The Friedkin Group

[Bluebridge]

Toyota would look nice on a shirt I reckon

Fuck me that looks ace!
I’ve resigned myself to us never having an Adidas kit.

[Trowel]

[AjaxAndy]

Just googled them and their logo looks far less offensive than Stake so for that reason I'm in!

[superpull]

Ha, so swapping the socially unacceptable kind of gambling for the socially acceptable form of gambling

[Deano Blue Boy]

I'm copying and pasting this from a Facebook page called Blue Steel. Unsure how true it it. I've heard people talking about this, but I've been dismissing it as I haven't heard it here:

"The Friedkin Group missed UEFA’s deadline for a blind trust agreement earlier this month, with the owners confident of a “structural solution” that would allow both Everton and Roma to compete in the same competition.

It is not known what the solution is as of yet, but if Roma and Everton were to finish in the same spots they are in now, they would both qualify for the Conference League, depending on the FA Cup and European success of other English clubs this campaign.

The blind trust solution has been previously used by owners to prevent either of their owned clubs from being relegated, but TFG have deliberately chosen against having it in place for next season. That said, it’s understood that they are not trying to put Everton at a disadvantage here.

Dan Friedkin would have had to transfer assets and stocks into the blind trust, where the trustee can buy or sell the assets without having to consult the owner.

Everton will be hoping that they avoid the worst possible scenario, but the Friedkin Group’s unknown solution to combat UEFA rules still looks risky."

[Cereal Killer]

I'm copying and pasting this from a Facebook page called Blue Steel. Unsure how true it it. I've heard people talking about this, but I've been dismissing it as I haven't heard it here:

"The Friedkin Group missed UEFA’s deadline for a blind trust agreement earlier this month, with the owners confident of a “structural solution” that would allow both Everton and Roma to compete in the same competition.

It is not known what the solution is as of yet, but if Roma and Everton were to finish in the same spots they are in now, they would both qualify for the Conference League, depending on the FA Cup and European success of other English clubs this campaign.

The blind trust solution has been previously used by owners to prevent either of their owned clubs from being relegated, but TFG have deliberately chosen against having it in place for next season. That said, it’s understood that they are not trying to put Everton at a disadvantage here.

Dan Friedkin would have had to transfer assets and stocks into the blind trust, where the trustee can buy or sell the assets without having to consult the owner.

Everton will be hoping that they avoid the worst possible scenario, but the Friedkin Group’s unknown solution to combat UEFA rules still looks risky."

He knows Roma will be in the Europa and we’ll be in the CL so there won’t be an issue

[Escalator]

If we both qualify for Europa league it’s Sophie’s choice for Dan.

[Shogun]

The Friedkins will have sorted it out, especially after the Palace/Lyon situation. Forgive me for not believing a random facebook page.

[AjaxAndy]

The Palace one was a problem as they apparently said 'yes we are actively running both clubs' whereas other clubs have shown different people were running each one in their multi club model.

I remember at the time it was said that it didn't take much to circumvent the rule but for whatever reason Palace owners didn't realise and said the wrong thing.

It's all a bit daft really, you just need to change some paperwork to say you don't have the same I guess parent company operating both teams and you avoid any issues, even though the nature of multi club ownership means you are actively running both.

[Trowel]

[Trowel]

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2026/mar ... -2024-25-/

[sam of the south]

It’s an improvement, although we can’t sell the women’s team every year.

Just hope the extra revenue from HD, and improved league positions/possible European qualifications will put us in a position where we don’t have to do a big player sale every year or two.

[Bluedylan1]

Very positive overall.

[AjaxAndy]

It’s an improvement, although we can’t sell the women’s team every year.

Just hope the extra revenue from HD, and improved league positions/possible European qualifications will put us in a position where we don’t have to do a big player sale every year or two.

Wage bill is an interesting one as we're at 74% I think it said, so doesn't give us much room in terms of the cost ratio cap.

I don't know if it's all clubs in European comps or just champions league that are capped at 75% total outgoings but if it is and we make Europe then we only have 3 ways to create any sort of transfer budget:

1) Income from the new stadium, both match day revenue and other events.

2) Commercial deals.

3) Player sales.

1 & 2 should see a rise from our final Goodison season, but as to what level remains to be seen. Conservative guess would be maybe £10m stadium and another £10m from commercial deals.

So we're probably still going to be very much in the sell to buy bracket of option 3.

I guess all clubs are to an extent, but if you compare our income last season to Newcastle's expected this season it's half... and yes they have had champions league money but it shows we're still massively behind other clubs looking to compete for European places.

Unless of course my guesses at 1 & 2 are miles of off course.

[Bluebridge]

£49m sale of the women’s team?
I must have missed that, when was that announced?