The Keys to Success - Intensity, Passion, Desire...

[davek]

I wanted koeman as our manager as long back as 18 months ago. But I do accept this criticism and it is galling to see a manager to perceive the club in this way. My kopite friends slaughtered me for his remarks about lukaku last year. But if the manager is only seeing us as a short term project, the bigger question needs to be asked how can expect players to want to join us knowing koeman will leave us before his contract is up?

Exactly. The whole structure looks unstable to me. It's short term-ism. And the one thing that could stop it from being so is the director of football post, but unfortunately Walsh is not a real director of football he's a head scout.

I dont see the basic elements there for building the playing side of things. In an environment like that you can have situations where the current manager is working to his own best interests and not necessarily the organisations. I think we find ourselves in that position right now regarding Barkley.

 

[andyblue]

Exactly. The whole structure looks unstable to me. It's short term-ism. And the one thing that could stop it from being so is the director of football post, but unfortunately Walsh is not a real director of football he's a head scout.

I dont see the basic elements there for building the playing side of things. In an environment like that you can have situations where the current manager is working to his own best interests and not necessarily the organisations. I think we find ourselves in that position right now regarding Barkley.

Exactly. The whole structure looks unstable to me. It's short term-ism. And the one thing that could stop it from being so is the director of football post, but unfortunately Walsh is not a real director of football he's a head scout.

I dont see the basic elements there for building the playing side of things. In an environment like that you can have situations where the current manager is working to his own best interests and not necessarily the organisations. I think we find ourselves in that position right now regarding Barkley.[/Q
yet another thread started of so well, and now not worth bothering with.

 

[ilikecheese]

The key to success is scoring more goals than our opponents. I hope we do that more next season.

 

[Khalekan]

You dont get intensity and passion by:

Telling our star striker he's better off elsewhere
Stating our mission this season was to be 'best of the rest' (a phrase he's used umpteen times)
Scapegoating individual players and carrying on a debate about them in the media
Saying (as he did after the United away game) that 'you of course accept 1 point before a game like this'
Remaining bolted on to a seat in the dugout once the game turns against the team
Intimating that another football club is your destination and not this one

If that was his target he has failed.

7th is not "best of the rest".

5th is.

I'm just sayin'

 

[chicoazul]

Players managers and maybe fans need to stop viewing the club as a stepping stone. From Smith onwards we've had a succession of managers (including the current one) who has spoken about Everton as a shop window for bigger clubs. Lukaku was talking about us in this way almost as soon as he signed. We've had managers happy to call us best of the rest, the only club in the league ever described this way whether we finish 5th or 7th. It has to stop.

The players who have been successful (relatively) here have devoted the best part of their career: Cahill, Ferguson, Coleman etc. Regardless of what you think of their talent you cannot fault that when they stepped on the pitch they wanted to win for Everton not play up for the scouts of the big clubs.

How do we expect to find that extra % that can get you over the line to win stuff if half the squad are sat there thinking 'Rom is only playing for himself, Barkley thinks he's too good for us, our own club captain doesn't think we're good enough for top 4, and the manager is auditioning for Barcelona.

Do you reckon these thoughts ever occurred in the 80s dressing room?

Gary Lineker: Everton to Barcelona 1986.
Howard Kendall: Everton to Atletico Bilbao 1987.

 

[McBain]

@davek getting destroyed in here.

A sad day for Devils Advocators everywhere.

 

[chicoazul]

The werds were better than the lifecoach title (I would put strategy above them all) Andy. Well in man.