brieverton
Player Valuation: £40m
Moshiri should not have agreed to the interview at all. He/Everton do not owe Jim White an explanation for anything.
I thought it was unedifying. None of our supposed peers engage in this sort of thing. A majority shareholder should not have to come on TV, or give any explanation at all, for failings of his CEO/Chairman/Board/Director of Football/Manager, as you see fit to apportion.
There are far more appropriate channels to communicate with, and engage with fans. The wider football community / SSN viewers are of no relevance here.
It raises questions as to the dynamic between Moshiri and Kenwright & Co. In one sense, I applaud that he was ballsy enough to go on air but it seems naive in the extreme that a person of his calibre and nous would continuously agree to give interviews in this manner, to a tabloid hack like Jim White.
It seems there is a direct line of communication between Moshiri and White. Surely the clubs media liaison would see it as appropriate to counsel him to avoid this kind of unnecessary exposure? Do Kenwright and Co. enjoy seeing him go on TV completely unnecessarily like this? Why can't someone in management step up and do their job?
On a final note, I have seen some sneering (not so much here ) of Moshiri's accent and ability to express himself in English. Firstly, it was Live TV and secondly, I wonder how many people could express themselves equally well in Farsi? The man was giving an unwarranted live interview to a hack in what is NOT his native tongue. Even with excellent English, for goodness sake he is entitled to stutter and need time to think. I have worked with several Iranians and Moshiri's English "accent" is very typical of how they speak. I thought that criticism of him was very harsh in some quarters.
The club should know better than to expose him, or let him be exposed, in this situation.
I thought it was unedifying. None of our supposed peers engage in this sort of thing. A majority shareholder should not have to come on TV, or give any explanation at all, for failings of his CEO/Chairman/Board/Director of Football/Manager, as you see fit to apportion.
There are far more appropriate channels to communicate with, and engage with fans. The wider football community / SSN viewers are of no relevance here.
It raises questions as to the dynamic between Moshiri and Kenwright & Co. In one sense, I applaud that he was ballsy enough to go on air but it seems naive in the extreme that a person of his calibre and nous would continuously agree to give interviews in this manner, to a tabloid hack like Jim White.
It seems there is a direct line of communication between Moshiri and White. Surely the clubs media liaison would see it as appropriate to counsel him to avoid this kind of unnecessary exposure? Do Kenwright and Co. enjoy seeing him go on TV completely unnecessarily like this? Why can't someone in management step up and do their job?
On a final note, I have seen some sneering (not so much here ) of Moshiri's accent and ability to express himself in English. Firstly, it was Live TV and secondly, I wonder how many people could express themselves equally well in Farsi? The man was giving an unwarranted live interview to a hack in what is NOT his native tongue. Even with excellent English, for goodness sake he is entitled to stutter and need time to think. I have worked with several Iranians and Moshiri's English "accent" is very typical of how they speak. I thought that criticism of him was very harsh in some quarters.
The club should know better than to expose him, or let him be exposed, in this situation.
