It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Stan, just become a Arsenal fan. :-))

.. How insulting -);

George? I refer you to post 4700.

Derby sack their manager after only 8 months, just what the hell do some of these idiot owners expect.

US takeover could be weeks away
by Lyndon Lloyd | 08/02/2016 220 Comments [Jump to last]

The proposed £200m takeover of Everton FC by the American consortium led by John Moores and Charles Noell is "edging closer" according to reports which put the timeline at between a fortnight and a few weeks.
Though there has been no official comment from the club at all on the matter since a report broke in The Times in December that the San Diego-based venture capitalist Moores and his long-time business partner were undertaking due diligence, local journalist Greg O'Keeffe was the first to report today that talks are at an advanced stage.

More of the major national outlets have followed suit, suggesting that Everton's hierarchy is now tacitly acknowledging that negotiations are well underway, with The Guardian saying that it could be a matter of weeks, while Paul Brown in the Daily Star also claims that a deal in principle could be signed as soon as two weeks' time.

Two Chinese groups are also believed to be interested in discussing a takeover of the Blues but O'Keeffe suggests that they would only enter the equation, "if a deal-breaking late bump in the road occurred."

Brown claims that Moores and Noell, who have pondered bringing a MLS franchise to San Diego, have a passion for football and are proceeding with their proposed buyout of Everton against the advice of their closest aides.

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Mike Berry
1 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:07:53 I don't know about this. Better the devil you know and all that. Can't help thinking about all the clubs that all have disasters as foreign owners. We all know who they are. But hey ho, the last John Moores, didn't do too badly
Dave Clark
2 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:12:11 I'm so scared of this takeover. The Yanks have no clue about football and all they want is a huge return on their investment (I actually have no problem with that, but are the rest of you ready for it?).

Buy Everton for £200m, sell Stones, Lukaku and Barkley for £150m and they get a bargain. Yes, it really is that easy and we the fans could do nothing about it. Be careful what you wish for, Blue Union!

Let's just hope they aren't like Lerner, Gillett & Hicks, John Henry (who I have on good authority does not have the money he claims to have) and even the Glaziers (who got away with it due to Ferguson).
Dave Roberts
3 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:14:58 77 quid for the Upper Bullens?
Keith Meakin
4 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:18:55 It's all about the money! TV Revenue makes huge appeal to the Yanks.

Chuck in the sale of Lukaku and Stones and they have a very good deal. Not sure it's good for Everton.
David Tennant
5 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:20:51 Really don't trust American owners to invest in the club, their track record in the premier league leaves a lot to be desired. Villa, Sunderland and United are examples of clubs I don't want to follow.
Asian and Arab owners in general seem to heavily invest in order to create a brand that is sellable throughout the world i.e adding value to the club. City, Leicester, PSG.

American owners look at clubs like shares. What dividends can they get out of it? How do they cut costs and increase profit? They don't add value or develop the brand, they utilize what's there.

I have a lot of trepidation about these guys.

Ian Bennett
6 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:23:16 Stand by Goodison exercise. £200m for doing nothing, can't be bad.
David Tennant
7 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:23:43 And obviously Liverpool another prime example of a series of US ownership
Pete Cross
8 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:24:03 Venture capitalist sends shivers down my spine
Frank Crewe
9 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:24:33 They're not rich enough. We want billionaires not millionaires.
Usman Khan
10 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:25:43 I have been reading ToffeeWeb for an age now but have only just signed up to comment. My reason for doing so now is as a supporter of close to fifty years I am saddened that our time as a locally-owned and led club is coming to an end and that we are just going become another profit line on an investor company's balance sheet.
Sure they have been problems in the past and that we have lacked investment at crucial points of time, but better that than this.

Danny James
11 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:26:12 This could be a disaster waiting to happen
Julian Wait
12 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:27:03 As a Texas Toffee, I sure hope this means more games here, and I would expect that would mean Houston (he has put a lot of money into UH). As a lifelong blue, I just hope it means NSNO returns to the fore and we start to win things again, it's about time! :-)
Dave Ganley
13 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:29:10 We are going to have these concerns no matter who is taking over the club. There doesn't appear to be any English billionaires willing to take over PL clubs so we are stuck with foreign owners if we are going to have a new regime.
This could be a disaster, we all remember the Hicks and Gillette fiasco across the park. However, it could be the best thing to happen to us for many years. A chance to finally compete with the top tier and, whisper it quietly, a chance to maybe, just maybe, add to our league title tally. We will never know unless we give it a go. It could be the road to hell, or it could be the road to prosperity and glory. One thing we know for sure though is that if we stay with "better the devil you know" regime then ultimately we stay on the road to nowhere.

Stephen Scofield
14 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:31:37 Been looking forward to a takeover for years. But I feel, with the money from Sky next year, and financial fairplay is it actually worth it anymore? I fear we have missed the boat.
David Price
15 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:31:46 To be fair the Yanks have given them lot plenty of cash for the team, but Brenda bought mostly a pile of shite.
Roberto in his defence would continually improve our side as he does seem to mostly invest well upto now.
Mark Pierpoint
16 Posted 08/02/2016 at 20:33:04 David #4. For every Sheikh Mansour there is a Vincent Tan. For every Leicester City owner there is a Thaksin Shinawatra. It is too general to simply suggest American=Bad and Asian=Good.

Burnley have a tough game against The Royals today, they will do well to get a point.
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Not really George, remember Reading are on a bad run so 3 pts was hoped for, Burnley had enough chances to win a couple of games so 2 pts dropped as far as we were concerned, still you "can't win em all" as they say.

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Burnley were held to a 0-0 draw by Reading today and it was a point that home manager Brian McDermott claimed as a point gained after holding a team as good as Burnley.

Speaking after the game, he said: “It’s another clean sheet against a team who will probably be playing in the Premier League next season. They’ve got a good chance. They know what they’re doing. They turned us round early on and there’s a certain formula you need to get out of this league and they might have it.

“They’ve got players who can score, they put five past MK Dons on the road, three past Brentford away, but I thought we might nick that game. To get a 0-0 here though, we’ll take that today.

“When you’re playing a top team like Burnley, it’s got to be a point gained. The players showed real resilience, fighting for everything, going into every tackle. There were some great battles going on all over the pitch.

“No one was giving an inch in a real tough Championship game. Once again our players stood up to them and it could have gone either way.”

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However time to make up ground in the next 3 games is expected.

Burnley got a point, they did well. The Royals turned Burnley (home) over in September. The important month looks like April, some tough games then. There are also some desperate teams in the relegation spots who could upset the apple cart.
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Arsenal 2 Leicester 1: Danny Welbeck's late winner cuts the Foxes' lead to two points

Alexis Sanchez is reportedly set to demand £160,000-a-week when he enters contract talks with Arsenal at the end of the season.

The Gunners want to tie the Chilean star down for another three years, keeping him at the Emirates until the summer of 2019, according to The Sun.

Are you a Reading fan then G?

Government in the US finally To Look Into the Possible Link Between Artificial Turf And Cancer.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/02/13/government-finally-to-look-into-possible-link-between-artificial-turf-and-cancer/#a0e605930cff

No not a Reading fan Stan.
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The Arse.. I new it -):

Sorry Stan not Arsenal either, it appears you know nothing.
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Who then?

Manchester United to name stand after Bobby Charlton

Better late then never I suppose.

Agreed Stan a brilliant player and a gentleman from what I know.
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I suppose you will be praying for a Leeds win tonight. what about tomorrow Hull v Brighton, looks more and more like a play-off place for The Clarets.
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