The Moshiri Years; A Litany of Wasted Millions

[Eggs]

Took the piss out of the whole fanbase.

…except the ‘Benitez 8’

 

[Yarrgh]

Farhad Moshiri joined Everton in February ‘16 and the £millions wasted on personnel who took lots out but put little in is a testament to the failure of his tenure.

Players acquired for more than their worth, failed managers and coaches, Board members, DOFs, ordinary personnel on extraordinary contracts largely unable to shift. Failures significantly outweigh the successes, the shameful Moshiri years.

Thought it might be an idea to capture the litany of waste in a single thread;

J P Gbamin, purchased £25m, 5 year contract, played 6 games;

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FFS! His own thread

 

[MikeH72]

For me the red flag was the signing of Bolasie for £27 million expecting him to quadruple his goal output. I think Palace bought him for £800k or something.

We've also spent £100 million sacking managers. Remeber wages and sacking managers dosen't show up on net spend charts.

This spooked me at the time and yet no one cared because we were “brewstered lad and we take who we want”. We spent 2 months “chasing” Mata and Witsel to no avail, signed Stekelenburg on a free who was meant to be third choice keeper and ended up being first choice, then 2 games into the season ended up spending £28m on Bolasie as our marquee signing. A huge, huge red flag moment.

 

[Joey66]

Baffling that you use the 1 player who's career was ruined by injury.

Nobody has any idea how he would have played for us and is probably the 1 unknown in the whole Moshiri era.

He was already injured when we signed him, one brilliant game & that was it .....

 

[summerisle]

I was talking to a Mainz supporter on the bus to that pre season friendly the year we bought him from there.
He said he was a good player - but he had been injured a lot recently. So, in a way - it was a 25m gamble - buying an injured player.

That's the first criteria of an Everton transfer.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

Still not learned the lesson. Maupay, Dele, Ashley Young.

 

[Joey66]

In a nutshell, an offshore accountant who tried to take control of Arsenal - & BK invited him here - spent 100s of millions with his backer & his poor knowledge has nearly bankrupted our club - He needs to sell - The new Ground is our only asset & our History .....

 

[Eggs]

….might not have cost much but we paid him lots to sit in the treatment room. Don’t sign footballers with a history of large leg muscle injuries;

 

[Bluebonic]

Don't agree with Gbamin or Bolasie. Injuries stopped them ever being themselves here. Bolasie was very effective pre-injury.

And at least iceland weighed in with some goals every season

 

[Ferguson1878]

Hated him. He could play but just wasn’t arsed.

for me he was our first example of a big money signing not giving a [Poor language removed] , other clubs with money had had these players before ,but we’d always been skint so we’d never had to worry about it adding the likes of delph etc to the ranks we soon made up for lost time though

 

[daza_1973]

How does that song go - Midas touch in reverse

 

[Eggs]

….supposed to be a partnership but these two worked separately on their own costly agendas. £millions wasted in transfer fees, then we paid their salaries for years after they’d been sacked. Arguably the start of the financial rot;

 

[bcblue1878]

The summer (2017?) we signed Rooney, Klaassen and Sigurdsson was a sign the lunatics had truly taken over the running of the asylum! Supposedly three no’10s, signed by three different people - madness!
Just one of far too many red flags during Moshiri’s time here!

 

[MikeH72]

The summer (2017?) we signed Rooney, Klaassen and Sigurdsson was a sign the lunatics had truly taken over the running of the asylum! Supposedly three no’10s, signed by three different people - madness!
Just one of far too many red flags during Moshiri’s time here!

“Spread the goals around the team”
“Pace doesn’t matter it’s about how quickly you move the ball”
“Won’t be mentally weak anymore with all these captains”

And other such gems.

 

[stretford blue]

….supposed to be a partnership but these two worked separately on their own costly agendas. £millions wasted in transfer fees, then we paid their salaries for years after they’d been sacked. Arguably the start of the financial rot;

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Them two plus kenwright and moshiri buying players a recipe for disaster Which is upon us