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The accusation levelled at Farhad Moshiri after deadline day was that he didn’t act fast enough.

That with the clock winding down and time running out, everything was left too late.

But when it comes to finding Everton a new home. the club’s majority shareholder is not hanging around.

Earlier today, less than eight months after he first stepped in through the doors at Goodison, Moshiri was stood in the middle of disused dockland on the banks of the Mersey ripe for redevelopment.

It was one of two sites he visited on Friday, the other at Stonebridge Cross in Croxteth, but the excitement and the hope lies with the plot on the waterfront.

The sight of Moshiri, with chairman Bill Kenwright, Sasha Ryazantsev, Robert Elstone and others including Mayor Joe Anderson, gathered in a small group, under grey skies, amid a backdrop of stacked wooden pallets and cast iron piping, would be insignificant to the casual observer but it was enough to send plenty of Evertonians delirious.

Other Blues, understandably, will be urging for calm, conditioned by a long and fruitless struggle for a new stadium and the club will be eager to manage expectations.

But few could deny that Moshiri’s presence in the city didn’t send out a strong message as to his intent and to the speed with which he plans on delivering on it.