Moshiri speaks of sorrow as he leaves Everton after nearly nine years

Crack. Pot.

I bet he rues the day that he let Bill talk him and his Uncle Uzzie into it with (allegedly)..."Sod Arsenal off then, we're a well run Club that's the 'best of the rest' all we need is a cash injection and watch us go!"

He appears to have taken a serious bath cash wise...although who really knows the wheels within wheels that's been going on.

But he got The Stadium built, which is more than Kenwright ever managed in decades.

So unlike our late and somewhat unlamented previous owner, Moshiri is (just about) square with the house

(Though it has to be very, very, grudgingly said, that from a personal net cash gain Kenwright played an absolute Blinder)

I think Moshiris biggest mistake was trusting BK and various other acolytes.

He nearly ruined us. But he knew from the second he got here that a new stadium was the only way we would ever be able to come close to competing again and got it done.

I’m not praising him because he was a woeful owner. But without him we wouldn’t have the Friedkins or the stadium and the hope they bring.

We’d still be the team that every other club looks at and thinks…..

Thanks for the stadium and the concessions, you made mistakes no doubt of that the biggest obvious one was trusting your “ friend” Thingy, very very naive indeed, I think you will always regret meeting him.

Enjoy the rest of your life, I wish you a long one and happy one.

If he had just stayed in the shadows, that would have been slightly better, but No, he started interfering with who we should hire as managers and players.

All ending in disaster, I may add. Then, to add insult to injury, when the club was to be sold, he gets into bed with 777 Partners, which has delayed everything.

He reportedly is returning to Goodison Park once more and then the new stadium. I hope they charge him for the privilege.

Shocking incompetence and moreover he's given Accountants a bad name...

He has delivered the stadium and certainly dipped into his own, or Usmanovs pocket, to try to bring a top class manager and players in, something our former Chairman never did, he even walked away turning a lot of his shares into equity for the club.

For me I would not begrudge Moshiri a visit to the stadium he delivered, if only he had not listened to Bill and brought his own people in instead, things could have been so much different.

Mistakes were shocking by him, but the theatre of Bill bullshited his way to staying on, even to the very end Bill let Ingles, Sharp, Baxendale walk, then used his we need one of us to remain at the club in the boardroom, yes Moshiri made huge mistakes but I will never hold him as low as Bill.

Moshiri only wanted Everton to take up 5% of his time. The easiest way to do that was to leave the existing Chair in place to deal with the 95% of the "run of the mill" stuff.

Meanwhile Moshiri would concentrate on appointing the "Hollywood" name.

The likes of Seamus, Michael, James, Idrissa and Ashley must love him now... it's probably been a while since they had those compliments

Mind you there's only gonna be about 3 of them left by the summer

I don't particularly feel for Moshiri, but I do feel for a club and fan base who believed we might have a knight in shining armour. When we finally got one he turned out to be more like a knight from a Monty Python sketch.

Here is a guy who actually wanted to improve the club and was prepared to put in his own money to do so. A vanity project maybe, but it's bloody hard to get free money and he was prepared to believe in the club and back the club. How many have done that recently? He did all the right things, invest in the squad, invest in the infrastructure - he just did them all with a comical level of incompetence.

Even his parting statement seems pretty ill advised and not subject to any kind of checking:

- Youthful team (pretty sure we have the oldest in the league?)
- Top class managers (erm, there are some shockers in there!)
- Came through it together (no, your Board vilified supporters and claimed you all feared for your safety)
- He'll be back at Goodison to watch (I'm guessing this one was a deliberate joke!)

The next guys won't come with the same knight in shining armour monikers. They won't be throwing money around like Moshiri did. But hopefully what we do get is a set of astute businessmen who can leverage their knowledge and connections through existing similar businesses and restore this club to greatness.

I hope in a few years time that there are people on here saying that the Friedkins don't 'invest' their own money and that they're making a fortune out of the club. If that happens it will mean that we are on the path to being a financially sustainable and successful club.

That said, I think his feeling for the club is sincere, and if he had hired better people to run the club and let them do their jobs without interference, as he did with Dan Meis on the stadium, he might well have gotten the results he was hoping for. But he lacked the experience and the judgement.

The stadium will be his legacy. Not only did he get the right site and the right people and the right design, he stuck with it and saw the project through even when it became clear that he was gonna take a financial pounding on it. He wasn't a quitter, and he wasn't a fake. The job got done.

I'm glad he's gone, because he was largely a failure, but I hold no grudges and I'm pleased he came out financially unscathed overall.

Wait, correction, I do hold one grudge. He hired Benitez. That wasn't just a blunder, it was dereliction. But hiring Carlo made up for it.

There have been many times when I've wonder how on earth his and others comms from the club have got through the corporate machine before release.

Headlock-gate being a big example. No communications professional would have allowed that to be released!

