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Farhad Moshiri

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

  • Pleased

    Votes: 111 7.9%

  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,295 92.1%
  • Total voters
    1,406
OnlyBlueWillDo said:
If I was Moshiri I'd wash my hands of the club and put it straight up for sale hoping for a bid from Mike Ashley, then you numpties in here slating him would have something to moan about.

He's backed this club with serious cash, one of the top spenders in Europe since he's been here, and all he gets is crap for it.

Farhad Moshiri has done nothing but try to get this club back where it belongs, keep the faith Farhad, I do in you fella.
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Don’t think any blues have an issue with the effort, we love all that. It’s the execution and results which unfortunately have been the problem for Farhad.

He’s essentially the Niasse of club owners. Loads of effort, eminently likeable, but ultimately shins wide from the six yard line with the goal gaping.
 
Keiran said:
Don’t think any blues have an issue with the effort, we love all that. It’s the execution and results which unfortunately have been the problem for Farhad.

He’s essentially the Niasse of club owners. Loads of effort, eminently likeable, but ultimately shins wide from the six yard line with the goal gaping.
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He's done his best, and every decision he's made you can so the intentions and workings out, he's doing his best for this club and when I see any negativity aimed at his efforts I think some people have short memories of 20 years under Kenwright with 5m net spends without a pot to pee in.

Aren't we in the top 5 spenders in Europe since he's been here?, absolute legend he is, he's got my full backing.
 
tsubaki said:
We started a game with two up front at the end of the game? Some odd space-time phenomenon that.
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Yeah i mean that’s not remotely what I said, but if id just highlighted that I make Barry fry look like a tactical mastermind I’d probably desperately try to throw someone else under the bus too so I don’t blame you mate.
 
OnlyBlueWillDo said:
He's done his best, and every decision he's made you can so the intentions and workings out, he's doing his best for this club and when I see any negativity aimed at his efforts I think some people have short memories of 20 years under Kenwright with 5m net spends without a pot to pee in.

Aren't we in the top 5 spenders in Europe since he's been here?, absolute legend he is, he's got my full backing.
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There has to be a correlation between spend and progress though, mate (and eventually success).

Moshiri doesn’t have an endless pot of cash. If his sizeable investments don’t yield success, he’s far less likely to continue with that level of investment. I’d be extremely surprised if we’re able to deliver the same sort of outlay this summer (unless we can recoup much of the funds through player sales).

Either way, can you honestly say you’d be confident that with £100-£150m to spend that this current management team (Brands included) would deliver sufficient quality to push the team on next season?

I can’t say that I would be.
 

Lanolin said:
Yeah i mean that’s not remotely what I said, but if id just highlighted that I make Barry fry look like a tactical mastermind I’d probably desperately try to throw someone else under the bus too so I don’t blame you mate.
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The question was "When did we last start with two up front", to which you and Baileyjon claimed noone did any more.

What formation were Wolves playing today, by the way?
 
tsubaki said:
Because the recruitment is not the problem. Mina is quality, Digne is quality, Gomes is absolute quality - the problem is what we are asking them to do, which is play in a system that has failed for four and a half seasons now.
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Recruitment has over the last few years been an a huge, huge problem for us. We haven't invested wisely and we've spent several hundred million and ended up with players like Tosun, Klaassen, Siggurdson, Bolasie, Sandro, etc.

Those players are either not good enough or have substantially underperformed and no system will turn them into the level of premier league player we need.

Brands has improved things a bit, but I disagree that there is any evidence to suggest Mina is quality - he's looked out of his depth in the game I've seen him play, and presently sits on the bench playing second fiddle to Michael Keane.

Gomes is quality, but we haven't signed him and Digne is one of the only signings we can consider a success. The jury is still out on Richarlison - talented player, but for £50m, I'd expect more from him.
 
tsubaki said:
Because the recruitment is not the problem. Mina is quality, Digne is quality, Gomes is absolute quality - the problem is what we are asking them to do, which is play in a system that has failed for four and a half seasons now.

Any player brought in to this system would look terrible after a while; that is after all why Niasse never looked better than when he had gone months without playing in it.
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Bit early to say that mate, and it's not as if it could be said that he was quality before he joined us considering he only played for Barca 5 times.
 
ChesterBlue said:
I think he’s actually bought in decent players, his predecessor is the one I blame most for buying unsellable garbage.
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While Brands hasn't been perfect players like Mina, Bernard, Bernard, Richy and Digne are still decent players. Steve Walsh caused the mess we're in by buying a load of average players for huge amounts of money, his failure to sign a striker in the summer of 2017 was unforgivable. In many ways it was him rather than Koemann who caused this mess we're in.
 
Keiran said:
The formation may well appear the same, but the team under Martinez and the team under Silva is quite different.

I’m not having that Silva, Allardyce, Martinez and Koeman set up their teams in the same way. They all achieved pretty dire results but that’s probably where the similarities end for much of it.
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It doesn't matter Who the manager was, In the grand scheme of thing they All set their teams up the wrong way...the losing way.

There are only two types of teams and thus, only two types of systems.
Teams that win...not lose
and
Systems that work...or don't - see above.

The hard part if its not working is being able to admit it and being prepared to change things so it does...or at least try something.
Like Martinez and his philosophy, his plan B was; If the philosophy is not working it is not the fault of the philosophy...or the philosopher, it just need more of the philosophy.
By doing the same old, same old, Silva is now more or less saying...I dont know what else to do.
He's in that closed loop Martinezesque philosophy / tailspin / death spiral, as shown by the first game of the season when we were 'robbed' at 2-2 Vs the same team and we only had 10 men.

Taxi time.
 

He hasn't splashed a penny of his own cash, he gets it all back because its either what he's paid for the club or the equity loans that in themselves are more than the value of the club. I'd totally forgotten about the TV money, along with the transfer fees too.

In his defence he didn't know that transfer fees would suddenly rocket, we really lucked out on that one. Brexit and other factors have also impacted on costs for building stadiums. We live in uncertain times.
 

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