He did not fail as owner, that's just a ridiculous thing to say, if he failed what's Moshiri doing?
Interesting you say two pitches, do you mean by the first the time Peter Johnson bought the club, he wanted it then, unfortunately some, including Grantchester backed PJ over him, had he gained control of the club then he wouldn’t of needed to spend the early years of his ownership stabilising the club after Hamperman started to let it rot.
However he did, and gave Farhad a well run, stable Premier League club, the club we have today is a shadow of the club Farhad picked up.
For you to say
That's an idiotic thing to say, ask anyone who was around at the time, we were desperate to get shut of Johnson, and nobody was remotely interested in buying us, in saving us, in giving us a future..... apart from Bill.
The Moores family began our decline by not selling sooner when they realised they could no longer give the club sufficient financial support.
Johnson would have been the right man a few years earlier before the club had been damaged by underfunding.
He sold the club when he eventually realised he did not have the financial ability to fix the club, unlike his successor.
He also installed our last successful manager and thereby delivered our last major trophy.
Johnson was a qualified success when set against Kenwrights tenure.
In truth Kenwright’s bid was entirely reliant on the financial clout of the Greggs , and it is understandable when asked to fund the Kings Dock that they wanted control of the club. Kenwright should have ceded control of the club at that point or,once he had forced the Greggs’out , should have sold the club since he no longer had the funds to maintain or restore Everton to the top table we had previously occupied.
It is important to understand this is Everton football club we our talking about , an historically successful club who were routinely included in the so called ‘big five’ who together wielded the power to form the PL. We weren’t someone like Coventry whose main achievement was merely to survive in the top league (until their luck ran out).
Yet under Kenwright and Moyes we entered of period of benign neglect which saw us occupy the place of teams like Coventry where mere survival was deemed some form of success.
That was not the Everton that Kenwright took control off, that was not what he was expected to deliver when assumed control of the club.
If anyone took control of any business and delivered no meaningful success and only diminished its status, they would be deemed a failure.
Kenwright is a failure.
His motives are unimportant he failed to maintain Everton as a top cub , that is his legacy.
And we are now approaching the culmination of our prolonged decline.
Like Coventry , our luck has run out.