One persons disaster is another persons inconvenience mate.
One fans opinion of Moshiri being a disaster vs another fans opinion of Moshiri being a huge disappointment is 'meh'
All those bullet points there... that's football.
On taking over;
Moshiri commented: "There has never been a more level playing field in the Premier League than now."
Despite that, I'd say - competitively - we've gone backwards.
Look at our defence, I'd say only Pickford is better than what we had prior Moshiri;
Pickford > Howard
Baines > Digne
Jagielka > Keane
Stones > Mina/Godfrey
Coleman in 2015>Coleman in 2021
I was going to do the 11 but got bored - 2014/15 Lukaku, McCarthy, Mirallas, Naismith, Barkley, Pienaar, Osman walk into our team.
It's pretty depressing I'm really lacking any optimism that under Moshiri, who is allowing this board to operate, are we going to become competitive. In 2019 we had the board talking up challenging for titles - I mean... come on.
There is a lot in here and I agree in parts, but just in the player comparisons don't you feel you're being a tad unfair? Comparing Baines to anyone is going to be a stretch but Digne for a while looked like a bloody good start, Mina is a better defender than Stones, our first 11 is reasonably good. Of course we would cherry pick players from our peak (in relative terms) but as you say that's football. Timing is everything in life and it should be taken into a consideration else we are just ranting at a screen of why can't we have it now.
The biggest problem is and has always been us. What players want to come to Everton? Ones that are on the downslope of their careers and want to remain with a well known team and be paid handsomely (Delph, Schnides, Walcott etc.) or you gamble on the youthful ones that might be a bit more risk. (Gbamin, Vlasic, Lookman, Kean etc.) The established stars wouldn't want to know - well until we had Ancelotti, so actually we've tried all approaches. For whatever reason it didn't work, due to the manager not being right for the players at the time, or they want to move on, or something else disrupts the club. Most tend to do quite well away from us again, so we are clearly not managing them well here.
Because we are still just about a 'big club' the players get comfortable, we are never going to challenge for title so not much point there and we are too good (mostly) to get problems with relegation. Our mangers have allowed them to run amok but when we get a disciplinarian in, no he isn't right either. Then you get the fact we are a good scalp for the lower teams and the larger teams don't tend to completely take us for granted almost every match is a struggle.
We as fans demand more than what realistically can be delivered and that transmits out to the players. We complain if we don't sign x amount of players for 100+ million and yet we tear them apart if we do because they don't play or they're injured or they don't have a good start to their time here. We complain we have far too many players on the books draining the finances from the club, now we are in the midst of sorting that out we now complain we have too few options.
We are a basket case club and no owner or manger is going to be able to put that right in a short timeframe without an extraordinary dose of good luck. We have to be patient, we have to accept there will be dross served up at times and we haven't got resources to have two first teams and the kids are petrified to play for us for reasons detailed above, so injuries are going to hurt us more than most. We need to take on board the reality that it's not a disaster, it's a work in progress, some things you can't just buy off the shelves - nothing guarantees you CL football. We made mistakes, they need to be corrected and it all adds to the total time it takes.
If the funding is withdrawn and we are left with a Kenwright type owner then that would be a disaster.
