Little Ralphy
Player Valuation: £15m
Your Bolton colleague sounds extremely ungrateful. Bet he doesn't even say "thanks" when you make him a cuppa.
Allardyce got them into the PL, and kept them there against the odds for 7 or 8 years. And he took them into Europe. It's not his fault his successor, Gary Megson, was a disaster, who incidentally broke the transfer record on that Swedish striker shortly after Allardyce left.
You can't expect Allardyce to keep running the club and vetoing future dodgy signings AFTER he has left. Sooner or later you have to stand on your own two feet.
That's what happens when someone leaves you with nothing though, you have to find money from somewhere to spend just to survive.
Anyway you've got nothing invested in Everton either financially or emotionally so I see no point why you're even on here, so for that - I'm out.