Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Whilst im not a huge fan of Moshiri myself, do you not accept that it will take a long time to change the culture of mediocrity that is so set within the foundations of this club because of Kenwright?
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gaino92
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The one from yesterday?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He adds to it:
The appointment of Allardyce, the appointment of Baxendale, and his statement about having turned Everton from 'a museum' into 'a competitive outfit' scream mediocrity or worse.
He's not a man who'll orchestrate a recovery of this club. No chance.
That was the point I was making with the quotes from Moshiri.
People are impatient but look at what they were told and you can understand why when you look at where we are nearly 3 years on from when we were talking about that "small window of opportunity". That window will have only gotten smaller since.
I'm increasingly losing faith that we will ever accomplish what Moshiri laid out as his goals in those quotes based on what we have seen so far.
It's all well and good saying we want to join the elite and want to compete in the north-eastern but as we have seen so far Moshiri doesn't have the wealth to propel us there on his own and the FFP rules severely limit what he can do anyway. Inflating expectations beyond what we can deliver is always going to lead to disappointment.
What money Moshiri has brought into the team has been wasted incredibly and we have zero progress to show for it right now with another finish outside of the top 7 looking likely. Now we are being told that the days of 50 million pound players are largely behind us and we need to tighten our belts and we don't feel any closer to the top teams than we did before he came in.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
With the benefit of two days to reflect, I'd say that it was a typically entertaining AGM (albeit a little less so than last year's with its Mrs Lukaku and voodoo references).
I'm hugely looking forward to next year's meeting...
I'm hugely looking forward to next year's meeting...
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
I do agree with you there, im not quite sure what this 'project' is at the moment, im hoping it will change but im not convinced like you.
You did on thousands of occasions lol lol lol
I think Everton being referred to as a museum was actually insulting to the Moyes era when they were very much competitive, as they were in Martinez first season. Perhaps not quite at the top table but competitive. His investment however does give us the opportunity to be competitive on the field and in commercial matters, a chance to actually be a 'top club' again.
Complete with player stats and formations too !
As an international manager he can’t sign players
Signing players was his downfall here
Don't be so bloody stupid
The difficulty we have experienced is that we lost three of our best players: [John] Stones, [Ross] Barkley and Romelu [Lukaku],” said Moshiri. “They were young players on low wages.
“For us to lose Stones, you get £45 million but he was on very low wages. To replace him with a defender of that quality you need to pay him £200,000-a-week.
“We didn’t do that but in replacing these three players we had to spend a lot of money and pay high wages. That is the difficulty — like for like.
“To replace Romelu — we sold him for £75 million and he was on £70,000-a-week — you would have to pay £130 million and £250,000-a-week. That is the challenge.
“It is why football experts of Marcel’s calibre are needed. To comply with Financial Fair Play you need to go for younger players on lower wages. You may need to pay big fees but you have to keep the wages down.
GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
It was a clear reference to the important thing, trophies.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
...72 points. L4, for one brief, shining season was Camelot.
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