Farhad Moshiri

ijjysmith · February 4, 2019

havrey0123 said:
Needs to accept some blame aswell.

He knows a striker is needed but closed the purse strings.

There is no way we should keep adding to the wage bill. No matter what positions we urgently need fixing.

ijjysmith · February 4, 2019

GrandOldTeam said:
Two biggest issues for me;

1. Lack of footballing nous.
- Apparent in my view from some very odd remarks (Sissoko/McCarthy) and his short term/flavour of the month appointments. Walsh, a chief scout was never a DOF.
-- Hopefully Brands sorts this.

2. Lack of real change at boardroom level.
- Nothing has changed, really. For the majority of his duration so far, it's the old guard, reshuffled.
-- Hopefully he can find a space/tempt Usmanov in.

Would agree with both points here. Especially number 1. Makes me cringe when he talks about football things.

TheBrace · February 4, 2019

Kenshin said:
I'm sorry but for all the bad decisions moshiri has made, there was one person in his ear the entire time making them.

You know who that person was. The so called expert working alongside moshiri

Just an actual breath of fresh air that we have someone who knows what they are doing in the role now.

Who is this ‘expert’ and what gives you so much confidence in him? I’m yet to see this breath of ‘fresh air’. Seriously, why are some people putting so much faith in him? Yeah, he’s come with good rep, so did Walsh. Let’s see some proof before singing his praises from the rooftops.

deipnosophist · February 4, 2019

I get a feeling Mosh-man goes to bed at night thinking 'why on earth was I dumb enough to invest in Everton?"

Simon Buttle · February 4, 2019

ijjysmith said:
Would agree with both points here. Especially number 1. Makes me cringe when he talks about football things.

I think he should have brought someone in from day one though, a proper football person and if BK did'nt like it then tough cookie basically, it's telling the way even with a new owner we still seem to plod along in true Everton style.

Kenshin · February 4, 2019

TheBrace said:
Who is this ‘expert’ and what gives you so much confidence in him? I’m yet to see this breath of ‘fresh air’. Seriously, why are some people putting so much faith in him? Yeah, he’s come with good rep, so did Walsh. Let’s see some proof before singing his praises from the rooftops.

Kenwright mate.

He has been taking advice from kenwright this whole time.

Brands has signed international footballers from club's that aren't jarg. He is on the board now so is directly involved in the football side of things. Whereas grandad was pictured in Italy for no reason whatsoever .

Believe me, give it a few years and you will notice now much difference brands will make here

TheBrace · February 4, 2019

Kenshin said:
Kenwright mate.

He has been taking advice from kenwright this whole time.

Brands has signed international footballers from club's that aren't jarg. He is on the board now so is directly involved in the football side of things. Whereas grandad was pictured in Italy for no reason whatsoever .

Believe me, give it a few years and you will notice now much difference brands will make here

As I say, my opinion of Brands are as much in hope as anything else. But some people on here have so much faith in him and talk about I’m with so much confidence that he’ll come good. I’ll wait for some proof 1st before giving him plaudits.As for pinning some of the blame on Kenwright, that’s ridiculous as far as I’m concerned, as soon as things turn poo, Bill seems to get it. Were people having a go of Bill pre 3rd Dec? No. But it’s Bills fault we haven’t performed since.!

Kenshin · February 4, 2019

TheBrace said:
As I say, my opinion of Brands are as much in hope as anything else. But some people on here have so much faith in him and talk about I’m with so much confidence that he’ll come good. I’ll wait for some proof 1st before giving him plaudits.As for pinning some of the blame on Kenwright, that’s ridiculous as far as I’m concerned, as soon as things turn poo, Bill seems to get it. Were people having a go of Bill pre 3rd Dec? No. But it’s Bills fault we haven’t performed since.!

Yes they were, for the past 15 years.

People haven't stopped blaming kenwright for what is wrong with the club for a long time. this isn't a new thing mate, surely you must know that?

As it happens he doesn't have any influence anymore now brands is firmly in place so perhaps it's the start of something good?

There are many things that are bills fault btw, stretching back 15 plus years

TheBrace · February 4, 2019

Kenshin said:
Yes they were, for the past 15 years.

People haven't stopped blaming kenwright for what is wrong with the club for a long time. this isn't a new thing mate, surely you must know that?

As it happens he doesn't have any influence anymore now brands is firmly in place so perhaps it's the start of something good?

There are many things that are bills fault btw, stretching back 15 plus years

He was also the man behind all our optimism in the last 2 years, getting Mosh in and everything that comes with it, spending, new stadium etc. I just find using Bill as the scapegoat when things turn wrong very tiresome.

