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Farhad Moshiri

7+ Years On... Your Verdict On Farhad Moshiri

  • Pleased

    Votes: 107 7.7%

  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,290 92.3%
  • Total voters
    1,397
Ermm will be very interesting to see what happens if he's included in the next wave of U.S. Russia sanctions or even gets added to the Magnitsky act.
 

Timak said:
Randy Lerner - came into Villa with good intentions. Trusted the "proper football men" around him and gave a blank cheque to experienced PL managers, who spent big money on a core of experienced players.

Absolutely crippled the club in the long run as they realised 30 year old players have no resale value, the wage bill was massive and unless Lerner continued to invest £100m+ each season they'd go under. So they cut back massively and got relegated.

Every £50m (wages+fees) spent on a player 28 or older is money you will not be getting back. We've got about 6 signings from the last 18 months who fit that description - £300m or so will be spent on Williams, Bolasie, Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson, Walcott and Rooney.
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We have done both, buy in talent that can deliver now (well supposedly) and then a lot of younger players that could be sold for profit later down the line thus cancelling each other out.

The mosh seems a lot more pragmatic than a lot of these owners that have overspent to try and get success, he talks of it being difficult and bridging gaps. Not we are going to be CL club next year so with that money coming in we will then be able to balance the books.
 

Timak said:
Randy Lerner - came into Villa with good intentions. Trusted the "proper football men" around him and gave a blank cheque to experienced PL managers, who spent big money on a core of experienced players.

Absolutely crippled the club in the long run as they realised 30 year old players have no resale value, the wage bill was massive and unless Lerner continued to invest £100m+ each season they'd go under. So they cut back massively and got relegated.

Every £50m (wages+fees) spent on a player 28 or older is money you will not be getting back. We've got about 6 signings from the last 18 months who fit that description - £300m or so will be spent on Williams, Bolasie, Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson, Walcott and Rooney.
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It's great to see transfer funds finally being made available but they have to be used wisely. The Walcott buy is just a continuation of the failed policy under RK. Allowing a manager to indulge in self serving short termism .
I expect Walcott to do a job with the WC upcoming but where does that leave the club at the start of next season? We'll have 2 declining 29yo wingers, who cost up to 50m in total, who'll have played barely a season's worth of football between them and who'll both have 3 years remaing on their high wages contracts.
It's a completely unsustainable policy. Moshiri should have stated to Sam that he would be supported but he could only buy players under 27. Walsh clearly doesn't have the authority or strength to do that and if Sam gets his way we'll also have a 30yo Nzonzi this time next year.
It's utterly reckless and could break the club unless secret santa Usmanov fancies funding to Abramovitch levels.
 
Timak said:
Randy Lerner - came into Villa with good intentions. Trusted the "proper football men" around him and gave a blank cheque to experienced PL managers, who spent big money on a core of experienced players.

Absolutely crippled the club in the long run as they realised 30 year old players have no resale value, the wage bill was massive and unless Lerner continued to invest £100m+ each season they'd go under. So they cut back massively and got relegated.

Every £50m (wages+fees) spent on a player 28 or older is money you will not be getting back. We've got about 6 signings from the last 18 months who fit that description - £300m or so will be spent on Williams, Bolasie, Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson, Walcott and Rooney.
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It is worrying. The only difference is we aren't spending beyound what we are earning. Yet.
 
Threw good money after bad on scrap should've got us to walk before we could run. Paying way over the odds in wages for average players who will never get shifted. Should have just consolidated and looked to improve slowly year on year getting 2-3 quality signings in per window instead of this scattergun approach. In Mosh's defense the football people he hired to do the job have a lot to answer for.
 
With no long term strategy from above indeed conflicting ideas of our future. A poor director of football who left us with a squad full of holes having spent most of 200m, a majority shareholder with seemingly very little nose for football and an old guard on the board who are proven to be incompetent, and a series of hapless managers we look ruderless. Sacking managers without a strategy and shipping in and out players will continue, if there is no long term vision we will continue to fail on and off the pitch. Look at City yes they have untold wealth but they had a long term strategy and it's paying off. I fear Big Sam is just another stop in our decline and next year it will be another manager facing similar issues unless there is a root and branch clear out from top to bottom and a clear strategy in place for the whole club.
 
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