Without doubt his biggest mistake was keeping The Worlds Greatest Evertonian at the Club

Moshiris incompetence and Kenwrights…..i suppose I shouldn’t speak ill of the departed…….. so let’s be nice and use “greed” was a toxic combination that nearly done for us

Moshiri has now gone and somehow against the odds we have survived to hopefully look to the future and thrive under professional businessmen.

I have mentioned on a number of past threads that in a few years when the dust has settled Mishiris legacy of the fantastic BMD will colour over the nightmare he, and his mate, put us through
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30YRS.

Let me say that again... 3...0... YEARS...

Some of what's been posted, you simply can't argue with. The last 9YRS have been the worst. A total and utter shambles. The shotgun approach to hiring managers, the ridiculous sums of money that we had never seen before spent on a squad that has taken us backwards every year. I mean, I think - genuinely this is the worst squad of players we have had since the mid-70s... one-or-two are ok, but we all know that if anyone comes calling - they are gone...

The total disconnect with the fans and our history. I still can't stomach the memory of Allardyce - and Sammy Lee... I won several quid on Benitez, but oh-my-word had I wished it wasn't so... I tried so hard to give everyone making any decision a break, I really did swallow the vomit in my throat and tried to keep the gag reflex in check - but the piss-poor decisions kept coming and coming and coming and coming.

How could they have even turned Graham Sharp into an object of ridicule and hate?

The stadium has to be remembered as a legacy. But let's not forget please the team he's left us with playing our last season at Goodison.

I'm so tired of watching Everton.
We are dreadful.
I'm not blaming Dyche... I am grateful we have Dyche as otherwise we would be in the Championship - midtable at that...

I'm so tired of the sh*t football kits and the bonker sponsors and the total lack of understanding of how to run a modern football club in the Premier League.

Angry F*cking Birds??

I am so exhausted with Brighton and Bournemouth and Brentford being better at competing than us...

I am so, so, so tired of Everton being a sh*t-bag of kicking in the media... we only get to top 3 games on MOTD because we get the crap smacked out of us by someone else...

Please God make it all stop.
Anything has to be better than this?
Right?

I mean - surely it could not conceivably get worse than the sh*t sandwiches we've been forced to eat?

Yeah I'm worried as the AS Roma fans have turned on the new owners... I am hoping this is simply them losing interest in the maths of Serie A, and seeing that owning a cr*p Premier League team is more profitable than owning a crowning historical Italian team... I mean owning Palace or Wolves would be more profitable...

I mean their due diligence would have revealed what a complete omnishambles they were buying and appointing a battery operated duck could run our club better than what has presided over operations for the last 30YRS...

I am not going to be a harbinger of doom.
The new stadium is remarkable.
I still cannot believe it... literally on the Dock Road where I learned how to drive...

Now can we have a team befitting of the stadium?
I see Dyche and Thelwell are out of contract this summer... it is with no disrespect because they have really had to operate under the most absurd circumstances... but they are not aspirational enough for me... not with the new stadium... I would be honest... I would say - here's the deal, keep us up - here's your new bonus, we are moving on in the Summer... let all of the out-of-contract players go - all of them... build the team around the goalie and the back two... everyone else, please, please, please - leave us alone... go clogg up Ipswich, Sunderland, West Brom, Leeds, Derby, Coventry, Celtic and Leicester

Find a new manager now...like seriously, now - and a new Dir. of Football, let them watch and learn in silence, in quiet, in the dark, in the background... then change it all out first day of the close season...

Transition plan now.

And change the f*cking kit and the f*cking sponsors - and do a f*cking deal so that it's available in poxy stores like Sports Direct and JD Sport, so that at least it's on a rack next to West Bloody Ham...

And don't even dare bring Moyes back. Because that time has gone... and I won't forget the Fellaini and Baines "Big team knocking" boll*cks...

Smart, calm, measured, commercial, planned, mindful, strategic thinking. Everything we have not been for a very, very, very long time.

Make some money - do you know how?
Work hard.
Work with pride.
Run your arse off.
Win some Godamn f*cking football games.
It's really that f*cking simple.
It really is...
Win stuff...

Moshiri?
Whatever... thanks for the stadium, seriously - thank you... but Allardyce and Sammy m*therf*cking Lee???
I mean REALLY?

And let’s not go into the accountant that can’t count re: PSR…

I mean I’m hoping that the new owners are not another Children’s Television Workshop like the Muppet Show who have been in charge for 9YRS…

He is now actually richer than when he took over Everton, being well rewarded.His letter like his other letters to Fans is questionable in it's sincerity.

People can lament his decision to keep Kim Jong Bill at the helm, but I'm absolutely certain that was a condition of the sale. I'm sure we'd have had credible new owners long before Moshiri if the self-appointed Greatest Evertonian hadn't want to retain his role.