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Everton up for sale? Friedkin Group considering new investment options including the potential sale of controlling stake | Football News
9 October 2026 Off

Everton up for sale? Friedkin Group considering new investment options including the potential sale of controlling stake | Football News

By Total Football News

The Friedkin Group are considering the potential sale of Everton Football Club – saying “the time is right” for the next chapter.

The group, led by American billionaire Dan Friedkin, completed their full takeover of Everton in December 2024 – ending Farhad Moshiri’s long spell at the helm.

The Friedkin Group (TFG) have said they will only entertain interest from parties who they feel are the “right stewards to

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Liverpool: Inside the club’s increasing global investment in youth
29 September 2026 Off

Liverpool: Inside the club’s increasing global investment in youth

By Total Football News

Ndiaye isn’t the only player to have been identified and recruited by Liverpool‘s global talent team.

After the U17 World Cup, Liverpool also made a £2.6m move for another centre-half, Ifeanyi Ndukwe.

Ndukwe was impressive in pre-season and the 18-year-old Austrian has gone on loan to Levante in La Liga as he looks to obtain a UK work permit.

The list doesn’t stop there. Samuel Martinez, the 17-year-old Colombian

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Derby County: Independent football regulator faces ‘defining test’ over potential Rams investment
5 June 2026 Off

Derby County: Independent football regulator faces ‘defining test’ over potential Rams investment

By Total Football News

English football’s independent regulator faces a “defining test” as Saudi Arabian government official Turki Al-Sheikh attempts to invest in Derby County, says Amnesty International.

Al-Sheikh, who has previously owned football clubs in Spain and Egypt and is now among the most powerful figures in world boxing, is looking to buy a stake in the Championship side.

As chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority – and someone who is

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Bristol City: Boss Gerhard Struber eyes more investment for Premier League push
14 March 2026 Off

Bristol City: Boss Gerhard Struber eyes more investment for Premier League push

By Total Football News

Bristol City boss Gerhard Struber believes the Robins need more investment at all levels to end their 46-year top flight exile.

The Austrian is aware of how the “optics” of selling top stars to promotion rivals in January look to supporters after dropping off the promotion pace.

The Robins, 12th in the Championship, have slipped to seven points adrift of the top six with nine games left.

That slide has

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Football Daily – 72+ EFL Pod: Blackburn’s pitch and Wrexham investment
11 December 2025 Off

Football Daily – 72+ EFL Pod: Blackburn’s pitch and Wrexham investment

By Total Football News

Available for 29 days

Aaron Paul and Jobi McAnuff are joined by Phil Brown to discuss the permanent appointment of Tonda Eckert to Southampton. Is there any surprise that Southampton have acted now? Should his contract have been shorter? They also discuss Blackburn’s pitch woes and the investment at Wrexham – is Phil Parkinson the man to take Wrexham to the Premier League? Heartbreak for Lyle Taylor’s Chelmsford City in

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Wrexham agree new investment deal for minority stake
8 December 2025 Off

Wrexham agree new investment deal for minority stake

By Total Football News

The new owners of Atletico Madrid have been confirmed as minority investors in Wrexham football club.

Apollo Sports Capital (ASC) last month became majority shareholders in Spanish giants Atletico, with the deal set to be formalised in the new year.

They have now opted to inject cash into Wrexham in a deal that will see the club’s celebrity figureheads Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac remain as controlling owners of the

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Preston: Chairman Craig Hemmings stands down as club seeks new investment
11 October 2025 Off

Preston: Chairman Craig Hemmings stands down as club seeks new investment

By Total Football News

Hemmings succeeded his late father, Trevor, when becoming Preston’s chairman in June 2019.

Since then, they have continually remained in the Championship. They finished between ninth and 13th for five straight campaigns, but only survived relegation on the final day of last season with a 20th-placed finish.

However, after an extensive summer of rebuilding under manager Paul Heckingbottom, they have the most expensively-assembled squad in the club’s history and currently

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Plymouth Argyle: New investment falls through after relegation, says owner
31 May 2025 Off

Plymouth Argyle: New investment falls through after relegation, says owner

By Total Football News

Hallett says he and the club’s existing shareholders – Argyle Green and the Holliday family – will match the level of funding they had planned with the new investor for this season, a level he says is twice the budget the club had when they won League One in 2023.

Under Hallett’s ownership, Argyle have redeveloped the Mayflower Grandstand and are helping to fund new academy facilities at what was

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All Premier League & EFL clubs could be US-owned, says investment expert
19 November 2024 Off

All Premier League & EFL clubs could be US-owned, says investment expert

By Total Football News

In 2021, then National League club Wrexham were taken over by American actor Rob McElhenney and Canadian film star Ryan Reynolds.

Since then the duo have helped the side win promotion from the fifth to the third tier of English football, while the club’s profile across the globe has been vastly increased by the Welcome to Wrexham TV documentary.

Sommerfeld said that the relatively low initial investment of between

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Paul Warne: Derby County head coach “unaffected” by investment talks
26 September 2024 Off

Paul Warne: Derby County head coach “unaffected” by investment talks

By Total Football News

Derby County head coach Paul Warne says potential investment talks have not affected him as the Rams prepare to host Norwich in Saturday’s early kick-off.

It has been reported that Derby owner David Clowes has been in talks with potential investors for a majority ownership at the club.

“It didn’t affect me at all to be honest, I didn’t know the story had circulated,” Warne told BBC Radio Derby.

“I

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