The upshot of this counterproductive debacle is that Everton have made their own manager’s job – and, by extension, their own prospects of avoiding relegation – more difficult. They have also exposed how Everton are run, and why there is such a clamour for Moshiri to sell up or impose the changes that were needed at the top when he bought into the club. Everton’s decline has accelerated under the British-Iranian billionaire, but it did not start with him. The club was lagging behind its Premier League peers commercially and had three failed stadium projects to its name when Kenwright, indebted to Moyes for keeping Everton competitive on a shoestring for 11 years, finally found a much-needed investor and invited Moshiri on board in February 2016.
