Money for Nothing

But yes, being a top flight footballer now is akin to winning the lottery. They can fail week after week, go home to their mansions or hook up with their mates playing in the opposition's team, while we go home and fret.

It's all okay, though. We are the People's Club, so the playing side of things can go hang as long as we don't lose sight of the club's "soul".

Some worrying quotes have recently drifted out of Merseyside and into the public domain.

Joe Anderson: "I speak to the Everton hierarchy every day and words fail me."

Kenwright: "It's great to have a benefactor that always says yes".

Fat Sam: "Worried about relegation, yes, at this moment, I'm very worried."

Moshiri: "I decided to hire Sam after reading his Biography."

Fat Sam: "I don't have that much to do with the transfers. That's done by the chairman (Kenwright) and the Director of Football (Walsh)."

It seems to me Kenwright is enjoying someone else's money and taking more control of his trainset, even getting too involved in player recruitment. The sooner him, Elstone and Woods piss off and Moshiri grows some bollox and says "That's enough", the better – otherwise, it won't just be that master tactician Allardyce that's worried about relegation!

I'd make any of our players available in the Summer and start again but what would we realistically get for them?

Sigurdsson – 㿅M?
Schneiderlin – 㾸M?
Keane – 㾻M?
Klaassen – 㾶M?
Bolasie – 㾶M?
Williams – ٠M?
Vlasic – ٥M?

The list goes on!! Added to the pathetic fees we got for Barkley and Lukaku, it's just like throwing all our money away!

Koeman likewise after a reasonable season of reconstruction seemed to lose interest and go off to play golf when he realised he wasn't getting the centre-forward and left-back we needed.

With the arrival of Rooney and the called off sale of Barkley I can only see one person's hand in that which would be enough to piss any manager off especially if his team selection is being approved by Kenwright every game. Remember Unsy spoke to Kenwright 3 or 4 times a day – Why?

Maybe after the initial "Hail fellow, well met", Sam has also now become frustrated at the "Everton way".

Mayor Anderson's remarks are uniquely unprecedented for a man in such public office but as ever, the EFC board obstinately refuses to come out of their shell to offer any reassurance. Unfettered (over) spending on players worth less than the fees we are paying has completely cost team spirit and the cohesion between various levels of manager, coaches, director of football, and directors seems non-existent.

How can it be so wrong? Add to that the outgoings Lukaku and Barclay at a fraction of their monetary worth and worse still, disregard for the message it sends about the Club to allow such activity and you have a hierarchy that are unfit for purpose in just about any other industry.

He may well be a lovely man and he clearly does love Everton. However, he is not fit to run Everton FC and has presided over our worst ever period at a time when the football business has been booming.

Kenwright simply has to go for our great club to progress.

There will be an impact of spending so much on shite players. Many teams have done it and all of a sudden sink like a stone once the new owner realises that they are wasting their time and money.

Forest, Blackburn, Villa and Leeds are all prime examples. How much longer will Moshiri keep throwing money on the fire before he realises that he is wasting his time and money?

We are in trouble.

To continue the musical connotations here, it's "Unbelievable" as EMF once droned. And Chris Kamara would second without doubt.

There is no new stadium gonna happen, that should have happend 10 years ago. Liverpool will dance off to the European elite league and Everton will have to attract younger generations (in a media/Sky-driven era) to a crumbling Goodison playing It's a Grand Old Team.

Sounds dramatic I know but, after 41 years of supporting, I'm losing interest in it all.

Cheers Bill

Dear Sirs,
If you seriously think I will be rushing to renew my season ticket while that self-aggrandising dinosaur is manager, and we continue to play without a recognised left back, with a headless chicken in front of the back four, a lone striker in a new country left on his own with no service, and to play well is to guarantee not being in the squad the following week, you are very sadly mistaken.

Please pass this on to the hierarchy if you see fit, because fit they definitely are not. There is a groundswell of apathy turning to downright unrest, aimed squarely at messrs Walsh, Allardyce and accompanying crew.

Ignore at your peril.

Great gesture, but a sticking plaster over an axe wound at the moment.

COYB.

Keith Harrison

Therefore, Moshiri has outright control without trying to get my share off me... lol!

This time last year I was feeling quite optimistic w.r.t. Moshiri and perhaps a staged ushering-out of the Kenwright era (which might possibly leave him with something of a legacy of putting the club in the right hands following the protracted '24-7' search, should the club progress).

I found his sacking of Martinez and the appointment of Koeman and Walsh as displaying some ambition, even if only by virtue of his determination to get his preferred men in the door and pay handsomely for it. Although his blurbs through the mouthpiece of Jim White were disconcerting, I felt we had relatively sane majority shareholder with a desire to build a foundation for success.

His comments during last years AGM reinforced my building confidence that perhaps bright times were indeed ahead. To hear the man with a plan utter that our club is not a museum was moving against the grain of what the club perennially rolled out to market everything from season tickets to kits – the past.

To see the Old Lady get an overdue facelift I felt was a nice way to honor her as plans progressed to move us to the water. And then there was the summer. Deals done early. Some unknowns but ambition. Surely there was a blueprint for how it would come together on the turf. And then the end of the window with no striker, no creative midfielder with legs, no left back or seasoned center half to ease Baines and Jagielka.

