New Everton takeover plan emerges amid 777 Partners collapse despite £3bn Tottenham bid 'interest'

Everton could find a saviour in the midst of their ongoing ownership crisis as MSP Sports Capital are said to be waiting in the wings as the 777 Partners deal to buy the Toffees stands on the brink of collapse.

MSP, who are chaired by Iranian-American billionaire and Phoenix Suns minority owner Jahm Najafi, were previously said to be in talks with Everton owner Farhad Moshiri about acquiring a stake in the club last year before being turned away but now could be set to swoop in to save the club after its new prospective owners were accused of fraud in a civil courts case in New York earlier this week.

Those allegations were bought by London-based investment service Leadenhall Capital who claimed that a string of unpaid debts by the firm and its subsidiaries used collateral that either «did not exist» or was not actually owned by 777 Partners co-founder Josh Wander's entities.

It means that the Premier League are now unlikely to greenlight the takeover by 777 Partners who have been waiting on the process for months, and who have been paying the players wages in the meantime, leaving MSP a prime opportunity to go in and find a deal for themselves.

Najafi and co. have tried to enter the Premier League as owners before, having previously been linked with the Toffees but also with Tottenham Hotspur when the Financial Times claimed his consortium of investors were 'weeks away' from sending in a $3.75 billion (£3bn) bid for the north London club in February last year.

It was reported they were willing to value the club's equity at approximately $3bn (£2.4bn) and were set to add about $750m (£600m) of debt on the club’s books, with the consortium putting up 70 per cent of the purchase price with other backers from the Middle East