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Player Valuation: £80m
ToffeeTV has a video out asking are we going to replace him. I couldn't help but think of this...
Sorry Dunc.
Sorry Dunc.
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
Hope he does well. I think he was instrumental in toughening up Lukaku during his time here. When he arrived he was a bit of a wimp - when he left he was a beast. DCL has also commented on how his coaching has brought him on to the point of England recognition.
Can't knock anyone who has this kind of passion for the club...
This photo shows Ancelotti's true feelings for the club after a goal. It also shows Duncan's.
Spammy Hoop-la crapping his kecks on the deck.
I wish him well for the future. A true blue...
Can't knock anyone who has this kind of passion for the club...
This photo shows Ancelotti's true feelings for the club after a goal. It also shows Duncan's.
Spammy Hoop-la crapping his kecks on the deck.
I wish him well for the future. A true blue...
Ibby
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Ferguson's exit leaves huge vacancy - to be Everton's next hero!
DOMINIC KING: Ferguson has been assistant to many from Martinez to Benitez, but it was evident from the earliest days of Lampard's reign there would be no space for him.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
He did well when he stepped in as manager. I think he could score a another managing position somewhere and work his way up. I’m not really a fan of not cleaning house though.
The managers should always bring in their own guys and have everyone on board. Not saying Duncan was a problem, but he survived quite a few poor administrations. I wish him nothing but the best.
The managers should always bring in their own guys and have everyone on board. Not saying Duncan was a problem, but he survived quite a few poor administrations. I wish him nothing but the best.
Muggins
Player Valuation: £60m
So you didn’t vandalise his mural then?
Only joking.
Cheers for the eloquent reply.
Muggins
Player Valuation: £60m
Dave your multi is much more eloquent than you are.
lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Sad loss to the club
He was getting marginalised more and more
Unsworth and ferguson for the next available job - interesting choice
He was getting marginalised more and more
Unsworth and ferguson for the next available job - interesting choice
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
Ancelotti was/is way above showing emotions though - he didn't really go around jumping and running when his team scored... in the CL final.
Toffeeforme
Player Valuation: £750k
Either getting sent off or injured. Most of his injuries were down to conditioning. And his condition was down to his lifestyle. See him bevvied up and smoking like Thomas the tank 48 hours before a big game in a club in town. Let his ego get in the way of the team far to often and ended with an early bath. After saying all that wish him well.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
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It says much about his new-found drive and commitment that his latest exit from his beloved club is born of a desire to better himself.
In a seven-minute interview, entitled “the farewell interview”, uploaded on Everton’s website on Monday, a dapper-looking Ferguson spoke about wanting to pursue his managerial ambitions. “I need to do it,” he said. “I need to take the next step.” Unlike the wrist watch gifted to him by Howard Kendall’s widow Lily that had stopped at quarter past eight and which he wore when taking caretaker charge of the team, time cannot stand still. There is a world beyond the Wirral.
His prospects certainly seem a lot brighter than they did in May 2006 when he cut such a sullen figure after being told by Moyes he was not being offered another contract.
He had scored just once in another injury and suspension-interrupted season. That goal, his last of 72 in a blue shirt, was scored with his final touch of his career, after his scuffed penalty was saved by West Bromwich Albion keeper Tomasz Kuszczak. Ferguson managed to convert the rebound for a 2-2 draw.
Early the following week, Moyes gave the then 34-year-old the bad news. He was out after ten years and two different spells at the club.
The manager offered him his hand. An offended Ferguson, who later admitted he was bereft of ideas about what to do next, rejected Moyes’ handshake and was next spotted in Majorca, where he moved with his family.
Little was heard of him for five years, although he did make a rare return to be inducted as an Everton Giant at a swanky do before, remarkably, pitching up in a tracksuit in Largs to begin an SFA-run B license coaching course alongside the likes of Paul Hartley.
His surprise willingness to re-start his football career as a coach meant having to put to one side resentment felt at the part the SFA played in his prison sentence for head-butting Jock McStay when with Rangers and the 12-game ban they sought to impose even after he was released.
More pride had to be swallowed with regards to Moyes. He visited him to apologise in the summer of 2011. They belatedly shook hands and Moyes invited him to begin his coaching career.
Eleven years later, Ferguson has emerged as a super-qualified coach but frustrated manager. His decision to leave Everton seems to have been triggered by a realisation – some fear it’s too late – that he was never going to be given the permanent post as manager without proving himself elsewhere. Now the speculation begins. If not at Everton, where does Duncan Ferguson earn his managerial spurs?
