Everton firesale mooted amid Dan Friedkin takeover development at Goodison Park
Stephen Warnock has likened Dan Friedkin’s imminent takeover at Everton as something akin to a firesale.
The former Liverpool defender and now Sky Sports pundit delivered the verdict following the announcement [Everton FC, 23 September] that the Friedkin Group are set to acquire Farhad Moshiri’s full shareholding in the club.
Warnock, speaking on Sky Sports News on Monday [23 September, 13:38], also slammed Moshiri for refusing to listen to “football people”.
He said: “You’ve got to get the right guy. You’ve got to run it well and there’s got to be an understanding. Moshiri has bags of money but he’s never known how to run a football club and he’s never listened to football people.
“You can see the mess Everton are in. Whoever comes in to save the club, they need to have the best interests of Everton Football Club at heart, otherwise a few years from now it will spiral out of control.
“There’s talk of Everton running out of money in December time so they wanted this done soon. It’s not entirely a firesale but it has that sort of feel to it.”
Everton see light with Dan Friedkin announcement
There is finally light at the end of a rollercoaster tunnel for Everton, and a new belief at Goodison Park following the Friedkin news.
Following John Textor’s recent comments after he had become frontrunner to purchase Moshiri’s shares, most fans at Goodison Park have had reservations and will prefer the deal being sealed with Friedkin’s consortium, who bought AS Roma four years ago.
Friedkin is leading a party that has Toffees fans onside in the main, following a £200m cash injection as the building of the Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium continues to take shape [The Express, 24 September].
With debts having piled up on the blue half of Merseyside, Warnock’s assumption is that a deal quite simply had to go through now or else the club would be in serious trouble a couple of months from now.
Friedkin is now very much leading the charge in becoming the prominent individual to “save the club”, which could spare a lot of agonising financial concern months down the line.
In other Everton news, Friedkin’s deal with A-Cap could lead to the firm having shares in the club.
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