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I don't think this is quite true. If either of Palace or Brighton had the injury list we have had this year, they would be down where we are if not worse off.
Palace have won the same games as us. Brighton one more.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Well they have competent medical departments so that helps.
You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of accountability.
How the money was spent, and by whom, is entirely the responsibility of Moshiri.
He employed - or retained the services of - the people that have dumped us in this mess.
I think @ForeverBlue92 has some valid points here. The reality isn't as black and white as everyone is trying to make out.
Everton's fans ambition is above that of Brighton and Palace. We don't give managers or players time. It's very easy on the internet to say we should follow those clubs strategy but I'm not sure when it comes down to it, we would be so accommodating.
In defence of Moshiri he has backed everyone he has brought into the club. Rightly or wrongly. He has ploughed money after money into the club to try and get it right. Unfortunately the people he has hired have failed him.
He has tried to increase commercial deals by calling in favours etc. He has personally funded the start of the stadium build.
However, he is also at fault, he should have hired better people and he shouldn't be going off trying to sort his own transfers etc.
There is no single person at fault for the mess we are in. However, as the owner, the book does stop with him.
Everton's fans ambition is above that of Brighton and Palace. We don't give managers or players time. It's very easy on the internet to say we should follow those clubs strategy but I'm not sure when it comes down to it, we would be so accommodating.
In defence of Moshiri he has backed everyone he has brought into the club. Rightly or wrongly. He has ploughed money after money into the club to try and get it right. Unfortunately the people he has hired have failed him.
He has tried to increase commercial deals by calling in favours etc. He has personally funded the start of the stadium build.
However, he is also at fault, he should have hired better people and he shouldn't be going off trying to sort his own transfers etc.
There is no single person at fault for the mess we are in. However, as the owner, the book does stop with him.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
No he hasn’t btw. Usmanov has funded it.
I would also add, I think we would be in this positon/maybe even relegated now, if Moshiri hadn't come in. Moyes had held this club together for Kenwright and we were slowly slipping down under Martinez. Kenwright wouldn't have sacked him and he had no money to back him.
Replace Moshiri with Usmanov - doesn't matter. If Moshiri is a front for Usmanov's money it doesn't change the above.
I disagree.
We would have been far more assiduous with purchases with less money available instead of buying 6 no 10's and every crap centre back that has ever kicked a football.
We spent 15m on Niase...hardly assiduous
Because there's no single person at fault, the man at the top must ultimately be the held responsible.
He either broke or hasn't fixed the structural issues at Everton that have lead us to where we are.
It is a failure of leadership.
I say this as someone who believes pretty strongly that Moshiri's heart is in the right place. He just doesn't know how to run a football club and wasn't quick enough to understand that and get someone more competent in to manage it.
This is my viewpoint to be honest.
Uuuuuurgh plop plop
Player Valuation: £950k
Absolutely it is a failure of leadership. It is abundantly apparent that Moshiri hasn't got a clue about football, whether that's the economics or the tactics employed on the field. He is an absent owner and generally has left it all up to Bill who acted like a kid in a sweet shop. I'm sure we will see Bill blubbering all over TV if the worst happens.
So now there is some sort of internal review going on. Where was the review when we were signing absolute duffers like Sandro Ramirez and Davy Klaassen? Loads of fans could see right through the crap that has been signed. Injury prone has beens, flop prospects and Michael Keane. The club has learned nothing about the staggering fee paid for Iwobi, no matter how his recent performances have improved, they've gone and signed Dele Alli who is absolutely NOT the player Everton need right now.
The club is a shambles because at the top level they are just incompetent.
He's an accountant mate, how the feck did he sanction that kind of budgeting ,. We have been losing over 100 million a year for 3 years now and our wage bill is over 90% of our turnover. If our owner is an accountant, and he most certainly is, then it follows that our appalling fiscal position is down to him. It's his train set and he is not averse to getting involved in things hands on, so, if there is a single person who can be said to be at fault, it is Moshiri.
I in part agree with you in that as the owner, he should have been asking the Chairman and Board, who in my view share in the 'book stopping' responsibility, to produce a viable business plan which would develop the business. It is clear that as owner, he has interfered in day to day decisions when he should have been replacing the members of the Board who have been incompetent. It is for that reason I contend that a lot of responsibility for our current mess rests with the Board. If Moshiri was overstepping his roll then they should have challenged him and made it clear they were being prevented from doing their job.
Sadly, I believe that their abject incompetence lies at the heart of our current demise, they being so poor, they did not know what their job was or how to do it.
We have spent the past 20 years or more fighting fires with very little improvement.
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