Thank you Mr Kenwright!!!

[Toffeelover]

And RM won the FA Cup beating us on the way.

 

[dholliday]

In the circumstances the logical thing would have been to go for an established manager to try and carry on what Moyes had did (with all our issues of lack of funding). The safe cop-out option would have been an ex-Blue or even Steve bloody Round as some kind of dynasty route.

Aye, there was a lot of talk about Stubbsy, Round or Neville taking the reigns.

Neil Lennon was a favourite at one point. The merry-go-round managers of Hughes, Bruce, McCarthy, McLeish, Megson etc were all in the frame.

There were a lot of candidates, at least according to the bookies lists.

 

[allen]

Surely that proves the point....

He was the best choice and the most obvious compared to the other candidates.

I'll give him Moyes, that was a brilliant appointment, but Martinez ? Nah. He was just doing his job and picking the most logical option.

It's totally uncharitable to suggest Kenwright doesn't deserve credit for appointing Martinez.

He does.

He does plenty wrong, but he deserves credit for getting that right. I don't see how anyone can deny that.

 

[mutley]

It's totally uncharitable to suggest Kenwright doesn't deserve credit for appointing Martinez.

He does.

He does plenty wrong, but he deserves credit for getting that right. I don't see how anyone can deny that.

only a fookin eejit would deny it.

 

[Ihaters]

Surely that proves the point....

He was the best choice and the most obvious compared to the other candidates.

I'll give him Moyes, that was a brilliant appointment, but Martinez ? Nah. He was just doing his job and picking the most logical option.

Martinez was far from the obvious choice out of the entire worlds managers, you've got a load of managers that are under qualified, sunday league teams and two or three divisions down, then you have the Mourinho's that wouldn't come to us, but then you have the next tier...
Baiscally managers of 90% of the Europa league, lots of the smaller clubs in the CL and those sitting just outside European positions would come to us.
You've got upcoming Championship managers that would love a chance to prove their worth Moyes style at a big club.
Then you have mid table finishers that we kind of want to avoid, then you have the relegation battlers that you really want to avoid and just below that.. the relegated clubs.
I'd say going for a relagated teams manager, cup or not, is far, far away the riskiest choice.
Yes he won a cup, but if it went wrong, Bill had no where to hide... after all what kind of league position did he expect from a relegation manager? the BU and KEIOC would no doubt politely inquire if things didn't go well.
He had hundreds of options, he could of got someone from a German team outside of the big two if he wanted. He didn't though, he went for Martinez, and it was the right call. And that is why he deserves some credit.

 

[banno]

Well he needed guidance from the fans or was he telling porkies

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has revealed that he will gauge the fans' feelings before appointing a new manager at Goodison Park.

The Merseyside outfit are in the hunt for a new leader following David Moyes's departure to Manchester United, who confirmed that the Scotsman has agreed a six-year deal with the club.

"I will be looking to the fans to get that guidance," Kenwright told Sky Sports News. "I can't individually poll each one of them but it is important that they get their right manager.

 

[mythbuster]

The fact of the matter is, you can laugh at Kenwright's boys pen tales all you want, but Bill has been watching football and Everton for a very long time. I bet he knows a lot more about football than Vincent Tan. Money aside, he is a managers dream chairman. From a footballing perspective, he's pretty much spot on and doesn't act like some of the other trigger-happy knobead chairmen around.

He looks to have made the correct decision again. That's all you can say really...

 

[Ihaters]

Well he needed guidance from the fans or was he telling porkies

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has revealed that he will gauge the fans' feelings before appointing a new manager at Goodison Park.

The Merseyside outfit are in the hunt for a new leader following David Moyes's departure to Manchester United, who confirmed that the Scotsman has agreed a six-year deal with the club.

"I will be looking to the fans to get that guidance," Kenwright told Sky Sports News. "I can't individually poll each one of them but it is important that they get their right manager.

So your saying well done Kenwright for asking fans opinion?
Whatever means he used, fans opinion to create the shortlist, interview to choose...
The bottom line is that he could of got anyone he wanted within reason, he got Martinez.
Martinez so far has been ace. Good work.

