Here are your Everton evening headlines for Friday, February 17.
Second US group considering Everton move as investment talks continue
Another US-based investment firm is being linked with interest in Everton.
777 Partners LLC, which has invested in a network of clubs across the world, is the latest organisation understood to be considering a move to buy into the club.
The interest, initially reported by the Bloomberg news outlet, comes as majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri continues to hunt for investment in Everton. He has repeatedly insisted the club is not up for sale but has said he is exploring financing options as work continues on the club's new waterfront stadium. It is thought he would be open to minority investment.
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777 is the latest group to be linked with interest in Everton. The Miami-based outfit, co-founded by Josh Wander and Steve Pasko, has an investment portfolio that already includes Italian side Genoa, Spanish side Sevilla and Brazilian club Vasco de Gama. It is now thought to be considering purchasing a minority stake in Everton.
The report comes amid interest from another US-based investment group, MSP Capital. The New York firm has held discussions with Moshiri in recent weeks over a deal to potentially take as much as 25 per cent of the club, a move valued at around £105m. Co-founders of MSP, Jahm Najafi and Jeff Moorad, along with vice president Peter Taylor were pictured in the directors box at Goodison Park for Everton's match with Southampton last month. MSP has also been linked to a £3.1bn takeover of Tottenham Hotspur, a move that would involve investors from the Middle East, but talks with Everton have not been abandoned at this stage, the ECHO understands.
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Sean Dyche planning to introduce infamous fine system with 'hideous' results
Everton manager Sean Dyche has revealed the reason behind surveying his players almost immediately after succeeding Frank Lampard at Goodison Park.
And the 51-year-old has divulged plans to introduce his infamous spinning wheel of fines into operation in the coming weeks at Finch Farm in order to maintain "professional respect".
Dyche made headlines earlier this month when he revealed he had carried out an anonymous questionnaire in the week leading up to his first game as Blues boss.
Speaking in his first press conference, Dyche revealed that each member of the squad was handed a piece of paper was a set of varying questions. On the form, which the 51-year-old wanted to be filled out anonymously, were open and non-guided questions that he hoped would help him identify some of the reasons behind Everton's slump in the Premier League in recent seasons.
"I just want feedback, honest feedback, anything you want that you think is relevant," said Dyche on February 2. "Often, I have done this before, similar themes come back and I said 'right that is what we have to look at'. If you are telling them to me, then they are things we definitely have to look at."
Now, speaking to Soccer AM, the former Turf Moor boss has offered more insight into the process, insisting that he wanted to understand the players' "gut feeling" behind aspects of life at Finch Farm.
"Well, they [questions] are not totally private. In fact, try and give less direction to the question," said Dyche. "[I] try and keep the question very short and very open because I don't want to guide them to where they think they want to be.
"I call it classroom answers, I don't want that. I want them to tell me what they think. So part of that is complete anonymity. If you really want to you can, but don't put your name on it.
"Go away and give yourself some space, fill it in. Give your gut feel. Don't overthink it, it's not a classroom - give me what you want to say or your gut feeling. As soon as you read the question give me a feel."
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