Moshiri admits he was shocked by poor start to 2017-18

No cover for the defence. The early games in the Europa League qualifiers were a precursor to what was coming. Without attacking quality any team will suffer in the Premier League. I hope they don't forget that.

To talk about the ageing defence well it still exists and the fact we still haven't replaced Leighton Baines at left back means there's more work still to do .

We also need to play the game with more accuracy and aggression in the final third, I just don't see much success continuously playing these static holding midfielders like Schneiderlin, Gueye and Davies, at least McCarthy has a bit of tenacity about him.

It's fine for him to say how shocked he was at our start to the season but surely he realised without a striker you can't score goals.

It's great that we signed Sigurdsson but he still didn't buy someone up front.

But we have now.

And the season is finished in many ways.

Such a waste, Mr Moshiri, Walsh should be held accountable considering they knew Lukaku was going and it's his job to get players signed.

Sure, now we have nothing left to really play for we'll arguably look good under little pressure, no doubt the “big second half of the season “ will not tie in with a win at bogey away days Tottenham or Arsenal, nor will it see us end our woeful Merseyside derby record!?

Think he's getting a touch of the old Bill Kenwright marshmallow clouds above us psyche is our Farhad.

Oh my God! The performances under Sam have been good??!!! We've been useless in attack, can hardly get a shot on goal!! We've lost 3 straight, taken only 2 points from the last 12, and knocked out of the Cup at the first go.

His eye is clearly on the stadium and keeping the side in the Premier League is a must until that's ready.

Kenwright Mk II

Kenwright II,,BlueKfrog,1,21:50:46,,86.177.23.175,ok,8868,01/09/2018 21:50:46,doublecarpet,reader,, 888764,36066,toffeeweb,09/01/2018,Tony Sullivan,asullivan1945@hotmail.com,"I agree to a large extent with what Conor Skelly says. It seems to me that – no matter what Moshiri does or says – for some on here, it will never be good enough.

He does say that mistakes have been made, so is not claiming all in the garden is rosy, but he does have a plan which is being undertaken at all levels throughout the club, ie, playing squad, management team, corporate sponsorship and new infrastructure. There is evidence to support all those claims.

I am sure he believed in Ronald Koeman, he was Moshiri's man, but when things went pear shaped under Koeman, despite the expenditure in the summer, Koeman was summarily dismissed at a heavy financial cost and the ship was steadied within weeks of the appointment of Sam Allardyce and his team.

I know we can nit-pick every decision and rant on about net spend, and we sold Lukaku and have no ambition ad infinitum, but it appears to me that Moshiri is the real deal and is going about things as you would expect from a successful billionaire.

The financial side does seem transparent, so I feel happy about the stadium and the added bonus that ‘Rodger from Speke' will be blowing a gasket.

The football side, Moshiri's words show how poorly he understands things. To surround himself with Walsh & Allardyce and the rubbish they peddled this evening makes him look small time.

Since the Merseyside derby last season Everton have been awful. Abject. To try a spin it any other way is disingenuous to the fanbase.

It kills us not having a communications officer to control the rubbish that this lot spout.

The comedic value if it all has taken the edge off. Jesus wept.

I suppose Usmanov has put the cost of his steel up, hence the price rise in the Stadium. It's all fishy to me. If I was a LCC ratepayer I'd want to know the ins and outs of this deal pronto.

If we hadn't pissed off out of Europe we could have applied for Objective 1 money given the financial, employment and social benefits the new stadium will bring to the water front area. I for one will believe it when I see it.

I now wish to be known as Thomas – it's my right as a doubter of all things EFC Board.

Stick to the business side of things, Moshiri. We've enough football related bullshit from Blue Bill without anyone else adding to the mix!!

Still, if he delivers the stadium...

Mr Moshiri – don't use “Fab Four” again until we're in the “Top Four”.

“Our own Fab Four”

I mean really??

Yeah ok Bolasie might offer a bit more pace and Sigurdsson is better than what we have seen from him in the first three months but Rooney is 32 and has limited time left, nobody knows if Tosun can do it yet.

But apparently Tosun completes this jigsaw?!

But Moshiri talking about our own “Fab Four” it's a bit cringeworthy and it reminds you of a over exuberant excited 8-year-old boy going the match for the first time thinking average players are World beaters. That's what comes of two years mixing with Bill “showbiz” Kenwright.

I'm surprised he didn't refer to Williams , Jagielka and Baines as the “Rolling Stones”.

Hi 5, mate!

I can't believe this Moshiri dude is supposed to be a clued-up business brain. If this shite he is talking is the sign of things to come, God help the stadium issue.

Good to hear we've got a new one. Was there a picture on the box or are we just randomly fitting pieces together, trying to form one?

Fingers crossed Mr Moshiri leads us out of the wilderness – or is that wilderMess?

And are the tactics with which he is so closely associated and which he has demonstrated to such limited effect since his arrival really compatible with the attractive attacking entertaining football every Evertonian wants to see?

Do we really need this bad publicity? What was the purpose of making those comments? Poor PR by Everton. Come on, Moshiri, get your house in order!

He might be investing in the club, and for that I'm very grateful, but fuck me he's a PR liability. And that's before we get into the whole Jim White stupidity.

I think different rules apply where the England job is concerned. The level of scrutiny by the press is incredibly intense and one can get sacked for issues totally unrelated to football. Evidence, Hoddle basically sacked for his non UK PC veiws on karma and re-incarnation. In some countries he might be sacked for NOT holding such views!

If the same rules applied to clubs that applied to the England job, a number of managers would have to walk. Would Antionio Conte get the England job when he's been found guilty of failing to act when having knowledge of match fixing? I seriously doubt it! Would you be happy to have Conte as Everton manager?

And, even if it had been true and Moshiri was aware of it, why mention it at all? What good would it do? For whatever reason the lad wanted to leave, leave he did and well over 6 months ago. Moshiri seems to have no clue at all.

We're a laughing stock (first the Simeone comments and more recently Aubameyang) and now this? And he believes performances have been good?

Kenwright was cringeworthy at times but this guy seems to be taking the piss. Very, very embarrassing all this.

I would be ecstatic if Klaassen and Sandro end the season well and turn out to be the players we thought they were going to be.

Would you really class finishing 7th again as a great deal to play for?

Most don't want the Europa League again and if asked in private I very much doubt Allardyce would want it either.

7th I'm afraid, we've been there and done that so many times over the last 15 years under Moyes etc, not to sound ungrateful like, just saying that this was meant to be the season we really made something happen.

The rest of the overall plan and road map is there. Things will take time and there will be bumps in the road. Let's get behind our man.

Trivial Animal Farm type jibes against anyone who is trying to move EFC forward, pretending we have the font of football knowledge and hiding behind slanging tripe is offensive, totally hypocritical, and negative to properly supporting and helping build the new vision for EFC on The Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey!

I don't think anyone should be totally happy until we are in the same sphere as the Barcelona's and Manchester City's of this world. But you have to be realistic and from where we are at this moment in our history we are a club in the very first stages of a huge transition.

Seventh place this particular bollixed up season would be and achievement and would give us a platform at least for the future. We need a lot of work because at times we still play like a bottom-three side. Its coming around but slowly. Seventh and a Europa League place this season and I'm happy.

Knows fuck all about Football...even less about Everton Football Club.

Maybe the 50.1% should have a say !?.