Lee1878

🚨 Everton are up for sale with £600m of debt, and January is where it gets ugly £800m is what the Friedkins reportedly want, against a suggestion the club's equity isn't worth £250m. TFG bought 94.1% in 2024, seeing off 777 Partners among others, and announced in October they're selling less than two years later. They went looking for minor investors first, found nobody suitable, and are now trying to shift the whole stake. Michael Dell, Amanda Staveley and Alisher Usmanov have all been linked, and it's gone quiet in the last week. Which means TFG will almost certainly still be in charge when the window opens, and that's where the incentives stop pointing in the same direction as the team. Cutting the wage bill and banking transfer fees makes the club cheaper to run, improves the books and services debt that any buyer inherits. It makes Everton more sellable, but it also makes Everton worse. They reportedly tried to push through a £40m sale of Harrison Armstrong to Forest in the summer, I'd be surprised if that isn't the agenda again. Branthwaite would bring a serious profit with United still interested. Travers, Alcaraz and Dibling could all go simply to clear wages. Moyes has three straight wins and a side on the edge of the Champions League places, built from a squad that was gutted in the summer. And the logic from above is that Premier League survival is enough to attract a buyer, so backing him in January changes nothing for the sellers. Supporters want fourth. The owners want a balance sheet.