Everton are caught between gloom and hope — Farhad Moshiri must ‘take a haircut’ and sell

It is noticeable that no other media source followed up the clearly bogus Guardian “exclusive” other than the Echo, which quickly reported denials from club sources.

I wonder which online 'financial expert' inspired this excellent paragraph?

Whatever Moshiri's next move, the apocalyptic visions regularly prophesied since Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov was banned from continuing his investment have not materialised, despite brushes with relegation. Every failed takeover attempt brings more eruptions of fear — only for Everton's Merseyside branch to go on the front foot to reassure us that the wounds are overhyped and temporary.

The various 'stories' that appear in the mainstream media would appear to be leaked to certain journalists, and then once it appears on X etc, the 'story' gains credibility until it becomes obvious that much of it is untrue.

Our former Chairman has taught our current owner some useful tips on how to manipulate the fans and the press. The timings of many of the stories often occur when Farhad might be expecting some flak from fans for whatever reasons.

If Moshiri was deemed fit and proper, it would seem that anybody with money can be invited to own a football club, but we already knew that — didn't we? Standby for the owner of X or similar to make a bid, only to slink off into the darkness a few months later.

So, until May 2025 at least, we'll still be here plodding along. The ownership story will resolve itself at some point. The team just need to focus on getting points on the pitch — that's the most important thing imo.

Right now, I'm not bothered who the new owner ends up being as it can't be worse than the last decade or so. So many have been linked that I can't get that excited anymore. Too many false dawns.

Analogous to players, until he's holding the scarf aloft having signed, nothing new to see here.

Everton are caught between gloom and hope — Farhad Moshiri must ‘take a haircut' and sell

Moshiri has displayed that he has no interest whatsoever in Everton Football Club, but like the Maggot that got him involved, only interested in himself, and what he can get back, or more !

In my ongoing and continued search for a good outlet for football related stories in the newspapers I had a subscription to The Telegraph (the cheap £20 for a year, how anyone pays £15-£20 per month for that is beyond daylight robbery). It disappointed greatly in the aforementioned search.

The writer of this article — Chris Bascombe — is about as friendly to Everton as John Aldridge is to Everton. Article after article where he couldn't be more nice to Liverpool and Klopp.

His articles about Everton seem to bait a few of the lower IQ'd batch of our red cousins to come on and troll the Everton fans who comment on any of his articles. It's become pretty predictable and I've been surprised by the very poor quality of articles — I thought The Telegraph would be way above the likes of the Daily Mail when it came to football reporting.

Seriously guys, this article by this sports writer Bascombe in The Telegraph — file it under the same respect you would give to The Sun. Not even good enough to be tomorrow's chip paper or wipe your backside with.

Any suggestions for a good news outlet for football-related stories and online debates will be most welcome, for Everton this is the best place to come, but I haven't found any outlet that has adult-aged conversations or differences of opinion to date on other football topics (about other clubs).

I'll see if I can work out what's going on…

Last time it was "Get out the fuckin' way!"

So he knows you well then? :-)

Thanks to him, and his deceased partner, this club is royally screwed.

In these troubled waters, the Spirit of the Evertonians transcends the malaise the two jokers have caused.

Soon, there will be better days, with a clear course to better times.

Ha! Probably the only judgement Moshiri has got right.

But… he promised us a new stadium, and that is very close to being a reality. Every video that I see of the new stadium, I am in awe of not only the structure itself but the very professional way in which it is being built.

Moshiri never pulled away from that commitment — yes, for his selfish reasons primarily, but the truth is that he delivered. And if that is the only thing that he has given us in his tenure, then I believe that future Evertonians will be grateful to him for that. (Obviously, the caveat being that we don't get relegated.)

The professional way it is being built is because of the skills Colin Chong has brought to the table, the skills of Laing O'Rourke, their contactors and workforce. The financial commitments he has made have also been minimal to the stadium, why else would we be saddled with around £500M of loans?

I appreciate he did put money into the club initially, but that was largely on the poor player acquisitions with inflated fees and contracts that got us into the PSR mess we have been in for 3 years.

Moshiri might take a haircut in the short term but he'll probably get his money back in the long term, assuming the stadium is successful — and no reason why it wouldn't be.

Roma haven't even got their own ground and neither a spade to dig for one. Impulsive Friedkin just changed his mind, so fuck him. Textor will be better than 777 Partners, at least one hopes… 666 would have been more apt.

On to the next one.

Whoever takes over the club will have to pay the £200M 777 Partners debt, the only question is who to?