Friedkins to sell Everton 'within 18 months' amid fans mutiny

Everton's owners The Friedkin Group are likely to consider selling the club as unrest among the supporters grows once again.

That is according to former Toffees chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, who believes that Dan Friedkin will get a "significant profit" whenever he decides to cash in on the club.

This comes after a disastrous deadline day that saw a late move for Monaco's Folarin Balogun fall through, leaving David Moyes with just one senior striker in the squad.

Everton's fans have been left raging by what they deem to be another poor transfer window for the club, and Wyness believes that their discontent could drive the ownership away sooner rather than later.

The Scottish businessman outlined his belief that there is a genuine chance that Friedkin puts the club up for sale "within the next 18 months."

The American businessman also owns Italian side Roma, and is being accused once again of paying more attention to them than Everton.

Friedkins want to 'dress up' Everton revenue before sale

Everton’s former chief Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes that Friedkin will want to extract more from the club in terms of revenue before he cashes in.

Wyness believes that he will want to maximise revenue from the Hill Dickinson Stadium in the coming months, in order to drive the price up for an eventual sale.

Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider's Inside Track podcast, he explained why he feels that the writing is now on the wall for Everton's ownership.

"I'm starting to believe that there will potentially be a sale, but I think it'll be within the next 18 months, is what I believe," Wyness said.

"It does seem that Roma are the club that they're really in love with and that they're committed to. Everton seem to be second in that pecking order. 

"I think from the Friedkins' point of view, they have done a great job, as I say, of stabilising the finances. No problem at all with that, and the stadium's completed and they rescued Everton from a really bad situation with Moshiri, there's no doubt about it. 

"But it does seem that their end goal is not to build the club and be part of it long term. And this is a perfectly legitimate strategy; they can certainly take their profit and move it forward. 

"I wouldn't be surprised now, with that new stadium in place, that you see a big group coming in, just as we've seen at Liverpool. Friedkin will make a significant profit out of Everton. 

"So I do see this as a possibility now, but I think they'll want to show that they've got the revenue in the stadium up a bit further. They'll want to make and dress it up a little bit further."

Everton dodge 'one of worst pieces of business I've ever seen'

Former Everton scout Bryan King told Football Insider on Monday that the proposed deal to sell Iliman Ndiaye to Tottenham for £60million, with Richarlison heading in the other direction for £35m, was a terrible deal for the Toffees.

The former recruitment man saw little sense in Everton selling their "best player," and also suggested that Richarlison is worth little more than £15m.

King labelled it "one of the worst pieces of business I've ever seen," but Everton were ultimately able to back out of the proposed transfer.

Ndiaye was ultimately sold to Manchester City for £65m in a separate deal, rather than as part of the controversial swap agreement with Tottenham.