Everton: Senior figures slammed by Sky Sports pundit for club misery as £550m-plus Farhad Moshiri money is wasted
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Key Everton figures around owner Farhad Moshiri have to “take their licks” for the misery at the club as much, if not more, than he does says Kevin Campbell.
The Toffees are still teetering on the brink of Premier League survival with issues around every corner off the pitch, as hundreds of millions of pounds having been shelled out in recent years with nothing to show for it.
With Alisher Usmanov’s links to Vladimir Putin seeing him hastily dispatched as a key backer last season and ongoing fan protests at the board, particularly chairman Bill Kenwright, Sky Sports pundit Campbell believes these people need to face up to responsibility for their roles in the chaos, with Moshiri having at least put his money where his mouth is.
On whether those around Moshiri are as much to blame as the man himself Campbell exclusively told Goodison News: “Of course yeah, 100%. Everyone has to take their licks, their hits, over why it’s gone wrong.
“At the end of the day you look at Everton, they’ve spent £550million-plus, and the club’s in a worse position.
“Something’s wrong, so when you assess everything everyone’s got to take their blame.
“It is what it is at the end of the day. Usmanov has been around Moshiri and things haven’t worked out how Moshiri would have liked.
“But they are a Premier League club and I believe they are still going to be a Premier League club at the end of the season.”
Very few people are coming out of this period in the club’s history with a great deal of credit for turning Everton into such a circus.
Moshiri has indeed spent heavily, which is more than be said for some controlling shareholders, but his decision-making has been absolutely woeful on a regular basis.
Being so closely aligned with Usmanov proved to be a disaster waiting to happen, and the current board staying in their roles as things go from bad to worse is a failure of governance on a huge scale.
Kenwright’s love for the club is famous but that hasn’t done anything for Everton in a long time, with the remit of virtually every prominent figure resulting in considerable failure amid a behind the scenes set up that has long-since turned rotten.