What Everton need from Farhad Moshiri is clear as takeover confusion reigns

Confusion reigns over Everton’s future. But while the camps representing the super-rich money men involved come out with conflicting claims, it’s the Blues’ loyal but long-suffering supporters who are left in the dark over what’s really happening at the club they love.

It’s been quite the rollercoaster of emotions for Evertonians in recent months but just when they thought they’d got off their white-knuckle ride, somewhat dazed but able to finally crack a smile at the scary situation they’d seemingly come through but survived, they’re told to strap themselves in again for another perilous journey into the unknown.

Just over a year ago, Farhad Moshiri made the most-controversial managerial appointment in the history of English football’s most-passionate football city when he hired former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez to replace Real Madrid-bound Carlo Ancelotti as Everton manager. Many Blues were made to swallow their pride and take the bad medicine that this Kop Idol was supposedly the best man for the job. But in the end the Spaniard’s previous Anfield connections became a mere sideshow to what was becoming a headlong plunge toward the Championship by the midway point of the season, with director of football Marcel Brands having already departed in December.

Those now long-since past glories with the Reds – secured more by super-human performances from Steven Gerrard, the now Aston Villa manager who was allowed to sign Lucas Digne from Everton just three days before Benitez was sacked – rather than any tactical acumen, provided no consolation for a run of just one win in his last 13 Premier League matches as Blues boss, form that chairman Bill Kenwright subsequently admitted was “unacceptably disappointing”.

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