The Friedkin Group

[Free Agent]

It’s actually a $50 voucher towards your next Toyota service in the US.

[Indiantoffee75]

These need to start cracking on very soon.

Manager situation, Dyches replacement
Thelwell contract, possible new DoF
Players out of contract in the summer
New players to be brought in the summer
Transitioning to moving ground

All the above cannot happen in May, they need to get things moving of the ground.

Big couple of weeks now.

[Toddacelli]

These need to start cracking on very soon.

Manager situation, Dyches replacement
Thelwell contract, possible new DoF
Players out of contract in the summer
New players to be brought in the summer
Transitioning to moving ground

All the above cannot happen in May, they need to get thing moving of the ground over the next few days.

There are monumental changes to be done. The sheer scale of it is staggering. Exciting if we get enough of it right, terrifying if we don’t.

[Bluebridge]

These need to start cracking on very soon.

Manager situation, Dyches replacement
Thelwell contract, possible new DoF
Players out of contract in the summer
New players to be brought in the summer
Transitioning to moving ground

All the above cannot happen in May, they need to get things moving of the ground.

Big couple of weeks now.

I’m pretty sure they are.

[blueforyou]

Good start, TFG

[Trowel]

Interesting that the dilution of minority shareholding value is being picked up quite so prominently, so long after the takeover - perhaps a personal favour from Matt Lawton to put some pressure on the Friedkins?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/9fa702 ... a461fa9e79

[777Kidnappings]

Interesting that the dilution of minority shareholding value is being picked up quite so prominently, so long after the takeover - perhaps a personal favour from Matt Lawton to put some pressure on the Friedkins?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/9fa702 ... a461fa9e79

Surely they can't expect the same value. The new owners have paid 100s of millions off the debt

[Cereal Killer]

Without pumping out more shares our losses would have to be what, £45m? And we’d be royally fucked

[Goaljira]

Theyre expecting people to feel sorry for the Kenwright estate beneficiaries?

People who haven't put anything into the club disappointed that the people paying £800m for a stadium retain their value?

How much would they have been worth had the club gone into administration. Greedy cunts.

[Audrey Horne]

Boo fucking hoo

[Trowel]

It doesn't look immediately relevant to us, but it's a flex from TFG as a whole:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... e-beeston/

Everton owners pull off major coup by hiring key executive with Liverpool link

Exclusive: Dave Beeston, who previously worked for Fenway, has left role with Chelsea co-owners to join Friedkin Group

Matt Law
07 February 2025 4:53pm GMT

Everton’s new Friedkin Group owners have landed a significant coup by hiring a former key executive of Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group and Chelsea’s co-owners Clearlake Capital.

Dave Beeston was poached from FSG by Clearlake Capital only five months ago, but Telegraph Sport can reveal he has left his role as managing director and is understood to have agreed to join the Friedkin Group in a sports-only chief executive position.

It is understood that Beeston, who left Clearlake around two weeks ago, will be Boston-based and will work predominantly on sports projects in the United States for the Friedkin Group. He will not be Everton’s chief executive and has not been hired in any sort of multi-club role, given the group also owns Roma.

Beeston was appointed managing director of Clearlake Capital O.P.S Group in September last year. In more than a decade at FSG, he was co-head of Fenway Sports Management, where he was primarily involved with baseball’s Boston Red Sox and ice hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins.

Although his involvement in Liverpool was minimal and he was never hired by Clearlake to work at Chelsea, the appointment of a former senior FSG executive who had been poached by Chelsea’s co-owners is seen within the industry as a significant coup for Everton’s owners.

Clearlake have offices in Los Angeles, London and Texas, and his role there was around college sports in North America. It is understood that Beeston left with Clearlake’s full blessing and support, and an understanding that he did not want to relocate.

Announcing the appointment of Beeston and other executives at the start of September, Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghbali said: “We’re proud of the multifaceted team we’ve built, who possess the expertise needed to develop and deploy flexible and creative investment solutions, while managing risk, in today’s dynamic market. We welcome our new team members and congratulate our long-tenured senior executives on their well-deserved promotions.”

Chelsea co-owner José E Feliciano added: “Having the right team in place is critical to driving the firm’s continued growth and global operational reach, and Clearlake is proud to welcome a group of accomplished senior executives while also promoting our talent from within. Clearlake is focused on broadening our global capabilities to better serve our investors, and we will continue to add the best talent and resources as we expand.”

