Key quotes from Everton’s general meeting.
New Stadium
Liverpool City Council will fund two thirds of cost of Everton’s new stadium.
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) January 9, 2018
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson at Everton GM defends council funding two thirds of new stadium cost. "When we do the deal, it will be a deal that benefits Liverpool, the city, first."
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) January 9, 2018
RE says “if everything goes to plan” #Everton want to be in new stadium in August 2022
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
✏️ | @meisarch has spoken on his vision for Everton's new stadium…
"Sitting as close to the pitch – on top of the players – as you can get."https://t.co/0iDFBlWdWl pic.twitter.com/dM0iMEQgTK
— Everton (@Everton) January 9, 2018
New stadium ✅
Football matters ✅
His plan for success ✅
Sam Allardyce ✅Mr Moshiri has given an in-depth interview…
Watch now: https://t.co/qyF62badHk pic.twitter.com/HZMQtDCaxd
— Everton (@Everton) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on Lukaku
Moshiri on Lukaku: “At #EFC as long as I’m here financial decisions are irrelevant..always about football decisions..last summer we offered him better deal than Chelsea but he just didn’t want to stay” says “agents v powerful & manipulate and control players”
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
Moshiri “if I tell you what we offered Lukaku you wouldn’t believe me. His agent came to finch farm to sign contract then Lukaku phones his mother” and there was a pilgrimage to Africa and some sort of voodoo that says he had to sign for Chelsea. “What can you do?”
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
Moshiri also says about Lukaku: "He was in LA and didn't want to come back. Alex Ferguson got another year out of Ronaldo but then he was off. Suarez had to bite a few players and he was off."
— Andy Hunter (@AHunterGuardian) January 9, 2018
Farhad Moshiri on Romelu Lukaku refusing new deal at #efc: "During the meeting he said he had to call his mother, who was on a pilgrimage in Africa and had seen a voodoo or something who said he had to go to Chelsea.”
— Andy Hunter (@AHunterGuardian) January 9, 2018
Moshiri says allowing Lukaku to leave was not financial. "It's a football decision. With Romelu, I wasted 2 summers trying to keep him. Last summer, we offered him a better deal than Chelsea. He wanted to play for Chelsea. I did whatever was humanly possible."
— BBC Merseyside Sport (@bbcmerseysport) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on trying to keep Lukaku: If I tell you what we offered him, you wouldn't believe me. Then we bettered it.
— BBC Merseyside Sport (@bbcmerseysport) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on Barkley/Stones representative
Now Moshiri saying that Barkley’s agent said part of Ross potentially agreeing to commit to club in past depending on if “his friend” John Stones was allowed to leave. “We live in a difficult world.” #efc #mcfc
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
Moshiri says financial incentives for agents to move players between clubs are massive and agents “dominate brains” of players who rely on them #EFC
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on making club announcements via Jim White
Farhad Moshiri responds to a question about news lines appearing first on a particular media organisation: "now I'm more careful".
— BBC Merseyside Sport (@bbcmerseysport) January 9, 2018
Farhad Moshiri on making club announcements via Jim White: "Sometimes he calls me late at night. We've had a bad game and he gets to me. They are conversations between 2 friends and they shouldn't appear on Sky or Twitter. It won't be happening again."
— Andy Hunter (@AHunterGuardian) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on Koeman
Farhad Moshiri on Koeman's sacking: "we had to take action". Says finishing 7th last season v 6th cost them in many ways.
— BBC Merseyside Sport (@bbcmerseysport) January 9, 2018
Farhad Moshiri on Koeman's sacking: "Ronald didn't lose the dressing room but sometimes you need change. Bill bravely brought in Unsie, we put a great servant of the club at considerable risk, but against West Ham Unsie unravelled the mystery."
— Andy Hunter (@AHunterGuardian) January 9, 2018
Moshiri on end of last season and start of current: “We didn’t exceed expectations. I hoped to finish sixth. Not doing that cost us dear…confidence was lost and we really got into a mess..we had to take action.” #EFC
— Greg O'Keeffe (@GregOK) January 9, 2018
Director of football model
Allardyce says "i win" when asked what happens when manager and director of football disagree on a player.
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) January 9, 2018
Seamus Coleman
Sam Allardyce: "Seamus Coleman is due back, He has started training."
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) January 9, 2018