I think they're doing a great job and I wish they did something similar 5 years ago when they took us over.
Building a working, smart, deep, knowledgeable sporting sector is the key in today's football business. There's nothing else that matters. Really nothing else. If you have the best brain, you'll have higher efficiency in resource management and you'll outsmart others while growing.
Money with no brain leads to failure. Think of manchester united.
People often think like children and dream of big players, but today football is an industry, and you succeed only if you have the right people at the right place.
Especially if you have a big fan base, global reach, a new stadium. You have everything I mentioned and I really hope these moves will bring you good results.
The problem with Roma has been that TFG didn't know how to operate in football. We've been a sort of crash test for them. Initially they didn't care much about management, they thought signing "big names" was the answer. They still achieved something, but there's been no organic and steady growth.
Something has changed - and I hope will keep changing - when they met Ranieri. That's been a turning point. And I'm sure his vision has affected how they handled Everton too, because in your case they started off with a very very solid managerial structure.
I wrote it here months ago, but Ranieri said Dan Friedkin told him when they first met: "I've spent a lot of money, yet I didn't achieve much. What's the issue?"
And Ranieri has taught him something about football management.
It's with people like him that you build something valuable. Experts who have spent more years on the field than at home. Moyes is surely a man of similar experience.
I hope they've finally understood that they need to invest in management, they need to bring in the best professionals, they need to have the best brain.
When you build a sporting management and fill it with experts, you have a treasure of competence that will surely yield profits. When you manage a football club the same way you manage your Hollywood firm, there's something wrong. That's the lesson to learn. And seeing what they're doing at Everton reassures me.
