Everton: MSP Sports Capital investment off while club engulfed in turmoil – Sky Sports pundit
We’re delighted to welcome former Everton striker Kevin Campbell as our exclusive columnist. Each week the former Toffees captain will be giving his views on the biggest talking points at Goodison Park…
Kevin Campbell is not surprised to hear that MSP Sports Capital are losing interest in Everton with the risk currently so great around the club.
The long-awaited sale of a minority stake in the club to the US firm has been at an “imminent” stage for weeks now [i, 27 March], but The Esk reported on 14 March that it was now “unlikely” as their interest had wained, and the club have since been hit by a Premier League spending charge.
Regular Sky Sports pundit Campbell doesn’t think anybody is going to want to invest in a club that is still staring down the possibility of relegation, with the latest accounts showing that there is “material uncertainty” over Everton’s future in that event [Times, 31 March], but Premier League survival could change the picture.
The ex-Toffees captain exclusively told Goodison News: “I think the problem is that while Everton are still teetering on the edge of relegation nobody is going to pay that money.
“Because the risk is [there] if the worst were to happen isn’t it?
“Why would you spend £100 on something when you could get it for £50?
“So I’m not surprised that people are holding off investing in the club.
“Once you secure your Premier League status then you can be talking about it because you’ve got another season in the Premier League.“
On whether he could see a summer takeover be successful he added: “Yeah I can, I think you’re in a much stronger negotiating position once you’ve secured your Premier League status.”
It hardly needed to be reiterated to anyone but the success of Sean Dyche with this squad in the final weeks of the season really is paramount for Everton.
Relegation looks like it will increase the turmoil engulfing the club to existential levels, whereas staying up could offer a reprieve if Farhad Moshiri is willing to take it.
He’s already had multiple serious offers to sell the club but has turned them down, but if the Toffees escape oblivion again this season then this summer is surely time for major change.