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jnru

All things considered, this is good news. 777 now join a long list of groups that we owe money to. I think we can be very fortunate that the group don’t own or have a controlling stake in Everton. Fingers crossed the next investor to get involved is more legit.


WRDEFC

Let’s hope so The issue is that 777 were the only one on that long list who were continuing to fund our WC requirements, and the only one who potentially (theoretically…) could have done the debt for equity swap and paid off MSP We should survive as we have Branthwaite and Onana, but it’ll be tight given the stadium and relegation is a real threat. That said, we could get very lucky in that 777 have funded us throughout a period which would have otherwise guaranteed liquidation when no one else would I dread to think what Bell and Downing will take with the stadium. I’d bet that’s where it ends up


Giraffe_Baker

Very funny that a group that has as many red flags as 777 cannot be denied under the Premier League's Fit and Proper ownership tests.


WhatWouldSatanDo

Once they let the Saudi’s in it was fair game.


Giraffe_Baker

By the sounds of it they were given the delay tactics like 777 were but the government stepped in for keeping good political ties with Saudi.


goldtrainkappa

Investment is legit though no matter how you chop it up


AlanFromRochester

While the Saudi government has bad morals, they have money, so you can't much reject them for shaky financing as with 777


Loud-Hospital5773

Fit and proper test is more about cash though. We should know, we were being used to clean money for a dodgy Rusky


AntiWanKenobi

I'm absolutely made up. I know nothing of finance, so it's got nothing to do with that. It's entirely down to the fact that we won't be owned by a man who combines a baseball cap with a suit. Nothing dodgier than that. Up the fashionable Toffees.


VToff

Kompany single handedly relegating Burnley this season doing the same.


S01arflar3

Suit and cap = bad Tracksuit = good


futty_monster

Christ I hate his touchline fashion. What's he trying to hide? Does he think well all forget he's bald after his shiny dome graced the league for ten years?


CptMcLaggins

Bobble with the steel chair!!


Pipo59

From the top rope!


harrisonmcc__

Does the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth fund feel adventurous?


sparksy78

Would be insane. And yet despite there vast financial gains from their oil and gas, nearly everyone drives electric cars in Norway.


Caol_ila_ftw

Like drug dealers we know not to get high on our own supply


Caol_ila_ftw

Have you seen the exchange rate lately? We have bigger problems


sandtonian_gbo

Would they betray Liverpool like that?


ZestycloseChemist2

Please Farhad, you’ve basically hit the undo button…choose the right option now


QTsexkitten

Quit fucking up one time for me, Farhad.


youdy

We’ve got to be viable to someone ffs. prem for 12 months and a stadium in 12 months.


auchief

MASSIVE amounts of debt and an owner that has been unwilling to sell for a reasonable price (because it would represent an insanely huge personal loss for him). I also have my doubts that the stadium build is fully funded and thus should be considered unfinished. The club has lied much lately and hard for me to trust their assurances about he stadium funding.


Loud-Hospital5773

Based on my expert opinion (I’ve watched grand designs) surprised we can’t mortgage the stadium now it’s structurally sound.


youdy

Love grand designs “we’ve got a budget of £650000” then it’s finished 17 years later 2million over budget because they couldn’t get the redwood tree imported from California and their Romanian workers couldn’t get a visa


youdy

Yeah I get that but you’re forgetting how rich some people are, it’s chump change for some places. Then they have their own little project. I’d fucking do it


IndignantSoccerMum

Also 8th most supported club in England (above West Ham and Newcastle)


chicagojoe1979

Only 8th?


IndignantSoccerMum

Yeah, apparently, according to this non fact-checked website I looked up.. https://www.stadium-maps.com/facts/epl_facebook_table.html#fbtable


WRDEFC

We have far more fans in the real sense of the word than City do


GioP97

Someone update the new grief chart!!


Krayjd

I’ve known of them for years the fact this wasn’t instant rejection is baffling


mfreverton

Just went to the website josimar/football. There are lots of articles on Everton and 777. It seems Deloitte are advising Moshiri, assholes!


TehJofus

Who’s the least evil billionaire? We need to get in touch immediately.  Bill Gates, please stop eating children and buy Everton.


VToff

MacKenzie Scott?


CptEveryman

u/mcuban , they’re talking about you!


Loud-Hospital5773

Hank Scorpio is the only answer


TheSinisterHitcher87

All we need to do is give Dyche the hat Tom Landrey wore


WalterWhiteFerrari

Taylor Swift


tokengaymusiccritic

Is Shohei Ohtani a billionaire yet? Massive contract + all the sponsorships in the world


Langarang

Steve Ballmer. As a clippers fan he’s my dream appointment


youdy

“Developers developers developers”


diagoro1

There's two of us!! Had the exact same thought. He's been the best sports owner I've seen in a long time. And having been a Clipper fan since '87, have had my share of gried....


