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Farhad Moshiri

7+ Years On... Your Verdict On Farhad Moshiri

  • Pleased

    Votes: 111 7.9%

  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,295 92.1%
  • Total voters
    1,406
ToffeeTim said:
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An embarrassment to the club.
 


ToffeeTim said:
I'll not be sending any planes, maybe just paper ones from the top balcony at cleverley.

I despise our board and whilst the BU are naive and misguided, at least they did something about it.
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The BU are a bunch of scumbags. They certainly dont speak for me no matter how they try to make out that they do.

I get that the board are not the best ever but they have not took is into oblivion or anything either. Things could have been much much worse. I you look at what has happened at other clubs and what happened with Everton it makes the whole plane flying and clown cake carrying stuff look absolutely ludicrous. Which it is.

In my opinion, obviously.
 
Papa Shango said:
The BU are a bunch of scumbags. They certainly dont speak for me no matter how they try to make out that they do.

I get that the board are not the best ever but they have not took is into oblivion or anything either. Things could have been much much worse. I you look at what has happened at other clubs and what happened with Everton it makes the whole plane flying and clown cake carrying stuff look absolutely ludicrous. Which it is.

In my opinion, obviously.
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21 years with no trophy at Everton Football Club is what I see as ludicrous. How is not taking us into the abyss something to be lauded for? It's like me getting praised at the end of a days work for not injuring any colleagues ffs

Standard clap clap clap brigade rubbish this. We don't deserve success with views like these
 
Stan Lee Park said:
Can't disagree with that assessment as it's self-evident that we couldn't match top four/five in the Pl for commercial activity and investment. The reasons for that are quite complex and certainly the board must take some responsibility for this relative stagnation, but I'm not buying this simplistic "it's all Bill's fault" analysis. This can be debated for ever, but what is more important is that we now have a saviour in Moshiri who so far has done nothing to convince me that he is capable of saving us. That's the really bitter pill to swallow.
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Yes, I agree the "it's all Bill's fault" is far too simplistic and in many respect's Kenwright could have done a lot worse, I personally have a lot of time for the guy.

Moshiri hasn't done a great deal to impress but the only point I was making is that in the current landscape, he does have a huge job on his hands to get us back to where we need to be. What we need to is a sensible, sustainable long-term commercial strategy - stadium, sponsors, investment, shrewd commercial exploitation of the brand. I hope Moshiri is the guy to give us that, but this is not something which I feel we can judge him on at this stage.

However, we do need to show short-term ambition as well and this is something we can judge him on - he's not done well. Hopefully, he will adjust to and learn from the steep learning curve of the last transfer window.

Papa Shango said:
It was like that way before Kenwright etc.
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Agreed. I'm not trying to pin the blame solely on Kenwright, just trying to give a bit of context to the present situation.
 
Stan Lee Park said:
Unbelievable rewriting of history
There was a rapid decline in the 1990s which probably had it's roots in the break-up of the successful 1980s team. This decline was exacerbated by the farce that was Peter Johnson's ownership and was only arrested by the intervention of Bill Kenwright and the eventual appointment of David Moyes as manager. For twelve or thirteen years we had stability which we hadn't had for the previous twelve to fifteen years. We also had reasonable results on the pitch without ever breaking the stranglehold of the big four (later joined by Man City). The Martinez appointment looked inspired but turned sour very quickly in his second and third seasons. Then along came Moshiri, who to date, with Ronald Koeman's assistance, has managed a more rapid decline in Everton's status than any of us thought possible.
He has promised the earth and delivered an inept manager with no sign of any new investment and the usual pie in the sky promises about a new stadium trying to mask an appallingly managed summer transfer window where we gained three journeymen, a promising midfielder and a South American failure.
Good start Mr Moshiri.
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Let start by saying that I agree fully with your first paragraph re the 1980's team and Peter Johnson, followed by Kenwright and Moyes. But am I understanding you correctly - you think Koeman is a worse manager than Martinez?

As for the summer transfer window... Stek, Williams and Gana are all upgrades on the players they have replaced. Bolasie arguably is too, even if his fee was uncomfortably high. Are they good enough to be long-term starters for us? Probably not, but the harm done by Martinez was never going to be undone in one window. Just as Martinez cannot take all the credit for his first season (much of what that team did well was down to Moyes), Koeman cannot take all the blame for this season. Much of what is currently wrong is down to Martinez, and unless we drop £200m in one window, it's going to take a while to cure. The fact remains, we are doing better than we were this time last year.
 

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