Farhad Moshiri

[PeregrineT]

We 'bid' for Shearer, Moutinho etc. Anyone can bid for someone; actually doing it seriously and signing someone is where the proof is.

And we've done nothing thus far.

So, only actually signing someone is evidence of trying to sign someone? Thats about the stupidest thing Ive ever heard, and Ive been on these forums all month.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Boberto said it.

Although admittedly he did talk shoite.

He did that in shovels and has been rewarded with managing the second best team in the world and on part time hours. It's times like this I question my own career decisions.

I can get the frustration re our lack of transfers, especially given the fanfare surrounding Moshiri's arrival. At the same time though, I temper this by remembering that Koeman is a real career strategist. I don't believe that he would have come here had he not been 100% convinced on what the new owner can deliver. Same way as Joe Anderson wouldn't be so quick to be our bestie again if he wasn't sure that Moshiri will vastly improve our stock. It is still very early days for the new board and management team. I'd rather they got it right rather than throw silly money at the likes of a Joe Allen in this inflated window.

Now if come the end of the window, we haven't brought some real quality in, then my confidence will waiver. I don't think that will be the case though.

 

[Azza]

Leech.

Stop ruining my club.

Best so far, brilliant.

 

[kithnou]

It will only take one.
A big name signing. A James or Draxler type. Watch the worship.
Offer their club £75m for one of those Big Farhad/Big Ron/Big Walshy. They are worth 3 of the types you are apparently over-offering £30m for.
Do it. Make the statement to the world...because right now you are looking rather small time.
Which you are not.

 

[Kiwi]

Leech.

Stop ruining my club.

He's been telling us lice.

 

[turner]

It will only take one.
A big name signing. A James or Draxler type. Watch the worship.
Offer their club £75m for one of those Big Farhad/Big Ron/Big Walshy. They are worth 3 of the types you are apparently over-offering £30m for.
Do it. Make the statement to the world...because right now you are looking rather small time.
Which you are not.

It's easy to say when it's not your 75m.

 

[Thomasc]

A lot of silliness going on. I can understand people's frustrations due to the lack of activity but......you only have to take things into account such as what Joe Anderson and Kenwright have both said, Anderson is particular who said he was blown away with Mosh's plans for Everton.

Rome wasn't built in a day as the saying goes. Football fans want everything and want it now. Thank god you weren't born or brought up to support somebody like York or Hartlepool, some of you might not have been able to cope.

It will be interesting to see what he does with Everton and we should thank our lucky stars that we are not stuck eternally with Kenwright and co running things.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Surprised if there isn't a big name unveiling lined up for tomorrows game. Z cars booming. Bill waving a EFC scarf. Usually the everton way

 

[ricer10]

Surprised if there isn't a big name unveiling lined up for tomorrows game. Z cars booming. Bill waving a EFC scarf. Usually the everton way

Already had our big name..... Steklenberg ! Don't think the club shop can handle any more letters than that !

 

[kithnou]

It's easy to say when it's not your 75m.

What's that mean mate? We apparently have it plus the Stones money. If we don't then we have been taken for a ride.

 

[blueboy1945]

Despite being an urbane and sophisticated 53 year-old man, with all his own teeth and a near-complete set of Jennings first edition hard-backs, I have found myself as desperate for transfer news as I was when a boy of 14. More so, perhaps, as there was no transfer window then, and you couldn't focus your attention as happens now.
So I'm as wound up as the next idiot and check this and other sites far too often to see if anyone has actually signed for us. I want Khoulibaly and Witsel and Carvalho, even though I've not really seen much of them. But they're glossy and expensive and glamorous. I want Moshiri to spend an absolute fortune, even though I know money doesn't necessarily mean quality. I want Stones and Lukaku to stay, although the former can't head the ball, and the latter can't trap it.
The truth that I'm reluctant to acknowledge is that that FourFourTwo piece makes a great deal of sense. We have the chance now to build something lasting, and that takes time and patience and strategy, especially when, rich though we are, we're not by any means among the richest or most glamorous clubs in our league. So that means being shrewd, and buying Williams and Gueye before we buy Neuer and Griezman. It means sprucing up Goodison before we build by the river, and, in all likelihood, getting top six before getting top four.
While we can all list our historic achievements, we have to acknowledge we've won nothing since 1995, and that all our periods of success have been more fleeting and sporadic than they should have been. Yes, that's partly because league titles have on occasion heralded world wars, in the way a flapping butterfly can cause an earthquake, but it's mainly been down to poor management and complacency and lack of vision.
A vibrant, forward-thinking, pro-active board and management structure will see us right over a couple of generations at least. Better that than lurching impatiently into paying over the odds for players who don't really want to be here just to make a splash and to satisfy the demands of an attention-deficient fanbase, of which I'm definitely one.
This has been brought to you through gritted teeth.

Been away for a few days and come back to this cracker of a post. It sums me up absolutely, I'm like a kid again poring over every little morsel of news, telling my missus that we're getting this player or that player while she just looks at me with that look on her face (you know we've all seen it). But I care not, I'm really loving every minute of it even though I probably won't ever get to Goodison again at nearly 71 and living the other end of the country!

 

[kithnou]

Rome wasn't built in a day as the saying goes. Football fans want everything and want it now.

Respectfully mate, we haven't even done enough building this Summer to regenerate my father's ageing village Chrisokellaria in the beautiful Messinia region of Greece, let alone Rome!
I'm as big a Moshiri fan as anyone, but Evertonians must demand better than what we have been served so far this Summer.

 

[Bud McBlokeski]

Already had our big name..... Steklenberg ! Don't think the club shop can handle any more letters than that !

Hey, they could handle Kanchelskis; they can handle Steklenberg.

 

[Thomasc]

Respectfully mate, we haven't even done enough building this Summer to regenerate my father's ageing village Chrisokellaria in the beautiful Messinia region of Greece, let alone Rome!
I'm as big a Moshiri fan as anyone, but Evertonians must demand better than what we have been served so far this Summer.

As said already though, maybe Koeman wanted s bit of time to assess what he had, we will never know.

 

[The Esk]

Huge amount of mis-placed concern expressed in this thread overy Moshiri's motives, ability to fund and ability to perform.

Simply you do not become the trusted confidant and business partner of Russia's wealthiest man without having huge business and commercial acumen.

As I've written previously he could have maintained a fairly anonymous existence at Arsenal but chose (for the first time in his career) to make a very public investment in Everton. Given the exposure of this investment there is no way he will permit this to fail, nor will he be looking to use the club's assets and cash flow for his own benefit at the expense of the club and/or shareholders. Quite simply if that was his motive there's hundreds of assets he could acquire in Russia/Central Asia and achieve more financially.

He's putting the foundations in place, new management team, advanced plans for new stadium, and provided the largest transfer budget in our history.

The window doesn't close for nearly 4 weeks, we've plenty of irons in some considerable fires and a future ahead of us back at the top of English football.