The complacency around Everton’s debt position is staggering and worrying in equal measures. Commentators, even many fans and smaller shareholders with some interest in the club’s finances almost glibly talk of external […]
Kenneth King’s webinar regarding A-Cap and 777 Re
Kenneth King’s webinar 27 February 2024 I fully appreciate it won’t be for everyone, but for completeness and given the level of attention it has attracted in the UK media and particularly […]
Bermuda & its relevance to Everton’s proposed takeover by 777 partners (revisited)
Back in early November 2023, I wrote a fairly detailed article explaining the relationship between 777 Partners, Bermuda and the potential purchase of Everton Football Club. It was not a typical article […]
Everton, reinsurance and Bermuda, how are they connected?
Following Everton, trying to understand the current difficulties of the club financially, let alone trying to rationalise the logic of the current proposed takeover takes you, the reader, and I, the author, […]
Significant barriers to conclusion of Moshiri & 777 partners “agreement”
On Friday 15th September 2023 Everton Football Club announced the following: 777 Partners has signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full stake in Everton Football Club, which accounts for […]
Significant Update on Bramley-Moore Stadium Financing
MSP SPORTS CAPITAL HAVE PROVIDED MORE THAN £100 MILLION OF LOANS TO EVERTON STADIUM DEVELOPMENT HOLDING COMPANY In recent weeks and months there has been significant speculation regarding the funding of Everton […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Sheffield United (a), is this house for sale, strong words re 777 partners?
Welcome back to Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan, After an enforced absence it’s fantastic to be back and Everton as ever, don’t fail to provide a great deal […]
Everton’s finances – a projection for 2022/23
So where are we financially? The last set of accounts takes us to 30 June 2022. It is possible to project forward 12 months to see how we enter this current financial […]
The sale of Moshiri’s stake in Everton looks increasingly inevitable
Back in March 2016, buoyed after a Lukaku double had disposed of Chelsea in a rousing 6th Round FA Cup game at Goodison, Farhad Moshiri, talking of his new club, Everton, uttered […]
The “R” word and its financial consequences
With five games of the season to go, at the time of writing, Everton sit in 19th place and for the first time since 1951 face the prospect of relegation from the […]
Everton 2021/22 accounts analysis part III, Everton Stadium Development Limited & possible funding solution?
To complete the analysis of Everton Football Club Company Limited Report and Accounts for 2021/22, there is now sufficient activity within Everton Stadium Development Limited to warrant its own analysis. This article […]
Everton 2021/22 accounts, analysis part II. Moshiri funding, general financing & going concern
For a more general view on the Everton 2021/22 accounts please refer to part I, here “We need to be competitive and we need to win. We have a window to establish […]
Everton 2021/22 accounts, analysis part I
First things first, the publication of the annual report and accounts has been left to the last business hour of the last possible day within statutory limits. This, in conjunction with no […]
Referral by the Premier League, P&S explained, the potential consequences
The first half of this article explains what the alleged breach is about, why it may have happened. The second half looks at the potential consequences and what is now required. Late […]
Moshiri’s financial commitment, stadium financing & minority investors
With a great deal of media interest surrounding possible investment into Everton for a minority stake (more later) and with the caveat that the 2021/22 accounts are yet to be published, the […]
Open Letter from the 27 Campaign to Farhad Moshiri
The 27 Campaign in open letter format, a year on from their initial walkout at Goodison, call for Farhad Moshiri, 94% shareholder of Everton Football Club to address the growing concerns of […]
Moshiri’s £830 million commitment to Everton
Moshiri’s £830 million commitment to Everton Throughout the summer, takeover rumours have continued at Everton, including most recently by the Financial Times confirming, as has been said on this site and podcasts, […]
Everton, Elevate Sports Ventures and Bramley-Moore
The news that Everton have appointed Elevate Sports Ventures “ to support the delivery of its commercial strategy for the Club’s new waterfront stadium” barely raised a ripple of interest in the […]
Buying and valuing a football club, Everton FC
Imagine being offered a business that has the following characteristics: Is particularly sensitive to the timing of the transaction Has lost money six out of the last seven years Is cashflow […]
I give them whatever I have
Yes, it really is the seventh summer transfer window of Farhad Moshiri’s tenure at Everton. Whether he remains to see an eighth is, of course, subject to much speculation as briefings and […]