Simon Jordan makes huge Everton financial comparison to Aston Villa
Simon Jordan has insisted that breaking into the top echelons of the Premier League is massively tough, using Everton as an example.
The controversial talkSPORT regular was talking about Aston Villa’s struggles to move up the Premier League and couldn’t help poking at Farhad Moshiri.
Jordan shared that Everton have spent nearly three times the amount of Villa on players, and aren’t any closer to that top six.
Speaking live on talkSPORT this morning, Jordan singled out the Toffees as an example on the financial front in the Premier League.
“When you talk about a £330million spend, you net it down to just over £200million,” he said about Villa.
“Three years in the Premier League, that is about where you need to be spending if you have ambitions of Aston Villa.
“You can compare and contrast, which is my favourite expression at times – look at Everton and what they’ve spent. Look at Everton’s expectations, they spent, five, six, seven hundred million under Moshiri.
“It’s not easy.”
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Based on the money we have spent in the last handful of years at Goodison Park, it is no secret that more success should have followed.
The likes of Carlo Ancelotti have come and gone, and they can’t say that they weren’t backed by Moshiri.
Last season, James Rodriguez arrived on monster wages and now he has left one year later and caused major financial worries.
Rafa Benitez has arrived but the FFP rules have caught up with us, meaning he couldn’t spend as much as he would have liked.
For that type of money being thrown about, we would have expected regular European football and maybe a couple of cup runs, but we have had neither.
Hopefully, this can change soon or mediocrity could become what we expect at Goodison Park moving forward.
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