Moshiri talks of faith in Koeman and transfer sagas

Gueye has done very well but he's off to the AFCON in January; he'll be a big miss. Unfortunately, what I've seen of Bolasie so far... he won't be.

As much as I'd love Davies to play regularly... that is not the way of modern football.

Davies is still very young, and I doubt Koeman has the trust in him, over someone he could buy, such as Shneiderlin (who he has worked with), or Strootman.

What I like about Koeman & Moshiri is that they are very honest & very blunt. If we want to be equal with the top top level clubs, then there is no time for emotion or sentiments.

Davies will be a player in the future, he has plenty time; trust Koeman, he knows what he's doing.

I personally think this is the best news we could have been given... no debt, seems that we did make serious moves and offers for players, yet I'm still seeing on social media people calling him a liar or fraud!

I'm sure there will be similar comments on here too over time – don't you just love being an Everton fan!

I listened to the interview live on Talksport and it was refreshing to hear the focus of the club and to get clarification that we were actually trying to sign certain players, but on the same hand worryingly transparent that our main man was airing all our business live to the nation!

The relationship with Jim White is a funny one and one which Moshiri has to be careful with, I do hope someone at the club has the sense to speak to Moshiri and make him aware and apply a bit of the media training the players get or get him to use a spokesperson rather than run the risk of saying something he shouldn't or sounding stupid like in the case of the whole Sissoko McCarthy debacle!

It was good to hear that the new stadium is top of the agenda and he means business about trying to compete at the top!

The reason it confused me was because I still don't think the team are really getting to grips with what the manager wants, and then he's altered it?

Some players looked like they couldn't wait to get off the pitch after 30 minutes and really look like they haven't got the stomach for the fight.

If Koeman does know what he's doing, then we are going to be really busy in the January transfer window.

Could it be the work of a certain theatrical impresario trying to resuscitate our flagging spirits? Nah...couldn't be that, could it?

Moshiri has now changed his tune from 'Everton pulled the plug.. James McCarthy.. blah, blah ... Blah' to "sometime before midnight we realised he had changed his mind".

That volte face alone brings his entire credibility into question.

We are being asked to take a leap of faith here and I'm far from convinced.

I'll be happy to be proven wrong – I'll be ecstatic... but at this stage of my Everton career, I've earned the right to be cynical.

I'm only surprised by the lack of contributions from these boards. It's what I've been waiting to hear for months.

I think we all want to believe that Mr Moshiri will indeed take the club forwards in a different way to his Chairman; however, I did feel at times during his interview with Jim White that he was acting a little like an Iranian Jim Bowen, showing us the players we could have won but sadly telling us why we had to settle for the less-than-star prizes of Stekelenburg, Williams, Gueye and Bolasie.

Who can blame any Evertonian that has earnestly followed the club for more than six months for being a little cynical and not wanting to put up the flags and bunting until we see something 'concrete' happen at the club? I will be as happy as the next Blue if we get a proper stadium on the right site and we see a procession of top level players arrive at the club in the next few years which may help us properly compete at the top end of the table – only time will tell.

In my opinion, Moshiri's fine interview today has redressed the balance – 'I am a realist and will do everything I can in supporting our manager as he endeavours to make EFC very successful again' is what I gleaned from the transcript above.

NSNO.

I do trust Mr Moshiri more than the previous regime as there has been movement and I will be more patient as it does appear he has made some progress in what is a short space of time. Otherwise, the alternative would be giving up altogether and I've followed the faith far too long for that.

My dilemma now is that I really do want someone from within the club to be open and honest so I'm just going out onto the window ledge to think about it for five minutes but as I live on the ground floor it could be construed as merely a gesture.

He messed up at the Bridge, we all make mistakes the thing is to learn from them, as I'am sure Koeman will. Give him the chance to bring in his own players and then judge.

After all, this is just a season of him getting to know the club, like Klopp had last season, and as much as I don't like to say it, them lot are doing alright.

We now have Farhad Moshiri at the helm who is seemingly a man with a plan and a very clear vision of where he wants to take Everton. This is a man with serious wealth and seriously wealthy friends, not a charlatan sitting in a bed sit in Manchester.

My biggest worry to date has been the lack of communication from Mr Moshiri. The interview yesterday, albeit a rather strange place to air it, served to allay some of those worries and we now need to afford Farhad a little bit of trust and give him the time to deliver. After all, Bill Kenwright was given 20 years and I certainly don't want to return to the negativity and general doom and gloom that pervaded prior to Mr Moshiri's arrival.

