David Unsworth - Temporary Manager

[lungo]

sigurdsson is slow, weak for his size and has not done a bean in an everton shirt.
I'm not rooneys biggest fan but if i had to chose id pick rooney over sigurdsson every day

The only 2 good balls played by an everton player yesterday came from Rooney. True ball to Lennon and great pass to Niasse.

 

[The_La]

Think Unsworth is in danger of going too knee-jerk here. Freezing out all but Rooney is a bit extreme. We bought some genuinely good players and some of them clearly have started badly. But how about trying to find a way to get them playing, instead of destroying their confidence and trying to rely on players who have let us down over several years of mediocrity?

 

[Thomasc]

Think Unsworth is in danger of going too knee-jerk here. Freezing out all but Rooney is a bit extreme. We bought some genuinely good players and some of them clearly have started badly. But how about trying to find a way to get them playing, instead of destroying their confidence and trying to rely on players who have let us down over several years of mediocrity?

Yep, this is my worry.

If he is going to write off Klaassen, Vlasic, Sandro, Gylfi etc just because Koeman bought them and he wants to appease the fans whilst at the same time thinking Niasse is the answer to anything, then I am afraid he needs a re-think before he completely ballses his chances up of getting the job on a full time basis.

The players mentioned above are all good footballers, he needs to think how he can get the best out of them, not completely alienate them in an attempt to look like he is sweeping with a new broom.

 

[royalblue66]

As Unsy is reluctant to play with wingers, I think he should go all Walter Smith. and narrow the width of the playing area, and just suffocate the MF, we need results.

 

[Moomin]

Easy, there are 3 teams in the league worse than us. Everyone needs to calm down and stop putting so much pressure on a group of 20 year olds and get behind them, all a bunch of wannabe sunday league managers chopping and changing the starting xi every week more than koeman did. How are you meant to form any sort of cohesion or continuity if people are constantly saying he needs to put this player in and that player in.

Michael Keane has played 13 games for everton, he has never had the same person at right back next to him in consecutive games,

Our squad is too big.

 

[BernieWright13]

Easy, there are 3 teams in the league worse than us. Everyone needs to calm down and stop putting so much pressure on a group of 20 year olds and get behind them, all a bunch of wannabe sunday league managers chopping and changing the starting xi every week more than koeman did. How are you meant to form any sort of cohesion or continuity if people are constantly saying he needs to put this player in and that player in.

Michael Keane has played 13 games for everton, he has never had the same person at right back next to him in consecutive games,

Care to name them? Because unless a couple of new clubs have been added to the original 20 I don't know who's worse than us atm.

 

[The Blue Watch]

Our hero, Phil Neville thinks Unsy should get the job permanently...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41798443


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Why David Unsworth should get the Everton job - Phil Neville
MOTD2 pundit and former Everton captain

• 5 hours ago
• From the sectionFootball

I would love to see David Unsworth get the Everton job on a permanent basis and it riles me when I see him described as not having enough experience.

Unsworth has done the hard yards as a coach and has done a fantastic job with the Everton Under-23 side, where he has done everything that was asked of him.

He won the Premier League 2 title with them last season and has also produced a lot of the young players that are now playing for the Everton first team.

The next step now is for him to go and do that at first-team level in the Premier League and hopefully that is at Everton, because it seems the perfect match.

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'Who wouldn't want the Everton job?' - Unsworth

Even if it is just until the end of the season, it would be a positive step.

If it is not at Everton, then Unsworth has to get that chance somewhere else - but where?

From an English coach's perspective, we are not getting opportunities. We are seen as second-class citizens at the moment, and that has got to change.

Unsworth understands the fabric of the club
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Unsworth 'disappointed' by Everton's first-half display

Ultimately Unsworth will be judged on his results, but I saw an improvement in Everton's performance and attitude against Chelsea and Leicester which is an encouraging first step.

They are still missing a goal-scoring centre-forward, of course, but they showed far more of the attacking intent which is vital to their supporters.

