He would first write: ‘Potential new Everton owners 777 Partners have now provided around £150M in funding to the club as they wait to hear any day whether they’ll get the final approvals to complete a takeover of the Merseyside club’.
However, perhaps more importantly, he would follow that up by noting: ‘777 Partners were given the all clear by the financial conduct authority last month and are waiting on approval from the Premier League which could come any day now’.
777 Partners are worth an estimated $12bn (£9.63bn), so some form of financial boost was always expected with their eventual completion of the deal.
However, as is the case with Financial Fair Play and the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules, that would not matter.
They are inheriting a club already rocked by years of misspending, with the ten-point deduction a damning indicator of just how little leeway they will have in the market, no matter how controversial that punishment has proven.
Josh Wander and his associates will have their work cut out in restoring fiscal parity at Everton, but admittedly the situation has changed dramatically since they first struck a deal with Moshiri.
Sean Dyche has his men on the up at last, and should he maintain their current trajectory, it might not be long before he and Thelwell can once again wade into the transfer scene backed by a new ownership willing to rewrite the errors of the past.