ForeverBlue92 · February 4, 2019

The blame is largely pointing at Moshiri.

As one of the news articles today headlines Everton really do need to decide what club they want to be.

The fact wolves have overtaken us and look miles ahead on the pitch is a disgrace when last season they were in the Championship.

If our aim is to be anything more than a mid table plodder - effin get our act together and start scouting for a proper manager with credentials and open back up the purse strings.

Rumours of Leicester looking to replace Puel with Mancini next season - would be another club overtaking us whilst we plod along.

Kenshin · February 4, 2019

TheBrace said:
He was also the man behind all our optimism in the last 2 years, getting Mosh in and everything that comes with it, spending, new stadium etc. I just find using Bill as the scapegoat when things turn wrong very tiresome.

No bill is responsible for hiring Steve walsh, overseeing all the money pissed up the wall by Walsh and doing nothing about it.

Kenwright is responsible for looking at the likes of koeman right at a time when we should have aimed higher with the takeover in full motion.

Do you want the full list? The lack of money despite TV money going up? Selling players to pay the bills , not backing the manager, signing away merchandise rights, not marketing the club anywhere out the city

The list goes on and on mate.

BernieH · February 4, 2019

Not backing the manager? We are in this mess because he backed them too much and allowed them the freedom of his bank account, they acted like a homeless guy whose won the lottery.

TheBrace · February 4, 2019

Kenshin said:
No bill is responsible for hiring Steve walsh, overseeing all the money pissed up the wall by Walsh and doing nothing about it.

Kenwright is responsible for looking at the likes of koeman right at a time when we should have aimed higher with the takeover in full motion.

Do you want the full list? The lack of money despite TV money going up? Selling players to pay the bills , not backing the manager, signing away merchandise rights, not marketing the club anywhere out the city

The list goes on and on mate.

A lot of what you’ve said is hindsight though. I didn’t see many complaints over Koeman when we got him, especially after having our best start to a season for over a decade. How do you know Mosh didn’t have a say on Walsh? It seemed he was a decent recruit at the time. And how can Mosh be blameless for wasting all the money and Bill take all the blame? Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
There are things Bill could have done better, of course. But a lot of what you’ve posted above is just agenda driven.

Kenshin · February 4, 2019

TheBrace said:
A lot of what you’ve said is hindsight though. I didn’t see many complaints over Koeman when we got him, especially after having our best start to a season for over a decade. How do you know Mosh didn’t have a say on Walsh? It seemed he was a decent recruit at the time. And how can Mosh be blameless for wasting all the money and Bill take all the blame? Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
There are things Bill could have done better, of course. But a lot of what you’ve posted above is just agenda driven.

Seriously? Agenda driven?

We reached a cup final and the reward was no transfer money for 2 years?! We reached the qualifying for the champions League and we signed 2 championship players that summer.

Koeman was very much not warmly welcomed at the club, I don't think anyone thought he was a top manager back then. That is rewriting history entirely.

Kenwright is to blame because he is the common factor in all of this and has been for 20 years. Moshiri is an accountant, this is all new to him considering he had no involvement in arsenal besides owning shares. Hell even usmanov didn't have any direct running in arsenal and even kept away from the board. Being an accountant for ulsmanov doesn't mean he is suddenly an expert in football. So he clearly needed an advisor, kenwright.

Walsh was a scout at Leicester when we hired him to be a director of football. So that was always going to be a terrible appointment, sadly we never realised how bad it was at the time . But he was underqualified for the role and it shows in the mess he caused, coincidentally with bill above him.

You can even speculate allardyce was a kenwright recruitment considering Silva was moshiri choice. No coincidence that we ended up with Sammy Lee, allardyce and Steve walsh, all mates together.

Kenwright is the manager that has overseen the longest run of lack of success in our history. Even Peter Johnson had a trophy win under his watch.

The list goes on and on about kenwright, not to even go into his Phillip green agreement, magically making the king's dock money vanish, running the club financially into the ground etc etc

bicycleheader · February 4, 2019

TheBrace said:
A lot of what you’ve said is hindsight though. I didn’t see many complaints over Koeman when we got him, especially after having our best start to a season for over a decade. How do you know Mosh didn’t have a say on Walsh? It seemed he was a decent recruit at the time. And how can Mosh be blameless for wasting all the money and Bill take all the blame? Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
There are things Bill could have done better, of course. But a lot of what you’ve posted above is just agenda driven.

Plenty didn't want Koeman. The dullard.