Iranian Businessman buys 77.2% share in Everton

[Team Melli Fan]

Everton takeover: The Friedkin Group have secured approval from Premier League to become club's new owners

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1hda8pz/everton_takeover_the_friedkin_group_have_secured/

[Nokhodi]

He laundered his boss’s money beautifully.

[naderb94]

It’s official. American Investment Company 777 Partners has taken over Everton FC.

777 Partners also own clubs like Genoa, Vasco de Gama, Standard Liege, Hertha BSC, Red Star FC, and Melbourne Victory.

[PSGman#19]

Mister is selling the club, he did absolutely nothing for our football and is still hated by their fans.

[taremiscores]

Did not know Kia Joorbchian has an advisory role at Reading FC.

Joorabchian is also involved with Reading FC officially as an advisor to the club and the owner, when asked if he is involved at the club in January 2022, Reading manager Veljko Paunovic said "He's friends with the owner. He's known as an advisor not only with our owner. He's been involved in football for a long time so that's all I can say.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Joorabchian

[Team Melli Fan]

Farhad Moshiri's Everton made an offer for Taremi, which Taremi rejected

https://old.reddit.com/r/teammelli/comments/14nf6j5/mehdi_taremi_i_rejected_newcastles_offer_because/

[BacheLot]

overall the guy comes across to me as an Absolute Football-idiot, yet far more of a shrewd and scandalous business man, who is only in this business for it's great propensity to easily tax evade and launder money earned from other illicit activities probably elsewhere and/or just doing the bidding for a more well known russian oligarch ? or financial criminal of sorts ..!!?

im willing to bet his earlier hint of interest in signing Sardar also mostly arose from the fact that at that time he was playing in Russia/Zenit @ that ..!!

[DR Strangemoosh]

Treasury's sanctions guys are reviewing Moshiri re: Russian links with Usmanov:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/31/treasurys-sanctions-police-reviewing-finances-of-everton-fc-owner-guardian-understands

[AGC]

I think it is a painful fact but these succesful iranians are not loyal to other iranians. If I thought I could make a decent profit and/or bring in an iranian to my team I would do it. Bayat bros are a perfect example of this. But they are an exception. Its not like they didn't think of themselves in the process. They didnt hand out any unfair starting 11 post because someone was iranian. There are examples of both successes and failures for iranians in Charleroi. In interviews they always make this perfectly clear too! My point is: good business and taking care of other iranians are not mutually exclusive.

On the other hand one may argue that all iranian players at all age levels and so on are so terrible that its not worth investing in them. Personally I find this argument suspect. We dont see ANY help being given by these billionaires. At all. The case is so strong that we dont even see them bringing in talented youth to youth academies of the club THEY OWN. Its not just a matter of them not giving a sh-t about senior players. They dont give a sh-t about iranians at all. So the argument that its because of iranians lack of talent don't hold. Hazbavi guy is just one of hundreds of examples. Why didnt they bring him in? He is considered a huge talent.

Now over to the question of ones connection to Iran and how this will affect the loyalty and solidarity towards other iranians: There are plenty and tons of iranians outside iran their whole life that would do what I believe is the right thing: To stick together and contribute to each others success. Why are these billionaire owners different? Maybe they just care about themselves and don't give a sh-t about other people, especially iranians? This seems the most logical conclusion to me at least.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Moshiri isn't the most unpopular British-Iranian for Everton fans

That prize goes to this guy:

https://twitter.com/search?q=joorabchian%20everton&src=typed_query&f=live

[DR Strangemoosh]

We need to be realistic here, every Iranian who owns a foreign club has foreign citizenship/connections. No fresh off the boat Iranian with sole Iranian citizenship is going to own a foreign team, unless it’s some Sepahi.

Farhad Moshiri (British-Iranian): Everton
Behdad Eghbali (Iranian-American): Chelsea
Mehdi Bayat (French-Iranian): Charleroi
Nader Dejbakhsh (Iranian-American): Orange County FC
Ali Mansouri (Iranian-American): Los Angeles Blues
Ata Pirmoradi (Swedish-Iranian): Pars FC Orebro
Iranians in Philippines: Pasargad FC
Iranians in Sweden: Parsian Vasby

We’re unfortunately not at the level of the Arab countries along the Persian Gulf where some rich domestic sheikh can buy a European team without having foreign citizenship or residence. Any club-purchasing achievement that is done for Iran will have to be done alongside a foreign flag unless if the individual is tied to the Islamic Republic.

