By which yardstick do you rate him incompetent? I assume you are a businessman yourself and know about such matters to make that sort of criticism. We can have an opinion on any player based on what we can see and we can argue about it. But I would guess you are like me in that you do not have a flying clue about how a club like EFC is run and what happens in the boardroom. Opinions, have them yes, but base them on what you know rather than on nothing at all.
I don't dislike the man but when we judge him on club success it doesn't make for good reading. I'd attribute our stabalisation to
Moyes, Kenwright gets credit for it but he never gave
Moyes a lot of money and frequently sold our best players over the years so how can anyone rightfully say Bill saved us. He got lucky that Moyes was able to do the job he done on a shoestring budget.
Look at our terrible sponsorship deals over the years. How many failed stadium moves? How many trophies? We've been in more relegation scraps than champions league posistions in 20 odd years. He never had the know how or investment to take us forward, he hired his incompetent and dodgy buddies and wouldn't relinquish the trainset. It's well known he turned down Man City's owners before they bought City because they weren't prepared to let him remain involved. He sold off all of our assets even the Goodison carpark.
When Moyes left I think he realised that the damage done over the years was going to take us down, the cracks were starting to show and that's why I think he eventually brought an investor in as his ego won't allow him to be the man that brought us down and what we are seeing now is the teething problems for a new owner on the back of 20 plus years of mismanagement coming back to bite us in the arse. Doesnt help that the old guard are still bumbling around either. Luckily Moshiri has the money to get us through it and luckily Bill will be on his way.