Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am Joe Devine, your host, and today I'm joined by Sebastaf Blah. Hi, Joe. And Alex Stewart. Hello. We're slightly unhappy because it's the third time we've started today. It's taken us a very long time to get going due to various technical mishaps. Also, quick note, there are builders around and about. I've said this twice

already, so I'll keep it short. If you hear some noise, sorry about that, nothing I can do.

Have you ever seen a more forced smile on anybody? Just suck it up. It's good to do three

times because I think the first time I said that, it took me about a minute and a half to say all of that, and that's about 10 seconds. Anyway, today we are talking about Everton Football Club, which is very exciting. We did a podcast on Wattford the other day, and we promised to do this purely because of the Marco Silver Connection and because there's a lot of very exciting things going on Everton or very interesting perhaps.

Exciting is the wrong word and I've started incorrectly again.

But very interesting things to discuss.

Another point to make is that we are recording this on Tuesday morning the 26th of February

2019 if you're listening in the future.

And tonight Everton play Cardiff game which you are attending, said.

I am.

Yes.

We don't know what, you know, that... We can have a good guess at it, but look, there are no, no block capital responses. We should depend on that game, basically. Take, take umbrage with whatever we say, as long as it's not that. I think it's the ground rule. Well, I mean, also we think that it's probably unlikely that Marco Sil was going to lose his job today.

So we should. we say as long as it's not that, I think it's the ground rule. Well, I mean, also we think that it's probably unlikely that Marco Silvers going to lose his job today.

Well, we were talking about that during one of the many interludes this morning.

And we think that there's little point in him actually being dismissed whatever the outcome.

I mean, the various reports that came out at sort of midnight last night, talking about sort of Everton deeming this a must-win game, must win in what sense, in the kind of fatal P-45 sense, I don't know. It doesn't seem to make much sense. But we, yeah, everything needs the context of people knowing that we recorded this before that game, just in case. And for that reason, we're going to start by talking about things at Everton in a slightly more broad sense. And we're going to discuss Farhad Machiri. We're going to talk about Steve Walsh as well, who's, I think, been gone for nearly a year now. We're going to talk about the stadium. And then we'll get around to talking about Marco Silver, some of the tactics. Alex, we we spoke about it before the podcast and I know you've got a couple of interesting things to say

I would hope so yeah well me too I mean I find them interesting but yeah we'll see uh okay that was so dismissing

yeah let's start in 2017 right uh far heard Mosi, who is currently the majority owner of Everton

Football Club, increased his stake, which I believe he bought into in 2016.

2016 and he, yes, he increased the state to 67%. Yeah. And I believe he's increasing again

in the summer. Apparently so.

All signs point towards that.

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