.

This fella has had an agenda for years. Nobody can be as wrong as regularly as he has been if they were merely observing events.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I was actually going to message you about adding all the latest players and hitting reset.

Cheers

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