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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
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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I don't think we will be ninth for much longer.

In the past ten games, we have acquired 7 points. Stoke have got 18 points in that period and are now on our tail.

We are sinking.
 
Blue Cheese said:
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.
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Your example re Moyes was simply incorrect.

Your example of Chelsea simply ignores the fact that of all the clubs on the planet, they are at the very forefront of the bizarre "win every game or you're sacked" mentality. They have an almost limitless pit of money and a deluded, entitled fanbase. I don't think that's the type of model our club should seek to emulate. But yeah, they did exactly what you described, so well done you.

You're actively agitating for us to be more like Chelsea. Think about that for a second.
 
Tree13 said:
Interesting.

Who's better than Stek: Howard, or Robles? None, all 3 are as average as each other - with patches of brilliance.
Who's better than Williams: Jags, RFM or Stones? None, all 4 are as average as each other - again with patches of brilliance. Thought Williams would be better, more imposing and show more leadership than he has currently.
I'm guessing you rate Gana, but if not: name a better CM in the squad. -
Gana is fantastic, he's like a terrier.

And my feelings on Bolasie are obvious.
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Tree13 said:
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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A couple of things we'll probably agree on, Martinez was crap and had to go, Koeman needs another 12 months, and 2 more transfer windows before he can be judged properly, but that doesn't mean he's immune from criticism.
 
Tree13 said:
Your example re Moyes was simply incorrect.

Your example of Chelsea simply ignores the fact that of all the clubs on the planet, they are at the very forefront of the bizarre "win every game or you're sacked" mentality. They have an almost limitless pit of money and a deluded, entitled fanbase. I don't think that's the type of model our club should seek to emulate. But yeah, they did exactly what you described, so well done you.

You're actively agitating for us to be more like Chelsea. Think about that for a second.
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Oh damn, winning the Premier League and Champions League must be hard to take for those cockneys. SMFH.

We are living in the modern era, go hard or go home. We can't afford sentimentality when everyone around us is trying their best to spend their way to success.

Like it or not, that is the state of play and why managers are getting sacked earlier than previous.
 

Nil Satis Niasse Optimum said:
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.
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The last two windows have seen us fork out in the region of £40 million on Oumar and Yannick :blush:


As a Texan poker player once said to me in a Vegas casino as he threw over a straight flush.......read 'em and weep :pint2:
 

Blue Cheese said:
Oh damn, winning the Premier League and Champions League must be hard to take for those cockneys. SMFH.

We are living in the modern era, go hard or go home. We can't afford sentimentality when everyone around us is trying their best to spend their way to success.

Like it or not, that is the state of play and why managers are getting sacked earlier than previous.
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Which manager should we have signed in the summer so that we would now be top of the table pal?

SOME clubs can sack managers every couple of months because

a) they are dealing with lower-tier managers with much smaller compensation packages; or

b) they have such huge cash reserves that they can afford to write of an extra £10m a year in compensation for sacked managers.

Chelsea fit in category B. Where do you see us?
 

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