Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
Not sure, doubt he could have done worse that season. Why Howard was offered the job was stupifying, he just wasn’t a fit man at the time, his illness, because that’s what it was, should have stopped any sane person from offering the position to Howard. I loved Howard Kendall as a great footballer with Everton and he did great, first time round, as a manager, he gave all us supporters our pride back, especially in Derby games. It would have been better for Howard if he had left it at that and never came back, although I was delighted when he came back from Man.City, but he wasn’t the same even then.I reckon so. As washed up as Kendall was then, at least he had some experience of the nuts and bolts of coaching. For Gray to have come in and learned on the job with the squad and the club the way it was at the time was a recipe for disaster.