Your morning Everton headlines for Wednesday, January 25.
Farhad Moshiri confirms Everton sale position after takeover rumours
Farhad Moshiri has once again insisted Everton FC is not up for sale.
The club's majority shareholder tonight told the ECHO he remained committed to the Premier League outfit amid new reports he was willing to listen to offers.
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He has repeatedly stressed the club is not for sale in the face of mounting speculation over recent months.
This included in an open letter to supporters in the summer, when the club was attracting the interest of US investors, and in an interview with the club's Fan Advisory Board (FAB) that was released on Tuesday night but filmed before the defeat to West Ham United at the weekend.
And after new claims about the club being made available surfaced tonight he again stressed it was not up for sale
The future of Everton has been the subject of intense speculation since the end of last season and has continued despite Mr Moshiri's insistence he is not looking to sell the club. It will likely continue despite the latest affirmation of that position.
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Kevin Thelwell has already hinted what he wants as Everton eye Frank Lampard successor
Following Frank Lampard’s sacking, the focus now turns to who will become Everton’s eighth manager under Farhad Moshiri.
Despite going alone on the appointment of Lampard’s predecessor Rafael Benitez, Moshiri insisted “it’s not my decision” when asked if time was up on the former Derby County and Chelsea boss’ tenure as he left London Stadium following the 2-0 loss to West Ham United, his Everton team’s eighth defeat in the last nine games.
The cryptic response could be interpreted in several ways but might point to both a more collegiate approach – Lampard was understood to be the unanimous choice of Goodison Park’s power brokers when hired – and a more influential role in picking his successor for Kevin Thelwell than the previous two directors of football, Steve Walsh and Marcel Brands. Given this possibility, what clues could the last coaching appointment under his watch provide?
After more than 11 years at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Thelwell was made head of sport at Major League Soccer outfit New York Red Bulls, where he oversaw all aspects of the footballing side of the club, with sporting director Denis Hamlett reporting to him. Toward the end of Thelwell’s first season in the USA, native New Yorker Chris Armas, promoted to head coach in July 2018 when now Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch joined Austrian sister club Red Bull Salzburg as an assistant, was dismissed with South African Bradley Carnell taking charge for the remainder of the campaign.
Thelwell and his colleagues turned to Europe for a replacement and although their choice was a coach who had hung up his boots at Salzburg, the aforementioned side within the Red Bull global network of clubs, he was plucked from rather closer to his roots in northern England, across the Pennines in South Yorkshire. Although Gerhard Struber had won the Austrian Bundesliga with Salzburg in their previous incarnation as SV Austria Salzburg when he was just 20, the rest of the midfielder’s player career was rather less distinguished and after a somewhat journeyman existence, he moved out of football and into the world of IT.
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