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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
He might be doing the sensible thing and not having yet another mid season sacking occurring for us to be on our fourth manager of the season. Who knows what clauses Allardyce has in his contract about removal mid season as well. If Allardyce doesn’t go as soon as the season ends then Moshiri has to answer but as ugly as it has been this season he seems to have recognised that Walsh/Koeman was a disaster and he’s making moves to fix that. Allardyce is hopefully just a temporary pawn in his plan.
He recognised the Walsh/Koeman disaster, fixed it with Allardyce? And is keeping Walsh it seems?
Very worrying. Very.
If Allardyce stays I give up on him.
 
Moshiri isn’t going to get rid of sam now. There’s a handful of games left.

Sensible thing is to wait it out and replace after the end of the season.

Hopefully he’s sounded out the replacement and ready to press the trigger. To be honest the most important thing is the ceo appointment. Get rid of Elstone ASAP.
 
He recognised the Walsh/Koeman disaster, fixed it with Allardyce? And is keeping Walsh it seems?
Very worrying. Very.
If Allardyce stays I give up on him.

Allardyce was a short term last resort as we panicked about relegation (which looked a real prospect after Southampton). If either Walsh or Allardyce are here next season then Moshiri deserves the pelters, but if in a couple of seasons we have a stadium on the waterfront and Brands Fonseca at the front of a winning team will anyone complain?
 
Allardyce was a short term last resort as we panicked about relegation (which looked a real prospect after Southampton). If either Walsh or Allardyce are here next season then Moshiri deserves the pelters, but if in a couple of seasons we have a stadium on the waterfront and Brands Fonseca at the front of a winning team will anyone complain?

Yes! Of course they will lol ;-)
 
Allardyce was a short term last resort as we panicked about relegation (which looked a real prospect after Southampton). If either Walsh or Allardyce are here next season then Moshiri deserves the pelters, but if in a couple of seasons we have a stadium on the waterfront and Brands Fonseca at the front of a winning team will anyone complain?
Your positivity is sexy.
 

I don’t want a few sackings in the summer, I want a purge. A total Stalinist meltdown where backroom staff and players are living in a constant state of fear created by the omnipotent Iranian who is demanding results and dishing out consequences. Make it so Farhad.

A new CEO with experience to bring the stadium in on time and on budget
That should be his only brief
A new CEO to run the football side of the club , someone of the Calibre of Dein or Gill
A new commercial manager to improve our current sponsorship deals and to bring in new streams of revenue
A new DOF to set the clubs footballing strategy and identify players the manager says he needs
A new manager who is prepared to work with the DOF
4/5 first team starters of better quality and in the 23/27 age bracket
Make it so Mosh
 
A new CEO with experience to bring the stadium in on time and on budget
That should be his only brief
A new CEO to run the football side of the club , someone of the Calibre of Dein or Gill
A new commercial manager to improve our current sponsorship deals and to bring in new streams of revenue
A new DOF to set the clubs footballing strategy and identify players the manager says he needs
A new manager who is prepared to work with the DOF
4/5 first team starters of better quality and in the 23/27 age bracket
Make it so Mosh
I have little faith that he has the ability, or even worse, the desire for any of those mate.
Been pretty clueless so far unfortunately.
We shall see.
 
A new CEO with experience to bring the stadium in on time and on budget
That should be his only brief
A new CEO to run the football side of the club , someone of the Calibre of Dein or Gill
A new commercial manager to improve our current sponsorship deals and to bring in new streams of revenue
A new DOF to set the clubs footballing strategy and identify players the manager says he needs
A new manager who is prepared to work with the DOF
4/5 first team starters of better quality and in the 23/27 age bracket
Make it so Mosh

A CEO to run the football side of the club??
 

Yes to do what Levy does at Spurs ,
What Dein did at Arsenal and what Gill done at United.
It’s what Kenwright / Elstone are SUPPOSED to be doing here
Sort out contracts , do the deals for the players the DOF / Manager identify etc

You say all this but do we actually know what Dein or Gill actually did at these clubs and what Elstone does??
 
You say all this but do we actually know what Dein or Gill actually did at these clubs and what Elstone does??
IIRC Wenger regularly praised Dein for his involvement in getting deals done and Fergie done the same with Gill.
It’s all about having a good overview of the club and ensuring continuity and progress.
Levy has made vast strides at Spurs without spending millions of the owners money.
No one knows what Kenwright / Elstone do but it’s obvious what ever it is it’s not good enough
 
IIRC Wenger regularly praised Dein for his involvement in getting deals done and Fergie done the same with Gill.
It’s all about having a good overview of the club and ensuring continuity and progress.
Levy has made vast strides at Spurs without spending millions of the owners money.
No one knows what Kenwright / Elstone do but it’s obvious what ever it is it’s not good enough

All our previous managers praised Kenwright for getting deals done though.

The likes of Gill and Levy you would not class as footballing people before they joined Spurs and United.
 
The season has been poor and the Allardyce appointment was made to stop it being the complete relegation disaster it could have spiralled into after the Southampton game. Getting shut with a few games left doesn't get the next guy through the door any quicker and having an incumbent manager doesn't mean that moves can't be made behind the scenes to ensure a swift replacement come the close season and other key appointments are put into motion.

People are screaming about the slow progress but there are always bumps in the road. The best laid plans and whatnot.

Look at Spurs - Daniel Levy is rightly praised about his work there but he has been at the club since 2001. Strides have been made over the last few years but not all his decisions have been good. Damien Comolli and Juande Ramos didn't work. Hoddle's reign petered out disappointingly and the appointment of a somewhat tainted George Graham was a dubious decision. AVB? Tim Sherwood?

He didn't just come in a couple of years back, appoint Pochettino, buy Dele Ali and teach Kane to score. It's been a long slog.

He also has a reputation as a wise spender but look at how the Bale money was squandered on a very un-Spurs like splurge on unsuitable players with no real forward planning (sounds familiar?). The new ground has took around 11 years to deliver, has doubled in cost and there are a whole other list of issues such as bidding to get into the Olympic Stadium and a long running dispute with tenants on surrounding ground which has got a little dark in places.

This isn't to slate him but to illustrate that these things can take a long time and the current attacks on Moshiri for not getting it right first time, all the time, are to my eyes pretty unreasonable. To argue that he should be punching at the same weight as oil and state backed billionaires and in half the time is crazy.
 

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