Fans will be cautiously optimistic that American owners can avoid the errors which plagued Farhad Moshiri’s reign
The Friedkin Group’s takeover of Everton represents a momentous day for those exhausted and resigned to calamity by the tenure of Farhad Moshiri. Was it only eight years and 10 months? It felt much longer. Mercifully, evidence of lessons learned and a much-needed departure from what has gone before was present on day one of the US company’s long-awaited arrival.
History, and not even recent, tempers expectations of an Everton owner. There has not been a genuinely successful one in four decades. There should be no rushed judgment on the impact of TFG. The new owners are determined not only to restore stability to Everton but to avoid the mistakes that plagued Moshiri’s reign even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed the club’s financial landscape.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/dec/20/friedkin-group-stability-ambition-revitalise-everton
Author : Andy Hunter
Publish date : 2024-12-20 08:00:08
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