Farhad Moshiri

[degsy]

White absolutely shat his kecks when he realised they had a caller that actually knew what he was talking about, look at his panicked looks around the room in the first minute as Esk starts talking, as if to say “ffs why did you let this guy in the air?”

Fair play to the Esk, with Jim Whyte trying to lead him into 'have you stopped beating your wife yet' no-win, blind alleys with what about the stadium.

 

[brian labone]

On Saturday the chant should not be sack the board, it should be Moshiri get out of our club, its him who pulls the strings.

 

[davek]

So the fans wanted Benitez?

No. But the fans DID play their part in Koeman, Allardyce and Silva's sackings.

 

[Blue_Eagle]

No. But the fans DID play their part in Koeman, Allardyce and Silva's sackings.

Which is fair enough, we'd spent a fortune and seen nothing but terrible performances for it.

That's the nature of ANY fanbase.

Welcome to football, Farhad.

 

[MikeH72]

No. But the fans DID play their part in Koeman, Allardyce and Silva's sackings.

None of them should ever have been appointed.

 

[davek]

It’s absolutely irrelevant though? Because the managers were all frauds and we were failing anyway under all of them. The fans were also against the appointment of Benitez from day 1 but he plowed ahead regardless, so he can’t blame the fans for that one. That’s also a fact.

This is where any protest is undermined.

There's enough blame to go around here. The stampede to get someone like Silva out was probably key to this crisis.

It resulted in both the DoF being sidelined forever and a capable manager being fired.

We have to view our actions in hindsight, and they are now to be seen as part and parcel of the problem.

Brands I have no issue with being fired, he just wasn't up to it. But the way the owner reacted to angry fans to put the club model in the bin set the tone for our decline.

We all need to own some of this. Anything else is denial.

 

[4737carlin]

On Saturday the chant should not be sack the board, it should be Moshiri get out of our club, its him who pulls the strings.

Newcastle fans we once laughed at, they hounded the owner out, still not having it the club they support means more to the Geordies then Everton does to us.

 

[davek]

Which is fair enough, we'd spent a fortune and seen nothing but terrible performances for it.

That's the nature of ANY fanbase.

Welcome to football, Farhad.

Patience was required with Silva especially.

We all surely see that now?

 

[toffeeblue9]

None of them should ever have been appointed.

Sorry like, but I still maintain that Silva was probably the only smart appointment he's made

 

[Blue_Eagle]

Patience was required with Silva especially.

We all surely see that now?

Not sure mate, I've got the memory of a goldfish.

Marco who?

I just know that In the end, I wanted him out too - which is saying something as I'm typically late to the party when it comes to wanting to sack managers.

 

[MikeH72]

This is where any protest is undermined.

There's enough blame to go around here. The stampede to get someone like Silva out was probably key to this crisis.

It resulkted in both the DoF being sidelined forever and a capable manger being fired.

We have to view ourt actions in hindsight, and they are now to be seen as part and parcel of the problem.

Brands I have no issue with being fired, he just wasn't up to it. But the way the owner rreacted to angry famns to put the club model in the bin set the tone for our decline.

We all need to own some of this. Anything else is denial.

I don’t own any of it, not arsed what your opinion is. I blame our owner squarely for where we are.

 

[4737carlin]

Patience was required with Silva especially.

We all surely see that now?

Yeah but its easy to see it now, but at the time it was obvious to anyone that Sam shouldnt of been sacked, you dont sack a manager who gets you to 8th when earlier in the season you worried about relegation. The fact at the time some wanted him out and some still think now it was right, is a clear indecation that some fans are clearly a part of Evertons problems

 

[toffeeblue9]

Patience was required with Silva especially.

We all surely see that now?

Yes and no - in an ideal world, he'd have been given more patience because he's a perfectly decent coach. The problems here were not all of his own making (in fact the majority of what went wrong probably wasn't his fault), but things had snowballed and it was toxic. Whether or not it counts for anything and regardless of where you place the blame for it, the atmosphere at Finch Farm had become similar. It's easy to say he should have stayed in hindsight, but at the time it would have been really hard to justify it.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

The most that an owner can do. We've had good times

 

[davek]

He very rarely doesn’t speak well.

He's eloquent and he's knowledgable, which is why he was afforded 10 minutes on air with two bruisers like Jordan and White who usually interrupt constantly.

However, I think Jordan (who I detest, btw) could easily sidleine the Esk's argument about 'a culture of failure' pervading the club at ownership and governance level. That's easy meat to him as he just points to other fans in the PL who also perceive their hierarchy that way.

Overall I think there is a view of Everton's situation abroad that we have an owner who has been a net success for Everton in that he's provided cash and a new stadium to be completed...finally solving that issue. And I think Moshiri was very clever in skewering the fanbase planning to protest by saying they are complicit in managerial turnover which has been the key to our downfall. Which, of course, we have been.