The club’s original majority shareholder,Farhad Moshiri, will give the manager the financial clout to buy spacious and keep his best young talent at GoodisonFarhad Moshiri sold 15% of Arsenal on Friday, and confirmed a deal for 49.9% of Everton on Saturday,has yet to receive Premier League approval for his latest acquisition and has not got down to the nitty‑gritty of how much Roberto Martínez will have to spend during face‑to‑face talks with the club’s manager. The outline facts may indicate Bill Kenwright’s decade-long search for original investment ended overnight but the truth of the British-Iranian billionaire’s arrival at Goodison Park is fairly different. The “original era that Martínez has proclaimed will not be launched from a standing start.
Everton’s manager does not have a figure for this summer’s transfer budget but he does know that, once the 60-year-old is installed as major shareholder, and the days of being outmuscled financially by the likes of West Ham United for Dimitri Payet,as he was final summer, will be over.
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Source: theguardian.com