Everton gain financial advantage ahead of summer transfer window

And that was with a billionaire finance expert 😵‍💫💙

Mike, he didn't do the accounts himself but let's be honest he made a lot of stupid decisions money wise and just threw money at the club in a shit or bust attempt to get European football and he almost killed the club.

Thankfully the Friedkins are a lot more savvy and much better businessmen.

Maybe the Finances are on a sounder footings, but alot has to be done to make Everton a more competitive Premier League Club.With PSR monitoring still.going on there is not alot of headroom.This is complicated by so many players coming to the end of their contracts at the same time and necessary organisational changes.

I think it is speculative to say Everton have gained financially and this transfer window will be somehow different.

I'm impressed Jason #2

You've pretty much nailed the Moshiri years.

A little bit off topic, but has anyone heard anything about a deep pockets sponsor coming in for the naming rights for BMD?

Everything I’ve read just refers to it as Everton Stadium; which would be fine with me, but a few extra millions would come in handy.

Darryl@5. The rumour I've read from a few sites is Qatar airways will become stadium and new shirt sponsor. How true that is, we will have to wait and see

Same as Paul @6, I've heard rumours suggesting it could be Qatar.

There is the putting 2+2 together with Toyota, due to the Director and General Manager of Gulf States Toyota now being a non-executive Director at Everton and the company being one of the Friedkin Group's holdings.

There was also talk of Red Bull, already a sponsorship partner of Everton

Nothing more than speculation, online chatter and pub talk at this stage. I'm sure to club are talking to others and we won't know until there's an announcement, which is how it should be whilst negotiations are taking place.

Surely now is the time to include the word 'Merseyside' in the name of the Stadium?

This county name engulfs and also usurps anything to do with anything that begins with the letter 'L'. Am I on my own?

I agree with you, Brian @8.

I also would like its official name to be The Merseyside Stadium or The Royal Blue Mersey Stadium.

I thought about Mersey being in the name early on, but not so sure now. I like the Everton Stadium. It will obviously get a sponsor name, but we can refer to it as we please and that is what the club are calling it now, so that's what it is.

The Etihad is still referred to by some City supporters as the City of Manchester Stadium, its original name. It might still be its official name, as sponsors change.

Perhaps we should just leave it at BMD - Bloody Marvelous Destination.

Excellent, get out and sign Delap from Ipswich.

They've named it already, Alan. Everton Stadium it is, as was on the tickets for the Test Events.

Obviously subject to sponsorship.

My continued worries about PSR are as follows. In our accounting year 21/22 (year end is 30th June) we lost £3.9m on the PSR Calculation. In year 22/23 we lost ££62.7 million.These figures were published in the Tribunal findings. PSR is calculated over 3 years and the maximum loss is £105 million. The 23/24 PSR figure has not been published but we must have managed a figure of at the worst £38.4 million to be within that £105 million limit for for the 3 years up to 30th June 2024 and not face a points deduction. Our actual losses were £53.2 million so I think we must have been very close to being over the £105 million limit. Our next accounting period is 24/25 and the £3.9m figure drops out of our PSR calculation BUT add our 22/23 and worse case 23/24 figures ie £62.7m +£38.4m = £101million, so we need to have a figure in 24/25 of no more than £4million depending on what the exact PSR loss was for 23/24. To get a low figure such as that or thereabouts means I fear we may have to sell by the end of June 25 otherwise we face points deductions next year. The obvious sale to deal with this would be Branthwaite. Only bright spots maybe new stadium sold out so we have all that season ticket money plus all corporate money. I do not know if our accounting policies would allow that money to be included in 24/25. Maybe new stadium sponsorship before end of June? We could be doing deals like Chelsea did in terms of selling new stadium and women's team on an inter club basis. I am sure TFG are right on top of this and certainly their accountants will be. Only time will tell. We can only wait and see particularly as no one other than EFC and the Premier League know the 23/24 PSR figures but this cloud may not go away until season 26/27 unfortunately as I see it unless new and more sensible rules are hopefully put into place. I am not sure we are in a better place as of yet!!!

That's for the club and their accountants to worry about Peter. I think we're in better hands now. They've got 21 businesses and organisations to their name.

I wouldn't do a Chelsea. My cousin from Battersea is fuming with them. They are apparently in serious trouble over FFP & PSR. The selling of their own asset to themselves has apparently come under scrutiny. They have sold the Stamford Bridge Hotel. Players next and unpopular owners. Debts approaching £700m and in danger of doing a United with their £1bn.

I read yesterday that Villa could be in breach too. But the potential charge against them could be deliberate breach of the rules.

Two things; Trump’s antics re imported cars (I.e. Toyotas) may be a kick in the nuts for Friedkin’s ongoing income.

And, if our reported interest in signing Longstaff and Delap is correct I wouldn’t be confident of a mega spend.

Peter#17

It's looks as if TFG have come to a arrangement with the Premier League regarding PSR.To get below the £105million threshold in 23/24 they would have needed very high allowable expenses.No actual details have been revealed.I expect the same with the 24/25 figures, though there will be a reduction in losses.

The Premier Leagues position hardened with Everton after the figures being monitored turned out to be different than the audited figures,which seen one Auditor quit and the replacement release a highly qualified statement on Everton as a going concern.

No such problems exist between the Premier League and TFG.

It has always been extremely unlikely we would sign Delap since Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man utd are all interested.

Ferguson is more likely as his form this season makes him much much less attractive to richer clubs (even though he's still a good player).

