New Everton Manager

[peteblue]

Same.

Rafael is ours.......

 

[Jimishorts]

He's currently meeting the board again for the 5th time.

Heard he‘s doing a couple of publicity photos and taking a few selfies.

 

[peteblue]

Rafael is ours?

Urgh hope he is wrong again

Even a broken clock is right twice a day......*taps nose.......

 

[Theoneandonly]

Heard he‘s doing a couple of publicity photos and taking a few selfies.

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Ha he should definitely do a press release outside them.

 

[Thetigerblue]

This thread is insane. It’s the best drama of the year by far, it’s got everything. Plot twists. Betrayal. Hate. Anger. Revenge. Humour.

 

[peteblue]

Heard he‘s doing a couple of publicity photos and taking a few selfies.

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I heard it was Rafael who put the banners up.....

 

[sageyefc]

He's currently meeting the board again for the 5th time.

Ok guillem

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Out of that list I think I would gamble for the two names in the mystery box.

 

[Big Old Unit]

I heard it was Rafael who put the banners up.....

that is genuinely funny lol

 

[Bkk Andy]

Thanks mate, can you keep us up to date with the exact length of each meeting please.

And the type of biscuits they ate. If he got foil ones the jobs his.

 

[JMT]

If they were giving it to Benitez and waited till next week to announce it then it would just be really weird.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

We get rid and get another manager, just like every other manager we appoint.

What's more, if they are canny, and seen as he is currently out of work and desperate for the job, we can hold the cards in terms of clauses.

But let's flip it on its head. Say we don't pick him. Let's say its Galtier. He comes, and we are start terribly. He doesn't adapt, and he doesn't settle in the area. People get on his back because his English poor and the football isn't great. By October we are bottom 4 despite an inviting early fixture list. We sack him, give him another huge pay off, and now we are looking for a steady reliable manager to get us out of a mess. The tables have turned and the idea of replacing a top guy who walked because the biggest team in the world comes knocking has gone and we are in desperate grovelling mode. There's zero chance of appointing Ferguson now, as a difficult task is now much harder. We look to Benitez again, but he has either taken another job or more likely goes "f@%* that, thanks but no thanks."

As has been discussed, any number of possibilities is possible, including Benitez being a success or a failure. But that is the only place that experience and and a long career trumps flavour of the month appointments. Better the devil you know.

In an ideal world, we are not in a position where Benitez looks like, on balance, the most logical, safest bet of an option, even if that safe bet is mid table status quo. The last thing we need is gambling on a 6th "maybe this 1 will work" attempt at appointing a manager.

If the board have done their homework and think Benitez, for his flaws, is the best choice for the business, and they turn that down out of fear of upsetting a few people on the Internet, then they genuinely are as pathetic and as out of their depth as those that constantly attack them accuse them of.

This should be a cold, logical decision, not 1 made in passion or politics. We've suffered from that for decades going back to Harvey getting the job, before getting Kendall back, and then hiring the "next big thing" at the time in Mike Walker.

Mike Walker appointment was reasonable at the time - his track record was legit, no one was complaining. We must have gotten his evil twin or something as the extent of his failure was staggering - like he gave up on football the second he was appointed.

Harvey was a catastrophic appointment in hindsight - quieter times we might have gotten away with it and just been bad for a while, but really awful timing as the premier league era was dawning.

 

[Big Old Unit]

And the type of biscuits they ate. If he got foil ones the jobs his.

even if its Mint Clubs?

 

[Papa Shango]

Ha he should definitely do a press release outside them.

It could be the new Stephen Hughes tree.

 

[4737carlin]

The guy who got us Carlo, James and Bramley moore

You mean Carlo who was a disaster, James who is a walking injury and Bramley Moore which is still a dock full of water, not too observant you mate.