Everton boasts one of the Premier League’s worst ownerships.
That is a statement simply irrefutable.
All of their financial woes and the deduction scandal that has emerged this season are born of their decision-making inadequacy, with poor advisors and unintelligent choices having condemned them to yet another campaign of fighting the drop.
This was a regime expected to uplift the club and its fanbase, but instead they have regressed, making this a side even more difficult to support.
Fortunately, there remains one media personality who continues to bang the drum on this torrid tenure, which could soon be coming to an end.
What Jamie Carragher said about Everton fans
Speaking on Sky Sports’ The Overlap, Jamie Carragher was unsurprisingly vocal in his condemnation of Everton’s ownership.
Discussing the Premier League’s worst owners, Farhad Moshiri cropped up almost instantly as Baz, representing the Toffees as a Toffee TV presenter, threw his name forward straight away.
And whilst the former Liverpool defender sympathised with the pressures put onto owners nowadays, he also admitted that the manner in which the former Arsenal shareholder has acted has been woeful.
Fortunately, he has been constantly held accountable by Evertonians, which he outlined.
Carragher noted: ‘I think of owners, and as supporters, we’re all just screaming aren’t we in the transfer market: ‘Buy him, pay it, if they want a bit extra pay it’. And then when it doesn’t work we say: ‘Oh they couldn’t run a bath’.
‘Do you think these owners actually feel pressured from supporters, certainly from Everton, I sort of get that feeling, not just with Moshiri, but it’s a bit like ‘Come on, have a go, we want to compete’.
Evertonians have fought hard for this club
It is ridiculous that this season has been one where the fanbase has been punished more than most, despite being mere innocent bystanders throughout.
All they are guilty of is standing by their club through thick and thin, and yet the Premier League has rewarded them by issuing a punishment that affects them far more than it does the ownership.
After all, when the ‘Super Six’ sought to break away from English football and forge their own monopolised European league, the call that echoed throughout the sport was not to punish the fans for the actions of the ownership.
Well, that proved to be the case, and yet with the Toffees that notion has been thrown out of the window.
Punish the fans they have, and despite their vociferous protests against Moshiri, actively showcasing their frustration and condemnation against his actions, he will be able to walk away from this situation. The supporters will not.
Carragher has been a useful tool in continuing to apply pressure on the Iranian billionaire, and only once he has finally gone and handed the reigns to a more capable custodian will Evertonians be content.