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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
Tree13 said:
Right, so the squad hasn't seen any improvements? Who are Stek, Williams, Gana and Bolasie then?
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You almost lost me at Stek.

He is no improvement....though I suppose he at least is no worse than what we already had (though that is debatable).

Williams, for all he has disappointed me a bit, is an improvement on Stones, don't worry about that.

And Gana has been a revelation.

But you did lose me at Bolasie :mad:

What a waste of money. If Koeman did have to Raid the Palace ( ;) @ Pele....a criminally underrated local band) then he should have fetched Zaha :)

Bolasie is no improvement even on Lennon IMO, never mind Del whom looked far better on Saturday than Bolasie had previously.
 
Blue Cheese said:
As recently as Di Matteo(ok in bottom 3) last year, How many games was Jose given at Chelsea on his title defence? Moyes at Man U. It does happen not frequently but if its not working it's not working.

I feel he's getting let off because we are in 9th.

I could stomach it more if I could relate to the manager but he's so distant.
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Jose wasn't taking over a team that finished 11th two years running?

They went from champions to been what, 15th at the time he was sacked?

He's a new manager, taking over a team that finished 11th two years running. We're 9th. He isn't getting sacked.
 
Blue Cheese said:
As recently as Di Matteo(ok in bottom 3) last year, How many games was Jose given at Chelsea on his title defence? Moyes at Man U. It does happen not frequently but if its not working it's not working.

I feel he's getting let off because we are in 9th.

I could stomach it more if I could relate to the manager but he's so distant.
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Chelsea have spent more on compensating sacked managers in the last ten years than we have on player transfers. That club can spend £200m in a single window and demand instant success... is that a realistic comparison to us?

Moyes had ten months, including two windows.
 
BlueToff said:
Jose wasn't taking over a team that finished 11th two years running?

They went from champions to been what, 15th at the time he was sacked?

He's a new manager, taking over a team that finished 11th two years running. We're 9th. He isn't getting sacked.
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Ok mate.

We are never going to agree toff, your glass is 4/5ths full mine is half empty. He'll receive praise when he has earned it, not until.
 

Tree13 said:
Chelsea have spent more on compensating sacked managers in the last ten years than we have on player transfers. That club can spend £200m in a single window and demand instant success... is that a realistic comparison to us?

Moyes had ten months, including two windows.
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You asked for examples, am I to scroll through the history archives just to find a manager who was in 9th. Sorry not going to happen.

Love it when people ask for examples and when you provide them, snippets off the top of my head, it's not specific enough.

Th Koeman lovers brigade certainly know how to twist everything so it's looking better than it is haha.
 
Blue Cheese said:
Ok mate.

We are never going to agree toff, your glass is 4/5ths full mine is half empty. He'll receive praise when he has earned it, not until.
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I'm not going to give him praise when we're on such a bad run.

Not once have I praised him when we've lost a game.

I'm just being completely realistic and saying he isn't getting sacked.
 

Kin Stekelenburg. I was blinded by his two penalty saves against City, but even before then he'd made several howlers, and after that game he's gone on to make further soft mistakes.

I just cannot get over 28m on Bolasie though. He's literally no better than any of our current wide players - Lennon, Deulofeu, Mirallas - yet for that fee you'd expect an instant game-changing player being brought into the starting XI. Felt sick when we were linked with him, was in disbelief when he signed and now am really struggling to support him playing for us.

Woeful player and a sad sign of the times that Everton have to throw huge fees at absolutely crap players.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
The squad has seen improvements, Gana and Williams, Stek might be better than Howard, but nothing in it between him and Robles, Bolaise has done okay, still too inconsistent, we'll see now if he has been an improvement on what we already had now Del looks like he is going to get a run - out.

Just my opinion, but I reckon in you original post "we are doing better than we were this time last year" was pointing more to than just adding a few players to the squad.
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Quite right.

Under Martinez this time last year, it was clear to many of us that the wheels had come off. We were appalling, and had a manager who REFUSED to concede that anything was wrong. We went on to get worse, finishing 11th but more by luck than anything else. Fast forward a year and we have a manager who is open in his assessment of the weaknesses in the squad, who has signed some players to fit the system he is trying to put into place and has managed to keep us in the top half of the table (better than Martinez could manage on the final week of his last two seasons) whilst making these changes.

He's has 15 games. To me, he appears to have made a difference already and I have faith that more improvements are soon to come.
 

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