Journalist Alan Nixon is claiming that 777 Partners have been snubbed in their attempts to bring wealthy pair Andy Bell and George Downing into their Everton takeover move.
The journalist says on his Patreon account under the headline "Everton bidders turned down by wealthy fan pair" that Bell and Downing have provided around £80 million in construction loans for the new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
Forbes have also decided to repeat the claim made last September by one of their journalists, Mike Ozanian, as posted on Twitter: I asked an owner of one of the most valuable soccer teams in the world about this deal and he said, "I literally heard the money coming from Columbia drug money."
Quotes sourced from ReluctantNicko on Patreon [£]
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2 Posted 27/11/2023 at 14:41:06
3 Posted 27/11/2023 at 16:24:37
I don't suppose anyone knows where the money is coming from these days with so much of it needing to be laundered and finding a very suitable industry like the corrupt Premier League as a vehicle.
All I am looking for is a boots-on-the-ground capable management at the club which will be a big improvement on dumber and the egotist (may his soul rest in peace).
4 Posted 27/11/2023 at 16:46:55
They have found a way previously to get what they want which shows a tenacity about how they operate, so I wouldn't rule out them finding a way to get it over the line somehow. It certainly feels like it's out of the frying pan and into the fire with this takeover.
5 Posted 27/11/2023 at 19:18:57
RIP, Terry Venables btw. Best English (national) manager alongside Sir Bobby Robson in my lifetime.
6 Posted 27/11/2023 at 19:29:49
I know you have repeatedly criticized Paul the Esk when he has openly criticized the possible takeover of Everton, suggesting he has no solid evidence to his claims of their unsuitability to own Everton.
Yet you now produce a post where you quote Mike Ozanian saying he has heard from an owner of one of the most valuable teams in world football, suggesting the 777 money to purchase Everton is Columbian drug money.
So are you now starting to believe some of these claims or are you just putting these comments out there as a discussion point?
7 Posted 27/11/2023 at 19:53:40
8 Posted 27/11/2023 at 19:55:29
9 Posted 27/11/2023 at 21:18:01
Mostly the latter, distillation of what passes for news and scuttlebutt – oops, that may be a latent Americanism, if so apologies... although it is a particularly splendid word! – that may be of passing interest to fellow Evertonians.
I don't recall seeing this Columbia money quote back in September, and was puzzled it resurfaced today, 2 months later, for no apparent reason and with seemingly no greater degree of veracity behind it.
I mean, for me it's on the same bullshit level as "A very big club Chairman once told me they always ask themselves what Everton would do?" Do these journos have any integrity?
10 Posted 27/11/2023 at 22:36:08
11 Posted 27/11/2023 at 23:09:46
12 Posted 28/11/2023 at 00:10:35
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1 Posted 27/11/2023 at 14:36:32