I disagree with your gripe on the capacity. Goodison has cheap tickets with limited views. I doubt ticket prices will be the same or less at the new stadium. I suspect some fans will find themselves priced out. Also, with increasing variability as to when games are played (Fridays, Thursdays etc) it's harder for folks to get to games and easier to say "I'll just watch on TV." The other thing is that while the waiting list sounds good, we've never averaged crowds of 60,000 even in the days when you could cram half a million standers into Wembley. If all the waiting list people got season tickets that would leave us with a couple of thousand of people without seats. That's not much of a buffer for a recession, a dip in form, a dislike of the team's style of play, or God forbid relegation.

Mr Moshiri is in the peer group below of the Mike Ashley and Venkys flavour unmitigated disasters who have floundered from day 1. Our man has made mistakes but rectified by bringing in footballing illuminati like Ancelotti and Brands and is on course to deliver a spanking new stadium.

Those of us who like to apply perspective should be passing the hat round for a bronze statue of the man.

It might also entice back or enhance the transfer fee for Moise Kean although there are few others we would want to lose, more likely wanting to add.

I doubt Mr Moshiri will be too concerned unless he sees a rapid decline in form that affects income.

To really compete at the very top, and to do so consistently like City, Utd and Chelsea, would require a big increase in expenditure on players. This seems unlikely unless someone like Usmanov is working in the background to provide the resources.

Even then, such resources are only a necessary condition for success. They are not a sufficient condition, as exemplified by Liverpool.

I think if I was Farhad Moshiri I would be extremely disappointed on the return he has had for pumping in the best part of £450 million. And not only has he had a poor return so far, he will need to invest in the next 5 years even more than he has in the last 5 years to move the club to where he and us want it to be. Obviously his choices of manager have not served him well, and apart from 1 season under Martinez we have gone backwards. The problem he had from the start is he couldnt attract a real top quality manager as our record at competing in Europe or winning domestic trophies were non existent for the last 30 odd years. And without the right man at the helm of the club it was always going to be difficult to change the perception of the club which would make it more attractive to the top managers. When it was rumoured that Moshiri was after Simeone, when the press asked Simeone at his next press conference was there any truth about the rumours linking him to a move to Everton, Simeone simply asked who?

At last he has a quality manager in charge the pity is that we didnt get Ancelotti when Moshiri took over. I am sure had Ancelotti been handed a £450 million war chest to spend over 5 years we would by now be competing for a regular top 4 place and may have picked up a trophy along the way. But we have hired a top manager but because of FFP and the money needed to finance a new stadium, then Ancelotti will feel as though he is trying to achieve success with one hand tied behind his back.

Also the rumours of the extended Champions league format makes it an absolute must to be involved if Moshiri is to fullfil his dream. I know many posters on here when this new Champions league format has been put forward have suggested let them get on with it. But if the new format comes in and we are not part of it then this club will find it impossible to attract the sort of players we will need to ever hope of filling BMD.
So for me these next 5 years are way more important than the last 5 and if we get it as badly wrong as we have in Farhads first 5 years then BMD might become a noose round our neck for decades to come.

I know there was plenty of media rumours but most of them probably had little or no substance. The only ones I remember that almost came close were the 2 Portuguese guys who ended up in Qatar and the Ukraine instead.

Imagine if we had both DCL and Lukaku. That’s the level of depth that the likes of City have, and we cannot compete with it.