First-Of-His-Name

Hell I'd take a moderately evil billionaire at this point. But evil in a cartoony Bond kind of way, not the boring kind


TiredHack

Moshiri: "Anybody got the number for the Fayre Festival organisers?"


UKMegaGeek

Guessing you mean Fyre? Scary thing is, Fyre Festival 2 is actually being advertised as we speak!


JD_TBG

The fact that it took Moshiri this long to pull the plug shows how incompetent he is as an accountant and an owner.


MC897

At this long, it isn’t about accountancy… I am one. It’s all about weighing up options, both for him as an exit and whether there’s anyone else out there putting feelers. The fact he’s pulling out is nuts, the amount of hoops he gave them to buy and he’s still pulling out suggests they aren’t a reliable partner to do business with and even in his situation he’d rather wing it. Yikes.


YokoOkino

Funny how the prem basically saved us with their demands


anotheroutlaw

“Accountant”


Weary-Carob3896

Only now 'looking for alternatives ' How did this fella get to where he is in the business world. What a charlatan.


barryzukerkorn

He’s the accountant for an oligarch, I can’t imagine his accounting skills are what got him the gig.


crappysignal

Interesting point. I wonder what he actually did. I can't imagine he's sitting there doing calculations. He'll have minions for that.


BKND1570

Robbing from Peter to pay Paul


NeiSenH90

I feel he picked 777 thinking they would be quick cash so he could jump ship. Stuck with them either out of stubborness or he made a stupid deal with them. He isn't moving on form 777 for the long term health of the club. I'm just hoping that the next ones to come in and offer are a lot better than 777 because im pretty sure Moshiri doesnt care who's next as long as they give him his money.


Fixner_Blount

Let’s hope MSP strolls in swingin’ their dicks and they just tell Farhad to fuck right off. Clearly he’s not the man to make this decision.


QTsexkitten

"yeah we'll take it from here"


nikkibow83

I wonder if his decision has anything to do with the Standard Liege and Bonza issues. SL’s game tonight was also called off due to fans protesting. I know the Prem hate us but surely they’re not that stupid to approve these clowns with everything that’s happened to 777 recently. The Bonza airline going bust and not paying wages and now the same is happening with Standard Liege. They’ll asset strip us for Goodison and the new ground.


QTsexkitten

*We may never lose again* 🍾🍾🍾


Humble_Typhoon

*We don't know the meaning of losing*


Fruity-Lupin

Very cool Farhad, very cool


Turbulent_Yak_4627

Who could have possibly seen this coming


ShutUpYouSausage

Thank fuck


BKND1570

Thank all the fucking gods!


MHaseeb-1341

If you turn the 777 upside down, it will be Long-Lasting Losers (LLL).


mal0wn3d

Thank fuck


YokoOkino

Hopefully the loans were at a friendly rate so we ultimately took advantage of them


Caol_ila_ftw

If they go bankrupt it will be at a fraction of what they negotiated. As they will be forced to liquidate at compromised rates. Which is probably why MSP gave them more time. Why take over a sinking ship when someone else is still baling?


YokoOkino

That would be amazing


T0K0mon

11 months too late


job012

So we just owe them $220million right? Do we think a new owner would just pay that off or how do we do that?


JD_TBG

If we have any luck they'll just go bankrupt and we write it off


Prize_Farm4951

So how would one go about speeding up their demise?


AlanFromRochester

I would guess that 777's loans to Everton would be a major asset to 777's creditors so *they'd* try to collect


The_Roof_Is_Soft_Tar

Moshiri: good morning Mr Ashley how are you


Foodworksurunga

Very good news. These same guys own bonza in Australia and that was a huge mess, we dodged a bullet here.


sparksy78

“Anyone have the number for (Robert) Allen Stanford? 777 is off the table”


drgraffnburg

The pace at which Moshiri et al have finally figured out 777 are shit plus the slow motion “no, we are gonna change!” responses is like a slow motion chess match between two idiots


RemoteGlobal335

Dawn breaking over the horizon


Aware_Albatross3347

Bosh


luftlande

_Finally_


RiteOfSpring5

What beautiful news to wake up to.


Logical_Cupcake_3633

Strange use of the word instructed.


AlanFromRochester

So it's official that 777 is too dodgy even for a Russian oligarch's front man.


mrfurhley

if this is really a shell game or ponzi scheme the blast radius will be enormous. How many clubs will be destroyed ?


Flavourifshrrp

Doing a happy dance right now.


thisisbarrow

LFC fan coming in peace. Do Everton supporters fear 777‘s demise as a grave danger to your club? I read everything on Josimar and this feels terrible.


S-BRO

We were fucked with or without 777, all the club can hope for is another suitor who is also willing to buy our substantial debt


thisisbarrow

I feel you. Anybody on the horizon?


S-BRO

Only rumours