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John Textor could now seal £40m worth of Everton signings before he has even taken over
John Textor may be about to give Everton supporters a taste of what is to come in the transfer market if he is successful in his attempts to buy the club.
Everton have been stuck in takeover purgatory for over a year, with 777 Partners and Dan Friedkin granted exclusivity to iron out a deal with Farhad Moshiri having failed – albeit for very different reasons.
Textor is now the third would-be owner to have signed heads of terms with Moshiri, but there is a long, long way to go before he can get a takeover over the line.
First, Textor must sell his Eagle Football Group’s 45 per cent stake in Crystal Palace in order to satisfy the Premier League’s rules on dual ownership.
He can then turn his attention to the nebulous debt situation at Everton, which includes a £200m loan originally from 777 Partners with extensive legal complications.
Textor is also juggling a proposed IPO for his Eagle Football Group, which could see Everton effectively listed on the New York Stock Exchange post-takeover.
The Eagle Football multi-club operation encompasses Palace, RWD Molenbeek, Botafogo, Lyon and the FC Floriday academy project.
And news from Textor’s empire suggests that he could be about to engineer a transfer that may endear him to Everton supporters before he has even bought the club.
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Textor to orchestrate Ernest Nuamah move to Everton?
Like most Premier League clubs, it has been a relatively modest transfer window for Everton so far.
And with PSR set to be a going concern at Everton for at least the next few seasons, there is unlikely to be huge fireworks between now and deadline day.
However, according to French outlet , Everton could make a late move for 20-year-old Ghanian winger Ernest Nuamah.
Significantly, Nuamah plays for Textor-owned Lyon, for whom he signed from fellow Textor-owned RWD Molenbeek.
He is reportedly valued at £25m by Lyon.
If the deal comes to fruition, it would mean that Textor has overseen over £40m worth of transfers between Lyon and Everton following centre-back Jake O’Brien’s £16m move to Merseyside from southeast France.
Where would Everton sit in Textor’s multi-club priorities?
Although Textor himself has adamantly denied it, some reports have suggested that Lyon need to make in the region of £100m worth of sales to comply with French FFP this season.
And while those reports may well have been inaccurate, they do raise the question of where Textor’s priorities lie within his expanding multi-club network.
The listing of Eagle Football on the NYSE, coupled with the reported £150m Textor has raised with banks plus any proceeds from the share of his Palace shares, should address Everton’s immediate debt issues.
Unlike Man City’s City Football Group, it seems likely that there would not be a ‘mothership’ in his multi-club network but rather that there would be synergies between every outpost.