Farhad Moshiri future, new stadium, transfer spend - what MSP Sports Capital blow means for Everton
For some months the investment saga involving Everton has been of significant focus.
The Toffees, with a stadium build that still needs to find the remainder of its funding and with a club that is in need of recapitalising through an equity sale by owner Farhad Moshiri, after several bruising financial years where cumulative losses of more than £430m over five years have forced austerity that has impinged competitive ambition, appeared close to a solution.
Having engaged with numerous parties over the past 18 months, from the Maciek Kaminski/Peter Kenyon/John Thornton consortium, to American investment firm 777 Partners, Moshiri eventually entered into a period of exclusivity with MSP Sports Capital, a New York-based investment firm ran by industry veterans Jahm Najafi and Jeffrey Moorad with a strong track record of sports investment.
MSP, who have stakes in the McLaren Formula One racing team as well as the extreme sport competition ‘X-Games’, and indirect interest in a number of European football clubs such as FC Augsburg and Brondby, had been seen as the solution to Everton’s immediate problems, even if it wasn’t the panacea for all that ailed the club.
Back in June, filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that, dated June 20, a new company, MSP EFC Investors LC, had raised $165.5m (£130.2m) from a pool of 13 investors and submitted a ‘Form D’.
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