Farhad Moshiri

[Noble Savage]

That Borsan geezer reckons he is walking away with just £25m, would love to see how Farhad is going to explain that to Usmanov.

I suspect Mosh is going to avoid standing next to open windows.

 

[catcherintherye]

That Borsan geezer reckons he is walking away with just £25m, would love to see how Farhad is going to explain that to Usmanov.

Id imagine saying as little as possible and hope Usmanov dies soon

 

[sithbaare]

He wouldn't have sold the club if there was a chance that he didn't have usmanov's go-ahead on this.

That said. He's built a stadium and taken the expenses with him. Leaves the club relatively debt free.

 

[torontotom]

That Borsan geezer reckons he is walking away with just £25m, would love to see how Farhad is going to explain that to Usmanov.

Ah yes the beto goodbye price

Outside of clubs that get sold for a pound...not sure I'm aware of any owners getting back the same amount from a club sale as the cost of their, ahem, 2nd(?)choice striker

 

[Simon Buttle]

Ah yes the beto goodbye price

Outside of clubs that get sold for a pound...not sure I'm aware of any owners getting back the same amount from a club sale as the cost of their, ahem, 2nd(?)choice striker

Oh I think Farhad was expecting a little more than £25m though, he doesn't deserve anything tbh given the mess in recent years.

 

[Bob Elstone]

Keeping that bumbling idiot kenwright was his biggest mistake. Should have wiped the slate on day 1.

Same with baxendale.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I will be amazed if he doesn’t end up in court (in absentia of course) for something in the next 5 years. Dodgy and incompetent

 

[blueblue]

I would guess Moshiri is the angry one, dropped in it by Usmanov and then spent the last two years trying to deal with a mess he could not afford.

Without Moshiri we would not have BMD and I think that will be his ultimate legacy.

I think the mistake they made was not listening to anyone at all.
When they took over the club was solid, a decent team usually pushing for a top six place.

A slower more cautious approach was the way forward.
Some may remember back to the first summer under Koeman when we were signing players nearly every second day...usually the wrong players.

I don't think that will happen again.

 

[Drico]

I wonder if keeping Kenwright in place was a condition of the takeover in the first place.

Because I really can't see any other reason why any investor who had done his due diligence on Everton would not fire him into the Irish Sea (preferably around Sellafield) as soon as the ink was dry on the sale.

Then again, if it wasn't your money in the first place, maybe due diligence wasn't that high on your agenda.

 

[MikeH72]

I would guess Moshiri is the angry one, dropped in it by Usmanov and then spent the last two years trying to deal with a mess he could not afford.

Without Moshiri we would not have BMD and I think that will be his ultimate legacy.

I think the mistake they made was not listening to anyone at all.
When they took over the club was solid, a decent team usually pushing for a top six place.

A slower more cautious approach was the way forward.
Some may remember back to the first summer under Koeman when we were signing players nearly every second day...usually the wrong players.

I don't think that will happen again.

Sorry why are we assuming that another owner wouldn’t have built a stadium now?

 

[Neiler]

I wonder if keeping Kenwright in place was a condition of the takeover in the first place.

Because I really can't see any other reason why any investor who had done his due diligence on Everton would not fire him into the Irish Sea (preferably around Sellafield) as soon as the ink was dry on the sale.

Then again, if it wasn't your money in the first place, maybe due diligence wasn't that high on your agenda.

Id have an unpopular view of Kenwright, i neither hang him high or laud him, but the game past him by in the last decade.

I'm not sure many remember though, he built a number of milestones into his deal with Moshiri which triggered transfers in his shareholding to Moshiri, it was a few years until Moshiri actually became the majority shareholder. Some of them were paying of our debt, some where investments made in the club and some of it was milestones and planning permission around BMD.

Thus all Kenwrights shareholding and transfer to Moshiri was very much linked to positive milestones being met for the club - as a result probably meant he would stay on as chairman.

 

[Drico]

Id have an unpopular view of Kenwright, i neither hang him high or laud him, but the game past him by in the last decade.

I'm not sure many remember though, he built a number of milestones into his deal with Moshiri which triggered transfers in his shareholding to Moshiri, it was a few years until Moshiri actually became the majority shareholder. Some of them were paying of our debt, some where investments made in a club and some f it was milestones and planning permission around BMD.

Thus all Kenwirghts shareholding was very much linked to positive milestones being met for the club.

The best thing he could have done for the club was sell lock, stock and Vinny Jones's double barrel the moment Moshiri darkened his door.

Everything else was self-serving. He wasn't needed.

 

[Lineker]

Id have an unpopular view of Kenwright, i neither hang him high or laud him, but the game past him by in the last decade.

I'm not sure many remember though, he built a number of milestones into his deal with Moshiri which triggered transfers in his shareholding to Moshiri, it was a few years until Moshiri actually became the majority shareholder. Some of them were paying of our debt, some where investments made in a club and some f it was milestones and planning permission around BMD.

Thus all Kenwirghts shareholding and transfer to Moshiri was very much linked to positive milestones being met for the club - as a result probably meant he would stay on a s chairman.

Are you saying that people aren't all good or all bad?

Very reasonable of you, and I think very fair if true. Sounds like it could be true, and if it is it raises him in my esteem.

 

[Neiler]

The best thing he could have done for the club was sell lock, stock and Vinny Jones's double barrel the moment Moshiri darkened his door.

Everything else was self-serving. He wasn't needed.

I agree as it goes, i think if he had done that his legacy would be better received, the game passed him by when Moyes left - it passed Moshiri by shortly after he took over. But i think its important to acknowledge those milestones in the deal with Moshiri, they benefited the club even if we made a manure show of it.

There probably was a degree of naivety in the whole thing, but by the end i think he was a convenient Patsey and lightening rod for the Moshiri era. I have information by the latter stages of his reign and particularly by the time people were most annoyed with him, he was doing less and less on the football side and prob 90% of his work was on stuff like EITC and community projects.

In a way it suited Moshiiri to have a lightening rod and Bill loved the notoriety.

Wont go any further as i'm sure this topic will descend and it prob bad taste speaking of someone who has passed.

 

[Jokerdan]

Moshiri's mistake - among numerous others - was buying the train set but letting the Fat Controller stay in place in the belief he knew how to run the network. He ought to have really questioned his past performances over the previous twenty years and pensioned him off. At least Kenwright would have come out of this debacle with a semblance of respect and our gratitude for finding a benefactor to fund our new stadium.

But Blue Bill's arrogance and his egocentric ways wouldn't let that happen and Moshiri's lack of depth in his knowledge on how to run a successful football club just made for a marriage made in hell. He was clearly acting as Usmanov's stooge and happy to throw money around with little regard...and then along came Ukraine.