Farhad Moshiri stares down barrel at Everton, ‘cataclysmic’ situation on the cards – Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan believes Farhad Moshiri is “staring down the barrel” after spending £500m+ at Everton for them to be in a relegation battle.
The Toffees are in the relegation zone on goal difference, with a league-low of 19 goals scored all season so far in the Premier League.
Everton have a genuine chance of suffering relegation from the Premier League this season because of that problem, and Jordan believes it could be a “cataclysmic fall from grace” for the Toffees to be playing Championship football.
“The fact is, relegation is a cataclysmic fall from grace. And for this lot, they’ll feel like turkeys in mid-December,” he wrote in his Mail+ column (8 March).
“Leicester are former champions, West Ham splashed out £160m on transfers last summer, Forest spent a vast amount of cash buying more players than you can shake a stick at, Leeds United’s whole potential ownership hinges on whether they stay in the Premier League, Everton have an owner who spent half a billion quid to get precisely nowhere and is now staring down the barrel with a new stadium on the horizon and then there’s Southampton and Bournemouth with new ownership.”
Worry
It’s a real worry for Everton that they have spent so much money to go absolutely nowhere, and eventually backwards under this current regime.
Nobody has claimed that Moshiri hasn’t put his money where his mouth is. He’s spent big, and has funded a brand new stadium for the club too.
However, the money has been spent badly and hasn’t helped Everton to push forward as a club and that has left us in severe financial problems and in desperate need of some luck to avoid the drop.
Getting relegated would be a huge problem for the club, outside of the feelings of the fans and the fact that we should be up near the top of the division competing for European football based on our history and heritage.
But that isn’t how football is played, and we must get things right on the pitch now to avoid it. But Jordan is right, Moshiri and Everton are staring down a barrel right now.