Lets face it we do need to be taken over, but not in that scale. If we were to get a 'City' style takeover, they bring in 5/6 players on 100k+ a week and then suddenly fuck off cus they've had enough we'll be in a whole heap of shit. IMO we need to be taken over, but by someone who actually has an interest in running Everton as a football club. Come in and sort out our finances, write our dept off and maybe a new stadium, but that's not at the top of our list of priorities tbf, and get us up back up there with the likes of manure and chelski. I believe we're not that far off, but we will never be a massive threat until we spend a little money. In the long term though a bigger stadium would be what we would need to bring in more revenue, increase the fan base etc.
We need to bring in a little more depth to the squad to cover injuries and fatigue, and obviously bring in a decent winger (or 2) and a striker. If we had a chairman there to give Moyes around 20/25 mil to spend each summer I think we would be a team to compete with. Tbh we probs wouldn't even need that every year, but it would be nice for Moyes to have the money there and bring in either future talent or a player(s) to strengthen the squad where he feels necessary.