ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
How can it be job done?
It's been a year from taking over a club on the verge of a relegation battle in relegation form with Dog and Duck fitness in a creeking old ground.
- Status
It's been a year from taking over a club on the verge of a relegation battle in relegation form with Dog and Duck fitness in a creeking old ground.
Exactly.
It's not job done.
Which is fine. As you say it's only been a year.
I am just saying that a sufficient level of certainty as not been reached on it so far for me to be getting as wildly happy as many blues. At this point, at the moment of this poll.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Well the poll is about what can be expected within a year. If these thing were being achieved in 5 years then yes.
What more could've been done in 12 months.
Some will say transfers, he has explains that and the FFP restrictions.
Which would bring me back to the points I made about fans of other clubs who got in a saviour but ended up in the crap. Have things been so different in this year for us to be so certain we are shielded from what happened with other new owners? (Honestly, perhaps somebody could point to certain things he has done that have only previously been done by successful new owners and are not part of a normal step by step new owner checklist)
I often wonder at what point the dream soured and how soon fans knew it was not what they were lead to believe.
It's a topic that's been on my mind with Wham moving into that abysmal stadium and losing their history in one fell swoop for what seems like nothing. How did it get to that stage and when did the fans realise what was going and were they guilty of getting carried away on the wave of new investment and ignoring the red flags. I just find it amazing that a clubs history has just been trampled on so easily. I've no love for them but it's really caught my attention.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Wham split up in the 80's mate. Let it go.
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
Middle of the road for me.
Not impressed with what we've accomplished so far in terms of bringing in players, no massive improvements there in terms of the quality of player we can bring in and we're still having trouble convincing our best players to stay.
Positive points for removing the debt with his gift loan and putting together an actual working plan for funding the stadium. I guess bringing in Koeman has been a positive as well. Increased sponsorship deals are a step forward.
Once the stadium gets built he could do almost whatever he likes and I'll never say a bad word against him.
Not impressed with what we've accomplished so far in terms of bringing in players, no massive improvements there in terms of the quality of player we can bring in and we're still having trouble convincing our best players to stay.
Positive points for removing the debt with his gift loan and putting together an actual working plan for funding the stadium. I guess bringing in Koeman has been a positive as well. Increased sponsorship deals are a step forward.
Once the stadium gets built he could do almost whatever he likes and I'll never say a bad word against him.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Good thread, and well worth reviewing where we are.
He's plainly got some things wrong, possibly through niavety when it comes to signings and being a tad unrealistic, but, overall, the club, for the first time in a long-time is progressing in a way that looks sustainable. Still a fair way to go yet, but the article that Danny's linked in the Telegraph and similar recent articles in the Guardian and the Times ( I think ) show that the media are beginning to take us seriously, which is something which never really happened under the Kenwright / Earl / Woods regime.
So far, so good, a very solid 7/10 from me.
He's also given davek some purpose in life, so that's a bonus.
By the way, I fully approve of the poll being public, time limited and only viewable after voting. These should really be the defaults for all polls.
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
I think on the stadium its a case of pretty much getting as far as we can in one year. A lot of work went into the purchase agreement with Peel, and the guarantor agreement with LCC, and I am sure that relocation options figured very prominently in Moshiri's pre-purchase due diligence. The financing method seems to be innovative and well considered, leaving more freedom for transfer spending. Stating the obvious, delivering this in the next 3-4 years is Moshiri's single most important task.
On transfers, he has only had two windows. The first amidst a period of profound change in personnel so I can find justifiable reasons for an underwhelming performance. The January window is a law unto itself, we did ok if nothing spectacular. It is difficult to set a benchmark for what will exactly constitute a successful window although should the majority be left with a sense of disappointment and frustration come September 1st, for me that will be a black mark against his stewardship.
We are at least 4-5 signings short of a squad capable of being in with a genuine shout of UCL qualification. For once, I want to see us get the bulk of our business done early and new players being integrated into the squad when pre-season games start. Gaps in quality need to be filled, and ideally we would buy before we sell, rather than a strategy which is tailored in the opposite direction.
