Are Everton FC known to be a soft touch in the game?

[Gladystweet]

All excellent points...except for one

Typo I think mate. Should've read "sacked"

 

[Bungle]

I dunno

I fort u woz ded bruv, nice to see you

 

[davids]

Others recognised correctly that Koeman was a reckless manager and rinsed our club ruthlessly in the window of opportunity he provided them by being there.

I doubt very much we can afford again that type of waste.

Koeman killed Everton for a decade. It wont, and never should, be forgotten.

He took advantage of the fact Moshiri is clueless.And while he's at the helm can't see much change any time soon.

 

[toffee66]

If anything we are historically known for being a nightmare to deal with & really tough on every detail. The last two years have been a departure as Moshiri has made a lot of mistakes and Walsh was the biggest.

The appointment of Brands, a proper DoF and a typical hard-nosed straight-forward Dutch guy is a big step in the right direction. The elevation of arch blagger and carpet-bagger extraordinare Keith Harris is not. Hopefully Harris gets to do what he does best, f*** all but hang around claiming credit for other people’s work, and Brands has all the real authority and power.

It is clear that Moshiri remains as determined to succeed as he was day one. We have to hope that in Brands we have a guy who can deliver stability, continuity and progress over the next three years. This is the appointment we should have made two years ago. Time and money wasted but the goal remains the same. More ambition than we ever had under Kenwright but the jury is out on execution.

On a side note the US sanctions on Russia hurt both Moshiri and Usmanov. That is making funding the stadium slower/harder. I’m told (by a current Board member) that the “summer” progress on funding that was suggested at Meis’ sessions now looks optimistic with Elstone’s departure a factor. The source who told me was still convinced that Moshiri is utterly committed to delivering but reading between the lines we are further away than we would want. My gut feel is Moshiri will deliver but we will be looking at funding end of year/early next, planning end 2019 and maybe in 2023/24. Still far from a done deal but Moshiri IS dogged, persistent as shown by the expensive reboot on the football side.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Need to have a ruthless almost nasty streak throughout the ethos of our club, yesterday was a decent start.

 

[Neiler]

I think its what you have to do to progress, both Chelsea and City had to pay way over the odds for players who could get them to do the next level incrementally, the strategy is short term rinsing until you break the glass ceiling, become established and players managers want to come to you to play in the CL etc. Thats the way i see it anyway. Short term loss for long term gain.

What hasn't helped is bogey decisions being made mind, hopefully yesterdays work reverses that tide.

 

[sharkey1001]

Look at the players we have sold!!

Lescott £24m
Stones £50m
Rodwell £12m
Cleverley £8m
Lukaku £90m
Naismith £11m

Even Barkley at £15m is looking a great sell lol

 

[mezzrow]

Maybe up until now

 

[Eggs]

..we just agree Manager contracts with daft clauses.

 

[everton1953]

The answer is "No". Rather like someone saying somebody is a "laughing stock". It is meaningless based on zero proof of any opinions. Usually the writer is talking about his or her own opinion.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

I’m much like Everton, mugged off for the season ticket last year for that season of turgid tripe and false hope,
Hold on, that’s every year...

 

[Axlswhk]

We should be smart when negotiating contracts. Pay above average but add in performance related termination clause that prevents payout when a manager gets sack.
Pay attractive wages that is tied inclusive of performance related bonuses.

This would make us look attractive when recruiting and make sure we’re not being held ransom when certain players or staff decides they can’t be arse anymore.

 

[bignev23]

We think we're big balls under Moshiri but the fact is we're still a second rate team, we just pay an awful lot more for the pleasure these days through clueless mismanagement from the top right down to the bottom in trying to be competitive we've taken a lot of expensive gambles that haven't been paying off. The money wasted since Moshiri arrived is staggering and I personally blame him for the predicament we're in. I think he's genuinely clueless about how to run a successful football club making shrewd decisions, if we're going to progress under his stewardship it'll be because of expensive gambles...but I won't be holding my breath and expect more expensive mistakes will occur in the future ensuring mediocrity with Moshiri at the helm.

 

[milks]

So if we are to believe what we read, not only have Watford not paid Silva since sacking him, but they will demand money from us if we employ the out-of-work manager...

We are apparently still paying Roberto (who should have been backed), even though he’s working for Belgium.

We are paying Koeman, even though he’s working for Holland.

We caved in to Allardyce’s demand for an extra 12 months, when I don’t believe he, Moshiri or anyone ever believed the job was beyond this season.

Add to this :
- Southampton hadn’t offered Koeman a new contract, but when we showed interest, they managed to rape us for big compensation.
- Swansea should have snatched our hand off at £3m for Ashley Williams. We paid them TWELVE!!!
- Ditto Crystal Palace for Bolasie. 28 million was 3 times market value surely.
- Sigurdsson, good player, but 45 million was 20 too much.


The smell of ineptitude must be wafting over the football world. Now even Raiola wants in on the action.

This is all really, really subjective speculation. We can't pretend to understand how the mechanisms of transfers operate.
That said, they do all seem overpriced in retrospect....but the market is crazy, the TV money influx has added a 100% premium onto pretty much every transfer of late.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

This is all really, really subjective speculation. We can't pretend to understand how the mechanisms of transfers operate.
That said, they do all seem overpriced in retrospect....but the market is crazy, the TV money influx has added a 100% premium onto pretty much every transfer of late.

Of course. The market is insane!

I think it’s fairly safe to say we were rinsed for Williams & Bolasie though.