MSP Sports Capital have reportedly withdrawn from takeover talks with Everton as Sean Dyche's team suffer a big blow after an already tricky start to the season.
MSP, headed-up by the Iranian-American billionaire Jahm Najafi, had signed an exclusivity agreement with the Blues back in May with a view to taking a 25% stake of the club and with it seats on the club's board, but has now pulled out of negotiations according to The Times. Part of the £150million that would have been put into the club was due to go toward the Toffees' new stadium on the Bramley Moore Dock site in Liverpool, though MSP will still lend money to the stadium company but not the club itself.
The period of exclusivity MSP entered into with Everton has now expired and is a damaging blow to the beleaguered club's owner, Farhad Moshiri, who wants to bring in investment as well as secure funding for the club's new stadium. MSP had been linked with a move for Tottenham Hotspur earlier this year with the Financial Times reporting that a £3.1billion offer was being primed by Najafi, who could well turn his attention back to London now.
Spurs have been the subject of takeover talk since the turn of the year, with chairman Daniel Levy reportedly meeting the president of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who runs the Qatar Sports Investments fund. The rapper Jay-Z has also been tipped to put together a shock offer while F1 owners Liberty Media have been credited with an interest in buying out Spurs owners English National Investment Company (ENIC).
Levy was quizzed on the prospects of a takeover at Spurs earlier this year and said any proposals would be considered. «I answer this question in the way I've answered it for the past 22 years,» Levy said.
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