Farhad Moshiri

[roydo]

Agenda driven?

Be honest, it is, a bit.

 

[bring the ghost on]

Kenwright is responsible for looking at the likes of koeman right at a time when we should have aimed higher with the takeover in full motion.

Mate, make no mistake - that was Moshiris decision.

 

[AmericasToffee]

Mate, make no mistake - that was Moshiris decision.

May not have been his initially but it ultimately was.

 

[Khalekan]

Plenty didn't want Koeman. The dullard.

Count me amongst that number.

 

[brieverton]

Koeman is really a Top B-Grade manager, if the contradiction holds.

He was portrayed as our answer to the 'other' powerhouse managers in the North-West but even a quick glance at Wikipedia now and before he was appointed just reveals another journeyman, living off his playing days.

That said, I could see the appeal based on the job he did at Soton, but even then you could argue he gained from Pochettino's work, much as Martinez did from Moyes in his first season.

Moshiri not only needs to stay completely away from the next appointment, he would do well to say absolutely nothing at all about it.

Unless the next guy is some star turn, and he won't be, then whoever is next up is not going to be met with anything stronger than lukewarm approval, given the last few years.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Koeman is really a Top B-Grade manager, if the contradiction holds.

He was portrayed as our answer to the 'other' powerhouse managers in the North-West but even a quick glance at Wikipedia now and before he was appointed just reveals another journeyman, living off his playing days.

That said, I could see the appeal based on the job he did at Soton, but even then you could argue he gained from Pochettino's work, much as Martinez did from Moyes in his first season.

Moshiri not only needs to stay completely away from the next appointment, he would do well to say absolutely nothing at all about it.

Unless the next guy is some star turn, and he won't be, then whoever is next up is not going to be met with anything stronger than lukewarm approval, given the last few years.

Jesus I forgot about that comment on Koeman being part of a block buster North West quartet of managers.

Absolute melon.

 

[Bebeto]

The blame is largely pointing at Moshiri.

As one of the news articles today headlines Everton really do need to decide what club they want to be.

The fact wolves have overtaken us and look miles ahead on the pitch is a disgrace when last season they were in the Championship.

If our aim is to be anything more than a mid table plodder - effin get our act together and start scouting for a proper manager with credentials and open back up the purse strings.

Rumours of Leicester looking to replace Puel with Mancini next season - would be another club overtaking us whilst we plod along.

Wolves has managed to buy players that we tried to buy and clubs were asking a fortune for them...example of course is Raul Jimenez...wolves got a good team for peanuts really...they will be 7th this year but now it when it’s difficult as other teams will start to ask a lot of money for their players...it’s easy to break top 7...not that easy to break top 6

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Wolves has managed to buy players that we tried to buy and clubs were asking a fortune for them...example of course is Raul Jimenez...wolves got a good team for peanuts really...they will be 7th this year but now it when it’s difficult as other teams will start to ask a lot of money for their players...it’s easy to break top 7...not that easy to break top 6

Jimenez is only a loan signing mate...

 

[Goat]

Wolves has managed to buy players that we tried to buy and clubs were asking a fortune for them...example of course is Raul Jimenez...wolves got a good team for peanuts really...they will be 7th this year but now it when it’s difficult as other teams will start to ask a lot of money for their players...it’s easy to break top 7...not that easy to break top 6

On 12 June 2018, Benfica loaned out Jiménez to newly-promoted Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers on a season-long loan for a fee of €3 million with a buyout clause of €38 million.

But Moutinho for 5m, Neves for 15m are utter steals.

 

[TheBrace]

Seriously? Agenda driven?

We reached a cup final and the reward was no transfer money for 2 years?! We reached the qualifying for the champions League and we signed 2 championship players that summer.

Koeman was very much not warmly welcomed at the club, I don't think anyone thought he was a top manager back then. That is rewriting history entirely.

Kenwright is to blame because he is the common factor in all of this and has been for 20 years. Moshiri is an accountant, this is all new to him considering he had no involvement in arsenal besides owning shares. Hell even usmanov didn't have any direct running in arsenal and even kept away from the board. Being an accountant for ulsmanov doesn't mean he is suddenly an expert in football. So he clearly needed an advisor, kenwright.

