Everton up for sale again - so what next as owners TFG look for a way out? — SkimNews
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- The Friedkin Group announced via a 170-word Friday statement they are effectively putting Everton up for sale, roughly 23 months after paying more than £400m for a 99.5% stake in December 2024.
- Dan Friedkin has never attended an Everton match and has never spoken to manager David Moyes since the latter's January 2025 return, per Moyes's own comments — a disconnect Maguire contrasts with TFG's hands-on approach at Roma.
- The Armstrong sale fiasco triggered the collapse: TFG's £40m deal to send teenager Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest leaked during a Bournemouth match, prompting fan threats of 'a riot' and forcing TFG into a face-saving reversal.
- Everton's botched summer then saw Iliman Ndiaye sold to Manchester City for £65m and Beto depart for Fiorentina, with a move for Monaco's Folarin Balogun collapsing and leaving Moyes with only 18 senior outfield players.
- Burnley's PSR claim — costing TFG more than £35m after the club successfully argued Everton's Profit and Sustainability Rules breach harmed their 2021-22 survival chances — plus an unwelcome surprise at how litigious English football operates, helped convince TFG to exit, per Maguire.
- Moyes said he learned of the potential sale at the same time as the wider public, telling his pre-Hull press conference: 'I'm disappointed that Evertonians have to go through another period of who are our owners?'
Why it matters: The Friedkin Group paid £400m in December 2024 and is now seeking £750-800m less than two years later — a near-doubling even before accounting for £468m in debt and hidden liabilities already paid off, signaling the era of speculative Premier League flipping continues to attract American buyers despite on-pitch dysfunction.
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