 Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Everton have again today been linked with a move from Manchester City midfiel player Calvin Phillips. Everton are very interested in the midfielder in the summer transfer window. Wanted to take him on loan. Pep has said lately that he just can't give him the game time that he wants because obviously they've got Rodry plays in there, John Stones has been in there as well. And there is thought that Philips will move in the January window to get game time. Obviously ahead of the Euros next summer. Y Ventus also very, very interested in taking him as well today. That's part of the story. So Everton and Y Ventus today battling it out for Calvin Phillips. It seems I'm sure there'll be lots of other teams in the mix as well should he be available in January. As the 777 group bid for Everton moves closer in terms of trying to get approval to be from the Premier League, we know that there's a story brought that there's an Indian investment group with a lot of money keeping an eye on that situation. They are ready to rival 777, but I don't know. That was what the story said, but I don't know why that's the case if it's already progressing, but they're keeping an eye on it. So on the back of that, there's apparently US investors as well who were also keeping tabs on the situation that does seem to be one school of thought that says 777 won't get granted the takeover. And therefore these US investors and the Indian investment group are ready to pounce should they not get approval. I don't know how accurate that is. There is obviously a lot of noise around 777. There was another article in Jocema yesterday about money they'd lost and stuff. And there is certain people indicating there's no way they can prove that they've got the relevant funds to receive approval to complete the takeover of Everton. If that is the case, then I am sure that there are other groups ready to step in and take that now they know Farad Meshiri is willing to sell the whole club. So it's going to be an interesting time if 777 won't be given full approval. Do I think personally that that's going to happen? No. I think they will get granted approval. That's how it seems anyway because I would have thought maybe if it was going to be a case of knocking them back, it would have happened already. There seems to be moving down if there's a checklist of things where you have to provide stuff and you get a tick for it. That seems to be happening to where they're up to now. They obviously got FA approval the other day to be direct as Josh Wanda and Steve Pasco got that the other day. They apparently 777 said that they have given the Premier League everything they've asked for and provided evidence on that. So therefore keeping this process going. So I do find it curious though that there was the story on Sunday night. I think it was Alan Nixon on his podcast saying that very, very wealthy Indian investors ready to come in and take Everton. And now the echo running this today that there is other US investment groups who are keeping an eye on it because they feel like possibly there's a chance it won't go through. And therefore they're ready to go. You would imagine, although why they haven't done this earlier, that MSP will be one of those groups who are keeping an eye on it. Obviously they agreed a deal with Farad Masheri earlier in the year to take a small percentage in return for 100 million of him with the idea that they would or could potentially seek a full take over later on in the future. That was stopped, of course, because right to media funding weren't happy with how much equity they were getting. The percentage size of MSP then walked away from it. But to do you find curiosity if it is, then why they didn't just then have a full take over which right to media funding wouldn't have been able to say anything about. So I just wonder if they are part of those other US investors who are keeping tabs on the situation regarding 777. We'll just have to wait and see. Make sure to head over to ToffyTVESC.com slash shop for all our latest designs. You can get them in t-shirts, get them in hoodies. You can even get them in mugs. Don't forget if you're a Toffy TV Premier member, you get 25% off your orders. So why not go over, join Toffy TV Premier and buy some mates today. Some Fulham quarter-final carabao cut news out today from Everton. They go on sale, the tickets go on sale on Wednesday the 15th of November to season ticket holders. The price is £30 for adults, a fiver for juniors. You've got until Monday the 20th of November if you're a season ticket holder to purchase your seat for the Fulham quarter-final. And then members, premium members or members and lounge members, you can buy tickets on the 21st of November for that game. So keep an eye out for that. Everton's under 21th side is in action tonight, well it'll be now. If you are a season ticket holder or a lounge member there is a live stream on Everton's website. You can watch that in the EFL Trophy and some early team news day. Seamus Coleman is in the Everton side tonight stepping up his comeback from an injury that he suffered at Leicester City last season. He is back. He played 45 minutes at the weekend. He's back tonight in this one. Yousaf Chimity is playing each starter game up front and Lewis Dobbin is also in the side. So three Everton 13 squad members in that line-up and also Elijah Campbell is in the Everton line-up as he steps up his return after a long term injury. So you can catch all of that now if you're watching this around the time the news goes out. Kicks off at 7pm. It should be a good game as well. Finally, the referee for the Crystal Palace game on Saturday has been announced today. It's Sam Barrett. Sam Barrett is the man in the middle for Everton's trip to Palace at the weekend. The VAR official is Andy Maddley. Let's be honest, I could have named any ref there and I don't think any of us would be dancing with Joey. But Sam Barrett isn't one that I'm overly familiar with so he mustn't have wronged us too many times already so we'll see how he goes in time for Saturday. That is it for the news daily. Make sure you check out the 1878 FM podcast. That is out. The latest episode of that is out now. Give this video a thumbs up. 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