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http://www.teamtalk.com/everton/7441698/Moyes-Everton-have-the-chance-to-be-mint
TEAMtalk guest Michael Graham believes Everton need to stop feeling sorry for themselves and appreciate what they have got going for them.
Modern football doctrine seems to insist that we are all supposed to be terribly impressed with Everton and, in particular, David Moyes.
In fairness, the Toffees are a fine football club with tremendous traditions, and have been a worthy staple of the Premier League since its inception all those years ago. I'm more than happy to concede that.
What I do question, however, is why every single thing that Everton do seems to be accompanied by a plethora of concessionary caveats that are seemingly exclusive to them. Apparently, where Everton are concerned, the lack of a mega-rich benefactor makes any achievement a remarkable one.
The false assumption upon which this fallacy is based is that the lack of a generous investor somehow disadvantages Everton and renders them completely lacking in resources.
That is, of course, total nonsense. When you are talking about Everton, you are talking about a football club with a solid and largely consistent supporter base, a thriving and productive academy, and an annual turnover of £82m. Lacking in resources? Hardly.
There is one reason and one reason alone why Everton are unable to spend in the transfer market - they choose to spend the money elsewhere.
Their annual £58m wage bill may, at first glance, seem reasonable enough. Certainly, at 67% of turnover it falls just below average across the Premier League.
However, when considered that the figure is spread across a wafer-thin squad (they named a league-low 18 senior players in their squad back in September), a picture of a club who are perhaps a little to desperate to cling onto their established players starts to emerge.
Players such as Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Marouane Fellaini, and especially academy duo Jack Rodwell and Ross Barkley will certainly not be short of high-profile admirers should they decide to look elsewhere, so if Everton are serious about keeping them they obviously have to pay the going rate. But would selling them really be a disaster?
"We don't dare sell Baines, Jagielka, Fellaini and Tim Howard", the club told fan-group The Blue Union in August. You get the feeling that at Goodison Park they equate being a selling club with being a weak club, or a small club.
For a number of years now, what Everton have effectively done is lock themselves into a holding pattern of keeping the club, top players and all, self-sustainable whilst they wait for a fresh investor to come along and bankroll their ambition.
In a statement released with the latest set of club accounts, chairman Bill Kenwright laid his cards very much on the table by asserting "hopefully the day will come soon when I will happily hand over control of our beloved club to a substantially wealthy individual or well-funded investment group".
But even if such an individual can be found he would be no more able to effect long-term change than Kenwright himself is.
The onset of Financial Fair Play means clubs are essentially restricted to only spending the money they generate, which is precisely the situation Everton are in now.
Beyond a relatively small and one-off injection of cash, there is little a wealthy investor can now influence. That ship has sailed. What is needed is a change of policy.
A little up the league table trying to hang on to the coat tails of the top clubs - the spot that Everton themselves have grown accustomed to occupying - Newcastle United are leading the way and showing the chasing pack how to bridge the gap in the Financial Fair Play era.
They too pride themselves on being a big and ambitious club but they have realised the future lies, short-term at least, in being star-makers rather than star-takers, and the club is flourishing as a result.
Established names such as Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan have been rather ruthlessly shipped out to make room for an exciting new group of cleverly scouted young players who are hungry to build a legacy in the game. Yohan Cabaye, Demba Ba, Davide Santon, Chieke Tiote, Hatem Ben Arfa, and now Papiss Demba Cisse have all been assembled for less than the price of Andy Carroll. Don't tell anyone at St James' Park that a selling club is a weak club.
Everton are blessed with almost everything that Newcastle have. A fine global reputation, a solid and dependable fanbase, and a thriving academy. What they are lacking, however, is the vision.
If they dared, just for a moment, to stop dreamily staring at the horizon hoping for a gallant white knight with a cheque-book who is almost certain never going to arrive and have a good look around them, they would surely realise that they are perfectly capable of helping themselves - if they wanted to.
It really is time that Everton as a whole club, Moyes included, started to wake up, stop feeling sorry for themselves, and appreciate what they have going for them, because the 'poor us' line is starting to wear very thin indeed."
