Prospective Everton owner John Textor takes a proactive approach unlike the lesser-spotted Farhad Moshiri
John Textor is a very different kind of football club owner than Farhad Moshiri and the multitude of candid photographs showing him taking a proactive approach at Olympique Lyonnais testify to that.
However, eight-and-a-half months on, the Miami-based private investment firm, who have been dogged by payment issues at clubs they do own and hit by legal challenges, were unable to get the green light on the purchase by the five members of the Premier League board as Everton confirmed in a club statement on Saturday that 777’s Share Purchase Agreement had ended and that Moshiri is now assessing all options on future ownership.
Unlike the lesser-spotted Moshiri – whose only attendance for a game at Goodison over the past three calendar years came against Burnley on November 1, 2023, when Bill Kenwright’s partner Jenny Seagrove and his daughter Lucy laid floral wreaths alongside former Everton player and manager Joe Royle in memory of the late club chairman who had died the previous week – Textor, despite having commitments with the aforementioned other teams within his multi-club group, has been a regular visitor to...
Six days earlier, when Lyon, who had been in the relegation zone until February, overcame Strasbourg 2-1 in their final Ligue 1 fixture to finish the season in sixth place, Textor was out on the pitch at the Groupama Stadium posing for pictures with Alexandre Lacazette and other players while wearing a replica jersey over his dress shirt.
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