Aside from this, my biggest areas of concern remain the lack of change at board and executive level, and the continuation of a shoddy PR and communications regime. On the first concern, I can understand Moshiri's hands may be tied until at least the granting of PP for Bramley Moore. Fair enough, but I still would have thought we could have appointed a Commercial Director to lead in that area, and spearhead the drive to increase revenue and sponsorship. The blurring of the lines on the football business side between Kenwright, Elstone, and Walsh also caused us significant difficulties last summer. I hope steps have been taken to avoid a repeat.
On communication, I can understand why Moshiri would use a tabloid figure like Jim White to be able to talk directly to a wider audience, both Evertonian and non-Evertonian. However, aside from his introductory remarks in the first matchday programme and comments at the GM, I still have a sense that we could have gotten a better feel for what he wants to achieve with us, aside from sweeping comments and generalisations.
I would have liked to have seen an in-depth interview on the website, and/or an interview with one of the more respected broadsheet football journalists, someone like Paul Joyce, just to put some meat on the bones a little further.
Overall though, I think much has been achieved and a lot of the key preparatory week done or initiated, to enable us make steady progress on and off the field. Steady if unspectacular. I like what little I have heard from Moshiri in the main, clearly he is a very clever and talented man, very much at home in the world of high finance and deal brokering, and perhaps most crucially of just getting it done. That alone, is what we have lacked most in 25 years.
I would have gladly settled for where we are now after 12 months.
On transfers, he has only had two windows. The first amidst a period of profound change in personnel so I can find justifiable reasons for an underwhelming performance. The January window is a law unto itself, we did ok if nothing spectacular. It is difficult to set a benchmark for what will exactly constitute a successful window although should the majority be left with a sense of disappointment and frustration come September 1st, for me that will be a black mark against his stewardship.
We are at least 4-5 signings short of a squad capable of being in with a genuine shout of UCL qualification. For once, I want to see us get the bulk of our business done early and new players being integrated into the squad when pre-season games start. Gaps in quality need to be filled, and ideally we would buy before we sell, rather than a strategy which is tailored in the opposite direction.
Aside from this, my biggest areas of concern remain the lack of change at board and executive level, and the continuation of a shoddy PR and communications regime. On the first concern, I can understand Moshiri's hands may be tied until at least the granting of PP for Bramley Moore. Fair enough, but I still would have thought we could have appointed a Commercial Director to lead in that area, and spearhead the drive to increase revenue and sponsorship. The blurring of the lines on the football business side between Kenwright, Elstone, and Walsh also caused us significant difficulties last summer. I hope steps have been taken to avoid a repeat.
On communication, I can understand why Moshiri would use a tabloid figure like Jim White to be able to talk directly to a wider audience, both Evertonian and non-Evertonian. However, aside from his introductory remarks in the first matchday programme and comments at the GM, I still have a sense that we could have gotten a better feel for what he wants to achieve with us, aside from sweeping comments and generalisations.
I would have liked to have seen an in-depth interview on the website, and/or an interview with one of the more respected broadsheet football journalists, someone like Paul Joyce, just to put some meat on the bones a little further.
Overall though, I think much has been achieved and a lot of the key preparatory week done or initiated, to enable us make steady progress on and off the field. Steady if unspectacular. I like what little I have heard from Moshiri in the main, clearly he is a very clever and talented man, very much at home in the world of high finance and deal brokering, and perhaps most crucially of just getting it done. That alone, is what we have lacked most in 25 years.
I would have gladly settled for where we are now after 12 months.
TheFinnFan
Finners
Imagine what this man did in such a short time.
On the communications front.
Moshiri is no fool
He knows every word he says will be dissected and re spun
Let's be honest here english journalists on the whole are more interested in the angle or the story than they are in the truth.
Plus if Moshiri said something that didn't come to pass he would be slated.
I know from Arsenal fans and Arsenal forums that would much rather have Moshiri/Usmanov in control than Kronke.
Usmanov wants success and trophies , Kronke wants a successful business model.
The man is only in the door give him a chance
My company , a former British multinational and household name has been taken over twice in the last 10 yrs and changes weren't made for the first 2 yrs.
it's all about one step at a time and getting the basics right.
Bill and Elstone have their days numbered , it's a matter of when not if
bitter-no-better
Player Valuation: £25m
Think we may see some movement soon
- Status
