What is truly wrong with the club?

[goodisonopheliac]

All of this, plus Moshiri needs to get rid of the Kenwright " boys pen " dewey eyed brigade, that`s stopping the club from moving forward and keeping the likes of Elstone in a job.

The club needs ripping out from top to bottom, without sentimentality and this isn`t going to happen whilst Kenwright and co are is weeping faux tears into their royal blue hankies.

I would hope against hope that Moshiri hasn`t got to be as rich as he is, without being a ruthless and shrewd man and behind the scenes is preparing for the day when he has a free reign to move the club forwards.

Whilst Kenwright et al remain at the club, we`ll remain wedded to the past and with a continuing small time mentality.

Ferguson Ebbrell and Jeffers?

Kenwright needs to go though.

 

[blulouie]

I think the arrivals of Sigurdsson and Rooney really hurt the team. We can probably get past that, but they were the high profile signings in the summer. As such, they were kinda forced into lineups and we were never really able to find an identity as a team. We have no idea who our playmaker is. For some damned reason, Koeman and co. decided if we couldn't get a striker in the window, that Rooney could still play a striker role. You also have to look at the likes of Morgan Schneiderlin. His heart just isn't in it anymore for whatever reason. We might as well be playing with 10 me when he is on the pitch.

Not so on the Rooney quip mate , it was well after Rooney signed, indeed right up till the widow closing Koeman was even going public asking for a striker.
Plus a left sided defender.
The club (whoever was dealing with it) messed up big time . Thats not to say Koeman was faultless either .
This was highlighted during the horrifically difficult start to the season plus a massively congested fixture list due to europe.
In essence the season was over before it begun.The perfect storm as it were.
In good old Everton fashion those in charge burried their heads and had no idea how to fix it , they should be run out of the club for their actions/non actions.

 

[COYBL25]

Ferguson Ebbrell and Jeffers?

Kenwright needs to go though.

Anyone not doing their job needs to go, simple as that.

 

[Muggins]

Everything.

 

[JAYMULL]

We are struck down by a long term mentality disorder, but this usually prevents us from achieving things and causes us to fall at the last hurdle so that isn't a problem here as this season we fell on the first hurdle.

It has to be management choices for me.

Martinez started our decline. After a tremendous first season it looked as if we had finally arrived at the top table but in his second and third seasons he was exposed as an incompetent buffoon who couldn't organise a defence that Moyes hadn't already set up and he filled out our squad with some of the worst players I've ever seen. Not to mention the fact he was the biggest BS merchant around when it came to glossing over his own failures.

Koeman was a strange one. Inside a 3 month spell just after Christmas we were ace (at least at home). It had been a long time since we experienced the feeling going into every home game that we were going to batter whoever we were playing. It looked like the balance of the squad was nearly fixed as well. However the team soon fell away again post Coleman injury (which we are still suffering badly from) and after a dreadful transfer window, epitomised by selling our only (fringe) world class talent (and not replacing him) he could never ever get the side going. He had no idea at all how to arrest our slide and in the end he was picking teams that he was hoping would click - the club had no choice but to fire him. I don't think he was fully responsible for the failures of the summer window, in fact I think he's been made into a bit of a fall guy.

As for Allardyce, deary me. He is pragmatic (which I like) but utterly dour, and the team can barely string 2 passes together and the amount of times we struggle to even register basic shots on target points to a deeper issue concerning a lack of understanding on how to set up an attacking team. He needs to get a grip, and soon, to stop us getting pulled back into the relegation dogfight. His contract simply must be terminated in the summer - he inspires no confidence from supporters at all.

I'd like to see someone like Paulo Fonseca given a go. We need a younger, hungrier and tactically savvier operator than we've had with these last 3 permanent managers. Fonseca looks like he plays the game in the right way and unlike Martinez he seems to appreciate that the defensive side of the game is just as important.

We've got Leicester next Claude Puel seems a decent manager, we missed that one. They're far better than us can't see us getting anything out of that game.

 

[Toast]

And how do they do that? Make them do assault courses and stuff?

Again, do top managers employ soldiers to train their players?

 

[dholliday]

Mindset, deffo. Football's all in the mind. I remember a run of taking pens back when I was playing and slotted all of them just because I knew I would. At some point this cast-iron belief wavered for some reason and lo so did the slotting.

Winners don't waver.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

Wasn't that England thing just a one-off?

Fraser Forster in uniform though

 

[longers]

Maybe there is nothing wrong with the club and we just have to accept this is traditionally our level in modern times and the only thing that will change this situation is us lucking out on the right combo of manager/players which is of course extremely hard to do so.

 

[Ihaters]

Anyone not doing their job needs to go, simple as that.

The building would be empty.

 

[Toast]

Wasn't that England thing just a one-off?

Fraser Forster in uniform though

Team building.
Confidence in your mates when it comes on top in a match.

Mirrallas and Schneiderlein episode summed us up.
As did our captain not getting stuck in at Anfield when it got tasty in the cup the other week.

 

[billyblue80]

Are we the new Sunderland or Leeds is what I ask myself every day lately? Incompetence from the top spreading like a disease, Big Sam is just a sticking plaster it will be another manager next year and another set of under performing players until there's a root and branch review, a new board a new DOF, a new manager we will continue to decline. That's my honest fear.

 

[Toast]

Are we the new Sunderland or Leeds is what I ask myself every day lately? Incompetence from the top spreading like a disease, Big Sam is just a sticking plaster it will be another manager next year and another set of under performing players until there's a root and branch review, a new board a new DOF, a new manager we will continue to decline. That's my honest fear.

Plenty of sides down further.
Blackburn won the Prem.
Pompey the cup.
More recently than we've won anything and they are leagues down now.

The future of our club is totally dependant on the new ground.
If that goes tits up, so will Everton football club.
Vault me.

 

[billyblue80]

Moshiri needs to abandon sentiment take control of his investment

 

[marnie]

Moshiri needs to abandon sentiment take control of his investment

I need to abandon Everton and take control of my life.