Bit of a dodgy article but I agree that Moyes isnt doing his job in the buy & sell market.
TEAMtalk guest Michael Graham believes Everton need to stop feeling sorry for themselves and appreciate what they have got going for them.
Modern football doctrine seems to insist that we are all supposed to be terribly impressed with Everton and, in particular, David Moyes.
In fairness, the Toffees are a fine football club with tremendous traditions, and have been a worthy staple of the Premier League since its inception all those years ago. I'm more than happy to concede that.
What I do question, however, is why every single thing that Everton do seems to be accompanied by a plethora of concessionary caveats that are seemingly exclusive to them. Apparently, where Everton are concerned, the lack of a mega-rich benefactor makes any achievement a remarkable one.
The false assumption upon which this fallacy is based is that the lack of a generous investor somehow disadvantages Everton and renders them completely lacking in resources.
That is, of course, total nonsense. When you are talking about Everton, you are talking about a football club with a solid and largely consistent supporter base, a thriving and productive academy, and an annual turnover of £82m. Lacking in resources? Hardly.
There is one reason and one reason alone why Everton are unable to spend in the transfer market - they choose to spend the money elsewhere.
Their annual £58m wage bill may, at first glance, seem reasonable enough. Certainly, at 67% of turnover it falls just below average across the Premier League.
However, when considered that the figure is spread across a wafer-thin squad (they named a league-low 18 senior players in their squad back in September), a picture of a club who are perhaps a little to desperate to cling onto their established players starts to emerge.
Players such as Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Marouane Fellaini, and especially academy duo Jack Rodwell and Ross Barkley will certainly not be short of high-profile admirers should they decide to look elsewhere, so if Everton are serious about keeping them they obviously have to pay the going rate. But would selling them really be a disaster?
"We don't dare sell Baines, Jagielka, Fellaini and Tim Howard", the club told fan-group The Blue Union in August. You get the feeling that at Goodison Park they equate being a selling club with being a weak club, or a small club.
For a number of years now, what Everton have effectively done is lock themselves into a holding pattern of keeping the club, top players and all, self-sustainable whilst they wait for a fresh investor to come along and bankroll their ambition.
In a statement released with the latest set of club accounts, chairman Bill Kenwright laid his cards very much on the table by asserting "hopefully the day will come soon when I will happily hand over control of our beloved club to a substantially wealthy individual or well-funded investment group".
But even if such an individual can be found he would be no more able to effect long-term change than Kenwright himself is.
The onset of Financial Fair Play means clubs are essentially restricted to only spending the money they generate, which is precisely the situation Everton are in now.
Beyond a relatively small and one-off injection of cash, there is little a wealthy investor can now influence. That ship has sailed. What is needed is a change of policy.
A little up the league table trying to hang on to the coat tails of the top clubs - the spot that Everton themselves have grown accustomed to occupying - Newcastle United are leading the way and showing the chasing pack how to bridge the gap in the Financial Fair Play era.
They too pride themselves on being a big and ambitious club but they have realised the future lies, short-term at least, in being star-makers rather than star-takers, and the club is flourishing as a result.
Established names such as Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan have been rather ruthlessly shipped out to make room for an exciting new group of cleverly scouted young players who are hungry to build a legacy in the game. Yohan Cabaye, Demba Ba, Davide Santon, Chieke Tiote, Hatem Ben Arfa, and now Papiss Demba Cisse have all been assembled for less than the price of Andy Carroll. Don't tell anyone at St James' Park that a selling club is a weak club.
Everton are blessed with almost everything that Newcastle have. A fine global reputation, a solid and dependable fanbase, and a thriving academy. What they are lacking, however, is the vision.
If they dared, just for a moment, to stop dreamily staring at the horizon hoping for a gallant white knight with a cheque-book who is almost certain never going to arrive and have a good look around them, they would surely realise that they are perfectly capable of helping themselves - if they wanted to.
It really is time that Everton as a whole club, Moyes included, started to wake up, stop feeling sorry for themselves, and appreciate what they have going for them, because the 'poor us' line is starting to wear very thin indeed."
Bit of a dodgy article but I agree that Moyes isnt doing his job in the buy & sell market.
