Richard Keys blasts Everton after they denied his £1bn takeover news, claims he was right
Richard Keys has blasted Everton for denying his story about a £1bn takeover bid Farhad Moshiri received around two years ago, claiming he was right about it.
Moshiri is currently looking for investment into the club to help fund the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, while fans are desperate to get him out as owner of the club after leading us to another relegation battle.
And now as speculation continues about protracted investment in the club, Keys has relayed information he was told two years ago about a £1bn offer Moshiri made but had rejected before the club denied it.
“It’s getting on for two years now that I revealed that the de-facto owner Farad Moshiri was looking for someone to buy the club,” he wrote in his blog (3 April).
“Moshiri offered Everton to a friend of mine here in the Middle East for £500m + another £500m to complete the new stadium with. The answer was ‘no deal’. Everton denied my story – but I was right.
“Who would anyone buy it now? If there is interest surely a prospective buyer would wait for the club to go into administration? Believe me – depending on how the season pans out – that’s a real possibility.”
Trouble
Moshiri has denied it before, but he’s quite clearly looking to find someone who can pay up to get him out of the hole he has dug Everton into with his reckless spending and awful decision making.
While there is obviously no proof that Moshiri offered someone ownership to someone for £500m plus £500m in investment in the stadium, it does fall in line with the sort of stuff being said now.
Everton need new investment but they also need Moshiri out of the club, so in an ideal world someone would just totally buy him out and continue the stadium without him.
But that is massively unlikely at this point, so we need to hope that the club can avoid relegation to stay in the Premier League next season and then we can start fresh in the summer.
Either way, Keys is standing by his report and the Everton board won’t be trusted anymore by anyone with a brain, so there must have been something in it at the time.