Against Leicester, Everton played more forward passes into the final third of the pitch than in any of their previous nine Premier League games this season, home or away

That is down to Unsworth. Because of his background at the club as a player and coach - he came through the youth system himself in the early 1990s - he understands the fabric of the club, and knows what Everton fans want to see.

I did not know this myself until I joined, but Everton is a unique club where as a player or manager, it is vital you understand the fans and the area you are working in. They are the people who make it, and it is not just a football club by name.

Unsworth gives his team instructions during their Carabao Cup defeat at Chelsea. He began his coaching career with Preston in 2010 and also worked at Sheffield United before taking a role in Everton's academy in 2013. He has been Everton's caretaker manager once before, in May 2016, when he took charge for one game following Roberto Martinez's departure.

You need a certain character to be an Everton player and there is a certain style of football that you have to play as an Everton manager - the fans want to see goals, action and men going forward.

They do not want defensive-type performances and they do not want slow football. They want entertaining.

So, far from lacking experience, Unsworth knows more about the qualities that are required for the job than any of other candidates, apart from maybe David Moyes.

Unsworth gets Everton Football Club, which is something that maybe the previous manager did not do.

Watford game appears crucial for Unsworth future

Nine of the 11 Everton players who started against Leicester also began Wednesday's Carabao Cup tie against Chelsea, with Idrissa Gueye and Dominic Calvert-Lewin replacing Beni Baningime and James McCarthy. Kevin Mirallas and Aaron Lennon made their first league starts of the season, but both were taken off at half-time, when Oumar Niasse and Baningime came on and Everton moved to a diamond shape in midfield

There is no time frame for Unsworth in his current role as caretaker manager but, realistically, he is probably halfway through a four-game audition for the job.

Following Ronald Koeman's sacking on 22 October, Unsworth took charge against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, then against Leicester on Sunday.

Everton have two more games - away against Lyon in the Europa League on Thursday and then at home against Watford on Sunday - before the international break.

Then they will have 10 days without a game, which is when I would expect a permanent appointment to be made.

The only one of those four games to be at home is against the Hornets, and that is the one that is probably a must-win for Unsworth individually, when it comes to his own future.

This is a great opportunity for him and I already think he has made a difference to this Everton side, despite losing both his games so far.

Sunday's defeat at Leicester was not a great result and Everton remain in the bottom three but it was still a display that Unsworth can be relatively pleased with, and there appeared to be a better balance to the team.

They still need to eradicate the goals they are conceding of course, but I think Unsworth deserves a proper chance to put things right.

A former Everton captain ladies and gentlemen. This is what we've become.

 

[Blue Horse]

Plenty of people seem to be already writing off unsworth's chances of getting the job full time. They seem to have forgotten how dire we were the last few months. He's only had seven days in charge.

 

[Bob Elstone]

Gilfi has to be in the 11.

The bloke has proven star quality.

Play the man in his position. It's worth it for the set pieces alone.

 

[BillLovesRoo]

Care to name them? Because unless a couple of new clubs have been added to the original 20 I don't know who's worse than us atm.

Bournemouth, Palace, Stoke to name 3. But its all opinion

 

[BernieWright13]

Bournemouth, Palace, Stoke to name 3. But its all opinion

Yep. Sure is

 

[degsy]

It won't be a popular opinion but Fat Sam...

It's not popular we need right now it's Effective.

 

[Bluerobins]

Joe Royle was obviously speaking in Rhino’s Ear a lot yesterday and was moved on. If Unsy needs this help then I’m afraid he’s not ready for managing at this level.

 

[Billy Dean]

Plenty of people seem to be already writing off unsworth's chances of getting the job full time. They seem to have forgotten how dire we were the last few months. He's only had seven days in charge.

agree with this. He got the 1st half badly wrong yesterday but apart from that there have been some positive signs. Deserves a few more games before he's completely written off.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

I always thought Unsworth would make a solid but uninspired manager. I still do. His team selections so far have been very dreary, with the exception of Baningime. We need somebody with more vision to guide us out of our current malaise and to have a chance of achieving something in the future. That person is not Unsworth.