We brought in Steve Walsh to identify players but, up to now, they wanted to sign for Champions League teams so we can't blame him just yet. He got good players to sign for Leicester so there is hope.

Judge him by his own standards in terms he lays out to others. After 10 games, not good enough, the points gloss over the fact we've not put together more than one decent half of footy.

He cannot change the squad overnight so needs to show he can improve them. I'm not seeing that yet but, then again, what more do you want for ٤m a year?

Koeman has more work to do, to win me over. My complaints are three-fold:

1. Negative tactics and formation – and too much long ball at home and away

2. An over-reliance on older players – Davies, Dowell, Holgate, Galloway and others need their chance, IMO.

3. A reluctance to take personal responsibility for poor performances at Bournemouth, Chelsea and at home to Norwich

Like with Martinez, however, I am prepared to reserve judgement for a few seasons

Now I'm not saying for one minute give Niasse a go – far from it. But his treatment of him has been shabby to say the least. And while we're being linked with a couple of Man Utd OAPs. There'll be no breaks coming from this way.

The Stekelenburg, Bolasie and Williams signings haven't filled me with any great hope for the future The one success so far, Gueye, has been a snip at ٥ Mil so credit for that.

Granted he's only been in the job a few months. But, for me and many others I know, it's like Martinez never left because nothing's changed. No-one can say the football is any better or worse.

One of Koeman's main gripes at the start of the season was that the players were only 70% fit. Well, on Saturday night at Chelsea, I'd say they weren't even half of that. Because the way Chelsea cut through us at will so many times was embarrassing. Massive job on his hands and I hope to God he turns this round because it's not nice being an Evertonian at this time.

We have not competed at any level, nor won any trophies for far too many years to mention. Never to have even won the League Cup must be a clear example of how far we have fallen. We play in what is now one of the poorest stadiums in the Premier division. We are susceptible now to offers for any of our players who come through the ranks and show potential, Rooney, Stones etc. The shoe well and truly on the other foot now for those of us who remember the days of Everton breaking transfer records, plundering other clubs for their estimates, and signing World Cup winners etc. Could we dream of signing current World Cup winners today?

So we surely have to find the regime that will build this club from top to bottom and it will be a slow process. It may be that we need people who can spot players who while not at the very top of the ladder are nevertheless able to establish a genuinely secure, strong team over the next two or three years and target one of the competitions that would get the team on one rung of successful achievement.

There is no way we can compete for the championship itself in the immediate years so the cup competitions seem our only realistic chance of success. Obviously establishing a secure position in the league is also another sign of "success" but at present that would surely mean establishing ourselves again as a regular top eight team. It would also mean that woeful performances such as the Chelsea debacle become totally and utterly unacceptable.

We can only hope that Mr Moshiri's judgment regarding Mr Koeman and his staff is sound. There is little doubt that there is need for a steady, gradual clear out of some of the current squad whose names are readily brought to mind by many. It will not happen in one or two years but Mr Koeman must show that he is not prepared to accept woeful levels of commitment even from some of the very limited players currently available to him.

The stadium issue itself must indeed be complicated but one hopes that some progress could be made soon and a decision taken that would illustrate the determination of the club to return to the successful levels we all hope for. In the meantime some degree of patience and realism is called for even from those of us who would truly wish it could be sooner rather than later due to the fact that we are running out of years!

'What is 㿛.5M,' he asks. Well it's more than Everton has ever spent on a player and likely to remain so until the sale of Romelu goes through.

We all hope he's got it right with Koeman who certainly seems more Moyes than Martinez. But then, what did Moyes ever win for us?

As I posted on another thread, if you compare us to Man City who already had their new stadium in place when the club was took over by the multi millionaires. They were allowed to spend hundreds of millions over a short period yet they still had to wait 3 or 4 years before breaking into the top 3.

It will take time to clear out the deadwood in this club and rebuild it to being a top 4 club again. Football is a funny old game and we can see that last year with Leicester winning the title yet Man Utd who are one of the top 3 richest clubs in the world struggle with new managers.

Every post on every thread should now be removed, just leaving yours. Why? Because not only does it say everything which needs to be said, but it does so with a quiet elegance rarely seen in these pages!

"Could Mr Moshiri please talk to us through the BBC."

What? Through this lacklustre left-wing organisation that is inconsolable after Donald Trump's victory. The BBC are about as timid as Everton's display against Chelsea. Moshiri is better off talking to Donald Trump, because he is a winner. Big time.