The Walsh - Koeman axis was showing signs of due diligence lacking in their appointments. Seeds of doubt set, but benefit of the doubt given.

The sacking of Koeman had to come but to do so without a plan in place reeked of amateurism as did the Sam appointment on second fly-by. Hindsight might suggest a Silva appointment might have exposed his lack of football nous and apparent lack of counsel on such important appointments.

Of course my fragile seedling of faith in Moshiri's acumen has always been nurtured by hope, soundbites, desperation for change pure subjectivity and bias. It doesn't take a wrecking ball to dismantle delicate delusion and I have to say the comments at this year's AGM relating to Barkley's agent going AWOL and Lukaku's voodoo adviser were enough to further fracture the foundation. I'm no longer convinced of his sanity.

I'm back to ambivalence and my mental museum of 'Champions, Champions, Champions' bellowing from the Street end in '87 while we drubbed West Ham 4-0 the day I popped my Goodison cherry.

It's business as usual for Everton in the Premier League era, it seems.

Someone who will sit on a three-seater, sandwiched between Farhad and Bill, and feel no shame at shedding a tear during A Field of Dreams?

Is our defence strong enough for a relegation battle, will we get the urgent reinforcements. Jonjoe and Mason are young and inexperienced and are struggling for consistency. We haven't got a left back.

On top of this, any more of the absolute dross served up against Spurs and West Brom and fans will turn against Sam. We will the stutter and stumble to 40 points.

Any more of that and he won't stand a chance of lasting beyond the end of May. Would the board and the fans accept another season of it?

I hope Farhad is clinical and decisive about it. Failure to act will see a repeat of this season.

At the moment, for me, Allardyce is failing his audition. I want to see a dramatic upturn against Leicester and a coherent battling display against Arsenal for starters.

"All we doin' is defendin'"

We don't "fite dem back"

"It's noh funny"

I cannot think of any of our players who 'played' in the last two games (excluding new buys) who would go to another team and add value – how depressing is that.

The two cherries in Lukaku and Barkley have gone but the cake below is very stale. It was even worse last night seeing how a bottom-of-the-table Swansea had enough belief, nous and grit to feel they could beat the RS – shameful.

I would rather we go down fighting with Davies, Baningime and Walcott than the Bermuda Triangle of Schneiderlin, Gaye & Rooney.

What money that Silva had been now given the nod to sit tight to the summer and Allardyce will be ditched and Marco will be in the chair either in or out of the Premier League. The payoff will match what we offered Watford anyway.

Also a hit in 1985

How many players are for sale, I don't know, but we know Allardyce has said the squad is too big. I expect Allardyce would accept decent bids for most of our squad, wouldn't you?

Players who could be upgraded would be Williams, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Bolasie, Martina, Rooney, Besic, Baines & Jags (sadly) – apologies if I have missed any.

Allardyce may not be everyone's cup of tea but the man is no fool and I'm sure most of my list would be shipped out if we had a bid (and a replacement).

Are they publically for sale? If they were the price would slide further, as you know that's foolish business. Doesn't mean they are not for sale though.

We are not some country bumpkin club. Everton supporters are not fucking stupid and, I do foresee a very, very heavy backlash.

With me being only 7 in 1985, the above passed me by without realising just how good it would have been to be 15 years older back then.

On Judgement Day with the Man Upstairs, my one request would be to go back to early 1984 and relive the next 18 months and savour it all in. Winning the FA Cup, beating them in the Charity Shield, then storming the league with a record points tally, getting to the FA Cup final and winning the European Cup Winners Cup, seeing all that in its glory whilst from February 1985 onwards turning on a radio and hearing my two favourite songs of all time constantly being played, 2 belting anthems from that time, Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" and Tears for Fears' all time classic "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" – but should that have been "Everton Wants to Rule The World"? I've seen some of the games, that 1985 team was a truly great team.

As for Dire Straits, liked their work, "Brothers In Arms" was awe inspiring and their best in my opinion. Love 80s music and a pity football was ruined by money unlike back in the 80s, the days of a Watford, Luton Town and QPR being in the top 5 are long gone.

To put it in a nutshell, I think we need another Joe Royle from someone to come in this coming summer and re-invigorate the club again. I think it will be Silva but Moshiri must feel like a lottery winner that everyone is trying to take advantage of. Not enjoying football any more myself – it feels like a real chore but I just can't turn off from Everton – it's in the blood and that's where it will stay. Money has ruined my enjoyment of football. But I live in hope, maybe again one day...

Like many posters I too am curious as to what the trio mentioned bring to the table and who appointed them. The board of directors aren't directing us very well!!

Did anyone on the floor ask any questions regarding the terrible state of the football being played?

Ask the football director about us not having a left back available to play?

Or about the recruitment policy?

Were any questions directed to the silent ones?

What were Holgate's allegations?

Rob Dolby's references to those clubs are pertinent. As fans we can see we are sinking lower into the water but it would appear that nobody at Goodison Park is aware or capable of doing anything about it.

I hope that when we are safe we give some of the fringe and under 23 players a chance, you'll never know how you'll perform till you go over the top.

Age.