Ranking Everton Managers This Century

[Mikey O]

By my reckoning we've had 11 Everton managers (excluding caretakers, i.e. managed less than ten games and counting Moyes mark 1 and 2) since 2000 and it's been a horribly lean period but what would be your ranking (based on their time at our club).

My "order of merit" would be:

1. Ancelotti
2. Moyes (mark 2)
3. Silva
4. Koeman
5. Moyes (mark 1)
6. Martinez
7. Smith
8. Dyche
9. Lampard
10. Allardyce
11. Benitez

I'd be interested in how everyone compares their tenures in charge of the club beyond simply the win ratio.

For me, Ancelotti was a dream, I'm probably being sympathetic towards Smith (I was still a callow youth in my thirties), harsh on Allardyce (but the football was truly awful) and I never did and never would accept Benitez of our great club.

 

[blue to the bone]

Koeman . Over Moyes mark 1 !

 

[Kurt.]

DOING WHAT !!!!!

Oh , ranking our managers

 

[John from Bootle]

Moyes Mark 1 tops the list when you take everything in to consideration. Carlo ultimately led us to a 10th place position though there was some great moments that season, certainly up to boxing day.

Obviously Carlo is a better manager, but I can't put him at the top based on performance, impact and graft put in at Everton.

 

[Mikey O]

Koeman . Over Moyes mark 1 !

Moyes mark 1 was given a long, long time and did a big job for us but I feel he traded too much on the "underdogs - knife to gunfight" mentality and limited our ambition. Koeman demanded the best, it didn't work out but the ambition was there.

I've a better feeling about Moyes mark 2

 

[Mikey O]

Moyes Mark 1 tops the list when you take everything in to consideration. Carlo ultimately led us to a 10th place position though there was some great moments that season, certainly up to boxing day.

Obviously Carlo is a better manager, but I can't put him at the top based on performance, impact and graft put in at Everton.

I put Carlo top for the joy he brought in that brief time; we had the best manager in the world and some of the funniest cameos ever. If we'd had kept him and given him a budget we'd have been in Europe every season thereafter.

 

[Eggs]

….Dyche’s achievement in keeping us up with 2 points deductions, a non-existent Board and absent owner was terrific. He should always be remembered for that. He was never able to progress from that and Moyes’ certainly improved results with the same squad.

 

[blue to the bone]

Moyes mark 1 was given a long, long time and did a big job for us but I feel he traded too much on the "underdogs - knife to gunfight" mentality and limited our ambition. Koeman demanded the best, it didn't work out but the ambition was there.

I've a better feeling about Moyes mark 2

Koeman was an arrogant, ego maniac who spent more time golfing then on the training pitch.

 

[danny147]

Moyes first time round not being number one is mental. He was the only reason we didn’t get relegated and probably into administration due to it. Awful ownership, limited funds, best players being sold, favs for relegation and finishing 4th.

Koeman was awful.

 

[John from Bootle]

Moyes mark 1 was given a long, long time and did a big job for us but I feel he traded too much on the "underdogs - knife to gunfight" mentality and limited our ambition. Koeman demanded the best, it didn't work out but the ambition was there.

I've a better feeling about Moyes mark 2

He hardly ever was given money, and had us challenging for Europe most years.

Our ambition was limited by not having a pot to pee in. We went about 2 years without signing a player at one point, and we're still looking for the Arteta money. Show me one club, who has consistently challenged for European places this century, over a prolonged period, without some level of heavy spending. Brighton got there on a shoestring, but have spent heavily in recent years just to tread water.

 

[carolinablue232]

By my reckoning we've had 11 Everton managers (excluding caretakers, i.e. managed less than ten games and counting Moyes mark 1 and 2) since 2000 and it's been a horribly lean period but what would be your ranking (based on their time at our club).

My "order of merit" would be:

1. Ancelotti
2. Moyes (mark 2)
3. Silva
4. Koeman
5. Moyes (mark 1)
6. Martinez
7. Smith
8. Dyche
9. Lampard
10. Allardyce
11. Benitez

I'd be interested in how everyone compares their tenures in charge of the club beyond simply the win ratio.

For me, Ancelotti was a dream, I'm probably being sympathetic towards Smith (I was still a callow youth in my thirties), harsh on Allardyce (but the football was truly awful) and I never did and never would accept Benitez of our great club.

Koeman literally set the club back years with his ridiculous transfer spending and no discernible strategy. Also consider how terrible he treated some of the players. Awful awful manager both on and off the pitch.

 

[Milkman]

What in sweet hell. Ancelotti over Moyes? Our fans are completely insane. Even Martinez was better than Ancelotti!

 

[Saint Domingo]

Moyes mark 1
Sean Dyche
Ancelotti
Martinez
Moyes mark 2
Allardyce
Silva
Smith
Benitez
Lampard
Koeman

Moyes mark 2 will climb higher if he kicks us further on this season.

I’ve based this on what the managers did with the resources they had. I think Silva Koeman and Ancelotti got an unbelievable amount of resources that other managers didn’t have and I don’t think any of them really did that much with it.

 

[blue61]

I'd have put Koeman behind Dyche. He had no affinity with the club whatsoever. Miserable get.

 

[Mikey O]

….Dyche’s achievement in keeping us up with 2 points deductions, a non-existent Board and absent owner was terrific. He should always be remembered for that. He was never able to progress from that and Moyes’ certainly improved results with the same squad.

and I'd agree with much of what you said but it was a difficult watch for me when I'm looking for some joy.