Peter,
There are many adjustments allowed to those figures and TFG may have struck on an idea by using GP as the ladies venue because those costs are deductible and I believe there is a large mortgage on GP.

Robert Ferguson has never impressed me and is talked about so much but performs well below that reputation. Also his injury record is a cause for concern. Lets hope the big boys go after Gyokeres and leave Delap to us.

Brian @ 8
I disagree Brian, I think “T’Lancashire Stadium” diunds just champion.
By eck!
UTFWT

Don,

I've said it before. It clearly will impact Gulf States Toyota, but as one of twenty one companies across their group portfolio, I'm sure TFG can absorb any impact.

Anyway, let's see. Our Donald could change his mind tomorrow, depending which toupee his chooses when he wakes up and which colour fake tan he puts on.

I fancied Longstaff when we were linked with him after Benitez took charge. I don't know enough about Delap or Ferguson.

I'm not averse to looking at players from relegated teams, the Championship or lower leagues. We've got a few good examples. But I do hope we are also looking at a wider playing field.

Mark, would we be sponsored by Pukka Pies? We used to see that on the hoardings around Goodison.

What is the delicacy of St Helens? Eccles cakes? you're probably going to have to educate me on more than Rugby League.

Danny, Don, plenty of Toyotas built in US, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is Toyota's largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world, capable of producing 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines annually

Danny.

Pimbletts. R.I.P.

I thought it was mainly a distribution business, John? If they are producing in the States, then that helps them? Still the matter of parts though. They have another car business on their portfolio.

I had to look that one up Alan!!

Danny, it would depend on whether Trump's Tarriffs were on finished products or included parts or basic materials and whether the plant is a manufactuing plant or assembly plant.

Manchester City are challenging APT regulations over owner sponsorship deals.

If the Premier League were to drop current regulations over owners and related companies, the Friedkins could make sponsorship deals related to their own dealings couldn't they?

Could Everton sue the Premier League for lost earnings over recent seasons

Apparently, the Friedkins are close to securing a stadium naming rights deal before the new season..

Rumors Qatar airways are on the list.

How about Hafnia? They were on my first Everton shirt

Danny, I think Pukka are more a midlands thing?
The only pies I buy in St Helens these days are from a place called Cothams. I think, as Alan alludes, my favourite ever, Pimblets, are sadly no more.

It used to be Hollands pies in Liverpool if I remember rightly.

Remember trying a Pukka pie in Leicester at Filbert Street. Full of gristle.

Mark, I believe Pimmies pies are available in Earlestown.

When I was a kid, I once found an unused train ticket from Lime St to Earlestown on the pavement. I took it home with me and thought about using it (it was good for a month) and used to lie on my bed wondering where Earlestown was and thinking that it must be exotic.

I still haven't been to Earlestown but I know where it is now.

Sounds like you are a pie connoisseur, Liam!!

Paul, I had to look Earlestown up as I'd never heard of it. Part of Newton-le-Willows, the town that gave us Rick Astley. Enough said.

I did not know or had forgot that Astley was from Newton-le-Willows. I had a geography teacher in school who lived in somewhere called Billinge which is round there somewhere, I think.

Newton-le-Willows (where I've also never been) sounds nice and quaint and makes me think of Mr Toad, Ratty, Badger, and Mole.

Danny - in my adopted Yorkshire home, whilst folk may be miserable tightwads without a good word for anyone, they do make some damn fine pies right across the county.

Swings and roundabouts I suppose.

Paul.

Unless Newton-le-Willows had changed radically in the last 15 years, quaint it is not.

Paul, Billinge is nearer Wigan and Ashton-in-Makerfield, and not Newton-le-Willows.

I think Leon Osman was born in Billinge.

Thanks fellas, I'm learning things here. Alan, do you get a kick out of shattering illusions mate? 'kin Hell Rob, you just went and threw another mysterious hat in the ring: Ashton-in-Fecking-Makerfield! Do people live there?

Osman is a proud pie-eater Rob and was lucky enough to grow up in Skem.

Liam, I have a soft spot for Yorkshire. I spent time (yes it felt like that) in Catterick Garrison and on the training area (flash backs).

But Richmond is a hidden gem and I liked Harrogate.

I had three lovely years at York Uni and I love the city. Whitby is the best place in Blighty for fish and chips, though I hear that there are not so many boats now.

David Hockney's Yorkshire landscapes from a decade or so ago are magnificent.

Paul @41,

As far as I know was born in Billinge Hospital (my birthplace) and is a native of Upholland.

He is definitely not a pie eater.

Thanks Ian (44). I knew he was in Upholland now but - I should know better - I dived on Wiki for where Leon emerged from the womb, probably looking like he does now!

Jesus! I think this site is best suited to talking about fish and chips and not Everton's financial situation.

"Puka Pies… get your Puka Pies… best pies in the Championship! Get your pies here at the Puka Pie Stadium!"

Championship, Paul K? We missed the ship to that one (again). It sailed a few weeks ago and we decided not to board.

Spicy chicken bites or fish and chips, Greek, Indian or Pizza on the plaza at the Toyota/Qatar/Red Bull Everton Stadium!!

Talking of institutions, I just saw that Ye Cracke has been sold and the staff are being made redundant.

Ye Cracke was one of my favourite “starters” on a Saturday night back in the day and I particularly remember a painting of the Napoleonic wars. In the middle of the fighting a British soldier went down shot. Some wag had put a speech bubble with the words, “Argh, you twat!” On it.