I think he'd care if we were relegated.
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
A bean counter given a few quid by a gangster and completely incapable of understanding anything beyond accountancy.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
That's all he cares about with regard Everton, and only then because it undermines a stadium development which he and his gangster boss want to exploit.
If he could, he'd sign up to 17th place finishes for the next 3 seasons in order to protect that.
He can't sign up for future events, so it's in his interest to do all he can with his money to help Everton compete at the top. You are saying that he has no interest in the football side of his investment and you can't have one without the other.
The poll is a strange one in that you can answer it either way depending on your perspective.
For example, I'm pleased with the money spent, but deeply disappointed with how it's been spent. I'm pleased with how he seems genuine in his approach to the club, but disappointed about how much he clearly has zero clue about football yet still insists on shaping how the club works.
Rich doesn't equate to smart unfortunately. If he was wise, he'd have spent money bringing in experts to run his asset. He didn't, because he preferred to be mates with Jim White and talk about James McCarthy being family.
Anyway, I vote disappointed. Ultimately we got a richer Kenwright, and I'm honestly still waiting for Bramley Moore to somehow go wrong.
For example, I'm pleased with the money spent, but deeply disappointed with how it's been spent. I'm pleased with how he seems genuine in his approach to the club, but disappointed about how much he clearly has zero clue about football yet still insists on shaping how the club works.
Rich doesn't equate to smart unfortunately. If he was wise, he'd have spent money bringing in experts to run his asset. He didn't, because he preferred to be mates with Jim White and talk about James McCarthy being family.
Anyway, I vote disappointed. Ultimately we got a richer Kenwright, and I'm honestly still waiting for Bramley Moore to somehow go wrong.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's washed his hands of that now.
We all know what's happening from now until that stadium is built: minimal spending and ensuring we just stay in the PL.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
Genuinely makes me sad to this day.
Back before Koeman and then Silva were appointed we had names like Emery, Fonseca & Tuchel linked. How different things could have been...
BMD is, what, three years away? He doesn't have total control over where this club is going to be then, in fact he has very little, but
the very minimum is that he keeps us in the Prem', and that will mean spending a lot of money.
What else does he have to offer?
JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
Well we will struggle to fill Goodison by the end of this season the way its going never mind BMD in 3 years.
smileychap
Player Valuation: £10m
Let's say you're right on points 3 & 4, can you give examples? Trusting Unsy, Sam and Big Dunc doesn't seem like glamour, they were all near fits at the right time, who mostly sat-in with good or better results than Martinez, Koeman, Silva etc - guys most would've trusted at the time (and have since, apart from Silva - albeit bought one of our better players in Rico). Just wanna make it clear I hated Silva joining btw.
I have always wanted either Moyes back or similar British manager to retain the character we played with then. If you agree with that as footballing common sense who for you would have been the options? For example, I really regret not grabbing Howe, Potter, Dyche or even Smith for example.
Do you think there are other issues?
For example, the other thing that bothers me is, the internal infratructure of our Club. Big Dunc ( who I love ) a constant figure, along with a few others yet these guys never kop any flack, manager's come and go - yet where the hell is any decent youth coming through? What are these guys doing and is our coaching and scouting and U23 working? Is Mosh responsible for all that?
In this respect I wonder where we might otherwise have been in the post Moyes era and at least Mosh's money has brought in Rico, Keane, Pickford et al.
But he's trusted and backed his managers and for me they are the clowns alongide mercenaries like Sigurrdson. Ancollotti's James, Allan and co haven't really shone for me, but who'd have turned away Ancelotti?
The points re: AGM and FFP I'm not knowledgable enough to comment. If true, then you're right that's poor. And I suppose if you're point is Mosh ultimately wears the success of the manager's he appoints then he could go.
I just feel the stadium thing is being overlooked - we might have to 'Arsenal it' for a few years and I feel angry at the complacency that's come with our high profile managers, but it's better than yo-yoing around as Norwich, Saints, WBA, Stoke, Newcastle, West Ham (got Moyes, now sorted) have done. We're not spending near the likes of Chelsea, Man C, Utd, RS, Spurs, Arsenal and now will fall behind Newcastle so a mid-table berth is ******** heart breaking, but with a stadium cements us top half where I reckon Rafael will have us end of season.
And that - with a Stadium - is a platform on which to build.
RIght now we need identity and grit on the pitch and I do think Rafael is doing the right things brining in British players like Gray and Townsend and giving Gordon a run. 2-3 years of that, will see a bit more organisation and fight I hope, with BMD...
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Does he actually have a long term plan? He tried to spend his way to the top and failed magnificently, i'm seriously worried that the board haven't learnt from their mistakes and things are just going to get worse in the coming years.
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