New Everton Manager

[Papa Shango]

I think this might be the virtue signalling nadir.

As a cretin I find this post offensive.

 

[zukai12_]

This is all a conspiracy by the bed sheet industry

Open your eyes people

 

[wainy]

I think this might be the virtue signalling nadir.

That made me as sick as the banner. Our fan base is absolutely awful, geordies mk2.

 

[LocalNative]

I think this might be the virtue signalling nadir.

As if someone has actually written that up and posted it

 

[marnie]

FFS, I very rarely make a mistake too.

I am too busy checking if I have swore in my posts right now to worry about spelling.

It just lost all credibility x

 

[Nymzee]

Friday.

Not necessarily this Friday. But a Friday

Be tomorrow. Hanging my hat on it.

 

[Lanolin]

I think he has a greater chance of success than people think..... why ?

Because he will have the financial backing at Everton that he hasn't had in recent jobs.

It may be that he is a manager that is past his sell by date, as a Liverpool supporting colleague of mine said to me last week.
I asked him if Klopp or Guardiola could win the league with either Everton or Spurs at the moment and his reply was that they couldn't because the players are not good enough....

Manager seem to have a life cycle where the most successful build up to a point where they are at their peak at a big club with big budgets but then their career tapers off as they get older, the clubs they manager are less high profile and the transfer budgets are more modest.

Carlo Ancelotti ran to Madrid because it gave him the opportunity to get back to an elite club..... an opportunity I would guess he thought had gone from him forever.

Everton are a midtable club as per our recent finish, but I think we do have maybe seven players capable of playing with a club in a far higher position......and we have an owner prepared to spend far more money than you would expect a club like Everton to spend.


It is this access to funds that gives Benitez or any other manager the opportunity to progress the club.

Is he good enough to do that time will tell......but then , every manager is a risk as we have seen all too well.

I would be very surprised if we spend really big money this summer, or next. We were in the top 4 in January and 'strengthened' by bringing in one loan player. We lost our manager and appear to have confined our search exclusively to replacements who are not currently employed and so don't have to be compensated. Pretty much the only way the club could possibly get fans onside about the Benitez appointment is by dropping into all the hints that he's going to be backed by an enormous amount of money, and yet there hasn't been a peep. We're not going anywhere fast by buying 3/4 players a year at an outlay of £60m or whatever like last year. That's not a complaint, it's just a fact. We could build slowly with that approach but Benitez has shown no ability to do that.

Forgetting who he is and just looking at his record and our position, by far the most likely scenario is that we plod along hanging onto the coattails of the top 6 and occasionally looking like we might join them before ultimately failing. Again. Because he is who he is though, it probably becomes more likely that it will end in disaster, because there's a very real chance that the banners that are being talked about so much start appearing at games, and being accompanied by boos and chants, and once that happens a parting of the ways becomes almost inevitable.

Benitez could be very successful here, of course he could, but loking at it logically it's pretty clearly the least likely scenario.

 

[PaddyJames]

Well yes. The supporters fund the football club and always have done. Long before he was here, and long after he will be gone.

Fair enough. I still think your comments were out of order but still like you and others have said, its not your usual style. Opinions and stuff.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

So "Death threats are bad" is now considered "virtue signalling".

People need to have a word with themselves.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Why do people value PL experience so highly?

We haven't had a manager without previous PL experience since Moyes, so obviously it must be absolutely essential

 

[Toffeepot]

If we see anymore soiled sheets we may get called the bedwetters. Don't know about you but I prefer Bitters

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Potter = finished 16th in the table and hasnt won a carrot of note

Nuno = the exact same dour football as Rafael and has not won a carrot

Galtier = only managed in France

Gallardo = happy in S.America

Amorim = massive risk could work or see us relegated

Kovac = good manager agreed

Favre = 63 and won just 1 trophy - just got cold feet and left Palace hanging - why some want that kind of flimsy mentality I'll never know

Fonesca = would see us getting dicked 5-2 at Anfield like Silva as the bloke cant defend.

Conceicao = whats he done outside of Portugal which is a farmers league - big risk.

Most of those are massive risks at a time the club dont want to take risks and want some stability whilst BMD is being built.

Why haven’t you defined FSW on that list with his recent achievements?
Because he has none, he’s past it, it’s simple as that.

 

[PhilM]

This is all a conspiracy by the bed sheet industry

Open your eyes people

Anyone want to buy some luxury Egyptian cotton bedlinen? Sold in white, all sizes and I will do a 2-4-1 offer for those with Everton season tickets.

Buy now and I'll throw in a free dictionary and grammar-rules summary.

 

[Papa Shango]

It just lost all credibility x

Always happens at the worst possible time!

 

[Earwigjoe]

'Fraid I can't do that. I adopted him from an animal charity in Newcastle. Said sommat about not letting irrational footie fans near it. Again. For the best, you wouldn't wanna be labelled in with the Geordies would you?

Good good. Anyway, as I've said before I'm not overjoyed at Senor Benitez getting the gig, but I'm not going to piss my pants over it.

Youve a wonderful heart mate adopting a horse. Is it just the 1 you have? What do you call your horse? Speedie, big dunc or Rafael?? No pants pissing here either so we’ve got that in common.