I'm no longer sure what we are disagreeing about

[Team Melli Fan]

Agha I don't know how this got so off-track with this accusation but my point is that to all intents and purposes, all of these owners except Bayat have given up their "Iranian-ness" and thanks to Eshalic republic they are effectively generating and spending their wealth through their British or American citizenship. They may have Iranian origins but that's basically it

Bayat is to some extent the only exception

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We need to be realistic here, every Iranian who owns a foreign club has foreign citizenship/connections. No fresh off the boat Iranian with sole Iranian citizenship is going to own a foreign team, unless it’s some Sepahi.

Farhad Moshiri (British-Iranian): Everton
Behdad Eghbali (Iranian-American): Chelsea
Mehdi Bayat (French-Iranian): Charleroi
Nader Dejbakhsh (Iranian-American): Orange County FC
Ali Mansouri (Iranian-American): Los Angeles Blues
Ata Pirmoradi (Swedish-Iranian): Pars FC Orebro
Iranians in Philippines: Pasargad FC
Iranians in Sweden: Parsian Vasby

We’re unfortunately not at the level of the Arab countries along the Persian Gulf where some rich domestic sheikh can buy a European team without having foreign citizenship or residence. Any club-purchasing achievement that is done for Iran will have to be done alongside a foreign flag unless if the individual is tied to the Islamic Republic.

[Nokhodi]

Agha I don't know how this got so off-track with this accusation but my point is that to all intents and purposes, all of these owners except Bayat have given up their "Iranian-ness" and thanks to Eshalic republic they are effectively generating and spending their wealth through their British or American citizenship. They may have Iranian origins but that's basically it

Bayat is to some extent the only exception

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Bayat family's insistence on helping out Iranian football is admirable considering their family are considered persona nan grata as they were considered "darbar" pre-revolution.

They even offered to host our Female TM, but the a**holes back in Iran forced the team to cancel because of that link.

[DR Strangemoosh]

You want owners linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran, as opposed to Iranians abroad? I prefer the latter.

Regardless, we come nowhere close to the likes of the Emiratis' influence with City Football Group, the Saudis' influence with Public Investment Fund, or the Qataris' influence with Qatar Sports Investments.

Also, the Iranian guy at Newcastle is just a Saudi stooge, it's the Saudis who are really owning the team. & Jahm Najafi's bid for Tottenham hasn't come to fruition. Farhad Moshiri at Everton and a far reach for Behdad Eghbali at Chelsea are the closest we have to Premier League team ownership, and Chelsea is mostly run by Todd Boehly.

The point I'm making here is I don't mind Iranians abroad owning European clubs, so long as they aren't linked to the Islamic Republic. It's good to counter the Persian Gulf states' influence in world football. And if the Iranian owners don't show party bazi / nepotism / favoritism in bringing in Iranian players, I don't really care. But if they do, like Mehdi Bayat at Charleroi, then kudos to them.

Agha I don't know how this got so off-track with this accusation but my point is that to all intents and purposes, all of these owners except Bayat have given up their "Iranian-ness" and thanks to Eshalic republic they are effectively generating and spending their wealth through their British or American citizenship. They may have Iranian origins but that's basically it

Bayat is to some extent the only exception

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[Team Melli Fan]

There's loads of Iranian origin people agha - 4 wealthy Iranian-Americans in the premier league, or about to enter, as we speak

Just that none of them, Moshiri included, have any actual link to Iran. Whereas all the Persian gulf countries are linked to their country intrinsically

You want owners linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran, as opposed to Iranians abroad? I prefer the latter.

Regardless, we come nowhere close to the likes of the Emiratis’ influence with City Football Group, the Saudis’ influence with Public Investment Fund, or the Qataris’ influence with Qatar Sports Investments.

Also, the Iranian guy at Newcastle is just a Saudi stooge, it’s the Saudis who are really owning the team. & Jahm Najafi’s bid for Tottenham hasn’t come to fruition. Farhad Moshiri at Everton and a far reach for Behdad Eghbali at Chelsea are the closest we have to Premier League team ownership, and Chelsea is mostly run by Todd Boehly.

The point I’m making here is I don’t mind Iranians abroad owning European clubs, so long as they aren’t linked to the Islamic Republic. It’s good to counter the Persian Gulf states’ influence in world football. And if the Iranian owners don’t show party bazi / nepotism / favoritism in bringing in Iranian players, I don’t really care. But if they do, like Mehdi Bayat at Charleroi, then kudos to them.