What can be argued without question now I think is that the Moshiri revolution is quite modest in terms of transfer spending power and is, alone, not going to catapult us into the Top 4 and beyond.
I do struggle to comprehend how, if Koeman's views regarding a striker were accepted internally, that the whole club couldn't arrange if not a like-for-like RL replacement having had more than all summer to do so, with this being so pivotal to our season. Strange how the good work previously is now very much endangered by that failure. You indeed have to speculate to accumulate, and this seems like a failure of planning and execution to me. I do not hold RK/SW blameless in that either, far from it, but as far as Moshiri goes, whilst the investment in transfers was quite decent, unfortunately it seems to have fallen short.
We have seen successive summer transfers windows now marked by the first which was quite widely accepted as very disappointing, and the second, a marked improvement, but still leaving us critically short. It does seem fair to suggest that the club either wanted more outgoings to offset money already spent, or to fund the additional signings so badly required.
It's Bramley Moore that will be the defining of the Moshiri era. Get that right, and he will be lauded for generations to come amongst Evertonians. I'm willing to take some pain in years to come if money has to be withheld from transfers to help finance that.
Other than that, things have changed for the better, but certainly not to the extent that we are doing cartwheels with excitement. We are so far behind the Top 6 that this summer, and next, we need just a bit more that what we have got. That's what Moshiri signed up for and that's what he inherited.
I think his intentions towards us are good and honest in the main, but he is not a saviour in the mould that some expect, that is plain.
We can still get there - with the new stadium, with shrewdness in the transfer market and continuing investment in youth and U-23, and with badly needed new management and board members. I really hope the latter comes to pass with PP is hopefully granted for BMD. Whilst I don't think that will herald positive change of itself, as I see it, Moshiri has been quite badly hindered by mot being able to make Everton as a business "his own" and appoint his own people to key roles - people you would expect would come in with a better commercial and business acumen than some of the current staff.
It's work in progress, and slow but steady so far. It isn't even that my confidence in Moshiri has taken a knock over that last week, it's been more the realisation that this is it for us - at least until the stadium is built - there isn't going to be a silver bullet solving our problems - Moshiri doesn't have the resources personally and I don't expect a sugar daddy.
I do worry that we will suffer for our inactivity last week and not getting a striker in - but the reasons for that are multi-faceted and its unfair to blame Moshiri alone.
