Farhad Moshiri takes swipe at Everton fans in talkSPORT interview with Jim White
Everton owner Farhad Moshiri has taken a swipe at the Goodison Park faithful in a live talkSPORT interview with Jim White, stating that most of his managerial decisions have been “driven” by supporters.
The club’s fan forum wrote an open letter [11 January] to the under-fire Everton majority owner expressing their frustration at how the club is currently being run both on and off the pitch.
The Toffees have underachieved for much of Moshiri’s tenure where the owner has made seven managerial changes during his seven years as majority shareholder.
And his latest appointment Lampard is under much scrutiny and pressure too with the club sitting in 18th place in the Premier League table on 15 points after 18 games.
And speaking live in an interview on talkSPORT with Jim White [12 January], Moshiri took a cheeky swipe at the Everton supporters that many of his appointment have been influenced by them, but he remains confident in Lampard’s ability to “get it right” at Goodison Park.
He said: “I put my money where my mouth is & that is the most an owner can do & I’ve done that. Some of the decisions we’ve taken with the fans. All the manager decisions have been driven by the fans… I have a lot a faith in Frank that he will get it right”
Worrying trend
It is certainly beyond belief that Moshiri can take such a damning swipe at the Everton faithful going so far as to say that many of his managerial appointments have been driven by their needs and wants.
Those comments couldn’t be further from the truth in all honesty. Did fans drive the appointments of Sam Allardyce and Rafael Benitez? Certainly not. Once rumours emerged about both candidates, there was much clamour for Moshiri to look the other way and appoint someone else.
It’s certainly been a worrying trend at Goodison, where the owner has tended to make the wrong decisions and each and every single one of his appointments seems to have taken the club much closer to perennial failure.
Furthermore, it’s quite damning that even a manager as good as Carlo Ancelotti simply could not work under the conditions that Moshiri fostered at the club.
It’s why the Italian immediately jumped ship as soon as Real Madrid came calling, a couple of years on and it’s looked like a masterstroke decision from the former AC Milan coach.
If Ancelotti can struggle under such stewardship what makes Moshiri believe that Lampard could do better? Maybe the worrying trend must end with him. It’s clear the Toffees fans want him out, and his latest comments have certainly plummeted him further into public enemy no.1 territory.