Simon Jordan takes aim Farhad Moshiri live on talkSPORT after Everton turmoil
Simon Jordan has ripped into Everton owner Farhad Moshiri and his “absolutely absurd” decision-making and claimed the hiring of Carlo Ancelotti as manager was a vanity play.
The club has fallen into crisis with Frank Lampard’s team in the relegation zone and fans venting their anger at the board before the recent loss to Southampton at Goodison Park.
The board were told to stay away from the home defeat due to security risks, but Simon Jordan has had his say live on talkSPORT (Friday 20 January), believing the blame should be directed towards Moshiri and not the likes of Bill Kenwright or Denise Barrett-Baxendale.
“Really and truly, it is he [Moshiri] who has made these decisions,” he said.
“You can’t work with somebody who works the way Moshiri works. Moshiri makes decisions that are absolutely absurd. He makes them.”
When questioned by talkSPORT host Jim White if Moshiri was at fault for the poorly judged managerial choices in recent years, Jordan said: “Absolutely, absolutely.
“There is no parallel universe where anybody in their right mind, Bill Kenwright, Denise, or anyone else, would have been in the camp of putting Rafa Benitez in.
“That’s on him [Moshiri]. The idea Carlo Ancelotti was a solution to go to Everton and anything other than a vanity play that was always going to end up the way it did with a bunch of players who were no use to Everton once he departed. That’s on Moshiri.”
Terrible
Jordan is correct in his assessment of the current predicament at Everton football club, and the actions of those at the top really do trickle all the way down to the pitch, where things have taken a turn for the worse.
The hiring of Benitez as manager was clearly never going to go down well with the fans, and as soon as he arrived in the Goodison Park dugout, the fans were firmly against him.
While Kenwright and Barrett-Baxendale haven’t set the world alight with some of their decision-making, they aren’t the ones pouring money into the club and making the important calls on personnel and managerial options.
The problem is, Moshiri seems reluctant to change things up, and in his eyes, he has always listened to the will of the Toffees fans. How he has got this idea, who knows, but he is unfortunately in charge of the club’s destiny in the coming months.