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No Toffees takeover

Friday, 24 July 2009

Everton have formally disassociated themselves with claims they are about to be taken over by a Middle East consortium.

Chief executive Robert Elstone made it plain that no deal is being discussed by the Goodison Park club.

He said: “To suggest someone is working for us and that he is close to concluding any form of deal is totally wrong.”

The speculation surfaced in the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, the National, in which Chris Nathaniel, managing director of NVA Management, revealed that he had already met club officials to outline a possible offer from a United Arab Emirates consortium.

But in a statement released last night Elstone pointed out: “I had one, brief meeting with Mr Nathaniel a year ago and that is as far as it went. To suggest that he is working for us — and that he is close to concluding any form of deal — is totally wrong.”

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