Walsh was a scout at Leicester when we hired him to be a director of football. So that was always going to be a terrible appointment, sadly we never realised how bad it was at the time . But he was underqualified for the role and it shows in the mess he caused, coincidentally with bill above him.

You can even speculate allardyce was a kenwright recruitment considering Silva was moshiri choice. No coincidence that we ended up with Sammy Lee, allardyce and Steve walsh, all mates together.

Kenwright is the manager that has overseen the longest run of lack of success in our history. Even Peter Johnson had a trophy win under his watch.

The list goes on and on about kenwright, not to even go into his Phillip green agreement, magically making the king's dock money vanish, running the club financially into the ground etc etc

Say what you want about Kenwright, as that is your opinion. Your opinions on Walsh and Koenan though? Revisionism,. Do you remember posting this................


I think with walsh we have to dampen our expectations a little bit to what he can bring in. From my perspective so far it has looked like he will be fantastic for developing a bedrock of a club of young players which fingers crossed crosse sinto the continent in the summer and we start finding youngsters overseas. It is almost the perfect strategy for the club to adopt, a real long term effort where the squad could essentially be here for 10 plus years each rather than buying and selling mercenaries in the game.

Or this

I think walsh has been a success so far here. Bringing in the likes of Lookman is a positive for the future as it shows he can identify a young talent somewhere and get the deal sorted without issues


Here’s a forum poll from feb 2017 about the winter window that had just closed. Only 5% wanted him out . 60% wanted him to stay, 30% wanted to give him another window.

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...ansfer-window-poll.94481/page-10#post-5281218

On Koeman

ronald Koeman kept pace with the top 4 last season and missed out by only 4 points by consistently picking up points over the second half of the season. So however unlikely it may be that we challenge there we could well keep pace with them until the end at least which isn't too bad.


This season was never about 'success' to anyone and one year of not winning a trophy can be forgiven for Koeman considering the previous 22 years without one i believe. Creating a system in place with the youth and the first team and integrating the ground work of that this season is a success, and it is working. the young lads are winning their league and we have had at least one of those step up into the first team off the back of it, not all of them will make it here but feeding young lads through there will only be great for the future.
Which all in all makes this first season under Koeman potentially a positive one, with or without a trophy. That is what i believe though.


I had not realised that we are all but guaranteed to be in europe next season. Incredible now it seems a reality.
Koeman has finished in europein his first season at every one of his clubs now, fantastic achievement and we can see why he was hired, job done now for next season and we can hopefully push the teams above us and have a good finish to the season.

 

[bring the ghost on]

May not have been his initially but it ultimately was.

No, it really wasn't.

When Moshiri came in, Kenwright was giving it the "What a manager!" about Martinez.

Moshiri called all of the shots - he sacked Martinez. He went all out to get Koeman, who was clearly his man. Kenwright had little say in any of that.

 

[Kenshin]

Say what you want about Kenwright, as that is your opinion. Your opinions on Walsh and Koenan though? Revisionism,. Do you remember posting this................


I think with walsh we have to dampen our expectations a little bit to what he can bring in. From my perspective so far it has looked like he will be fantastic for developing a bedrock of a club of young players which fingers crossed crosse sinto the continent in the summer and we start finding youngsters overseas. It is almost the perfect strategy for the club to adopt, a real long term effort where the squad could essentially be here for 10 plus years each rather than buying and selling mercenaries in the game.

Or this

I think walsh has been a success so far here. Bringing in the likes of Lookman is a positive for the future as it shows he can identify a young talent somewhere and get the deal sorted without issues


Here’s a forum poll from feb 2017 about the winter window that had just closed. Only 5% wanted him out . 60% wanted him to stay, 30% wanted to give him another window.

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...ansfer-window-poll.94481/page-10#post-5281218

On Koeman

ronald Koeman kept pace with the top 4 last season and missed out by only 4 points by consistently picking up points over the second half of the season. So however unlikely it may be that we challenge there we could well keep pace with them until the end at least which isn't too bad.


