John Textor is considering giving Everton fans the chance to buy shares in the club if he succeeds in his £600m bid to take control from Farhad Moshiri. The American businessman is preparing to float on the New York Stock Exchange his holding company Eagle Football Group which owns Lyon, Botafogo in Brazil and the Belgian club RWD Molenbeek and has a 45% stake in Crystal Palace. Sources close to Textor said Everton could be taken public at a later date.
Textor is understood to be confident that an agreement with Moshiri over buying Everton can be reached within four weeks after he was granted exclusive negotiating rights last month. The 58-year-old has yet to sell his Palace stake, however, so approval from the Premier League could take far longer to secure.
