Farhad Moshiri

[Darth Toffeeman]

Yes replace whoever goes but just improve other areas. We've improved keeper and defensive options. We've also improved our attacking options as it stands which means we just need to replace Rom & Ross if/when they go. Then we just need to make the bench a bit stronger. I just don't see how we can justify spending another 150m without wasting it.

If we could obtain VVD/Koulibaly to partner Keane and buy an out and out No10 along with 2 quality strikers I would not see that as wasteful. Especially as we could have a 60+ game season ahead.

 

[willo30]

If we could obtain VVD/Koulibaly to partner Keane and buy an out and out No10 along with 2 quality strikers I would not see that as wasteful. Especially as we could have a 60+ game season ahead.

But them players would be out of our wage bracket. We are not shopping at that store yet. Be great if we could get them and would be all for spending it all on them types but I don't think we'd get them as we are still in the cheaper bracket for now.

 

[bicycleheader]

Just a little titbit.

A mate of mine is a long-term EFC employee. I won't say which bit of the club he works in. Anyway, for years he and his colleagues have had all sorts of ideas and desires to improve what they do and how they do it. Often they have come up against budgetary barriers and not been able to get things done quite to the standard they hoped.

However, since Moshiri came in, and especially recently, this fella says everything has changed. The phrase he keeps hearing around the place is "money is no object" - and they've been able to press on and do loads of stuff they've been waiting years to do. And there's loads more in the pipeline. Basically the message has been that Moshiri wants everything to be the best, and he's willing to pay for it.

Very very exciting.

Does he work in the lawn mowing department?

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

But them players would be out of our wage bracket. We are not shopping at that store yet. Be great if we could get them and would be all for spending it all on them types but I don't think we'd get them as we are still in the cheaper bracket for now.

We may surprise.

I think there will be one big arrival. Certainly for more than 30m.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

But them players would be out of our wage bracket.

I don't think that many really know what our "wage bracket" is, least of all on here...we're slowly finding out.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Mosh hasn't just found the Arteta money, he's found the Lescott money, the Rodwell money, the Rooney money, the Jeffers money, the Ferguson money, and even the Keown and Lineker money I think.

 

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[everton2004]

 

[summerisle]

 

[toffeejack]

can we stop bringing up how tragic transfer windows were under kenwright please, let's look to the future, we all know how bad the recent past has been.

 

[madkiwi]

He's the real deal.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Nothing has changed though, Dave said

 

[davek]

we'll have to agree to disagree on that one ! i take it you do think we are improving now under Moshiri from the lack of trying to rubbish the other points !......or putting your money where ya mouth is regarding whether you think Moshiri will provide a new stadium ?

Improving? In what tangible way? Continuing a policy of recycling player sales, continuing to be still at the talking stage of a new stadium, finishing way off the pace of CL places?

Any or all of that will need to change to make any claim of improvement stand up.

We're shuffling existing quality assets out the door and ushering a clutch of new and largely unproven assets through it. That's the story of the summer so far.

 

[davek]

He's not much of a Statto if he cant also figure out the outgoings (already gone and to go in the ret of the window). It's almost like Mr Statto isn't interested in statistics.

 

[davek]

Del was a rubbish fit for this league.
Barkley is a strange one. He is wonderful/awful in equal measure. I hope he stays fwiw.
Lukaku is full of his own self importance. He plays with some unbelievable players for Belgium and yet looks no better than here. He goes missing in crunch games.
Again I would like him to stay if he would get his head down and work. I just don't see it.

Keane is a top class signing. Sides above us wanted him. He chose to come here as we showed so much faith in him and have tracked him all season.

Regarding who we have bough. I watched Kanchelskis, Speed and Stuart leave to be replaced by the likes of Farrelly, Mitch Ward, John Oster and 'I fancy a red card card today' Bilic. Now that was a never in a million years trade off!

We see players we know have proven talent replaced by players who are unknown quantities or else good prospects.

It's not about volume, it's about quality.