Would things drastically change if Benitez left tomorrow?

[matty1878]

I also know Everton have a habit of sucking you back in, when you're at your lowest, and making you believe again.... (before they go on to lose 10-0 to City).

ha ha

 

[davek]

He did, but that was the lowest we fell all season.

Do you think that will happen this year?

Carlo didn't have us anywhere near the relegation zone last year at all. I can see us there by Christmas. Even @davek knows and he's getting a headstart on lowering expectations.

Hardly any of it can be pinned on Benitez.

Koeman, Brands, Silva and Ancelotti made this mess - Benitez is trying to cope with it.

 

[Efcjake]

Hardly any of it can be pinned on Benitez.

Koeman, Brands, Silva and Ancelotti made this mess - Benitez is trying to cope with it.

He's not going to fix it and he's never going to be given the patience the job requires.

It was a really idiotic choice. Just another year pissed away.

 

[windymiller]

it's not odd at all. you and others are campaigning for his dismissal, if that happens, just watch what happens. you seem to think it's 50/50 better or worse. er, no. We've got big problems, and lucky to have a good manager to sort them out. Put Eddie Howe, or any of the other bums who are available at the moment in charge of this rabble and down the chute we go

Jesus. Another Eddie Howe conspiracy theorist. Have we ever been realistically linked with him? If we have it was years ago. There's a whole world of options out there. The fact you and JimmyNail92 can't see past the end of your nose is just sad, tbh.

 

[windymiller]

Hardly any of it can be pinned on Benitez.

Koeman, Brands, Silva and Ancelotti made this mess - Benitez is trying to cope with it.

He's the hero we have been waiting for.

On a different note, you are a keen observer of Derby Day, feeling good about the next one?

 

[Legend78]

Hardly any of it can be pinned on Benitez.

Koeman, Brands, Silva and Ancelotti made this mess - Benitez is trying to cope with it.

Yes quite agree, same fans calling for Benitez head would welcome Brendon Rodgers if he was announced tomorrow even though Leicester City have exactly the same amount of points and have had the luxury of being able to field full strenghth teams each week. I would go as far as to say Leicester would probably be hovering around the relagation if Vardy had the same playing time this season as DCL...

 

[Kev50]

Jesus. Another Eddie Howe conspiracy theorist. Have we ever been realistically linked with him? If we have it was years ago. There's a whole world of options out there. The fact you and JimmyNail92 can't see past the end of your nose is just sad, tbh.

that must be why Newcastle are currently locked between two dunderheads, despite literally having all the money in the world. it's you that needs to wake up if you think we are slumming it with Benitez and are about to be killed in the stampede of top managers who want to take over this shtshow

 

[mahermi1]

Hardly any of it can be pinned on Benitez.

Koeman, Brands, Silva and Ancelotti made this mess - Benitez is trying to cope with it.

Thought Ancelotti made decent signings tbh, overall Koeman done the most damage by a mile. Silva gave us Richarlison, Mina and Digna. Moonhead is the real villain of the piece here and also the lack of stability we've been poorly lead by our board, even though you could not fault Moshiri with backing his managers there have been far too many.

 

[mahermi1]

He's the hero we have been waiting for.

On a different note, you are a keen observer of Derby Day, feeling good about the next one?

Haha tell me mate does any Evertonian look forward to derby day ? We are nearly always like Lambs to the slaughter. (Amazingly not the last few years though)

 

[Ghost Rider]

What we need is a long term prospect backed with long term signings, that is the drastic change that needs to happen at the club. Whether Benitez is the answer or you go for a young prospective manager and sign players for him to grow over time. you write off immediate success outside a good cup run but long term grow.

We currently have done neither, as a result we have one of the worst squads in the league. Ironically a top 7 first 11 but a bottom 6 at best squad.

The drastic change is exactly what the likes of others have done. We have missed that boat over and over and over again bringing in silva, koeman , allardyce etc.

At some point marco rose was available and would have came with the promise of money, same as tuchel, same as naiglesmann, same as potter, howe (when his stock was much higher) etc you can thow many young prospective managers in there and ask the what if question. There is plenty of younger managers that have a what if scenario around them that could fail but if you build in spite of them, lessens the impact of letting them go. Rather than build for a manager only to sack him and leave the next one riddled with expensive square pegs.

I know there is a gulf in class and money in place, but how can chelsea sack their manager over and over and continue to win things? Yet each time we sack a manager we go backwards? Its the players in spite of the manager, even di matteo won the champions league.

 

[windymiller]

Haha tell me mate does any Evertonian look forward to derby day ? We are nearly always like Lambs to the slaughter. (Amazingly not the last few years though)

Have we ever had the opposition fans singing the name of our manager as they batter us before?

 

[Harryflashman]

Have we ever had the opposition fans singing the name of our manager as they batter us before?

Just don’t.

whatever happens, no matter the result I make a point of going out for a beer so as not to be skulking away. If things go wrong this year I really think even I might struggle .

 

[Yarrgh]

Obviously the real causes for our malaise where set in place and cemented into the structure of the club over a long period of time before el camarero ever got involved and it might be unjust to blame him for everything going wrong.

However to answer the thread title, I'm willing to take the chance if a chance to extricate ourselves from him came up and a decent long term appointment was available (eg a Pochettino if he were to become free). Going back to the first paragraph- one of those causes for our malaise is probably not identifying replacements or improvements even if someone is in the role already.

 

[charlie atkins]

if he does go, (hope not yet) so does everyone on the coaching staff right down to youth level, they all seem to get away with everything, problems are a lot deeper than management

 

[Bluebonic]

I think love him, hate him or be utterly indifferent towards him, changing him in January will simply be more evidence (should more be required) the our club is finished and has gone down the same rabbit hole as Watford.