This season was never about 'success' to anyone and one year of not winning a trophy can be forgiven for Koeman considering the previous 22 years without one i believe. Creating a system in place with the youth and the first team and integrating the ground work of that this season is a success, and it is working. the young lads are winning their league and we have had at least one of those step up into the first team off the back of it, not all of them will make it here but feeding young lads through there will only be great for the future.
Which all in all makes this first season under Koeman potentially a positive one, with or without a trophy. That is what i believe though.


I had not realised that we are all but guaranteed to be in europe next season. Incredible now it seems a reality.
Koeman has finished in europein his first season at every one of his clubs now, fantastic achievement and we can see why he was hired, job done now for next season and we can hopefully push the teams above us and have a good finish to the season.

Thank you for going back and reading my posts from years ago.

Means a lot that you enjoy my postings so much that you read 2 years worth of them.

 

[Kenshin]

Say what you want about Kenwright, as that is your opinion. Your opinions on Walsh and Koenan though? Revisionism,. Do you remember posting this................


I think with walsh we have to dampen our expectations a little bit to what he can bring in. From my perspective so far it has looked like he will be fantastic for developing a bedrock of a club of young players which fingers crossed crosse sinto the continent in the summer and we start finding youngsters overseas. It is almost the perfect strategy for the club to adopt, a real long term effort where the squad could essentially be here for 10 plus years each rather than buying and selling mercenaries in the game.

Or this

I think walsh has been a success so far here. Bringing in the likes of Lookman is a positive for the future as it shows he can identify a young talent somewhere and get the deal sorted without issues


Here’s a forum poll from feb 2017 about the winter window that had just closed. Only 5% wanted him out . 60% wanted him to stay, 30% wanted to give him another window.

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...ansfer-window-poll.94481/page-10#post-5281218

On Koeman

ronald Koeman kept pace with the top 4 last season and missed out by only 4 points by consistently picking up points over the second half of the season. So however unlikely it may be that we challenge there we could well keep pace with them until the end at least which isn't too bad.


This season was never about 'success' to anyone and one year of not winning a trophy can be forgiven for Koeman considering the previous 22 years without one i believe. Creating a system in place with the youth and the first team and integrating the ground work of that this season is a success, and it is working. the young lads are winning their league and we have had at least one of those step up into the first team off the back of it, not all of them will make it here but feeding young lads through there will only be great for the future.
Which all in all makes this first season under Koeman potentially a positive one, with or without a trophy. That is what i believe though.


I had not realised that we are all but guaranteed to be in europe next season. Incredible now it seems a reality.
Koeman has finished in europein his first season at every one of his clubs now, fantastic achievement and we can see why he was hired, job done now for next season and we can hopefully push the teams above us and have a good finish to the season.

Here's the thing though.

Those comments on Walsh I made were before the summer of pissing money away. So right then, signing hit young wingers were a good sign of building for the future before he threw 250 million at a terrible squad.

So not quite proving your point against me is it?

As for the koeman comments, again came when he was achieving exactly what he was hired to do, 7th and European football. Again before the money was wasted and he waited to be sacked.

Again nothing wrong with those comments. With lookman Davies holgate and lewen he was building a young team spine which was a good thing.

But I suppose none of that matters eh, more happy to try and attempt the show and awe approach without actually reading what I wrote or the context of time......

 

[hktoffee]

Plenty didn't want Koeman. The dullard.

But his records in PL were way better than Martinez and Silva.

 

[jamieni]

Admittedly there were plenty on here who had their doubts about Koeman, but most of the press were staggered/peeved we got him, so on paper I guess it looked like a good move from Moshiri.

The damage that has been done since is pretty nightmarish and I suppose that’s down to a combination of Koeman, Walsh and Sam having their ludicrous deals sanctioned by Moshiri. The point of having Brands there is that he’ll be overseeing transfer business and hopefully ensuring we don’t waste as much money. Every signing is a gamble though.