Thank heavens for the money Moshpit

FARHAD MOSHIRI wants to turn Everton from a “museum piece into something competitive”. Good luck with that.

Why don’t we just ask: “Are Everton ever going to win the Premier League?”

Anyone fancy a flutter on that? Toffees owner Moshiri is to be wished well for his bravado, and it’s a good job he’s got deep pockets.

More importantly, it’s a good job too that he clearly cares about a challenge which would, frankly, see his sanity questioned if you wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Moshiri addressed shareholders during the week and painted a picture of ambition that will be welcomed well by one and all at Goodison Park.

Those punters should clasp this man close to their hearts. And never let go.

Moshiri has a net worth running into the billions and he wants to be involved in at least trying to force the club into the franchise that’s slowly been established at the top of the Premier League.

Now, money doesn’t solve every problem in football. But having access to plenty of it helps.

If that wasn’t true, why is every club with a mammoth turnover near the top of the league?

At £189million, Everton lag miles behind. Spurs earn £120m more – and will receive a huge boost when their new stadium opens. Liverpool rake in twice as much – as do Arsenal. Chelsea aren’t far behind. Then you are leaping towards the half-a-billion boys in Manchester.

Moshiri is also personally injecting £100m into the new stadium build at Bramley-moore Dock. That in itself will be a drain on finances.

He has sunk £250m in already. And had what in return?

Everton have spent more than £14m paying off a succession of failed managers and senior coaching staff.

They have also routinely waved away huge sums of money on players who simply weren’t good enough – either to wear the blue shirt in the first place

– or bridge the gap to the Big Six.

It ’ s a damning indictment anyway on such a large club that they haven’t won anything since the turn of the Millennium.

It isn’t so much as a gap that is developing now but a chasm.

It may be so big that it won’t be bridged. Ever. Moshiri talked about mistakes being made, errors of judgement and lessons learnt.

But the fact is that Everton have come up with a plan to push the club forward off the pitch.

What is the proposal for what’s going on it?

Everton really shouldn’t be loaning players from Chelsea like they have with Kurt Zouma.

Why aren’t they taking a chance on other players besides Ademola Lookman and start doing the loaning themselves?

Indeed, why don’t they follow Chelsea’s model, sign as many young players of promise as they can, loan them out for other clubs to develop and then bring them back?

Come up with something, anything, that looks like a plan because finishing ‘ best of the rest’ isn’t going to be worth talking about in years to come.

They’ ll be forever on the outside, looking in.

Director of football Marcel Brands has been charged with finding solutions and it’s going to take some royal blue sky thinking to come up with a route towards prosperity and making their way back into the top four.

Manager Marco Silva may or may not be the answer. It is difficult to tell at this point. For the time being, Evertonians, thank your lucky stars Moshiri has nailed his colours to the mast.

He’s rolling up his sleeves and having a go – because if he wasn’t, the way it’s going, Everton FC would never win the Premier League again.

And for a club of such prestige and heritage, that’s a crying shame.