Reality check: are we small-time?

[Ihaters]

Small club because our chairman never broke his leg 80 years ago, or something. No-one in the media gives a damn unless you've broken your leg once....

There's a long list of volunteers to do it to our chairman. DaveK's probably already on his way round.

 

[WuTangToffee]

Our board thinks we are, so do some of the fans these days too, we are the biggest small time club in the top 8 if we appoint a relegation scrapper though.

 

[Bigmaclad]

EVERTON

 

[CrustySack]

If anyone on here doubts we are not a big club then think again. Everton is a behemoth of a club just waiting in the wings to take center stage again. It would end up being war and peace if I went into just why Everton really are mighty.

 

[zirc]

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?

We are not. but our board claims we are though because being a small club relieves the ownership of the pressure of actually winning anything.

"Just happy to be here" ****S

 

[Jamo Martinez]

We're not small time but we're not on the same level as Newcastle. Apparently.

 

[ToffeeMike]

Laughing at Dave Whelan now

 

[ToffeeMike]

All we know is there are 7 Kopites stalking this site, unless there are seriously some mentally ill posters.

 

[Bigmaclad]

We are MASSIVE

 

[Bluesnapper]

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

Bungling Bill and the useless Elstone spend their days telling anyone who will listen that 'plucky little Everton are punching above our weight', so now the pair of them have to go against all what they say and sell us to a new manager.

I was always told that your lies will find you out.

 

[Bigmaclad]

We're as big as chico's head or goats stomach

 

[chicoazul]

We're as big as chico's head or goats stomach

A vast vast difference there clearly.

 

[MartSlinger]

Think a new personal record has been broken for me here.
Ive not ONCE agreed with anything the OP has EVER said. Well done Sir. *claps*

 

[Bigmaclad]

A vast vast difference there clearly.

Your head is HUGE though mate

 

[Carlito]

Everton isn't a small club but there is definitely a small-time mentality, especially from the board.

I don't think any other major club has dwelled on its dark period as long as Everton.