Reality check: are we small-time?

[dholliday]

Dave Whelan's cheeky comment that Everton aren't big enough for Martinez might have been ridiculed by everyone here, but is he actually right?

We haven't been able to find a buyer since we've been on sale for however many years, our stadium is rarely sold-out for the non-glamour games (tho' not far off to be fair), our average net-spend in the transfer-market and total wage bill is famously skinny, our popularity on the busiest social networks is barely-there, many foreign fans have never even heard of our club...


...maybe our status is more mediocre than we dare admit...


Current damning evidence: top 7 favourites for our next manager with Paddy Power:


Neil Lennon -15/8
Roberto Martinez - 10/3
Gus Poyet - 5
Alan Stubbs - 6
Malky Mackay - 16
Philip Neville - 20
Stuart McCall - 20


I expect this to be the shortlist for the next Stoke job, or Sunderland, or Norwich. I'd even expect Villa or Newcastle to have a more impressive shortlist than this.


We are Everton, and the favourite 7 managers for our top job include only 1 with experience in a top league (Martinez, who's club always finish near the relegation places, and will likely be relegated by next week). 4 are lower-league or Scottish-Prem managers, and the other 2 are ex-players with no managerial-experience at all.

Just because Moyes was lower-league and ended up doing relatively well doesn't mean we can expect it to happen again.


But if the betting market is any indication as to our status, it would seem we are small-time. Highly-regarded managers outside of the very top (Mourinho, Klopp, Guardiola, Heynckes, Del Bosque, Löw) who would be in the running for top jobs, the likes of Mancini, Laudrup, Pereira, Tuchel, Pellegrini, Bilic, Klinsmann, Di Matteo, Blanc, Bielsa etc, aren't seen as realistic for us.



Forget history (look at Leeds & Forest and tell them their history makes them big-time). It's about the now.


What yous reckon? Are we really small-time or are we an under-appreciated Big Club?

 

[Kurt.]

Great thread. Would read again.

6/10

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Have you ever made a thread without a poll mate?

 

[dholliday]

Have you ever made a thread without a poll mate?

haha!

yes, this is a fun one and needs more action:

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/55983-The-best-Everton-goals-ever!-%28with-video%29

 

[Hilga]

I miss neg rep.

 

[dholliday]

I miss neg rep.

you think the thread's too provocative?

looks like the early voting thinks we're big...just hope it doesn't mean a huge meltdown when we end up employing Neil Lennon.

 

[Carl Hankin]

if we are to achieve in the future,look more ambitious we would pay comp for managers,but we wont..we will end up with ****,like stubbs,neville and sry to say even Ferguson aint prem management material

 

[Brennan]

We're the sixth best team in the entire country. How the [Poor language removed] can we be small time ?

 

[Del]

I tell you what small time is

Making threads asking if we are small time or still a big club

Who cares ffs?

 

[Azzurri]

Anyone who thinks we're a small club is an idiotic bell end.

Also, can we swerve saying 'small time' in every post please lids.

 

[Goat]

Anyone who thinks we're a small club is an idiotic bell end.

Also, can we swerve saying 'small time' in every post please lids.

I voted small time.

I like to stand out.

 

[ijjysmith]

We're the sixth best team in the entire country. How the [Poor language removed] can we be small time ?

This.

 

[JamesBT]

Only thing small time here is the length this thread stays open for.

 

[Kurt.]

This thread is small time.

 

[LITLEJOE]

Everton as a club are massive, run by ****ing small time clowns