Succession Planning - Managerial Wishlist

[preposterousvelios]

Some talk about Andoni Iraola possibly ending up at Everton, and while you can see why the idea gets some people interested, it doesn’t really look like a clean fit on paper.

The main issue is the squad. Iraola’s style is all about really high intensity pressing, constant running, quick transitions, and players who can keep that up for 90 minutes. Everton’s current squad has been built more for compact defending, physical battles, and grinding out games rather than playing that kind of relentless pressing football. That’s a pretty big gap to bridge without a proper rebuild and we hardly have budget for the complete overhaul of the squad.

The other thing is expectations. Everton fans obviously want progress fast after a few tough seasons, but Iraola’s way of working usually needs time to really settle in. His system relies on fitness, repetition, and the right recruitment, it’s not an instant fix style of football. And at Everton, patience hasn’t exactly been in huge supply lately.

It’s not about questioning his quality at all, he’s done a really impressive job especially at Bournemouth. It’s more that the timing and setup at Everton just don’t look like the easiest match right now.

Its a funny one because on the one hand I've seen a few people say this, and seen a few people say that we need to sign too many players for any manager to be able to come in and hit the ground running.

Surely that can be a positive? Maybe it's me being naive but when I look at our team you have a decent enough spine (minus a striker) of Pickford, Branthwaite, Garner, KDH with Ndiaye and Grealish representing good quality on the wings and some promising young players in Armstrong, Rohl, and Dibling.

Coleman, Gana, Tarkowski, Keane, Myko, Beto are all likely to be gone either this summer or the following summer, and thats on top of all the players that left last summer. Seems to me like if TFG are willing to back the manager in the market then we're a bit of a blank slate atm that could really be moulded into whatever any prospective manager wants.

All the more reason for me to make the decision now and not rebuild this team in Moyes' image.

 

[siddharth]

I've read up on him and like him a lot. Which means we'll never get him as I've never been on the right side of the managerial appointment wars. Then again, with how crap our managers have been over the years I feel like that makes us the right side.

Hope to see some shift under the new owners like everyone else. Hard to be on the right side of the appointment wars under previous couple of regimes. I feel you.

 

[Seathestars]

Antonio Conte leaving Napoli

 

[Curtis]

A non coward please

 

[siddharth]

Think we should pull off a shocker and move in for Raul when Mourinho signs for Real.

 

[Furey1878]

Think my big concern with Iraola, as much as I think he's going to be a success somewhere, he's not had to deal with the pressure at any job as he would here.

Vallecano - a complete afterthought in Madrid
Bournemouth - will always be plucky underdogs, nothing was said when they went something like 12 games without a result

Here, he'd be under pressure instantly.

Also worry how our gang of losers would get on with him. Semenyo saying the Bournemouth players hated him from day one because he made them run and run without days off.

Think I'm maybe more pro-Glasner than Iraola, which I didn't think would be the case.

I personally would be making our players do Full Metal Jacket style boot camp after yesterday. So you've just tipped me from Team Glasner over into Team Iraola with that bit of info.

Obviously though, Moyes is here next season and sadly we all know it deep down.

 

[Blue peter]

I personally would be making our players do Full Metal Jacket style boot camp after yesterday. So you've just tipped me from Team Glasner over into Team Iraola with that bit of info.

Obviously though, Moyes is here next season and sadly we all know it deep down.

Get the nobs in for post season training. That’ll learn’em….another Everton first

 

[Swagger]

A manager that plays on the front foot with a high press. Something we haven't really had this century apart from small periods under Silva and Ancelloti plus perhaps at times during the first season under Martinez.

I think that's all the fans want and it isn't asking much.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Not sniping at you, genuinely curious - He exceeded expectations at botafogo? I thought he got sacked after a few months

Won 15 games with a 45% win ratio, which I'd consider a success given the how much of a disaster the owners have been recently (not unlinked in many ways to Textor's downfall). He was sacked because he refused to tow the party line anymore and called out the lack of support he was given.

 

[preposterousvelios]

Won 15 games with a 45% win ratio, which id consider a success given the how unpopular the owners have been. He was sacked because he refused to tow the party line.

Ahhh yeah that was Textors Brazilian club wasn't it. That certainly muddies the waters.

 

[NathDogg]

Sounds like Pep is gonna be looking for a club in the summer.

Get on the phone to the fraud Blank Angus, and see if he wants a real challenge!

 

[efcste97]

Go and get Pep, prove to everyone we're massive.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Postecoglou an interesting shout?,always gets a trophy after one season

 

[Blue peter]

Go and get Pep, prove to everyone we're massive.

Like the Spanish Mitchell brothers in orientales

 

[Saint Domingo]

Antonio Conte leaving Napoli

Everton would never have the stones to go for this. Imagine someone rocked the little cosy stable boat of Everton by actually winning something…