Everton, across recent years, have become far more synonymous with their off-pitch financial antics than their matches at the moment.
After all, since the start of the new year, they have only narrowly won more points through matches (five) than they have in the courtroom (four), achieving a minor success in their appeal of their November ten-point deduction.
There are many factors which play into this, but unsurprisingly Farhad Moshiri sits atop the pile as the outstanding issue that has plagued the club for just shy of a decade now.
Fortunately, his reign seems to be coming to an end, yet his replacement seems no better.
Writer and finance guru Paul Quinn has at least tried to shed some light on this situation, as he often does, by firing a message towards the Iranian billionaire and 777 Partners.
What The Esk has now said about Farhad Moshiri
Promoting his article on X, where he is more commonly known as ‘The Esk’, he took little time to offer his verdict on the findings of journalists Paul Brown and Philippe Auclair, published just yesterday.
Relaying the bulk of their useful information, he then went on to describe the struggles that 777 Partners will still face to meet these four new conditions which could grant them access to acquiring Everton.
And then, with his parting words in his own article, Quinn offered a damning assessment of Moshiri’s truly terrible tenure as owner.
He wrote: ‘So, that’s the reality of the situation – can 777 Partners put together such a deal? There’s nothing to suggest that they’re in a position to do so, nor have been at anytime in the last seven months. Why should we expect anything different in the next month?
‘Moshiri has wasted a huge amount of time, he’s allowed the club’s position to deteriorate significantly in recent months whilst his chosen acquiror’s position has deteriorated even more sharply. It really is the most appalling mess, with no realistic solution in sight – not with the current participants at least.
‘Far from being a conditional approval, these are terms that, in my opinion are impossible to meet.’
Farhad Moshiri has run Everton like a circus
To claim that Moshiri has run Everton like a circus is a statement that few would argue with.
After all, you only have to look at how the off-pitch antics have hampered their current season as glaring proof of his effects, all of which have been negative.
He does have the new stadium to hold on to, but other than that it has been a miserable tenure in which the club is now covered in mountains of debt and under constant financial investigation.
Only through a miracle could Sean Dyche and Kevin Thelwell now lead them to some form of safety, with this proposed takeover unlikely to aid things either really. Unless they meet the aforementioned conditions in a trustworthy way.