When he left Goodison Park as a player that final time, he did have options. Bradford City were one credited with an interest. “With all due respect,” noted former Everton striker Graeme Sharp in his autobiography, “Duncan just isn’t a Bradford player.”
Is he a Bradford manager? Or the manager at a club of similar standing? The Bantams are currently in League Two, the fourth tier of English football. Even though he was heavily linked with a move to Blackburn Rovers earlier this summer, bookmakers Betfred believe the third tier is Ferguson’s most likely destination.
He is priced at 5/2 for any English League One club. He is 10/1 to replace Giovanni van Bronckhorst at Rangers, 14/1 to go to Hearts and 20/1 to be Scotland’s next manager, although a return north of the border seems fanciful given events of the past.
It also is hard to imagine Ferguson slumming it around in the lower reaches of English football but that might be how it needs to be. He wasn’t afraid to start at the bottom at the Everton academy, where he started work – initially unpaid – with the Under-12s. “I did it the hard way,” he repeats a couple of times in the farewell interview. “I’ve no’ cut corners.”
Ferguson will turn 51 halfway through the coming season. His bete noire at first club Dundee United, Jim McLean, retired from management aged only 55. Not many managerial careers start after 50.
But that shouldn’t count against Ferguson, who must have learned so much from working with a succession of top class managers, including Roberto Martinez and Carlo Ancelotti.
Not one of them felt the need to oust him – or were emboldened enough to consider calling time on Ferguson’s love affair with the club.
It dawned on the Scot that he had to be the one who severed ties, otherwise it might never happen. He risked wandering the corridors at Finch Farm in limbo forever because, it seemed, no new manager had the balls to let him go and Everton did not have the balls to appoint him permanent manager, as they surely should have done last summer rather than turn to Rafael Benitez.
It’s understood Bill Kenwright, the Everton chairman, was heavily in favour of naming Ferguson manager but owner Farhad Moshiri pushed for the unpopular Benitez.
This might be when it struck Ferguson that his chance will probably never come if a Liverpool legend, albeit one with an impressive CV, is being preferred over someone with his Evertonian credentials.
He has surely earned his chance – at Everton or elsewhere. Now, of course, it will have to be elsewhere, although it seems inconceivable that he won’t return to Everton again in some capacity.
He admits being anguished as recently as last weekend, when, after attending an Everton in the Community dinner, he panicked: “My god, I cannae give this up!” But he can and he has – for now. Now it gets interesting. Save me a place in the front row for his managerial unveiling, wherever that may be.
Duncan Ferguson: Everton legend to find a world beyond the Wirral - but mystery surrounds next destination
The last time Duncan Ferguson walked out of Everton, he refused the offer of a handshake from David Moyes and turned his back on football for several years.
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Duncan Ferguson: Everton legend to find a world beyond the Wirral - but mystery surrounds next destination
The last time Duncan Ferguson walked out of Everton, he refused the offer of a handshake from David Moyes and turned his back on football for several years.
It says much about his new-found drive and commitment that his latest exit from his beloved club is born of a desire to better himself.
In a seven-minute interview, entitled “the farewell interview”, uploaded on Everton’s website on Monday, a dapper-looking Ferguson spoke about wanting to pursue his managerial ambitions. “I need to do it,” he said. “I need to take the next step.” Unlike the wrist watch gifted to him by Howard Kendall’s widow Lily that had stopped at quarter past eight and which he wore when taking caretaker charge of the team, time cannot stand still. There is a world beyond the Wirral.
His prospects certainly seem a lot brighter than they did in May 2006 when he cut such a sullen figure after being told by Moyes he was not being offered another contract.
He had scored just once in another injury and suspension-interrupted season. That goal, his last of 72 in a blue shirt, was scored with his final touch of his career, after his scuffed penalty was saved by West Bromwich Albion keeper Tomasz Kuszczak. Ferguson managed to convert the rebound for a 2-2 draw.
Early the following week, Moyes gave the then 34-year-old the bad news. He was out after ten years and two different spells at the club.
The manager offered him his hand. An offended Ferguson, who later admitted he was bereft of ideas about what to do next, rejected Moyes’ handshake and was next spotted in Majorca, where he moved with his family.
Little was heard of him for five years, although he did make a rare return to be inducted as an Everton Giant at a swanky do before, remarkably, pitching up in a tracksuit in Largs to begin an SFA-run B license coaching course alongside the likes of Paul Hartley.
