When Did The Rot Set In?

[Mathieubleucoyb]

Koeman

 

[badger5187]

Definitely Koeman but Benitez and Lampard have destroyed us

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record. This whole thing really does go back to Kenwright. We were still Everton Football Club until 1999 when he became chairman. Yes we'd had some really rough times before that but nobody ever tried to pretend that it was good and/or acceptable. Kenwright used that time to create an environment where standards became practically non-existent. Where mediocrity wasn't just the norm but became something to celebrate. We would've been in this position years ago if the narcissist hadn't lucked out by following the advice of Walter Smith to make literally the only good call he ever made to get Moyes in. He was perfect for Kenwright, a steady-eddy that knew how to punch ever so slightly above his weight and be just a bit better then mediocre but nothing else. Its the one good thing Kenwright has done at the club and even then it was all about his goals and nothing to do with the club. He's never had the clubs best interests at heart and what we're seeing now is the culmination of his association with it. He's a cancer. A total cancer.

 

[Cool_Blue]

That terrible summer window under Koeman.

Was that the summer of Keane, Klassen etc? And to think City signed Gundogan for just £20m about the same time

 

[Roachey11]

Initial rot - Koeman. This season's rot - re-signing Gueye

 

[Encoder]

Moshiri:

- Happily kept Kenwright on as a convenient source of critisism deflection.
- Little to no communication, and lies through his teeth whenever he does such as in that weird Jazz Bal interview.
- Has crippled the club due to financial mismanagement, now facing punshment.
- Involved the club with shady individuals such as Alisher Usmanov, who also meddled in our managerial appointments such as Benitez.
- Listens to advice from Kia Joorabchian and buys players without Managerial/DoF consent on huge contracts.
- Has oversaw the development of a championship level squad with nothing in common with the values of everton.
- Signed Alexander Iwobi because Arsenal.

But most importantly, he has oversaw the degredation of any connection between fans of the club and the club itself. Speak to any evertonian and they will all agree that we are a shadow of our former selves even from the Moyes team. He has allowed the Board to castigate the fans and the rift between them and us has never been greater.

Forget the stadium, THIS man is the biggest problem with Everton FC now.

 

[Rob17896]

Yes... but Kenwright was on the board too.

Correct, but he was not leading it nor the club owner. He is just the worst in a line of disasters. Having said that, as Moshiri has been overruling Directors of Football then what hope is there for anyone? Both Kenwright and Moshiri can't keep their nose out of footballing matters and they have created this shambles

 

[Blue peter]

Was it not Carter who was chairman when PL was formed?

Yes it was

 

[Ferguson1878]

The Lineker sale annoys me to this day. I would've kept him but he was sold for nowhere near his true value to one of the richest clubs in the world after scoring 40 for us then going on to be leading scorer in the '86 World Cup.

We got a lot less than the RS got for Ian Rush who couldn't even get near a World Cup let alone be leading scorer in one and got comfortably outscored by Lineker the previous season.

We didn't even make much of a profit on him either as we had to pay Leicester a third of the fee due to a sell-on

At the risk of sounding like a broken record. This whole thing really does go back to Kenwright. We were still Everton Football Club until 1999 when he became chairman. Yes we'd had some really rough times before that but nobody ever tried to pretend that it was good and/or acceptable. Kenwright used that time to create an environment where standards became practically non-existent. Where mediocrity wasn't just the norm but became something to celebrate. We would've been in this position years ago if the narcissist hadn't lucked out by following the advice of Walter Smith to make literally the only good call he ever made to get Moyes in. He was perfect for Kenwright, a steady-eddy that knew how to punch ever so slightly above his weight and be just a bit better then mediocre but nothing else. Its the one good thing Kenwright has done at the club and even then it was all about his goals and nothing to do with the club. He's never had the clubs best interests at heart and what we're seeing now is the culmination of his association with it. He's a cancer. A total cancer.

we went from a big club struglling to a small club punching above our weight he used he mates in the local and national papers to push that rubbish

 

[vintage-toffees]

The rot really set in the day moyes left
At that point we were stagnant and treading water and had been brainwashed to accept that as being acceptable it should have been then the club reset

Then the day we as a mostly collective fanbase started asking the questions and finger pointing publicly at the board is the day the club in this guise died

A top to bottom reset is called for from a fanbase to its owner to its its self serving directors to its alleged professional players on the pitch

We have all failed the club fans to a massively lesser extent but the fracture in the fanbase over that last 10 years has allowed the kenwrongs to do more damage we should have hounded him out a long long time ago

Players custodians come and go but the fans are the bricks and mortar here for ever

Never again should we accept or allow what has happened over the last decade to happen again

Relegation is disastrous not getting promotion will be catastrophic

 

[StreetEndBlue]

The rot set in with me as I bought my first season ticket in the summer of '95, have had one ever since, and we've won the square root of F all in that 28 year period.

I'm clearly a jinx!

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Was it not Carter who was chairman when PL was formed?

It wasn't as Carter stepped down as Chairman in the summer of 1991 and the Premier League formed the following year.

 

[Ferguson1878]

when we were constanly spending next to nothing in transfer windows instead of asking why or where is the money the echo where spinning it “ cutting our cloth accordingly “ we where let down badly by our local paper and if relagation does cause redundancies then i hope prentice is first on the list

 

[efcforever]

Was that the summer of Keane, Klassen etc? And to think City signed Gundogan for just £20m about the same time

Yep Sigurdsson for around £45 million was disastrous, we should have walked away at that price

Sandro signed to a reported 100k pw contact.

Then BFS bringing in Tosun and Walcott.

 

[Ferguson1878]

sandro laa forgot about him hahaha one of the worst players iv ever seen him