To manage, or not to manage, that is the question.

There's some hindsight in there regarding Walsh and Koeman who were both highly rated at that point in time.

It is from that point onwards that things started going South.

Koeman and/or Walsh conspired to mess up recruitment.

Koeman was let go and we couldn't get the replacement that we wanted (e.g. Silva and others tied up by their clubs at that point), so gave Allardyce what he wanted in a panic as Unsworth was struggling.

Unless Moshiri was the reason that we couldn't recruit the appropriate players or manager that we needed (e.g. due to funds) then I don't think he has done a lot 'wrong' but has been let down by others or circumstance.

So, I'm fairly sure that it was Moshiri's idea to have a DoF, but as to the selection of Walsh in particular, it's not clear.

As far as Allardyce is concerned, I believe that was a Moshiri choice, with a strong recommendation from Walsh, and after reading the autobiography 'Big Sam' (let's hope that he doesn't read Triffic! by Tony Pulis).

However, I could be wrong, because things are not always what they seem to be at Everton.

I really hope I'm wrong, and that someone can tell me about a single instance when our board actually inserted money into the club, before Moshiri came aboard?

1995.

If Royle hadn't been brought in then and we'd waited a couple more matches, we would have gone down.

I reckon they got as far as deep November and blinked.

1. Moshiri should have kicked out the guy who persuaded him to come and invest in Everton??? The guy who sold him the idea???

2. Moshiri shouldn't have recruited Walsh, who at the time was top dog in the Director of Football table after Leicester had just won the Premier League with players like Mahrez, Kante and Vardy???

Next, you'll be telling us that Moshiri should have recruited Tony Marsh, so he could sign up a team of Dylan Hartleys.

The key point here is that decisions are made with the information available at the time. Recruiting Walsh was a good decision. It hasn't worked out as well as we expected, but it was still a good decision.

To some fans, it is a big deal that these Directors "don't put any money into the club" – only to profit massively when the next owners buy in.

It's this strange business of shareholding, where the appreciation in value of the club over time is gifted to the shareholders who sell on. But keep in mind the initial investment they made "in the club" was actually to buy shares in the club off someone else, and thus give him a massive return on his initial investment. And so the wheel turns...

And there is always risk. The money invested is at risk. And it cannot be used for anything. If (god forbid) the bottom did drop out, the Premier League bubble did burst (as predicted by a few for so long on here), then they would lose massively (as would we all as mere fans).

You can, I feel sure, be very confident that Moshiri knew exactly what model of investment he was buying into. Hell, he'd just done it with his Arsenal shares!

All the while, the nominal value of each and every one of the 35,000 shares in Everton Football Club Co Ltd is just a paltry ٟ.

John Scully realised at the time Steve Jobs had served his purpose and sacked him, I think in April 1984 – some time around then, not important.

John Scully's autobiography is probably out of print now but it would be a good idea if Moshiri found a copy and read it. The story will point him in the right direction.

I don´t know who appointed Koeman, Walsh or Allardyce, but when Koeman was signed most Evertonians were pleased, as he was (at the time) one of the most respected managers in the Premier League, with Southampton playing to get in the Europa League.

The same can be pointed out to Walsh, a director of football who had just won the premier league... at Leicester... I repeat, yeahh... Leicester, and apparently finding precious gems like Mahrez or Vardy.

As for Unsworth I have to say it made some sense, a man made in Everton, who knew all the homegrown players and close to the first team staff, with knowledge of the 1st team players, and I have a feeling that in the right circumstances it could have worked.

Even Allardyce, an experienced manager who saved teams from relegation year in.. year out.. and guess what: we got to relative safety very quickly as soon as he arrived.

so I would argue that on paper Moshiri has done all the right decisions, but football isn't rational, knows no logic and has no plan...

ps: As for Allardyce contract length, who's to say that we aren't just looking to keep Premier League status until the new stadium is built?

Similarly I now have cause to wonder just what part Koeman played in recruiting so many good or very good players to Southampton, because very few of the signings made for us under either of them have come close to good value in my opinion. Maybe Les Reed would have been the best man for us because neither Koeman, nor Lee at the present moment have brought us some of the success they achieved in tandem at Southampton.

That's what underpins my concern. Moshiri may have felt comfortable entrusting things to others identified to him as "top blokes" but boy have we and he had a rude awakening. I just think he, Moshiri, needs to get the set-up beyond Finch Farm sorted out before we can have hope of progressing in the manner he states he wants to see at Finch Farm and Goodison/Bramley Moore.

Nzonzi the best player on the pitch tonight yet there were those when we were tenuously linked with him saying they didn't want a Stoke reject...

Now I'm convinced of Koeman's inability to manage and communicate effectively, but I'm also convinced there's more to last summer's nonsense than that alone. Whatever went on there is the thing that needs sorting, regardless of who is the next manager.

Moshiri then thought if he waved his cheque book, Watford would let Silva come here. Again, Silva was the latest up and coming manager (see the pattern?). When that went belly up, Moshiri panicked and brought in "Sam'll fix it" to 'keep us up'.

That mission is now accomplished, but the important thing right now is for Moshiri to decide what he wants the club to be; moneyed project aiming to crack the top four, or a richer version of lovely, homely, comfortably non-achieving Everton. Then he needs to work out what the Director of Football is actually meant to do and let us know what constitutes that role's success. Then, depending on what he wants the club to be, he needs to find the manager that has us progressing, or have the continuity of Allardyce, who will have us treading water at 6th, 7th, 8th. We won't like that, but it'll keep Moshiri's investment safe till the new stadium.

Oh, and I'd love to rarely, if ever, hear Moshiri's voice again. How about appointing someone who can put our story out to the media in an organised, controlled, proactive way rather than the dreadful mix of silence, poor timing and incoherent, irrational statements from Moshiri himself?