Whisper it quietly, but Liverpool’s reasonably pricey team seem to be doing quite well too, by all accounts, despite the vitriol directed at Tom Hicks and George Gillette whenever the Reds lose a match.

Randy Lerner at Aston Villa is generally regarded as the ideal example of how you want a new, wealthy chairman to behave: he’s appointed a manager he trusts, given him a lot of money, and appears to let him get on with spending it and running the team.

While not as wealthy as the owners at Eastlands, his more measured approach seems far preferable, and obviously that’s what Evertonians would want if anyone new came in at Goodison.

David Moyes has already painstakingly built a tight-knit squad with a work ethic and team spirit that’s the envy of most of the Premier League.

We’d love to see him augment and build upon that base with more players of genuine quality though – the sort he often seems to covet but miss out on through a lack of funds.

If that was the case, and new owners could facilitate that sort of organic growth, then very few Evertonians would care if they came from the Middle East, Middle America, or the middle of outer space.