Farhad Moshiri

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I wish that were true (the stadium part!). But this feller has the Midas touch in reverse.

If he was wasting Usmanov's money instead of the club's he'd have taken a header into the Irish Sea by now.

He has made some poor footballing decisions - Especially the appointment of Marco Silva. He needs guidance and unfortunately he turns to Kenwright for that! He needs to punt Kenwright and look for more rounded advice on appointments.

The jury's out for me on Brands - he had a nightmare task to shift all the deadwood last summer - that I believe was his priority. I'm not happy about Gueye being sold with no better replacement. Gbarmin - I haven't a clue about and Delph is nowhere near the player that Gueye was for us.

So I'm prepared to give Brands another 2 windows -with his focus being on strengthening the team and then I'll give my verdict on him. As for Silva - I've seen enough. With the players he has at his disposal we should not be in the position we are. That is all down to him in coaching the players, setting up his team and tactics, all of which have been severely lacking this season.

The worst bit of all for me, is his inability to change games, to make the opposition react. Its plan A only and if that doesn't work then we get beat.

 

[HKIV]

It happens all the time.

Very successful businessmen in certain sectors try to succeed in a new areae and fail spectacularly.

He is not a football man and will have put faith in some trusted collegues friends etc.

He has ended up employing calamitously bad managers and DOF. He will know he has messed up but
its far worse for the like of Silva and Brands who are `football people' and spent their entire adult lives in it to fail so spectacularly.

 

[radiostar]

He's employed all managers and DoF...we're in a relegation zone for two seasons running, and you have belief in him.

He's a calamity.

The Midas touch in reverse is right.

Since the moment he turned up it's been a steady decline in the club.

Can anyone truely say that they are happy with the 5 years or so he's been hanging around here?

It's as bad as it's ever been!

Then he comes out with his bizarre statements in the press, normally via Jim White. He's absolutely toxic. And very very embarrassing.

 

[degsy]

The fella will be hurting, not as much as us, but as I said before hes invested a serious chunk of change into us and a lot of it has been wasted. Wasted on wages for clowns, 52m alone wasted on managerial appointments, YES, hes the 1 making them.

He sacked Martinez when it was clear he didnt have a clue. Hindsight is wonderful and I wasnt a fan of any of them at all, but you could see what he was thinking :

Koeman, his stock was very high, he was being touted for the Arsenal job, a few murmurs for the Barca job, he was a well-known name in football
Walsh, proved he could find bargains, like Kante, Vardy, Gana for us, but was probably given a job he simply couldnt do
Sam, again hindsight, but I honestly felt like we were in big trouble
Silva, a young manager who played attacking football

But as I say, he wont be happy, his money has been wasted, the club sits in 17th and hes on his 3rd manager in 3 years, all that time at Arsenal, wanting a shot, he finally gets his own toy and it goes tits up. I mean hes a very wealthy man, so im sure it doesnt keep him up at night, but his pride has defo taken a rocking.

So hes not perfect, but we have Brands now and I know it seems flavour of the month to have a pop but hes a real footballing man. He knows the game and his track record suggests he knows players. Sure he made an error with the CB, that was the only thing missing from the Summer for me, but not even peak Baresi would help us in our current form.

Anyway, I still believe in The Mosh, hes not perfect, but hes everything I wanted from an owner, an owner who shares the same vision as we all do and is willing to give us the means to get there.

Time alone will tell if the road to IS paved with good intentions or - he was the man and hats off to Bill for getting him in.

 

[Flatcap]

Means it is harder to get 4th-6th now. We get 7th in normal circumstances but back then, we got 5th because there were less big money spending Sky teams around.

Why do we maintain this conspiratorial ‘sky 6’ etc claim. I’ve even done it myself re so called financial advantage but actually thinking on- we’ve been an ever present on the sky gravy train so we need to stop cryarseing about some plot to disadvantage us. Only 2 teams have been truly financially doped in the more recent sky/prem league era and that’s city and Chelsea. All other clubs have not had such massive benefactors. Blackburn are the only other one but we are going back a quarter of a century to the jack walker splurge.

