That Anthony Barry who has just gone to Bayern as an assistant might be an interesting one. Scouser and I'm assuming an Everton fan since he started his playing career here.
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Gerrard left them in a mess from a coaching perspective but Emery had a really nice team to work with there. Remember thinking their starting 11 looked really interesting at the start of the season. Not surprised to see them performing so well.
We have a fantastic academy, at academy level.
Anything past that and we're dreadful.
The difficulty with this sort of appointment is you need someone who can transfer their skills to the PL and not be overawed/laughed at by better players. You don't want to appoint a Nathan Jones basically.
APN_EFC
Player Valuation: £25m
Yeah I dont mind that too. He's with Roberto Martinez at Belgium & Portugal, but also gathering experience around the place.
I really also dont mind Dyche staying - IF we actually have a strategy. I'm sure Dyche is capable of more tactical and clever football, but we just dont have the players for it. I just hope that relegation isn't the thing that makes us start from scratch - I'd much rather we take 2 relegation battles as a sign that things need to change.
Prefer a guy that's managed, myself.
Turned out pretty ok for Arsenal with Arteta
Like we're in the same position as Arsenal to wait for that to work out.
Just on the evidence he's working with Martinez we should never consider him.
Also not sure on the "Dyche is capable of more tactical and clever football" bit personally, but I admire the optimism if nothing else.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
When Lampard took over there was talk of him trying to bring Barry here. And at the time it was being said he's a blue I think
All 3 highlighted if developed properly
I agree with this. Plymouth are my 2nd club ( I was born there and moved to Liverpool 40 years ago ) and he is absolutely revered down there. Given their budget and that their best player has been missing for half the season it would be a remarkable achievement to get promoted ahead of Sheffield Wed , Ipswich , Barnsley , Peterborough etc. Absolutely no doubt he is a major managerial talent at that level even if he is a bit of a tinkerman when it comes to team selection.
However it would be a massive step up to manage Everton.
He may well be capable but it would be hell of a risk.
Personally I'd beg Potter to take over and offer him complete control.
Completely agree.
If Dyche keeps us up he deserves the chance to rebuild next season.
If we go down he has to bear some responsibility.
Oh yeah, that would be my key reservation at someone like Schumacher or a lower league manager, Moyes did a good 4 years at Preston before being 'ready' for us. Obviously times have changed since then and managers with 12-18 good months tend to get snapped up quicker, which doesn't allow them time to learn at there original club etc.
Nathan Jones was also the most intense man in the world, and his logics only seemed to work at Luton but not at Stoke or Southampton. I think if you asked Luton fans also, they wouldn't swap him back for Edwards
Just can't get on board with that at all. Forgetting the 2 that stayed longer because then you get a whole new can of worms, Ledson left here at 19 having had a couple of loans (basically the exact pathway that everyone always wants for every player) and now he's about to turn 26 having never played higher than midtable in the Championship and not even always being an automatic starter at that level. Sometimes you just have to accept that players who look good as juniors don't always translate it to their senior careers.
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