Everton owner Farhad Moshiri has pulled out of a scheduled on-stage interview in London next week.
The Blues owner had been due to have a one-to-one interview on the second day of the Financial Times’ Business of Football Summit at the Biltmore Mayfair Hotel on Thursday, March 2 but is now understood to not be part of the event.
The ECHO understands that Moshiri’s decision to back out of the live appearance is due to a ‘scheduling conflict’. Everton are in London on Wednesday evening to face Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. Moshiri has now been removed from the FT Summit agenda.
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His appearance at the event would have come at a time when there is a great deal of scrutiny around the Blues and its ownership, who are understood to remain in talks with the New York-based private equity firm MSP Sports Capital over the sale of a minority stake in the club.
MSP Sports Capital’s chief, Jahm Najafi, was reported earlier this month by the Financial Times to be preparing to launch a £3.1bn bid for Tottenham Hotspur with MSP and other investors as part of it, although that has been disputed by some sources who maintain that the US firm remain set on continuing talks with Everton.
Najafi, along with MSP co-founder Jeffrey Moorad and the firm’s vice president Peter Taylor, were all in attendance for the defeat by Southampton at Goodison Park last month and were understood to have toured the club’s facilities.
Other potentially interested parties have been linked to the purchase of an equity stake in Everton, including the Miami-based 777 Partners, who have built a multi-club model across Europe and South America over the past couple of years with ownership stakes in Brazil’s Vasco da Gama, France’s Red Star, Belgium’s Standard Liege and Italian side Genoa.
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