Clearlake’s appointment of Beeston in September had corresponded with operating executive Chris Jurasek stepping down as Chelsea chief executive after just 15 months at the club.

It also came amid news that co-owners Clearlake and Todd Boehly were prepared to buy each other out to take sole control of Chelsea. While a full-scale takeover battle is yet to break out, there remains an expectation that either Clearlake or Boehly will eventually take sole ownership of the Stamford Bridge club.

[Trowel]

THis is more like it, but feels like a lot of guesswork:

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/ever ... om-3525007

Everton plot summer spending spree with 'significant' PSR headroom

The club feel they need to strengthen in virtually every area, with work having begun on identifying potential targets, while there are also plans to reboot the academy

Mark Douglas Sam Cunningham
February 07, 2025 6:22 pm

Everton will be armed with a competitive transfer budget for the first time in three years this summer as the club begin the process of revamping the academy under new owners the Friedkin Group.

The Toffees signed just one player in the winter transfer window – a loan deal for Flamengo midfielder Carlos Alcaraz – and walked away from several they didn’t feel were right to protect their profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) position.

While no-one believes Everton are anywhere close to safe in the Premier League, the Friedkins were able to take a more “strategic” view of recruitment thanks to the upturn in results under David Moyes.

Three straight wins have put vital breathing space between them and the relegation zone and meant there was no sense of panic in their transfer dealings or the need to – in the words of one insider – “do anything rash” that would compromise their PSR position.

While Everton ideally wanted a minimum of two incomings there was disruption to the club’s planning when Sean Dyche left, with Moyes wanting influence over any incomings and a mid-window redrawing of priorities. That meant Kevin Thelwell-led deals for the likes of Lyon winger Ernest Nuamah were ultimately mothballed as Everton chose to keep their powder dry. There were funds available but spending big in January would have necessitated sales before 30 June.

The i Paper understands that the club walked away from a move for West Brom’s Tom Fellows – a player admired by Moyes and also on Thelwell’s watchlist – because the price quoted was too high. Everton are unlikely to revive that interest in the close season.

Insiders say with a new accounting year kicking in by 1 July, financial restructuring of debts and “significant” PSR headroom, the club’s position will be much stronger as they look to restructure a squad that will lose up to 12 players in the summer.

Moyes hinted at that in Friday’s press conference, admitting the window could have been “better” but was conducted with one eye on the future.

“We’re feeling much better,” he said.

“We think in the future, there’s a great chance we’ll be more competitive in the transfer market.”

Inside Everton there is a feeling they will need to strengthen in virtually every area, with work having already begun on identifying potential targets. A permanent deal for Alcaraz is on the table if he hits a certain number of appearances, which gives the club control over whether or not to trigger the clause.

There is also the framework of a deal to sign Chelsea’s Armando Broja although Everton are likely to renegotiate the terms of that even if the forward was able to impress between now and the end of the season. He should be ready to return in three or four weeks, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin about a fortnight behind him, and the lack of options means he should get opportunities when he is fit again.

Everton face a delicate act of balancing their short- and long-term needs, but work has begun on the latter, with a source anticipating “substantial” incomings in the coming months.

Indeed The i Paper can reveal Everton are set to make a series of new hires as they attempt to shake up their academy and maximise the potential of their youth system.

The club are looking to employ several scouts, locally and across various regions, and will also employ new youth coaches, including a goalkeeper specialist.

Alongside financial difficulties and a turbulent few years trying to survive in the top flight, rival clubs have persuaded their brightest prospects to leave.

Manchester City took forward Emilio Lawrence and defender Jayden Lienou in recent years, as well as a coach from the academy. Chelsea poached full-back Ishe Samuels-Smith when he was 17. Aaron Epia, a 16-year-old defender, went to Newcastle United.

Asked last year about the likelihood of academy players making the step up to the first team, Dyche was critical of the output.

“If there was an 18-year-old here who I thought was good enough to play in the first team, he would be playing,” Dyche said. “But there is no one I have looked at and thought, ‘You are ready to jump in’ — and I must say that is not just Everton.”

Under the leadership of Thelwell, Everton want to reposition their academy as a leading producer of talent that can attract the best young players.

