Roy Keane baffled at Everton accountants situation as Ian Wright shares 777 Partners view – ‘Cut corners’
Roy Keane has admitted to being baffled by what Everton accountants have been doing after they were charged for a second FFP breach.
Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast (18 January), Keane was reacting to the news that the Toffees had been charged for a second time for breaching profit and sustainability rules by the Premier League.
And the Manchester United legend admitted that clubs usually “cut corners” financially but questioned what Everton were doing if they didn’t notice they’d be over the limit, while Ian Wright gave his view on the protracted takeover by 777 Partners.
“What kind of accountants have they got in the background?” he said.
“I know football clubs can cut corners on bizarre things – give crazy wages but then cut corners but surely they must have the best of the best in terms of accountants before they file them and stuff?”
“What’s sad about the whole thing, when you look at the future of Everton and 777 I just read that the CEO and CFO they just released them. They just let them go, that’s the future,” Wright added.
“Those are the people who are allegedly meant to be buying the club and they’ve been suspended. They’ve been removed. So when you’re saying nobody is even going, and that is supposedly the future, that doesn’t look good.
“When you look at their activity around the world, the businesses and the discrepancies around the world, you have to worry about that with Everton and 777.”
Bingo
Roy Keane is known for saying this as they are, and it usually comes across quite blunt but he is bang on the money here with these comments.
You’d be within your rights to assume that the club have top of the line lawyers and accountants overseeing their accounts, but the club still managed to breach twice.
Surely when the club were going through their accounts months before they were due they would have realised that there was going to be a problem, but instead it feels like Everton tried to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it didn’t happen.
It’s also nice to hear Ian Wright share the same concerns that Toffees fans have about the takeover of the club, because there are far too many unanswered questions for the 777 Partners to just walk in and take things over.
Everton have got plenty of questions to answer and plenty of situations to navigate in the coming months and years, but financially there is big trouble brewing and a miracle is needed at this point to save them.
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