Ranking Everton Managers This Century


1. Moyes (Mk 1) - Not the most beautiful football we'll ever see, but did a great job of keeping the club competitive and pushing for Europe year in, year out. Other names on the list made it look like a much harder task than it was. Gave us the Baines-Pienaar axis of terror on the left as well.
2. Ancelotti - Covid robbed us of what could have been something special at Goodison for the first half of the 2021/2022 season. For the best it was behind closed doors for the second half.
3. Martinez - Every now and again I think about the run of games where we ran through teams at Goodison in the 2013/2014 season, like the Arsenal 3-0 and Moyes' United 2-0. Probably the most exciting Everton team this century in terms of the actual football that was played. It was absolute rubbish at the end, but I've done a much better job of scrubbing that from my brain.
4. Moyes (Mk 2) - Could slip down depending on how this season goes, but Moyes Mk 2 feels like he'll give us a couple of seasons of stability and a slow climb up the table. No bad thing considering the names underneath couldn't manage that.
5. Dyche - Came in when we looked utterly cooked, fulfilled the brief of keeping us up, left when we looked utterly cooked. He's so high on this list because I can't see how anyone other than Moyes and maybe Carlo deals with the point deduction. I guess we also have that mad Brighton game where we scored for fun and the Merseyside derby win?
6. Silva - Felt like he cared about the club, got some pretty memorable wins before the flame out in his second season, gave us Richarlison. Too much, too soon for him; glad he's doing well with Fulham.
7. Koeman - Above Allardyce purely because of the City game where Tom Davies turned into prime Ronaldinho for precisely one dribble. Clearly only came because Moshiri was paying over the odds and probably gets more of a pass as he was in before the wheels really came off in that era.
8. Allardyce - Like Dyche, did his job, but the football was unwatchable and it felt we got spanked for fun more often than not with him.
9. Smith - Honestly, don't really remember much about Smith's Everton. Maybe he should be higher because it didn't hurt me as much?
10 . Lampard - Talked a great game, but the one who Everton seemed to break the quickest. Once Plan A didn't work, just looked lost and all the games I remember from his time were the ones where we scraped a result we couldn't afford not to.
11. Benitez - I have fond, fond memories of that game where we beat Arsenal 2-1 because it was around my 30th, but Christ, that whole season was a disaster. Should never have been near the role, glad that everyone seems to have agreed to forget it ever happened.
 
What in sweet hell. Ancelotti over Moyes? Our fans are completely insane. Even Martinez was better than Ancelotti!
Disagree heavily... Ancelotti had us within a win or two of Champions League football with 4 or 5 games left and when we had a full team out we played some of the best football I've seen us play
 
Moyes mark 1
Sean Dyche
Ancelotti
Martinez
Moyes mark 2
Allardyce
Silva
Smith
Benitez
Lampard
Koeman

Moyes mark 2 will climb higher if he kicks us further on this season.

I’ve based this on what the managers did with the resources they had. I think Silva Koeman and Ancelotti got an unbelievable amount of resources that other managers didn’t have and I don’t think any of them really did that much with it.
That's about right for me, bar benitez and lampard should swop.
 



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