EVERTON HAVE ANNOUNCED record losses of just over €150 million after the implications of the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted revenues.
The club’s deficit after tax was €152.61m, considerably worse than a year ago when they posted a then-record loss of €121.98m, albeit over a 13-month accounting period.
Everton said the cost of Covid-19 amounted to an unforeseen loss of €73.4m.
To help offset the losses majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri pumped in €54.54m of his own cash during the last financial year up to June 2020 and has already put in a further €54.54m for the current period.
That took his investment in the club since assuming control in February 2016 to €436.28m, with plans for a further €109m to be injected.
As a result the club have taken steps to create and propose a new share issue to Moshiri’s Blue Heaven Holdings Limited up to a value of €272.65m, with the conversion of previous shareholder loans into equity equating to £€163.59m of that total.
That would potentially take his share in the club from 77.2 per cent to 93.3 per cent.
Everton chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale said: “Clearly this has been a very challenging year, not least from a financial perspective with the impact of Covid-19 having a profound, wide-reaching and material impact on our figures.
“Prior to the pandemic, we were forecasting record revenues in excess of €218m. Our final accounts show that a significant proportion of our losses have been directly attributable to the pandemic.”
