Final approval of The Friedkin Group's takeover ends the Moshiri era at Everton

Well, it is Christmas and I can dream….

COYB !

Great Christmas present for all Evertonians.

It will be a long road but hope springs in the corridors of our great club once again! A spectacular review needs to be undertaken of how the club has been run. Mistakes must be learnt from.

Let’s make the Freidkins know what we are about at the weekend, let’s show them what they have brought and the potential that could be unearthed.

A pre-season friendly with Roma next year please, let’s get behind the multi-club model (like it or not) and welcome them with open arms.

As for Moshiri….i don’t want to hear his name again, one of the worst things to happen to our club. Foolish man.

I really hope we can regain some of the status we’ve lost (or thrown away) over the last years.

The new stadium is a new dawn, new owners too. If these guys are smart with money and have a bit of luck with managers and players then we’re back in the game.

The fact that so many Evertonians have stuck with the club and still believe is a miracle. We must have been so so close to going down the drain.

But Moshiri gets some credit for building the new stadium, it’s up to the new owners to make it a success and all things good can follow.

Up the Toffees!

The menorah will blaze tonight with all blue candles, even though it’s a few days early.

Standards and professionalism at all levels are needed.

Expectations are the birthplace of disappointment so I am just going to enjoy being rid of the buffoon and the renewed life this will breathe into our stagnating corpse of a club.

I will also enjoy the feeling that we might actually have a vision, something sorely lacking for decades. Let's see what they do, hopefully they've been busy in preparation.

Yes! I guess the atmosphere at GP Saturday will be quite electric - coming off the results against Wolves and Arsenal (especially), the images of the nearly-complete BMD stadium, the anticipation of getting seats at the new place, and now this. I wonder if the players will receive any impetus from this?

Enough to make you want to celebrate with a bottle of Chang.

A mega naming rights deal a'la Etihad please would be nice too - if it's good enough for Man City to have inflated sponsorship deals it's good enough for us!

To be honest I will be happy if they just give a shit and turn up to a match now and then at Goodison this season and BMD in the future.

TFG are the real deal and if any group is going to help us progress it's them.

They'll make mistakes no doubt but who doesn't?

A great weight's been lifted from my own shoulders and although we're not out the shit in the league yet at least we have credible, professional owners who know their stuff and have the funds to make a difference.

UTFT!

That is a serious write off!

He turned the club into a basket case with his hiring and firing madness. He made us a laughing stock. He hired Sam Allardyce and the FSW ffs!!

The years of mediocrity under kenshite turned into a nightmare under Moshiri.

Yes, we’ve got a shiny new stadium but he’s left us in intensive care, and we’ll be paying for his mistakes for years to come.

I really hope we don't hear much from TFG now, just let them get to work;

Restructuring the entire club from Ethos and Purpose through the Executive, Management and Staff layers, across all functions and divisions within the business, revise and modernise all of our commercial deals (stadium sponsors, shirt sponsors, kit distribution, catering, hospitality), exit Goodison with grace and gratitude, enter BMD with excitement, professionalism and shoulders back, chin up!

And maybe a couple of wing-backs for Christmas?

Dyche knows and has downed tools and Seamus has been giving the team talks. Just what I've heard from somebody on the inside…

Bye all. Good times ahead.

He wrote off £553 million of his investment and he left a new stadium that cost £750 million to build. He didn’t have to agree to those terms.

He did so to safeguard the future of the club, and for one an willing to express gratitude.

Let's just get this done and ram those “Best stadium in the Championship” jibes down the gobshites' throats!
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It was noticeable though that Thelwell and Dyche were mentioned in Moshiri's statetment, but not referenced in any of those from TFG.

777 agreed it as an unsecuritised loan but some posters were claiming that it would prevent the sale. That was never the case.

Don’t ruin it Sean!

I hope this lot make a fortune out of us by running us successfully and eventually selling us when we're in a great position.

I know what I'd do first. And conveniently right before the transfer window opens.

I'm hoping that the new guys make good decisions on all fronts, and that the team responds with better results on the pitch. I'm also hoping the only thing we debate on here is the merits of the staff and players, and we don't have to consult any financial or legal dictionaries in order to understand what may be happening at our club.

Everton x Opponents y is the most important aspect for us as supporters and it should be one of the highest priorities for the new people too.

Everton supporters finally get what they deserve as true story of Farhad Moshiri era emerges

I wonder if the Toyota logo could be paired with blue lettering instead of red?

On the field is trickier. Will be interesting to see how long TFG give Dyche. May well depend on results over Xmas. I actually don't think there are many more obvious targets than Graham Potter who has already done in the PL exactly what we currently require. He took a dour Brighton team that was struggling with relegation battles and with relatively small investment turned them into one of the better teams to watch in the league whilst taking them from 17th under Hughton to 9th in 3 seasons.

We can't expect to become European contenders overnight. Better football and moving back to a stable mid-table team must be the aim over the next 2-3 years. I can't think of too many managers who have already achieved that in the PL in recent times. Perhaps Iraola and Thomas Frank, but not sure they'd be easy to get.

Personally, I would've let Dyche go last season but Everton over the last few years has been a convoluted beast and who is to know what has been going on behind the walls.

Now I think continuity may be best, get us over the line Sean and start afresh in the Spring, the time of renewal, rebirth and regrowth?