Almost certain that nobody thinks hes a decent manager at this point.
But neither is Moyes.
Decent Europa runs, decent FA cup runs, purchases / loans made (lescott, Cahill, explain, Arteta, jags, Baines, Coleman, yak, distin etc) played for years, made us profit. CL qualification rounds, seriously!
He did it on nothing, and improved players like carsley and was a bit unlucky on Gibson.
I get his dour outlook sometimes felt like lack of ambition, but he drove a club with relatively a quarter of what we're wasting now, much further. His legacy in that grit, organisation and quality (especially defence) was enough for a team led by Martinez (defensive no- mark), with the addition of Lukaku to a points tally that in other years would be CL outright.
He's available, he has the qualities to rebuild what has drained from the club since he left.
What are we prioritising otherwise? A faddish splurge on overseas players. I can't see what culture as a team and club we're building that's preferable (whilst also demonstrably inferior on the pitch).
I'm Not saying his jobbing around sociedad, Sunderland and West ham was great.
But what he did here was, and that mantle has been taken up by Leicester, Watford, Bournemouth who with a greater mix of longer serving players and a greater% of British and home grown players are better performing, more successful clubs than Everton. Commercially, too.
Food for thought.
I think we have a touch of the Newcastle and Villa about us. Too big to get in trouble? Once that culture of' acceptable' takes hold, compromise is everywhere.
I don't recognise the values I saw and heard at Goodison under Moyes. If mosh were to reassess we are VERY vulnerable.