My take on this moment is that I've just been to two away games city and united and wow they're stadiums are amazing we need this and I'm praying everything goes to plan even with this nutter in charge, by god didn't realize how far behind we were off pitch . he's got the stadium getting built but he's a mad man with the running of the club it's a nightmare when we should be buzzing flipping Everton that
Moved this reply from the stadium thread to the Moshiri one as it is more appropriate here...
He's not a nutter, slightly weird perhaps. He has made one glaring mother of a mistake hiring Benitez, the rest of the charges against him are quite small really and it's just the usual Everton snowball of anger that runs down the hill and by the time it gets to the bottom it's bloody massive.
Yes he should have got rid of Kenwright (if contractually possible) but we have no real idea if it would have made a difference. The real issues stem from where we were as a club, to try and go upwards we needed to get players that were names and expensive, if we tried to get all youngsters at the time the fan base would have done its proverbial nut. As we were a big club but not a successful one where players were likely to win any trophies in the short term they want a massive premium to come here. A few bad buys - which happens to all clubs and we were screwed. Crazy as it sounds had we been a smaller club starting from a worse base line it would have been simpler to build a team for less money.
The real kick in the teeth is had there not been any legislation rules that prevented us from spending we could have taken the James/Digne team and kicked on again. We were prevented from doing this by the arbitrary PL rules. Chelsea were able to spend what they wanted going from the late 90's side that was decent into the champions of the mid 00's, City likewise later on. If Evertonians want to get angry they should direct it to the people that came up with those rules that protect the cartel of top clubs and hit hardest on the ones with the smallest incomes - in other words, us. All Moshiri is guilty of is trying to be ambitious and get there as quickly as possible.
The esk went on the radio and pointed out why we haven't increased our commercial revenue since Moshiri has been here. It was never going to happen! Who's going to sponsor say Finch Farm apart from a related company like USM for the money that would make any difference to the balance sheet? Utd and alike get literally hundreds of millions a year based on their wide reaching fanbase, big games they play in and silverware that bring kudos to any brand. Without success we cannot self generate the income that provides success, it's chicken and egg stuff. You saw when we had Carlo we suddenly picked up a load of Italian companies and the same with Rodriguez with the Colombian ones, but again these are not going to be 'difference' makers.
The stadium might be, but it's not a thing that gets delivered in a couple of years so it couldn't help during this period when we could have needed it most.
The relationships are broken now so Moshiri will probably need to go in the not too distant future, we just got to hope that the stadium is enough to pull in someone with links to be able to pump the kind of money in via sponsorship to get around the PL rules. Without that no matter who is in charge with those rules in place it is almost impossible to be successful.
