Next manager discussion (poll reset 21/05/2016)

BirkenheadBlue · June 4, 2016

saintquin said:
So your Club has been finishing higher then the previous season in each of the last 4 seasons then! We have and as I've said before I know it's not going carry on forever but, no one knows exactly how far we can go.

Pochettino and Koeman both obviously feel like they have a decent idea.

Ashtonian · June 4, 2016

navidson said:
Calhanoglu? I would love it if we signed him, love it

Aye, read a lot in here that he is a good player.

What we need in midfield more than anything is a different option to Barkley. We need more than one striker sure, but we also need a different midfielder to swap out for Ross. That's his weakness, noone to displace him in the team no matter how well he doesn't play. I'd rather us sign a good creative player, whether it's the Turkish lad, Wijnaldum, Praet, Tielmans etc just someone else to make Ross have to play for his place.

Saying that now we will have a competent manager I could see Ross really kicking on this season and becoming the player he threatens to be

Hickson9 · June 4, 2016

Kev The Rat said:
Thats not strictly true as they were a reasonably strong side in the late 70s through to mid 80s.

Fair enough. I see that they won an FA cup in 76 and finished 2nd in 84, good highlights.

Kev The Rat · June 4, 2016

Hickson9 said:
Fair enough. I see that they won an FA cup in 76 and finished 2nd in 84, good highlights.

Blew the league one season as I recall when they were in pole position - think that was 83-84.

navidson · June 4, 2016

Ashtonian said:
Aye, read a lot in here that he is a good player.

What we need in midfield more than anything is a different option to Barkley. We need more than one striker sure, but we also need a different midfielder to swap out for Ross. That's his weakness, noone to displace him in the team no matter how well he doesn't play. I'd rather us sign a good creative player, whether it's the Turkish lad, Wijnaldum, Praet, Tielmans etc just someone else to make Ross have to play for his place.

Saying that now we will have a competent manager I could see Ross really kicking on this season and becoming the player he threatens to be

I think his major strength is his dead ball delivery/striking - He's one of, if not the best in Europe at direct FKs

roydo · June 4, 2016

Hickson9 said:
Fair enough. I see that they won an FA cup in 76 and finished 2nd in 84, good highlights.

Wernt they in Div 2 when they won that?

Lee Smith · June 4, 2016

HE'S GOING TO FLICK ONE, HE'S GOING TO FLICK ONE

Kev The Rat · June 4, 2016

roydo said:
Wernt they in Div 2 when they won that?

Yes. Unbelievably they signed Keegan from Hamburg in the early 80s which was a huge shock back then as the RS had first refusal.

They were actually on for the double in 83-84 but we knocked them out in the cup semi and they collapsed over the final hurdle in the league.

Aar_the_Toffees · June 4, 2016

To think a couple of months ago were concerned Martinez wouldn't be sacked regardless of what happens, Kenwright would still be in charge, we would stay in Goodison for another 100 years, and are best players would leave. Oh how times have changed.

We now have (all but officially) appointed Koeman (not my first choice but a good one nonetheless), Kenwright is a few steps away from having no say, we have plans for a new stadium that the City Council acknowledges, and our best players (other than that utter toss Lukaku) will probably stay. And even if they don't. 100 million to spend in the summer.

All hail Moshiri.

Aar_the_Toffees · June 4, 2016

That Turkish lad would probably drop into CM if he comes. We would play with two attacking mids and one holding than probably. Good lord. What a midfield that would be. Ross and Hakan.

The Esk · June 4, 2016

balggy said:
Does it not feel a bit back to front if we appoint a manager before a director of football? You would have thought the Director of football would want to be sure the manager buys into ha way of doing things.

I'm pretty sure Monchi would have been made aware of our interest in Koeman even at the time we were looking at Emery. Equally Koeman would be aware of who we had as a short list for DoF and the lines of responsibility between both positions.

navidson · June 4, 2016

Aar_the_Toffees said:
That Turkish lad would probably drop into CM if he comes. We would play with two attacking mids and one holding than probably. Good lord. What a midfield that would be. Ross and Hakan.

Have we actually been linked with him?

I'll need to have a lie down if so

MichaelEFC96 · June 4, 2016

Fully confident Koeman will be great for us

Steve Wigan · June 4, 2016

blueblue said:
There are very few with real inside sources at the club...but there are some.
Others have sources outside the club . I think that SHEEDY has a source who is an agent and his information is usually very good.
SHORTY at NSNO is another and of course The Esk.

Liverpool is not a big city and of course some posters could know and have access to club employees or family members of players.

I simply am not an ITK, but at the start of this week a very good friend of mine was sitting at a table with Seamus Coleman and James McCarthy.
My friend, not an Evertonian, took greatdelight in telling me this and although he asked a few questions of them, he certainly did not ask the questions I would have asked.

My point is that even on a once off any of us could become an itk....our fifteen minutes of fame.

That's common sense. Up to a few years ago I was involved in large charity shows, mostly in big theatres, and would
meet lots of people who were 'celebs' including many in the football world(SAF a few times, Reidy, Sam Allardyce, etc) as well as other sports people and lots of actors. Some would engage in conversation, and drop little 'titbits' ...Ferguson was excellent, and a great listener as well as talker. Reidy talked about Everton...as indeed did Tommy Docherty when I met him..actually had a couple of drinks with him and talked about the 'old days'...he liked Everton as a club and liked our defender Mick Meagan as a player. The best contact I ever had, however, was a sportsman, but not a footballer(not going to name him)...I had some personal 'organising' meetings with him and it turned out that he was best buddies with an Everton director..or rather his wife was very friendly with the directors wife, and he told me some interesting stuff...although none of it was earth shattering. Through our lives we all have contact however flimsy with footballers, etc, but its only when you get to know them better, or are working with them, that you are likely to give you a hint of whats going on. Years ago our superstars used to drink in St Philomenas Club at the Old Roan, and Jim Gabriel, Alex Young and others were there often...after he retired Derek Temple had the Post Office at the Old Roan. I played in some Mickey Mouse 'friendleys' with lots of the players, including Tony Kay and the RS Hunt, Harrower etc at the old Silcocks club in Netherton...but in those days players knew nothing, and these days they are told to keep quiet about club matters. Best chat I ever had with an ex player was near White Hart Lane...I was calling on newsagents and met Ted Ditchburn, the ex Spurs goalkeeper, who told me that Nobby Fieldin had a shop in the next road, so I called and had a long chat with 'Englands best uncapped inside forward(that's midfielder to you youngsters!)