No one is saying it was a miracle. People are saying the players weren’t being coached though. I don’t know any team that could survive in the premier league unless they’re coached to an extremely good standard let alone one that could get that group of players to have the 4th best defence in the league.
I don’t know too many teams with awful players and awful managers who have finished mid table with that points total.
The salary of the manager is completely irrelevant. He got it because he held all the negotiating cards when we hired him, we held none. Had he arrived any other time we wouldn’t have paid him that salary so it’s irrelevant to whether or not the players were or weren’t coached.
There’s been poor squads at Everton for the majority of the Moshiri period and it just got worse and worse as PSR bit through Benitez Lampard and then Dyche.
Looking at the performances under all those managers if people seriously don’t think the players are being coached as we reeled off wins away at Brighton, West Ham, Brentford, Palace, home to Arsenal Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, Bournemouth etc. then they’re living in a fantasy world.
You can’t just send 11 of this squad onto a pitch with little to no coaching and seriously expect them to perform? It’s laughable.
Well, Stoke came up from the Championship under Pulis and got 45, 47, 46, 45 and 42 points playing the sort of football Dyche produces. Alex McLeish got 50 points one season and won the League Cup the next at Birmingham. Palace got 45 and 48 points in consecutive seasons under Pulis and Pardew. Wilder managed 54 points with Sheffield United, while our good friend Sam took home 56 points in back-to-back seasons for Bolton.
It's possible for a limited manager to have anomalous seasons where playing dead and snatching goals from corners gets results, but it never lasts because riding your luck isn't a sustainable approach.
Unlike the other bottom-half clubs using many of the same players that brought them up from the Championship or even League One in some cases, Dyche had squad of experienced top-flight players that more or less know what they're doing at this level. Even his fabled defence was exposed and struggling any time Mina or
Branthwaite weren't there to hold his mate
Tarkowski's hand, and I'd say the biggest reason 40-year-old former winger Ashley Young has been arguably our best player this season is because he doesn't need a lot of instruction.
If Dyche isn't an awful manager then awful managers simply don't exist.
. Call it out, not good enough.