They came close to signing Mason Melia, who made his senior debut at 15 and has already played regular first-team football for St Patrick’s Athletic, but he agreed a move to Tottenham Hotspur, which will start next year, for an initial base fee of £1.6m. The 17-year-old forward is considered a huge prospect, and it was a record for a League of Ireland player.

Everton’s academy has proved a rich, fertile ground for young footballers over the years. One that has produced Wayne Rooney, sold to Manchester United for £20m in 2004, and, more recently, Anthony Gordon, who joined Newcastle for £45m two years ago.

In recent years, Lewis Dobbin was sold to Aston Villa for £10m and Ellis Simms went to Coventry City for a fee that could rise to £8m, depending on his performances.

There is strong belief that the club can reboot the academy and, in the long run, produce top quality players and a team competing at the top half of the table they want to stay in.

It did not help that Everton served a two-year academy transfer ban, between 2018 and 2020, for offering inducements to a player and his family to sign for them. But half a decade later there will be a renewed focus to re-establish the club as a leading destination for young footballers.

[Toddacelli]

Sounds like the business acumen we have been craving for decades may slowly materialise.

[NickNack]

Sounds like the business acumen we have been craving for decades may slowly materialise.

Good things come to those who wait - and boy have we waited!

[Trowel]

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/ever ... rs-3545292

Everton close in on ‘well-known’ chief exec and target huge summer of transfers

Leeds United's Angus Kinnear is one of the front-runners but there are other options

Mark Douglas
Northern Football Correspondent
February 20, 2025 2:57 pm (Updated 4:34 pm)

Everton are close to appointing a new chief executive, who will join with a remit to lead an on and off-the-field transformation this summer.

In another sign of the Toffees turning the page on a troubled period, The i Paper understands that the club expect to confirm the appointment in the coming weeks.

It is claimed Leeds United’s Angus Kinnear is a front-runner for the role although there are understood to be other options and sources remain tight-lipped on talks with potential candidates, which have stepped up in the last fortnight.

A source said that given the scale of the ambition of the Friedkin Group (TFG) – and the size of the challenges in the summer – it will be “someone well-known” rather than a figure with little to no experience in the Premier League.

Executive recruitment firm Nolan Partners have been tasked with sourcing the right candidate and taking someone already in a job elsewhere has not been ruled out.

The role is seen as absolutely crucial by the Friedkins, with the new hire set to lead the organisation from the front. It is envisaged that, with Dan Friedkin and son Ryan preferring not to give interviews, they will be the public face of Everton moving forward and have considerable influence over decisions at a critical period for the club.

As well as a huge summer on the football side – it is anticipated that there will be a huge influx of players and a sizeable transfer budget as Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) issues dissipate- the club also have work to do as they move to a new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

This week’s first test event, which will be followed by a second match in front of 25,000 at the end of March, was considered internally to be a big success. But by the time Everton kick off next season at the venue it will likely look different from the outside, with the club considering selling naming rights for the stadium and various partnerships which will maximise commercial revenue opportunities. The CEO will have responsibility for leading on that.

The future of director of football Kevin Thelwell, whose contract expires at the end of the season, is another pressing issue that the CEO will lead on. As yet there has been no decision on Thelwell’s future, with talks on a new deal unlikely to start until a new executive is appointed.

Among the other names linked with the Everton role are former Arsenal CEO Vinai Venkatesham, although that has been played down by some sources, Brighton’s Paul Barber and former Nottingham Forest executive Dane Murphy. Colin Chong has been filling the role on an interim basis and has impressed TFG.

Whoever it is, they will join at a time when there is a real feel-good factor at Goodison Park.

David Moyes’s appointment has worked out better than anyone expected with his return – in the words of one source – “lifting everyone at Everton”.

Although no-one connected with the club would say it publicly, the 13-point gap from the bottom three means they are virtually guaranteed to kick off next season in the top flight. That is a remarkable turnaround given they were only a point off the relegation zone when he was appointed.

Moyes is set to take a prominent role in recruitment this summer, with as many as 13 players set to leave the squad. He is viewed by his bosses as an “anchor” around which a new squad will be built.

The new era feel to proceedings was stepped up this week by the first test event at Bramley-Moore Dock. A rare concern were the transport issues around nearby Sandhills station – highlighted by supporters who had to wait in the cold for trains – and the council and Merseyrail have pledged to work on solutions. More frequent trains on matchdays are the most obvious remedy.

Club sources pointed out that the reason for the three test events was to discover issues that can be resolved.