Evertonians might wish they could turn back to clock to the mid-1980s when footballers had haircuts like Limahl but fast forward to 2024 and patience is wearing thin over “The Never Ending Story” of the club’s protracted takeover.
Now the Everton FC Shareholders Association has delivered a hard-hitting statement and told the Blues’ majority shareholder: “In the absence of the Premier League making a timely decision we insist that the Everton Board, and Farhad Moshiri in particular, stop this damaging process now and recognise that 777 Partners are not at this time fit-and-proper prospective owners of Everton Football Club.”
Last summer, Everton gave us the longest ‘48 hours’ in history after the statement they told the world would be made about interim appointments and the future of the chairman. Back on September 15, when Everton announced that 777 had signed an agreement with Moshiri to acquire his full 94.1% stake, the club stated that closing of the transaction was expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2023.
We’re now just a week shy of it being eight months on and the deal is still awaiting regulatory approval. Even when that deal was struck, hot on the heels of investment talks with another US group, MSP Sports Capital, collapsed, 777 were fighting a public relations battle with fan protests at several clubs among their global portfolio of clubs – as this piece was being written it emerged that Standard Liege players are still unpaid for April and the Belgian outfit’s former owners have filed complaint calling for 777 assets to be seized after failed payment for their purchase of the club.
Everton takeover - Shareholders release damning statement slamming Farhad Moshiri and 777 Partners
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