In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports, the fifth bidder to have been granted a period of exclusivity by majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri said he was confident everything could be completed before his exclusivity agreement expires on November 30.
But on the pitch so far this season, the side he hopes to enhance as early as the January transfer window has not performed. In the final nine minutes against Bournemouth before the international break, it was more white flag than White House.
Everton had been near-perfect for 87 minutes but the game management and temperament which served them so well during last season’s run-in deserted them.
Vitaliy Mykolenko went chasing the ball across the pitch to vacate his left-back area. Idrissa Gueye didn’t detect the danger as Justin Kluivert spotted the space to cross perfectly for Luis Sinisterra to head in a 96th-minute winner.
It was the latest a team has ever been two or more goals ahead in a game they’ve gone on to lose in Premier League history.
Ahead of this weekend’s trip to Aston Villa, live on Saturday Night Football, manager Sean Dyche will have looked back on the three losses which have plunged Everton to the bottom of the Premier League table in search of answers.