The further we drop down the league due to our own mismanagement we devise the blame on a mythical ‘Sky- insert number here’. So if we finish 10th this season bet loads of our supporters will blame a ‘sky 9’ rather than actually looking to how disorderly our own house is. As I say I’ve used this term myself, suckered in, whereas the complete business model of the club appears rotten, short-termist and debt ridden.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Why does he like hiring crap managers?

 

[BlueStevie35]

The Midas touch in reverse is right.

Since the moment he turned up it's been a steady decline in the club.

Can anyone truely say that they are happy with the 5 years or so he's been hanging around here?

It's as bad as it's ever been!

Then he comes out with his bizarre statements in the press, normally via Jim White. He's absolutely toxic. And very very embarrassing.

He hasn’t done that for a good 18 months yet that’s the stick he continues to be beat with

 

[degsy]

Having only the evidence of his Everton reign thus far, am left kinda wondering about his business acumen and how he managed to be so successful in the first place - surely he must have something about him.

Time for action, Mosh.

'Stats' again innit
His only 'Stat'...and he has had a billion of them.
While he maybe a cunning businessman, he made that billion minding the money for a real cunning business man.
So you dont know for sure

 

[blueblue]

It is hard to know what the dynamic between Moshiri and Brands is at present.
It would seem that Silva was a favourite of Moshiri because we know that we were chasing him as manager before Brands came to the club... of course it could easily be that Moshiri and Brands already had a deal in place at that time and Brands recommended Silva.... we simply don't know.

What we do know is that we have taken too many chances on managers without a proven track record and that needs to stop.
I do think that we have bought well in the last two windows, I do think that there is a lot of talent in the squad and in different circumstances I do this we could be a lot closer to top six than bottom three.
Could a Klopp or a Guardiola get us to top six.... I absolutely believe they could.
Would our manager if he was in charge of City or Liverpool have them in the top two places and I am convinced he wouldn't , probably not top four.

 

[degsy]

I think what DaveK is implicating by the term carpetbagger is that Moshiri is an opportunist who is using Everton to simply make more money for himself and as soon as he's done that he'll be off.

Well yeah obvs, we get a new stadium out of it though - allegedly.

 

[Archie Knox]

Very, very quickly losing credibility by failing tu relieve Silva of his duties. Moshiri will be a laughing stock in the footballing community by Christmas.

 

[davek]

He has made some poor footballing decisions - Especially the appointment of Marco Silva. He needs guidance and unfortunately he turns to Kenwright for that! He needs to punt Kenwright and look for more rounded advice on appointments.

The jury's out for me on Brands - he had a nightmare task to shift all the deadwood last summer - that I believe was his priority. I'm not happy about Gueye being sold with no better replacement. Gbarmin - I haven't a clue about and Delph is nowhere near the player that Gueye was for us.

So I'm prepared to give Brands another 2 windows -with his focus being on strengthening the team and then I'll give my verdict on him. As for Silva - I've seen enough. With the players he has at his disposal we should not be in the position we are. That is all down to him in coaching the players, setting up his team and tactics, all of which have been severely lacking this season.

The worst bit of all for me, is his inability to change games, to make the opposition react. Its plan A only and if that doesn't work then we get beat.

It's all excuses with Toshiri. He's been here for 3 years and we've lurched from one disaster to another.

In all honesty I have to say that if we'd have had Kenwright in charge and kept Moyes or Martinez and handed them the cash from the massive increase in tv revenue and player sales from Lukaku and Stones and others to spend, we'd be in a far far better position than we're in now.

 

[degsy]

Why does he like hiring crap managers?

tbh, they weren't crap when jim whyte was telling him about them

 

[davek]

The Midas touch in reverse is right.

Since the moment he turned up it's been a steady decline in the club.

Can anyone truely say that they are happy with the 5 years or so he's been hanging around here?

It's as bad as it's ever been!

Then he comes out with his bizarre statements in the press, normally via Jim White. He's absolutely toxic. And very very embarrassing.

It'll take the scrapping of the BMD to convince most he's appalling. And that wont be too far off.

 

[Toffeelover]

We have not from memory ever been in such a poor position and state since the start of the Moyes reign, now how many years is that?