It’s been quite a turbulent week for Everton’s high-flying potential new owner Dan Friedkin as he agreed a deal to buy the Blues just five days after firing and then hiring a head coach at Roma on the same day, a move that was then followed by the resignation of the club’s chief executive. Some 375 days after 777 Partners signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full 94.1% stake in the Blues, at 2pm on Monday September 23, 2024, a joint statement from Blue Heaven Holdings (through which Moshiri has his shares) and the Friedkin Group confirmed they had reached agreement over the terms of the sale subject to regulatory approval.
Unlike the controversial Miami-based private investment firm, who were attempting to acquire Everton some 12-and-a-half months ago and spent the majority of the 2023/24 season waiting for a green light on their deal that never came, getting the nod from the Premier League, the Football Association and the Financial Conduct Authority is not expected to be a major obstacle for Friedkin who is ranked at number 267 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people, and is calculated as having a net worth of almost $10billion.
CEO and owner of Gulf States Toyota, a position he has held since he was 35 when his then 65-year-old father Tom, who had founded the company in 1969, handed over the reins to him, what is the 59-year-old’s track record like when it comes to managerial appointments in the football world?
