Season › 2021-22 › General Forum LA Dodgers owner set to take over Chelsea 29/04/2022 Share: A consortium led by LA Dodgers owner Todd Boehly is set to be named the preferred bidder for Chelsea, according to the BBC.The American investor and businessman - who has offered around £2.5bn for the club - has a reported net worth of $4.5bn (£3.6bn) according to Forbes.He is a part-owner of the Dodgers - a US baseball franchise - and US women's basketball outfit the Los Angeles Sparks, while he also owns a stake in the renowned LA Lakers NBA franchise.His consortium includes Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, American PR executive Barbara Charone, British businessman Jonathan Goldstein and British journalist Daniel Finkelstein.Earlier on Friday, British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe made a £4.25bn offer. Ratcliffe — majority shareholder of chemical group Ineos — pledged to invest £1.75bn into the club over 10 years as part of his submission.But the offer arrived on Friday morning, weeks beyond the initial deadline for bids to be submitted by 18 March. Reader Comments (14) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer Mike Doyle 1 Posted 29/04/2022 at 19:59:49 Looks like Jim Ratcliffe's £4+ billion bid for Chelsea is going to fail. But if he's interested in looking further north … I wonder? Tony Everan 2 Posted 29/04/2022 at 20:24:37 Mike, The INEOS Stadium has got a ring to it. We could be a bargain compared to what he was willing to pay for Chelsea. Money is very important, but even more so is having someone in control who understands how to structure a business and a football club. Tony Abrahams 3 Posted 29/04/2022 at 20:41:48 Everton is supposed to be a bargain Tony, especially once they get that new stadium built in such an iconic location. That's what I'm hearing anyway, I just hope everything else I'm hearing is also true mate🤞 Neil Copeland 4 Posted 29/04/2022 at 20:51:31 Tony, are you referring to the rumoured US interest in Everton? Do you know who it actually is? Dennis Stevens 5 Posted 29/04/2022 at 20:59:20 Knowing Everton, Neil, it'll be Ronald McDonald & Big Foot! Tony Abrahams 6 Posted 29/04/2022 at 21:00:36 I don't know who it is Neil, but I've also heard its American Investor's. I've also heard that one of the men trying to broker the deal is supposed to detest how Bill Kenwright has ran Everton over many years, but this might also be someone just winding me up. Michael Kenrick 7 Posted 29/04/2022 at 21:55:28 Just by way of comparison, if you put a valuation on Everton using the £3,000 figure per share at which Moshiri's loans and cash injections were converted to equity, that valuation is £405 Million. Barely a 10th of the offer price Sir Jim Ratcliffe put up. Let that sink in. The West London upstarts are now worth more than 10 times the value of Everton FC. What an utter disgrace. Christine Foster 8 Posted 30/04/2022 at 07:03:46 Interesting, Michael, such a deal will generally tend to drag up the value of the rest, but this is ridiculous. No, not so, it's scandalous. Danny O’Neill 9 Posted 30/04/2022 at 07:23:05 Stark but hardly surprising, Michael, when you consider how Chelsea invested starting way back in the early- to mid-90s.Stamford Bridge and Chelsea trophy count comparisons to Goodison Park and our trophy count since 1990?We stood still. That's why their stock is 10 times more than ours. Laurie Hartley 10 Posted 30/04/2022 at 08:21:11 Michael # 7 – in real estate terms if Everton was a house we would be a smart investment – the ugliest house in the street. If we avoid the drop then potentially someone is going to get a bargain because my guess is Farhad Moshiri would rip the arm off anyone making him a reasonable offer. He could then go back to making money.It will be intriguing to see how this all pans out. Surely the stadium will be completed – how much has been spent on it to date? If it is the 52,000 capacity will be achieved every home match provided it is home of a Premier League club – a fact that I imagine would attract a potential buyer (we may be ugly but there a loads of us).We just need someone with plenty of dough and an appetite for risk. By this time next year we could be whistling Dixie ————Post Script - I see that like Farhad Moshiri, this Sir Jim Radcliffe is based in Monaco. Mike Doyle 11 Posted 30/04/2022 at 09:42:44 Laurie 10] who would buy Everton? There almost certainly are plenty of potential buyers out there. I read or heard recently that there are over 2500 billionaires in the world. No idea if this is true but if only a small % might be interested in investing in a high profile sport then I suspect Everton (with new stadium) would be on that list.Other clubs (e.g. Man U, Arsenal et al) may be more attractive, but if they are not for sale then the Investors might look for value elsewhere.If a club like Chelsea can attract bids in the £2-4+ billion range then ugly Everton might look like a bargain?I'd be interested in the esk's view on what the Ripple effect of the Chelsea bids might be. Tony Abrahams 12 Posted 30/04/2022 at 09:45:31 How can you just say you're going to invest £1.75 billion over ten years with FFP? Maybe he's talking about building Chelsea a new stadium?Moshiri must have a great advantage trying to sell Everton, because of the location of our new stadium, but I suppose if the buyers do proper due-diligence, then that advantage will disappear, because once the perspective buyers see some of the contracts, that have been given to some very average footballers, then the sale might run into problems?Seriously though, if you could buy Everton for £400 million and then spend another £600 million, building the new ground, then I think it's an absolute bargain. We just need a visionary now! Laurie Hartley 13 Posted 30/04/2022 at 12:48:36 Mike # 11 - if I had £16.1 billion like Sir Jim Radcliffe I would park £14 billion of it somewhere we're it would keep up with inflation. Then I would buy Farhad Moshiri out and complete the stadium with Tony's £1 billion. That would leave £1.1 billion to rebuild the board, *management* and of course the playing squad.*Adopting the Warren Buffet principle.Then I would enjoy owning a successful Premier League club and being an Evertonian. Any profits from the football club would be ploughed back into the local community in the form of public housing and health care for the poor of the City. As success came on the field and and the work of EitC prospered, I might become even more interested in that side of things and plough more money into that.After all, you can't take it with you. Note to self – better put a few more bob into the poor box tomorrow. Alan J Thompson 14 Posted 01/05/2022 at 05:32:27 How can Chelsea possibly be worth that much more than Everton when Abramovic won't be there while with us Bill comes as part of the package? Oh, Yeah…Maybe, the way things are going, it might be a USA Super League! 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