His sources haven’t dried up though there’s been quite a few changes at different levels.
Normally some guy on the internet wouldn't be confirmation, but bobble seems to somehow break every bit of Everton news with a 100% record.
Which I still find really weird.
I know people have commented as though they have, but I wasn't sure if that was an assumption or now being discussed in the media.
Seeing Josh Wander sat next to Moshiri last night was probably more painful than any of the goals going in, and so I assume the deal is still alive.
It was very frustrating to see how badly it was reported by the commentator (can't remember who, but he was with Andy Townsend). He said something along the lines of how it was a rarity for our wealthy owner to be at the game, but he was in the process of selling, the deal is imminent and it's "just a matter of dotting the i's and crossing the t's".
The way I'm seeing it is as follows.
Whenever I've bought a house, or been involved in something important that is work related, as a deadline draws near I get a bit stressed and anxious. If "the other side" want to renegotiate, or if a lawyer is hard to reach for a day or so, it weighs on my mind and I get to a point where I start threatening to walk away and I'm not sure if that's a strategy to entice a resolution or me just cracking up.
Anyway, in those situations it strikes me that I don't have the disposition for important "deals". I think I'm fairly normal on that front, but there's 3 other "types" of people.
1. Relaxed, chilled out, nothing stresses them.
2. Sensible, mature, has patience and can see the bigger picture.
3. Risk taker who gets a kick out of the fact it might all fall apart and enjoys the hustle.
No one involved in spending hundreds of millions of pounds is type 1, I think it's obvious from everything I've read that 777 are type 3, and it's my hope that MSP are type 2.
That being the case, a quick resolution and providing certainty for the fan base is not their motivation. They are happy for things to go up and down if it helps their own objectives. They know that 777 are in deep and still digging. They have probably identified that they're taking a hail mary approach and that'll lead to one of two things:
(i) 777 find the money, do the deal, pay back MSP with interest
(ii) 777 don't find the money, MSP step in with their minority stake
If I were MSP and (ii) was feasible I'd just want to get on with it, and be doing my utmost to prevent 777 dragging things on. But, correct me if I'm wrong, whenever MSP step in they won't have to worry about the financing costs that 777 have undertaken to buy the club (A) or the amounts 777 have promised to pay Moshiri (B). Their concern would be debt that's been loaded on to the club (C).
So if they're type 2 (as opposed to me, type 1) they'll just wait it out.
The risk they take is that we default on payments, and enter administration. But presumably they've got a much better grasp of monthly capital requirements, 777's position, etc etc. and figure that C < B (and A is irrelevant)
My hope is that MSP and 777 are playing a game of chicken, MSP are waiting for 777 to run out of road and - provided we don't get relegated - a big debt restructuring and rescuing is possible.
Maybe I'm just too desperate to find a potential way out of this mess.
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