Farhad Moshiri

[Jamiednm]

Not arsed about the stadium at the moment, we need a team good enough to play football first!

On the contrary, I think a new stadium is critical now. We simply can’t compete at Goodison any more. It doesn’t generate enough money and will never attract the really big investors we need to compete.

Even investing in the squad as the sole focus, we may have a good season or two, but we won’t sustain a challenge against the massive, sustained resources of the top 6.

 

[roydo]

I dont know who'd actively want that. We need to guard against another Johnson situation happening. I see all the ingredients from the late 90s getting put into place again: big "statement" spend that goes sour, terrible managerial appointment, stadium plan hits buggers....followed by a fire sale, relegation fight and owner-flight.

We owe it to ourselves to learn from history and be vigilant.

I get your points, but the landscape is far removed from those days. Football was on its arse, certainly not the gravy train it is (currently) now, and clubs were forced to change stadiums post Taylor report.

Vigilance is the watch word, granted.

 

[sportset]

Not arsed about the stadium at the moment, we need a team good enough to play football first!

You have got it in one, they have got their priorities totally wrong and that is why I think they could sink in the Mersey!

 

[davek]

Suggestions Dave.

I would make sure Allardyce is handed nothing other than recycled cash for a LB this window; sack him in May and have the new manager in place to get going (preferably hired *now*); I would get real on the stadium and either cut and run from it or announce a scaled down plan that can be future proofed that allows the borrowing to be at a minimum and certainly nowhere as onerous as this fantasy island plan; I would if I were Moshiri hire an industry credible CEO to oversee a clear out of the club bureaucracy...then I'd stfu and leave it to the team management to conduct business.

 

[eddy]

Hahahaha

He’s “fell lucky” into becoming a billionaire now.

Sums this thread up

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Without Usmanov he would be nobody

 

[People75]

Complete and utter chaos, it what this will end up with.

This way of running a club, will lead us to the lower leagues.

Besides that, give the supporter's and fans a time of worry and discomfort.

The man need to sign out

 

[davek]

I get your points, but the landscape is far removed from those days. Football was on its arse, certainly not the gravy train it is (currently) now, and clubs were forced to change stadiums post Taylor report.

Vigilance is the watch word, granted.

I disagree. These were the days when clubs were striking media company deals with the likes of NTL, able to increasingly count on tv cash to improve squads, rich investors were beginning to take closer order and buy clubs outright and spend on them. It was the start of the boom and things looked very hopeful.

We, of course, blew it.

We cant be allowing Moshiri to sleep walk us down the Johnson route.

 

[chippy1722]

If/when the stadium falls though a few thousand off the gate will be the least of the club's worries. Moshiri's distancing and eventual withdrawal would be like the time Johnson left...with steroids.

We'll plummet with the instability of it all. No decent manager would want the job and the club would be selling off players to cover debt.

The season ticket sales have gone up since news of the stadium, even after a bad last Martinez season. I think some people took them out to guarantee a seat in the new ground. That was definitely part of my thinking when renewing, Ive watched more games on my laptop than going the game this season. The football is atrocious, and It just bores me. I fully expect Sam here this season because I don’t think we have the ambition or pulling power for anyone better.

 

[People75]

He has put £150 million in.

Yes he did. Now he does not have to pay the interests, on the loan, to someone else. It was money out of his pocket.

What we got instead was
1; still having to give £150m back, one way or the other.

2; a credit from a chinese bank, with interests.

Fancy that.

It's the emperor's new clothes.

 

[davek]

Yes he did. Now he does not have to pay the interests, on the loan, to someone else. It was money out of his pocket.

What we got instead was
1; still having to give £150m back, one way or the other.

2; a credit from a chinese bank, with interests.

Fancy that.

It's the emperor's new clothes.

He's "facilitated an intelligent restructuring of our finances"

...or something.

 

[People75]

He's "facilitated an intelligent restructuring of our finances"

...or something.

He is playing us

 

[davek]

He is playing us

He plays everyone.

 

[billyblue80]

It's so Everton to wait decades for investment and then end up with this incompetent numpty. Saying that Bill brought him in so what did we expect? It should have been a formal bidding process not one of Bill's mates getting involved.

 

[Khalekan]

I disagree. These were the days when clubs were striking media company deals with the likes of NTL, able to increasingly count on tv cash to improve squads, rich investors were beginning to take closer order and buy clubs outright and spend on them. It was the start of the boom and things looked very hopeful.

We, of course, blew it.

We cant be allowing Moshiri to sleep walk us down the Johnson route.

Oh for sure.

The 90s was the Klondyke for football and savvy clubs like United, Arsenal and Chelsea used it a springboard for their future success.

(contrary to popular opinion, Chelsea were already on the road to becoming an elite club by the turn of the century. They were winning cups, using players like Zola, Vialli and Gullitt and almost won the EPL circa 2001 before Roman came on the scene.....the late Matthew Harding was their visionary and was laying the foundations for modern day Chelsea whilst we were being ruined under Johnson)

What I am witnessing is a repeat performance under Moshiri.

When the first Sky/EPL gravy train pulled out the station around 1993 we were left stood on the platform as four teams we were on an equal footing with sat in the 1st Class carriage....four of the erstwhile “Big Five” to use the parlance of the time.

Under Johnson’s auspices.

The second gravy train has just been and gone and we are still stood there waving goodbye as a further two teams, which up until very recently could not match our league title victories if you combined their own, join the other four in what is fast becoming an unbreakable “top six”.

Only extremely bad management at one or more of those clubs is going to bring them back into the pack.

It is an absolute miracle this club has taken so long to reach the precipice Villa fell off.

But I fear we are edging ever closer to it

 

[Stan Lee Park]

Say something loudly and long enough and that ^^^ is what you get.

Have you been saying it long enough though Dave?