Farhad Moshiri

[MACCA75]

His biggest mistake - and I will probably get stick for this - was not bringing Moyes back. We’ve had plenty of opportunities.

 

[Zatara]

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.

We have a better first eleven now than in 2014 imo.

 

[4737carlin]

His biggest mistake - and I will probably get stick for this - was not bringing Moyes back. We’ve had plenty of opportunities.

Funny thing is all the idiots who talk rubbish about Kenwright were moaning about Bill saying "He wants Moyes", but if he actually did he was proberbly right

 

[DaChunk]

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[Zatara]

See if I was an accountant by trade or lawyer (or whatever Moshiri is) I wouldn't have a clue what is needed to run a successful football club. I could only go on achievement on CVs, the way people interview and references. And most importantly, recommendation from those I trust. Who is still chairman of the club? That's it, Blue Bill.. Mosh is the majority owner, but not the sole decision maker. He has trusted the structure of the club to hire the right people based on their expertise. We have a board of Directors who would look after this, not Moshiri. And the chairman is responsible in this case..

When you buy a company you obviously go through a due diligence process on the books/legals but also have someone come in to ascertain why the company isnt performing in certain areas.

I totally agree with you that as an accountant he's not actually got experience of running enormous companies himself. He does need to have a specialist team under him.

The problem is that you need someone with a sword to strike out the bad weeds rather than to use a double edged sword...

...on the one hand weve kept on the existing structure from the bottom up e.g the youth setup through to the chairman, the mentality of being a "soft touch, local club for the boys" and the attitude of "being happy to take part".

At the same time weve hired managers who were clearly and obviously a bad fit in Koeman, Allardyce and Benitez plus had signings made by DOF and managers somewhat separately (4 number 10s etc) and perhaps even Moshiri himself (Tosun/Iwobi)

Its almost like in the films where you see someone who can turn left or right and weve decided to split ourselves in half and go both ways.

The entire setup is illogical to me, you buy a company and appoint a CEO from a totally different field, because theyre a fan of the company? You retain the failing culture and structure of the company while gradually bringing in one or two outsiders with massively different ideas.

My hope is that Ismailov is learning on the job and when the stadium is built we see that Moshiri is the puppet and Usmanov the puppet master. Ismailov to bring in scimitar and slice away the deadwood, daft donkeys holding us back and appoint actual professionals to the job.

Not the ridiculousness of having a jobs for the boys youth setup nor the multiple people responsible for recruitment and sales.

At this point i dont know what Unsworth, Brands, Kenwright and DBB actually do.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Jose Baxter back as a coach ??

This club man

The youth are going to know all about keeping it between the white lines now he is back.

 

[zukai12_]

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no certainty he'd want to come here tbf

has he ever managed outside france?

 

[cjuk87]

His biggest mistake - and I will probably get stick for this - was not bringing Moyes back. We’ve had plenty of opportunities.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. No-one wanted Moyes back when previous managers were sacked. He'd been awful since he left us., until he joined West Ham.

Even then, losing Carlo, fans didn't seem to want Moyes back. Moyes has 3 more points than us. We have had countless injuries and Davies costing us 2 at United. Do fans now think Moyes would've had us playing better football? Would've still signed Gray and Townsend? Would've had the useless players dramatically improving when called upon?

Let's be realistic.

 

[nsno-chris]

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To be fair I think he had a pre agreement to move there

 

[Efcjake]

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.

When I think about where we were then and how I felt a little bit of investment would take us to the top it really turns your stomach looking at our squad now and knowing that 500 million has been pissed away on these lads.

I changed my vote to disappointing when Sam Allardyce came in. At that point, I thought it was the lowest we would go. When I look at what we've done and the decisions made by Moshiri since then it hasn't gotten any better.

I said I would change my vote when the stadium is built because hopefully that will be a massive catalyst and we couldn't do that without him.

 

[Kev The Rat]

His biggest mistake - and I will probably get stick for this - was not bringing Moyes back. We’ve had plenty of opportunities.

In hindsight - and only in hindsight - yes.

 

[jinkyali]

His biggest mistake - and I will probably get stick for this - was not bringing Moyes back. We’ve had plenty of opportunities.

Moyes was on the verge till Ancelotti became available.

 

[Terrarian]

They all need to have a word with themselves the way they have left that squad for this season, no back up full backs and no other competent midfielder is just disgraceful from them, hard to blame Brands when this wally won't leave his train set alone.

 

[MikeH72]

Jose Baxter back as a coach ??

This club man

Remember when we sold Rooney to the MLS and Bill had that clause put in that he could return as a coach?

 

[Kev The Rat]

The man is completely off his rocker.

a knee jerk sacking of Benitez after a derby hammering is very much on the table, due to his mental instability / disorder.