I don’t know why you’re all raging about what he said though - he’s right. Doesn’t matter if he was a rubbish or a good manager, he’s right.
Too many of our fans think that Ancelotti will turn us into Man City. No one seems to have studied him as an actual manager and what he brings.
Firstly, Ancelotti is from the old school of pragmatic coach. He’s like the Mourinho’s and Benitez’s of this world. Nothing wrong with that - all of these coaches have won the big prizes. Just don’t ever expect Everton to play beautiful football under CA, won’t happen.
Secondly, CA has always worked with ready-made squads full of world class players with winning mentality. This is the first time I’ve known CA walk into a ‘project’. There’s absolutely no guarantee that he’s the right kind of manager to build a young, hungry squad. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t see it happening.
Ancelotti is one of those “get the fans onside” appointments and you can’t blame Moshiri for going for him, it sent a statement of intent.
But unless we can get around FFP and bin off most the squad and bring in actual quality like Koulibaly, Jadon Sancho, Partey etc then we’re in for a rough ride.
Why would any of the above type of player want to come here for a start when we’re not even in the Europa League? Again, we’re competing with the likes of Wolves and even they look in better shape than we do right now. But you’ve got to start somewhere and we’ve appointed CA not David Moyes thank god so at least we’re learning on that front.
I just think the Ancelotti appointment was the wrong time and wrong place. We need a young manager with long term vision who the owners will stick behind whilst we lose and draw, like Chelsea and Man U are doing.
My prediction is that we’ll only be able to sign two or three players in the summer because of FFP, we will struggle again next season - CA will stick with 442 and our fans will get impatient, myself included. Rinse, repeat.
Absolutely entitled to your opinion mate.
Mine is that you've typed probably the most negative thing you could have without any real foundation. You're articulate, fine, but there's no much substance at all to it.
You mix things together to cover all bases but they're inconsistent as a context.
So Madrid, Napoli, AC Milan... They all played very nice football. So he has previous for that despite you saying we can't expect that at Everton.
Ahhh but then there's your other primary point about him not ever having a project to work with and instead only ever has good players. Even if that's correct, which it isn't given his work at Parma, it still doesn't go with the idea that he's a pragmatist whilst using the likes of Zidane.
You say you want a young manager but we've had them in Martinez and Silva.
There's nothing wrong with just not liking an appointment because your image of Everton is very different to Ancelotti. You want a younger, more handsome South American perhaps. That's fine.
But you're shoe horning a justification rather than having genuine concerns. Put another way, you're finding concerns to suit your agenda
And you may be found to be right. But for now I'm glad to say it seems apparent most people think you're a lunatic for not being ecstatic with a manager of the quality of Ancelotti.
