Everton due for investment

Everton are expected to name a Russian as their new benefactor after a board meeting today, but they insist it is not pulp and paper tycoon Boris Zingarevich, whose family has a £362m fortune.

The Goodison Park club have gone to great lengths to distance Zingarevich from the £20m shares deal that chairman Bill Kenwright announced a week ago, a move that has been subject to legal checks for the past week.

However, Everton insiders claim that it is Zingarevich’s son Anton who is the man behind the deal and who could be announced as a new board member within 24 hours.

That board meeting will almost certainly take place in London where Kenwright hopes to announce the name of the man who has moved in to save the club from near financial ruin.