Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
A new dawn.
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In all seriousness, I'd have no issues at all in groundsharing Anfield if Goodison was being torn down and rebuilt, then letting them groundshare the new Goodison while Anfield was being redone (if that was on the cards). It would be entirely win/win.
eternal_defiance
Player Valuation: £8m
Everton seem to have a relationship with The Daily Mail, and it said Martinez had met with Moshiri last night. Further interviews today have confirmed that. From now on I will look for the Daily Mail Everton stories on newsnow.
This is all so exciting on top of the news I have a rare and first-used new avatar of our new leader.
This is all so exciting on top of the news I have a rare and first-used new avatar of our new leader.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Don't believe everything you read in the Daily Fail.
ncblue
Player Valuation: £6m
helpimonfire
Player Valuation: £35m
This is from 2012. Shows that Moshiri wants to keep the best players at a club.
Arsenal investors reproach Kroenke over Van Persie
LONDON (AP) - A simmering feud between the major shareholders of Arsenal erupted Thursday when American owner Stan Kroenke was accused of selling the club's best players and replacing them with cheaper ones.
In the letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri wrote to Kroenke expressing "deep reservations" about how he runs the club after captain Robin van Persie declined to sign a new contract.
Usmanov and Moshiri own just under 30 percent of Arsenal through investment company Red & White, but they haven't been allowed by Kroenke to join the board.
They complain in the letter that Kroenke is running Arsenal "without any investment" and with little sign that a trophy drought stretching back to 2005 will end soon.
"It is down to our manager and not the shareholders to have to deal with the club's tight finances, carry the burden of repaying the stadium debt by selling his best players and having to continue to find cheaper replacements," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote. "All of that, naturally, comes at the expense of performance on the pitch.
"This policy is leading to the loss of our best players, often to our main competitors, and even causes the players themselves to question their future at the club and the club's ambitions. The situation with our captain and outstanding performer from last season, Robin van Persie, sums this up."
Van Persie announced in a shock statement on Wednesday that he would not extend his Arsenal contract, which expires in a year, because "we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal should move forward."
The Netherlands forward scored 37 goals in all competitions for Arsenal last season.
"Yet again we are faced with losing our true marquee player at the club because we cannot assure him of the future direction and give confidence that we can win trophies," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote. "Where are the safeguards to ensure that this doesn't happen again and again in the future?"
Arsenal has lost other stars in recent years amid dissatisfaction about the lack of success and lack of funds for transfers. A year ago, then-captain Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona, while playmaker Samir Nasri and defender Gael Clichy signed for Manchester City and won the Premier League title in May. City also recruited Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure from Arsenal in 2009.
"As a top club we should, at the very least, match if not beat the offers that other clubs make to try and lure our very best players away, and also provide a more compelling vision of the future," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote.
"You can try and put a good face on a bad game for as long as you want, pontificating about the merits of this model, but it will not hide the obvious fact that it just does not allow our great manager to fully realize his managerial talent and deliver success for the fans who are paying the highest prices in the land."
Usmanov and Moshiri complain to Kroenke and other board members that it seems securing a place in the Champions League "will be the pinnacle of our ambition again next season."
"Unfortunately, in the future we may see this ambition lowered further," they added.
Usmanov and Moshiri say they have been refused meetings with Kroenke, who has just completed his first season in charge of Arsenal in which the team finished third in the league standings.
Arsenal investors reproach Kroenke over Van Persie
LONDON (AP) - A simmering feud between the major shareholders of Arsenal erupted Thursday when American owner Stan Kroenke was accused of selling the club's best players and replacing them with cheaper ones.
In the letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri wrote to Kroenke expressing "deep reservations" about how he runs the club after captain Robin van Persie declined to sign a new contract.
Usmanov and Moshiri own just under 30 percent of Arsenal through investment company Red & White, but they haven't been allowed by Kroenke to join the board.
They complain in the letter that Kroenke is running Arsenal "without any investment" and with little sign that a trophy drought stretching back to 2005 will end soon.
"It is down to our manager and not the shareholders to have to deal with the club's tight finances, carry the burden of repaying the stadium debt by selling his best players and having to continue to find cheaper replacements," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote. "All of that, naturally, comes at the expense of performance on the pitch.
"This policy is leading to the loss of our best players, often to our main competitors, and even causes the players themselves to question their future at the club and the club's ambitions. The situation with our captain and outstanding performer from last season, Robin van Persie, sums this up."
Van Persie announced in a shock statement on Wednesday that he would not extend his Arsenal contract, which expires in a year, because "we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal should move forward."
The Netherlands forward scored 37 goals in all competitions for Arsenal last season.
"Yet again we are faced with losing our true marquee player at the club because we cannot assure him of the future direction and give confidence that we can win trophies," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote. "Where are the safeguards to ensure that this doesn't happen again and again in the future?"
Arsenal has lost other stars in recent years amid dissatisfaction about the lack of success and lack of funds for transfers. A year ago, then-captain Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona, while playmaker Samir Nasri and defender Gael Clichy signed for Manchester City and won the Premier League title in May. City also recruited Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure from Arsenal in 2009.
"As a top club we should, at the very least, match if not beat the offers that other clubs make to try and lure our very best players away, and also provide a more compelling vision of the future," Usmanov and Moshiri wrote.
"You can try and put a good face on a bad game for as long as you want, pontificating about the merits of this model, but it will not hide the obvious fact that it just does not allow our great manager to fully realize his managerial talent and deliver success for the fans who are paying the highest prices in the land."
Usmanov and Moshiri complain to Kroenke and other board members that it seems securing a place in the Champions League "will be the pinnacle of our ambition again next season."
"Unfortunately, in the future we may see this ambition lowered further," they added.
Usmanov and Moshiri say they have been refused meetings with Kroenke, who has just completed his first season in charge of Arsenal in which the team finished third in the league standings.
Coffee and TV
Player Valuation: £25m
I'd definitely give more weight to Matt Lawton articles about us since he broke the news about Moshiri first. Still not convinced all their stories are that reliable though.
MartSlinger
Player Valuation: £40m
Its a new day.
eternal_defiance
Player Valuation: £8m
Dominic King works for them too but my main observation is that everton's official Twitter only follows the daily mail and not other newspapers. Definitely have something going on there.
DrEFC
Player Valuation: £40m
I'm sure the lights switch off...
Confusing too, I mean they didn't even call on the freeloading refugee Moshiri to be sent back to Iran.
You'd hope so, otherwise you'd need planning for a power station next door as well.
toffee66
Player Valuation: £8m
Actions will speak louder than words.
If by this summer we are committing to a major redevelopment/new stadium and adding 3-4 quality players to replace the Pienaar/Gibson/Osman/Kone part of the squad then we can all be more than optimistic about the future.
Of course the fume/denial from the Reds if (when, let me be an optimist) this happens will be worth more than money
If by this summer we are committing to a major redevelopment/new stadium and adding 3-4 quality players to replace the Pienaar/Gibson/Osman/Kone part of the squad then we can all be more than optimistic about the future.
Of course the fume/denial from the Reds if (when, let me be an optimist) this happens will be worth more than money
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
TheFinnFan
Finners
Someone correct them kopites that our man is about as rich as theirs and has way better track record in PL than theirs xD