The views are so polemic its unbelievable.
With a hope for clarity, I think this is the 'general' situation with most supporters:
* DM did a good job keeping us up last season and was indeed a welcome 'safe pair of hands';
* We are pretty much safe now already, which in some ways shows how weak this league continues to be. It means the bar of 'we stayed up' or 'we're safe' is a very low one considering how bad we've been and the points deductions etc;
* We're awful to watch for the most part - even our wins are backs against the wall slug-fests;
* DM is extremely experienced - but football has moved on. It's why there is only him and Dyche still ploughing the same old furrow that the likes of Allardyce, Pulis, Hodgson etc ploughed.
* To have a progressive, positive manager who didn't witter on about limitations, but instead promoted all the positives would be so refreshing. Games would be less predictable and the match day experience would be so much better. Compare DM's soundbites with the incredible positivity of Ranieri when he first met his Leicester squad that the Board had told him would be lucky to survive relegation.
Football is about enjoyment as well as belonging. Sure, we're Evertonians and we'll turn up whatever the state of play, but the older we get the less time (and hope) we have that better times are round the corner. So, to the crux....
Don't give DM any spends this window, shake his hand and give him a decent farewell at the end of the season (not like his last farewell where he ditched us) and have a solid plan in place for the new man so he knows in advance the job is his, he can plan with the recruitment team and we can have a proper pre-season and look forward to a more entertaining season.