Everton secure 'substantial' loan to help fund new stadium

Always sounds dodgy when it's an unnamed lender. Could Usmanov still be involved vicariously?

Gavin

I guarantee if you leave the lender alone with Scooby Doo and Shaggy they'll uncover his true identity. Maybe it's Bill who's relying in turn on a loan from the Cosa Nostra

Moshiri is an international offshore fixer. Finance will always be available through intermediaries. He will always try to maintain control of any investment he is involved in. Valuation and profitability cannot be taken at face value.

Any bodies that deal with an organisation he is involved in will find decisions they make will have the added pressure of consideration of the impact on the wider vested interests of the authorities they represent.

I just hope that Kenwright & Co have outlasted their usefulness.

Kieran @2,

If it is the Cosa Nostra, let's hope he upsets them and earns a concrete overcoat!

Sounds a bit Del Boy! New York - Paris - London - Ormskirk.

The terms of the loan are all-important, high interest rates will be a lead weight on the club's finances going forward.

What concerns me is the huge debt burden vs financial benefit of the new stadium. How much of the increased revenues will be immediately diverted away from improving the squad in repayments?

I think the new owners will refinance when conditions are better, remortgage the club, TV rights etc over a very long term. This will bring the yearly debt repayments down and allow the club to expand in line with its increased revenues.

Blythe Capital is run by Andy Bell, a longtime Everton supporter. It's a venture Capital firm. It's not been said whether he will supply the funds, or attract other investors.

He also owns AJ Bell.

Tony, 9, we are not getting new owners as I understand it. MSP are investing about £100M to buy about 25%, leaving Moshiri the largest shareholder.

Chris at (10) Wow, I didn't know that. I've been with AJ Bell for years and I rate them very highly. I'm chuffed now that a Blue owns it. Thanks for the info, mate.

We currently have two things to sing for: avoiding relegation and finishing the stadium. Anything that can contribute to achieving either is welcome.

Hope Andy Bell can sipp at the cup of Everton success.

I worked with Andy in the 1990s and he is an incredibly talented guy. He has built up a hugely successful business from scratch and I am heartened by the fact that he is involved.

He is a huge Evertonian with a lot of business acumen. Maybe the future is becoming brighter but we need the help of those 16 players this afternoon.

UTFT - getting very nervous!

According to a table in The Mail, Everton are set to receive 𧴬.5M in various fees/prize money from the Premier League this season, largely made up of TV money – if they finish in 17th place. The total is made up of:

Live TV Games: 㿀M
Facility Fee: 㾽.7M
Domestic Share: 㿋.8M
Domestic Merit: ٤.4M
Foreign Share: 㿜.9M
Foreign Merit: ٢.8M
Commercial Share: ٤.8M

Why that piece of shit Goodison News website calls this a 'windfall', I have no idea. It's money each club gets automatically for being in the Premier League.

Clive, yes I am thinking ahead as I think Moshiri will be out within a couple of years, maybe sooner but probably after the stadium is completed.

Michael, ‘piece of shit' is right. Over the last few weeks, I have been keep an eye on their constant headlines. Always a negative connotation weasled into it, the repetitive is too much of a coincidence. I have got suspicions about their allegiance and motives.

Chris #10, sounds like a fine future Board member to me.

Isn't Andy Bell the lead singer of Erasure? Maybe he can scrub out Kenwright

Mike,

I reckon he's got his hands full.

Shitting myself here man!

I always suspected Ormskirk was the real hub of international finance. Some canny buggers live there!

Andy Bell's loaning Everton some money? That's nice of him. Deserving of a little respect.

Sorry. I'll get me coat.

I reckon Del Boy missed a trick on the side of his van.

Trotter's Independent Traders

New York. Paris. Ormskirk.

This sounds like Moshiri has told Kenwright he's not putting up any more cash into Everton or the stadium. Is this Bell fella Kenwrights mate?

Aren't we in enough debt already, our debt must be near the cost of the stadium by now.

Chris #10 AJ Bell stadium is the home of Salford Rugby League Club I know a woman who sits on the Bell End.

We also have a woman at the club who worships a bell-end Len!