 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Everton are attracting interest again from the United States where takeovers are being talked about again. Bloomberg today reporting that a company called Lampf, I've seen it abbreviated from Los Angeles Monetary Fund, I don't know whether that's real, is Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsham are backing this or a behind this apparent takeover interest they have in Everton News Daily. They also have Keith Harris as an advisor, Keith Harris being a former Everton director of course. Apparently the group wants to buy a football club, they want their interest to be in Everton but if it isn't Everton they'll go after another European football club apparently. According to a few sources these are the people involved in this are serious players and they are very serious about buying into Everton. And obviously Farad Meshiri has made it known, not publicly but he must have made it known in financial circles that he is looking certainly for investment in Everton football club. But you know takeover talks have happened according to you know various different channels with the Kaminsky group. Mattia Kaminsky as you know it was reported back in July that they were very close to takeover with Everton, it didn't happen. Farad Meshiri then came out and said the club wasn't for sale but then last week the people close to Kaminsky said that he was still on the table and he was still talking about having a stake in Everton and now a week later we've got this report coming out. All the major outlets have picked it up now, Bloomberg like I said were the first to report on it, Paul Joyce has done peace on it as well as others. To say that these are very serious in buying Everton football clubs so I don't know who else is involved with them, what their resources are like but obviously if they are going to buy Everton they are going to need some deep pockets. I think right now buying Premier League clubs is an attractive proposition certainly for American investors, the pound is shocking at the moment, it's quite weak so they may see this as a real opportunity to get hold of a Premier League football club when it's more advantageous for them with the strength of the dollar at the moment. We'll have to wait and see whether or not Farad Meshiri takes them as investors or whether or not he agrees to a full takeover and they become the new owners of Everton football club or whether this teases other people out. If you remember back to July when the Kaminsky group were rumoured to be taken over, it was reported there were four or five interested parties, a couple from the Middle Eastern and the rest from the United States. So there's a lot of American owners now in the Premier League so we'll see what happens. This group also apparently had a £3 billion deal or bid rather for Tottenham Hotspur 10 down in February so quite clearly he can get the hands on some money so we'll have to wait and see whether anything further develops on this one but an interesting story doing the rounds today. Young Everton midfielder Luke Butterfield has agreed a new three year deal with the club, he is now contracted until the end of June 2025. He has been at Everton since the age of 11, he's 19 now he's currently injured at the moment but is close to returning, he's played twice this season for Paul Tate's under 21 side and he's captained the side on one occasion as well. He said he's going to work hard and try to improve and his dream is to get into Everton's first team. Kevin Thelwell said Luke is a talented young player, we've been delighted that he has signed this new deal with the club. He's got a lot of strong technical ability and attributes but he's also got an excellent attitude and a desire to learn. I'm confident Luke will continue to improve over the years and I'm looking forward to seeing how he progresses. Kevin Thelwell has been making a few of these signings and obviously we've seen the Richwell deal yesterday to Metcalf Simon, Cati Coyarty Simon as well of late so lots of younger players signing new contracts so we'll see what happens. The Butterfield in his interview talked about a pathway into Everton's first team and all that so we'll see how he does from now. Congratulations to Luke. Last night Everton under 21 side drew 1-1 with Harrogate in the Papadion's EFL trophy. Everton then won 4-2 on penalties because they're in groups to draw the game go straight to penalties. Everton won it 4-2. Stanley Mills got Everton's goal in the first half a well taken strike from the edge of the box. Captain decided as well and won a lot of praise for his performance last night. He seems to be doing really well. He's obviously being in and around Frank Llanparte's squad and training with the first team as well so he's doing really well right now. Finally, former Everton boss Roberto Martinez has called Amadou Onane one of the most exciting talents in European football at the moment. Martinez gave Onane his debut for Belgium and then gave him his full debut last week. He said that Onane has adapted well, plays in the Premier League now which is great for his progress. He has Fellain type attributes and qualities and he's also played in three top leagues in Europe and is progressing well. He's becoming a special and useful player and we are enjoying his progress. He's really settled down Amadou and he's come in. He's only turned 21 a couple of weeks ago. He's doing really well in our midfield and hopefully he had a few opportunities to put the ball in the net at the weekend. Hopefully he can add some goals from his role in midfield and that will help him and us. But it looks as though all being well he'll be in Belgium's well cup squad as well so that will be good for him. That is it for the Everton News Daily. Make sure you check out the 1878 FM podcast that is out now. Make sure you subscribe, give the video a thumbs up and if you want to become a Trophy TV Premier member the link is in the description and the QR code is on the screen now. See you later.