Everton staring at administration threat with 777 takeover increasingly unlikely

Everton’s future is uncertain with the club’s takeover increasingly unlikely to happen. Photograph: Paul Greenwood/Shutterstock

Everton’s owner, Farhad Moshiri, has always sounded extremely confident that he will be selling the Premier League club to the US investment firm 777 Partners. In October last year he told Sky Sports News: “The more time that I have spent with the 777 team, the more my confidence increases that we have found the right people to take the club forward in the modern era.”

That comment is ageing less and less well.