'Already Determined' - Alan Myers issues Everton takeover completion verdict

Dan Friedkin’s Everton takeover is unlikely to be completed before the start of the season, believes Alan Myers.

The Sky Sports journalist indicated via X on 6 July that the process isn’t in line to effect the progress of the transfer window either way with plans for that “already determined” regardless of the timeframe of the ownership situation.

Friedkin is currently conducting due diligence of his own after entering into an exclusivity with majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri.

His ratification by the Premier League is not expected to be much more than a formality [Tutto Mercato Web, 18 June], and while Myers ruled out the possibility of the Roma owner’s purchase dragging on like former prospective buyers 777 Partners he doesn’t expect the process to be completed by the time the new campaign kicks off in the middle of next month.

Kevin Thelwell at work on Everton transfer window with Sean Dyche

With Moshiri having extended 777’s own exclusivity multiple times it pushed the situation on past the end of the season and was always going to make it hard for an alternative to be found, agreed and confirmed in time for the new campaign.

The transfer window stays open for a couple more weeks until 30 August but if Friedkin arrives in that period it seems unlikely to make a major difference either way.

Everton appear to have engineered some manoeuvrability in the market as it is with a pair of permanent signings already made in Tim Iroegbunam and Iliman Ndiaye, and resolve shown to keep hold of Jarrad Branthwaite in the face of Manchester United’s advances.

And profit and sustainability rules will limit what Friedkin and his group would be able to put in towards signings anyway if and when his deal is done.

With uncertainty from the top down having lasted at least a couple of years now Evertonians will be anxious for the new era to finally start.

For now it would seem to be heading in the right direction but the fans will surely have learned not to get ahead of themselves by this point given how many false dawns there have already been.

In other Everton news, the club have tabled an eight-figure transfer offer to sign an international ace who only left the Premier League a year ago.

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