MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
Because I’m yet to meet an Everton fan in RL or on here that actually wants him. The people who want him are either new posters or only post when the Everton job available and again are for Benitez.
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See I actually find that attitude even stranger. I could get it if you were saying you thought that appointing a manager with Benitez's record was our best chance of competing at the top end - i'd disagree but I could get the thinking behind it. If you don't think we'll be any good or go down whoever is in charge, then it's weird to me that you would be happy with us being managed by a bloke who has a reputation for dull football, who doesn't really come across well publicly (he may be a lovely bloke in private but his public persona isn't great) and who has an indelible link to our biggest rivals. If we're going to finish in midtable regardless then i'd much rather not do it with Benitez/Allardyce/Pulis/Gerrard etc in charge.
Also 'banter' is surely a big part of being a football fan? If I just wanted to watch people kicking a ball I wouldn't support a team, i'd just watch whoever took my fancy at any given time. Getting stick off reds and feeling like I don't really have a connection to my own team would be a pretty big thing for me. Obviously we're all different.
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £50m
The fact that he’s a kopite is obviously important but if we were linked to Rodgers there wouldn’t be anywhere near this anger , appointing a RS is one thing but appointing one past his sell by date is another .
Theoneandonly
Player Valuation: £10m
I can't remember Houllier buying Luis Garcia who scored 4 goals en route to the Champions League final. Or Xabi Alonso who scored in the final.
They also finished runners up in the League Cup that season too.
FA cup and Super Cup winners the season after, as well as finishing 3rd.
Charity Shield winners and another champions league final, runners up this time though. Another 3rd place finish.
Semi finals of the Champions league and a 4th place finish.
2nd place in the league, led the season for pretty much most of it.
Semi finals of the Europa League... Sacked.
I would accept Benitez. As I would accept any ex-Liverpool player that would improve us. They are professionals
I applaud the openess of your heart and mind but I'm afraid that I can't go there.
In the highly unlikely event of him bringing success to Goodison I'm not even sure that I could enjoy it.
I suspect it would feel a bit empty , dirty and tainted.
I'm not even sure I would be arsed about us if he was in charge.
You just don't get it do you, apart from the millions we will have thrown at him if as you admit, nobody is going to achieve anything with this squad, why on earth is it acceptable to appoint such a devisive person.
It may not matter to you what Benitez has said about us in the past, I assume you are not a Scouser, but surely you can see he is a busted flush who will be played a fortune by us to do a job that any halfway competent manager could do for half the wage and without splitting our fanbase.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes I mean Evertonian's are nothing but a fairly disunited bunch who have a multitude of different views. People are going to have a go at you for having a view to a degree, but that is done pretty consistently. I've seen moaning about Nuno, Benitez, Moyes, Ferguson, Martinez, Lampard, Potter, Howe, Favre, Conte, Ancelotti, Allardyce, Silva, Koeman etc. All of them are seen as simultaneously representative of everything that has gone wrong and will go wrong.
Honestly, I'd just pop my opinion up, expect lots of people will have a different opinion, some will probably tell you you're the problem but it's rarely people being nasty, it's just an expression of the frustration we feel.
There's no stand out candidate we are getting this time. On Benitez though, if you want to be critical, I certainly don't think anybody is getting massively shouted down with that!
….me probably being over suspicious, but could the club/Benitez get new posters on here to try & push the Benitez agenda?
I suppose only @GrandOldTeam & mods know if there has been an influx who have concentrated their posts on pushing the Benitez bandwagon.
moyeslovechild
Player Valuation: £15m
when I say real i mean including the people who are scared to say what they really think. In are group chat straight after Ancelotti left benitez was mooted at the start and people said they'd be happy with it. now a couple of them have gone back on it because of thr fume and rest are quiet.
I want a young up and coming manager. That is how we bridge the gap to better teams. We need only players and managers who are 100% determined to better themselves. No one past their peak should be recruited in any capacity.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
i dont want benitez but it makes me laugh that people are offended that he called us a small club many years ago.
Not much good in September and transfer window closed. Plus who buys them
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
I think we are getting too deep into it. I went up against several posters last night who have been around for a while who were arguing the case for him.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a genuine section of fans who are blinkered by historical achievements and net spend.
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