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David Maddock

Everton owner Farhad Moshiri opens talks with American investor over new £500m stadium

Everton owner has resurrected talks with American property investor Maciek Kaminski, who tried to buy the club in the summer.

But the fresh negotiations are understood to centre around Moshiri’s desire to secure funding for the new £500m stadium, which is currently under construction at Bramley Moore Dock on the Liverpool waterfront.

Kaminski is a little known Minnesota-based developer and investor who has investment links in eastern Europe, and briefly formed an unlikely partnership with John Thornton - an elite name in US business circles - in an attempt to buy the Merseyside club.

Neither had any experience or history of sports investment, and Thornton swiftly pulled out of the proposed deal, as a spotlight was shone on Kaminski’s chequered business history.

Questions were asked about his ability to fund a buy out of Everton, after a newspaper revealed his property company Talon Real Estate had defaulted on loans and auditors had raised doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern.

But now the Polish-born property developer is back with proposals to help find funding for the new stadium, with the suggestion he could take a minority stake in the club should he prove successful.

Sources within the club indicate talks are at an exploratory stage, with no agreement imminent, and there is caution about the prospect of any negotiations being successful.

Hanna Bennison's free-kick deflected off goalkeeper Kirstie Levell and in to hand Everton women's team a 1-0 victory over Leicester in added time at the end of the Women's Super League contest at Walton Hall Park on Thursday evening.

Levell's late intervention from the Swedish substitute's dead ball delivery decided a cagey contest in front of a sold-out crowd and left the visitors still seeking their first point of the campaign.

Neither side was able to create any real chances in the opening exchanges as Leicester's back line responded well to the hosts' high press.

Finally, as the clock ticked into the fourth minute of stoppage time, Bennison broke the deadlock with an inswinging free-kick that found the top corner via the unfortunate Levell.

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