Everton’s ownership situation is a mess, but that is not groundbreaking news.
It has been common knowledge for the last three or four years, as the club’s financial issues truly began to emerge.
This culminated in a truly terrible most recent season, where the Premier League twice deducted points from the Toffees in order to send a PSR message to the rest of the division.
Potential buyers cannot be blamed for steering clear of this poisoned chalice, yet one owner has now sought to suggest that this actually represents remarkable value despite the crippling and convoluted debt.
Darragh MacAntony left ‘amazed’ by Everton takeover
Speaking on talkSPORT just yesterday, the club chairman of EFL side Peterborough, Darragh MacAntony, was brought on to chat about the state of the sport.
However, they could not get a football club owner on and not talk about the ongoing situation at Goodison Park, with Dan Friedkin’s Everton takeover having fallen through.
And whilst many are using this failure as a stick to beat the Toffees with, MacAntony sought to flip the script, instead outlining the benefits of owning Everton rather than the pitfalls.
He noted, first about Farhad Moshiri: ‘He owns a Premier League club, it’s an asset. I understand all the liabilities but I’ve said this before, anything under £700m or £800m is a bargain. In ten years’ time you won’t be able to buy a Premier League club for maybe a bil [£1bn] and a half.
‘I’m telling you right now, somebody gets that club right they’re going to make some serious money. They’re probably going to go from £300k-£400k on match-day to making £3m on match-day like Spurs.
‘I’m telling you now, I’m amazed there isn’t a line of 20, 30 people trying to buy Everton.’
A refreshing change to Everton’s media narrative
Despite being a self-confessed Liverpool fan, it is refreshing to see someone like MacAntony be so unapologetically in defence of Everton on a high-profile media platform like talkSPORT.
After all, across the last few years, it has pretty much just been a place where personalities can come and lambast everything about the Toffees, from valid criticisms like the running of the club to trivial matters like over-celebrating or a new signing.
However, this particular monologue effectively said what every Evertonian still believes: that the club remains a prized asset.
Not quite the dominant Bastian of English football that it once was, few can deny the historical impact that this club has had on the Premier League and the divisions that came before it.
Such is their influence, they still boast a fanbase that has not wavered throughout the bad times, and are soon due to move into England’s newest and most innovative football stadiums too.
Things are not all bad on Merseyside, despite what some might have you believe, and it is refreshing to see someone like MacAntony make that fact known.
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