Jerome, you are not alone in saying Moyes should have left at the end of last season. I have come to the opposite conclusion. Given the absolute shambles of the last few days, the club needs Moyes more than ever. With only one striker and following the departure of a stellar forward in Ndiaye we need a manager with the pragmatism to make the best of what he has got. I would trust Moyes more than any of the rising star managers to do that.

John this scenario is cut out for Moyses.
Sadly its a symptom of imho a dysfunctional football club.

Sadly brings back memories of too many instances of this in the last 3 decades.

Face up and embrace.
No doubt the there will be no meanjngful answers.

Kinnear must be made accountable.

This epic stuff up had its makings when the TFG took over. Focused on short term fix, Sean Dyche was replaced with, what should have been, a short term fix in David Moyes. But for reasons best known to themselves the gave him a 2.5 year contract to stabilize the on field performance, eg, keep them out of relegation fights while they maximize potential revenue.

But most of us knew Moyes was not the one to rebuild, but stability was the name of the game. Why?

The positive air of hope and a fresh start was killed off instantly, all impetus lost. Incoming recruitment team headed up by another slippy CEO, judge us by the end of the transfer window was the cry. The guillotine awaits.

I have said for a while that none of the management, owners or Moyes were singing from the same hymn sheet. Actually I think they are not of the same parish.

Decision making has been worse than a Sunday league side. I doubt the owners gave Angus nothing other than, just operate within these costs. Or you can only bring in more if you sell.

Moyes hardly gets a look in with deals being done without much remember or reason.

Angus, short changing where ever he can..nobody appears to own issues.

US companies don't suffer fools or mistakes. The TFG won't either, the next clearout will be short and sharp and it won't be Moyes.

What works around a business table doesn't work with managers or players, they can tell you were to go, as have Richy and Flo. Perhaps Richy will give us the full story?

Because of said incompetence, we have put our manager and team at risk. They have been sold short by fuckwits.

Oh and as a footnote, the BBC have just reported that Everton are not interested in making any Free transfer acquisitions.. wonderful fuckwittery, just double down on the stuff ups.. don't actually address an issues for fear of losing face.

There may be players left without a chair, but we seem to have three empty chairs: CF, RB, LB.

Agree 100% with your post Christine.
Very good.

it's painful the gyrations people will put themselves through to lay the blame for this fiasco not at the door of the Friedkins where it belongs, but at the feet of the person who has been warning us of their MO for over a year.

Thanks for the comments, everyone,especially Christine, Kevin, and John for the robust pushback.

You are absolutely right to point the finger higher up the chain. Kevin and Christine make a fair point: the root of this mess is structural, and the Friedkin Group/Kinnear have to own the incoherent vision. I don't disagree with that diagnosis at all.

But my article wasn't about who to fire first—it was about what we do with what we have left.

We can debate Kinnear's future until January, but that doesn't change the fact that Moyes has one recognised striker and a glut of midfielders for Saturday's team sheet. We need a functional short-term fix regardless of who is in the boardroom.

Keep the criticism coming—it keeps us honest. But let's also keep one eye on the pitch, because the music has stopped, and this squad is what we have to work with until the window reopens.Thought they have to make a shape in the markets that Moyes outlined in the presser.

I could add that Kinnear was not gifted in expression.With his quotes of 'happily dissatisfied', 'we need a right back' and as Christine says 'judge us after the transfer window'.He appears so naive.

I have always been of the opinion that Kinnear was the driver in the appointment of Moyes.Whilst most including myself seen this as stability, I now see this as filling a inadequacy that Kinnear felt he had.His wages are considerably less that other Chief Executives, so TFG did not spend.

It became apparent that Moyes sought a dominant role in last Summers Transfer window, with surprising impunity for his outburst.He basically didn't play most of the players that where recruited, until a shambolic League Cup match.

I think rather than complementing Kinnear's inadequacy, Moyes has exposed it and his ability to take on the Culture that needed change.

Maybe Kinnear is being set up to take the heat as Chief Executive, rather than like the Managers of the pass have been, so many times.Finch Farm will not turn on Moyes he is their leader.

I still think there is a Culture problem and a log jam on infrastructure development which has allowed Cultural stagnation or even a isolationist outpost.Maybe the rights issue and new investor sought will provide the necessary funds, to most this all forward.Everton definitely need to progress on.