Why people are trying so hard to find a little caveat to take this away from him I have no idea. Well I do, its because its Kenwright.

But facts are facts.

We needed a manager
Kenwright hires the managers
Kenwright hired Martinez

How he came to the decision is utterly irrelevent, he could of played spin the bottle for all it matters, it was an inspired idea to play spin the bottle, because ultimately he hired another cracking manager.
Well done.

 

[banno]

So your saying well done Kenwright for asking fans opinion?
Whatever means he used, fans opinion to create the shortlist, interview to choose...
The bottom line is that he could of got anyone he wanted within reason, he got Martinez.
Martinez so far has been ace. Good work.

Why people are trying so hard to find a little caveat to take this away from him I have no idea. Well I do, its because its Kenwright.

But facts are facts.

We needed a manager
Kenwright hires the managers
Kenwright hired Martinez

How he came to the decision is utterly irrelevent, he could of played spin the bottle for all it matters, it was an inspired idea to play spin the bottle, because ultimately he hired another cracking manager.
Well done.

Ha ha so easy you are. The do-gooder of GOT. The defender of Moyes and Kenwright. Just knew you would bite.

 

[johnnydawg68]

If Kenwright was really as shady as some make him out to be, I doubt seriously that Bobby and Davey before him would have loved working with him so much.

I wish he was wealthier, and I think as long as he's our chairman we're going to struggle to stay at the very top, which is where we want to be. So yes, I'd love for a much wealthier Evertonian to come along and buy the club.

But if you're giving me a choice between someone like Tan or Bill? Bill all day, every day.

 

[Groucho]

If Kenwright was really as shady as some make him out to be, I doubt seriously that Bobby and Davey before him would have loved working with him so much.

I wish he was wealthier, and I think as long as he's our chairman we're going to struggle to stay at the very top, which is where we want to be. So yes, I'd love for a much wealthier Evertonian to come along and buy the club.

But if you're giving me a choice between someone like Tan or Bill? Bill all day, every day.

I agree

 

[Woolly Blue]

If Kenwright was really as shady as some make him out to be, I doubt seriously that Bobby and Davey before him would have loved working with him so much.

I wish he was wealthier, and I think as long as he's our chairman we're going to struggle to stay at the very top, which is where we want to be. So yes, I'd love for a much wealthier Evertonian to come along and buy the club.

But if you're giving me a choice between someone like Tan or Bill? Bill all day, every day.

Kenwright's not really shady mate. It's hard to have a serious conversation about this on t'internet but I'd liken Kenwright to Moyes. Moyes stayed too long and Kenwright's doing the same, but the Kenwright situation is more complicated and is as much to do with the other large shareholders as it is to do with Kenwright himself.

Martinez coming in could do everyone a huge favour because if our success on the pitch carries on then that'll attract investors and Kenwright, Woods and Earl might get something close to the money that they'd like for their shares. It'll take two or three years to get to that point though, but if we're there, or thereabouts for CL footie year in, year out, then the business case ( dull as that sounds ) for putting real investment into the club becomes a lot stronger, something which was never going to happen when Davey was here ( which is a shame, but is also true ).

 

[Ihaters]

Ha ha so easy you are. The do-gooder of GOT. The defender of Moyes and Kenwright. Just knew you would bite.

Err putting something reasonable up and getting a reasonable response is not fishing, its a conversation mate... But well done to you, have a pat on the head and be on your way.

 

[BlueOggster]

Think it's time people started giving Bill some credit, instead of bashing him at every opportunity, and before people come on here and have a go, should have a good look around at foreign ownership at other clubs, be-careful what you wish for.

and if anyone wants to post a list of active multi billionaires looking to purchase an Premier League Club at the moment feel free!

 

[Moomin]

Think it's time people started giving Bill some credit, instead of bashing him at every opportunity, and before people come on here and have a go, should have a good look around at foreign ownership at other clubs, be-careful what you wish for.

and if anyone wants to post a list of active multi billionaires looking to purchase an Premier League Club at the moment feel free!

I know, i came home last night and the house was burgled, the house was ransacked but thankfully they never shat in the sink.