His surprise willingness to re-start his football career as a coach meant having to put to one side resentment felt at the part the SFA played in his prison sentence for head-butting Jock McStay when with Rangers and the 12-game ban they sought to impose even after he was released.
More pride had to be swallowed with regards to Moyes. He visited him to apologise in the summer of 2011. They belatedly shook hands and Moyes invited him to begin his coaching career.
Eleven years later, Ferguson has emerged as a super-qualified coach but frustrated manager. His decision to leave Everton seems to have been triggered by a realisation – some fear it’s too late – that he was never going to be given the permanent post as manager without proving himself elsewhere. Now the speculation begins. If not at Everton, where does Duncan Ferguson earn his managerial spurs?
When he left Goodison Park as a player that final time, he did have options. Bradford City were one credited with an interest. “With all due respect,” noted former Everton striker Graeme Sharp in his autobiography, “Duncan just isn’t a Bradford player.”
Is he a Bradford manager? Or the manager at a club of similar standing? The Bantams are currently in League Two, the fourth tier of English football. Even though he was heavily linked with a move to Blackburn Rovers earlier this summer, bookmakers Betfred believe the third tier is Ferguson’s most likely destination.
He is priced at 5/2 for any English League One club. He is 10/1 to replace Giovanni van Bronckhorst at Rangers, 14/1 to go to Hearts and 20/1 to be Scotland’s next manager, although a return north of the border seems fanciful given events of the past.
It also is hard to imagine Ferguson slumming it around in the lower reaches of English football but that might be how it needs to be. He wasn’t afraid to start at the bottom at the Everton academy, where he started work – initially unpaid – with the Under-12s. “I did it the hard way,” he repeats a couple of times in the farewell interview. “I’ve no’ cut corners.”
Ferguson will turn 51 halfway through the coming season. His bete noire at first club Dundee United, Jim McLean, retired from management aged only 55. Not many managerial careers start after 50.
But that shouldn’t count against Ferguson, who must have learned so much from working with a succession of top class managers, including Roberto Martinez and Carlo Ancelotti.
Not one of them felt the need to oust him – or were emboldened enough to consider calling time on Ferguson’s love affair with the club.
It dawned on the Scot that he had to be the one who severed ties, otherwise it might never happen. He risked wandering the corridors at Finch Farm in limbo forever because, it seemed, no new manager had the balls to let him go and Everton did not have the balls to appoint him permanent manager, as they surely should have done last summer rather than turn to Rafael Benitez.
It’s understood Bill Kenwright, the Everton chairman, was heavily in favour of naming Ferguson manager but owner Farhad Moshiri pushed for the unpopular Benitez.
This might be when it struck Ferguson that his chance will probably never come if a Liverpool legend, albeit one with an impressive CV, is being preferred over someone with his Evertonian credentials.
He has surely earned his chance – at Everton or elsewhere. Now, of course, it will have to be elsewhere, although it seems inconceivable that he won’t return to Everton again in some capacity.
He admits being anguished as recently as last weekend, when, after attending an Everton in the Community dinner, he panicked: “My god, I cannae give this up!” But he can and he has – for now. Now it gets interesting. Save me a place in the front row for his managerial unveiling, wherever that may be.
Hmmmm, I suspect a decent salary also meant it wasn't a straightforward decision.
Assistant manager at Everton probably pays far more that anywhere in Scotland (outside of the old firm) and virtually every Championship club.
As time goes on his managerial stint will grow in legend.
Chelsea Win. Agricultural football roared on by a relived Goodison.
UTD draw. Don't think we created anything of note.
Leicester Cup Loss. Only limped into extra time thanks to a rocket from an almost retired fullback. The inevitable loss on penalties followed.
Arsenal draw. One of the dullest games I have say through in years. Tbf Arsenal were no better.
Aston Villa Loss. Outfoxed by Gerrard. Looked completely out of ideas. I get it, it was a huge pressure game with us performing so badly. It was actually unfair for the club to put him in. Those calling for him to get the job until seasons end were utter lunatics.
P5
W1
D3
L1
Less than a point a game, you could argue we had no 'easy' teams but those are the breaks.
If they go for the same job, Ferguson will wipe the floor with Unsworth in any interview.
One is a decent coach who would probably have several letters of recommendation, one from arguably the best manager of the past 20 years. One is a waste of space.
Some believe Unsworth walked (like Duncan) to further his managerial ambitions, if that was the case, where was his cosy farewell interview? He got a boot up the arse and probably a nice little payoff to clear his desk.
I think that’s pretty cynical, to be honest. But that’s just my view.
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