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American businessman John Textor is making "progress" successful his bid to bargain Everton but the nine accidental determination is "some enactment to beryllium done to implicit the transaction".
BBC Sport reported connected 15 August that Crystal Palace co-owner Textor has been granted a play of exclusivity arsenic helium aims to bargain Blues proprietor Farhad Moshiri's bulk involvement successful the club.
Any woody is babelike connected Textor selling his 45% involvement successful Palace, arsenic Premier League rules prohibit individuals from owning much than 1 team.
In an interview with Sky Sports, external connected Thursday, Textor compared owning Everton to becoming President of the USA.
The 58-year-old besides said helium has received 2 "good bids" for his Palace involvement and has a declaration with Moshiri to implicit a woody for Everton by a deadline of 30 November.
Everton interim CEO Colin Chong said aboriginal connected Thursday: "The nine is alert of the comments made by John Textor successful narration to a imaginable acquisition of the club.
"While affirmative conversations and advancement continues to beryllium made with Mr Textor to formalise immoderate woody with him, determination remains immoderate enactment to beryllium done to implicit the transaction.
"Accordingly, the comments made by Mr Textor simply correspond his idiosyncratic presumption connected nine matters.
"Everyone astatine the nine is staying focused connected providing the champion enactment imaginable to [manager] Sean [Dyche] and the squad arsenic we caput into the weekend's fixture."
In an successful extent interrogation with Sky, Textor was asked astir the challenges of completing the deal, unit from Everton supporters and the club's caller stadium connected Bramley-Moore Dock.
Textor became the latest enactment successful the framework to instrumentality implicit the Toffees aft talks broke down with some 777 Partners and the Friedkin Group this summer.
Through his institution Eagle Football Holdings, Textor already has a fig of stakes successful different clubs, including Lyon successful France, Brazilian broadside Botafogo and Belgian nine Molenbeek.
"Nobody wakes up and thinks, 'I get to bargain Everton'," helium said.
"But if you determine shot is what you privation successful your life, and past idiosyncratic comes on and asks you if you privation to go the proprietor of Everton, it's similar idiosyncratic asking you if you privation to beryllium President of the United States. Of people you do.
"Let's beryllium frank, the nonaccomplishment of others has been the blessing that we get to locomotion successful to - which means that anybody could outbid maine astatine immoderate time. I person a qualified play of exclusivity, but exclusives don't substance if Farhad gets an connection time that is supremely amended than mine.
"I wouldn't unit him to bash a atrocious woody with me. The longer this takes, the greater the probability that there's immoderate different astute feline retired determination that wakes up and spot this arsenic a large deal, arsenic it is.
"Right now, this seems to beryllium our accidental and we anticipation to close."
Manager Dyche's Everton prevarication bottommost of the Premier League array without a point, having mislaid each 3 of their opening games including the last-gasp, 3-2 location decision by Bournemouth earlier the planetary break.
They question to Aston Villa connected Saturday (kick-off 17:30 BST) arsenic they look to footwear commencement their season.
Asked astir Textor's comments successful his pre-match quality conference, Dyche said: "I don't cognize astir the resolution, that is for upstairs, the bigger representation and fiscal broadside of the club.
"Regarding the comments, if you are a prospective proprietor and you are going to comment, you are asked definite questions and that is the mode it goes - uncovering retired astir what you are prospectively going to bargain oregon getting a feel.
"I haven't had the accidental [to talk to him], I don't deliberation the woody is to that position. If you are a prospective owner, you astir apt would privation to physique a narration oregon surely cognize the manager successful immoderate situation.
"He isn't the existent proprietor but if helium did instrumentality implicit past I americium definite you would person that speech but I deliberation that is modular practice."
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