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Farhad Moshiri

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

  • Pleased

    Votes: 107 7.7%

  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,290 92.3%
  • Total voters
    1,397
Cork Evertonian said:
I have grave fears, that this man will be our version of Randy Lerner. Lerner pumped money into Villa to no avail, before withdrawing funding. I fear that the same fait awaits us.
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As long as the stadium is sorted first would anyone be arsed?

We've gotten worse with money, we'd have been a very good team around the top of the league if he had a clue about football given the money he's invested
 
Carloblues said:
As long as the stadium is sorted first would anyone be arsed?

We've gotten worse with money, we'd have been a very good team around the top of the league if he had a clue about football given the money he's invested
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I think a good leader recognises, what his or hers strengths and weaknesses are, and delegates accordingly. It's high time that Moshiri hires someone else, to make the key footballing decisions. What's the point in appointing directors of football, when the owner won't leave them do their job?
 
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Cork Evertonian said:
I think a good leader recognises what his or hers weaknesses are, and delegates accordingly. It's high time that Moshiri hires someone else, to make the key footballing decisions. What's the point in appointing directors of football, when the owner won't leave them do their job?
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It’s things like this that make me think he’s not incompetent because he clearly refuses to delegate decisions on footballing matters. That is an active decision he is taking.

He’s more malevolent and vindictive than an innocent fool because he narcissistically believes he has the right to call whatever shots he wants to as the owner. It’s the equivalent of people here deciding they want to play real life FM.
 
He is dragging us down. The sooner he goes the better.

The stadium isn't reliant on him anyway, OK he's paid for the draining of it but that's it. The rest of it is being paid off by the council and private investments so we can kick him into the long grass now and save the club.

Until he is gone this club is doomed.
 

Kev The Rat said:
Agree he is treating the club like an ordinary investment - however that strategy seems to probably have worked well for him in other areas of his business life which is why he repeated it.

So the question is why has this strategy failed at Everton?

My instinct tells me that running a football club isn’t the same as one of Moshiris ordinary businesses - you can’t simply use your connections with your mates and employ the relevant staff to turn failure into success.

I disagree that Walsh and Brands or even Koeman hadn’t proved themselves elsewhere or are ‘con men, - actually they had proved themselves elsewhere. The issue is far deeper than that of who you employ in a football club.

l don’t think anyone has really conned him or taken advantage - because I just can’t see how realistic it would be to be able to con a billionaire out of hundreds of millions or sending the team on a 5 points in 30 run.

He just doesn’t understand strategies that work well in business aren’t necessarily transferable to a football club.
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I agree that football club is different from ordinary investment. To me it's due to the money involved and is very reliant on talent spotting, coaching and sometimes, the players themselves.

Maybe "taking advantage" is too strong of an accusation....hmmm, I would say it's more like Moshiri's money were taken for granted.

Moshiri doesn't understand football, he tried to hire someone who does and probably expect him to run the club from top to bottom but for some reason, I don't think he made the roles very clear to everyone at the club.
 
One of his mistakes was not strengthening in January last season. We were 2nd over the Christmas period but had a thin squad. Had we kept the momentum going with a couple of good buys we could have kicked on better.

Instead we just signed Josh King. That was the point Ancelotti realised the backing wasn't going to be there.
 
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Cork Evertonian said:
I have grave fears, that this man will be our version of Randy Lerner. Lerner pumped money into Villa to no avail, before withdrawing funding. I fear that the same fait awaits us.
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Lerner hadn't done much wrong either. He appointed a good manager at the time in O'Neill. Backed him (without spending fortunes) and balanced the books with the likes of Milner and Barry. They were doing quite well pushing top 4, getting in Europe and good cup runs.

He was held up as a model owner. It got to the point where he stopped investing in the team though and scaled back and sold more players (Young/Downing). O'Neill left and then he appointed poor managers.
 
gazzaa2 said:
Lerner hadn't done much wrong either. He appointed a good manager at the time in O'Neill. Backed him (without spending fortunes) and balanced the books with the likes of Milner and Barry. They were doing quite well pushing top 4, getting in Europe and good cup runs.

He was held up as a model owner. It got to the point where he stopped investing in the team though and scaled back and sold more players (Young/Downing). O'Neill left and then he appointed poor managers.
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Which is the crux of our problem - Chairmen/owners tend to be businessmen with little football knowledge. I struggle to understand what makes them think they're capable of appointing the best managers possible. This is the reason a proper DOF model exists, and also the reason why the best clubs have one.

Everton will never succeed while Moshiri thinks he knows better than the football people he appoints
 

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