Yeah you're struggling here. There are plenty of other promising managers who could do a job, but with the mess behind the scenes their chances of success are slim. I don't think Potter takes it either for the same reason.
Everton - What next?
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Maybe they interim and go for Pochettino in the summer? Everyone wins. 
What a joke if they appoint Martinez. Achieving nothing with arguably the best squad of international players suddenly makes him good enough when he wasn't before? How he even got the Belgium job to begin with is extremely questionably, guy's made a career out of falling up.
With football matters being so convoluted at the moment, I'm seeing Benitez back to Newcastle and Howe ending up at Everton with Ferguson in charge in the meantime.
I don't think Everton fans will accept Martinez returning. I like Martinez. Although he's not a 'top of the range' manager he seems a decent man.
Don't know how likely or plausible this is, just a hunch.
I don't think Everton fans will accept Martinez returning. I like Martinez. Although he's not a 'top of the range' manager he seems a decent man.
Don't know how likely or plausible this is, just a hunch.
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Not surprising. Hopefully he gives us a morale boost like last time.
Phil Neville?
No love for Sean Dyche, bizarre seeing so many names suggested before him. His new contract could have something to do with it mind.
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From the Athletic today
Moshiri is going to ruin this football club.
Everton don't want to admit it but Big Sam might be their best option.
Yeap.
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Wouldn't be crazy. 4 points up and one game in hand on Newcastle. They have a 4-4-2 squad because of Benitez and their 2 best players being forwards. Depressing, but they could do worse than Big Sam for 18 games and spend the time evaluating some exciting foreign managers who might actually take the job like the Prague fella or the guy at Bodo and people like that.
Lampard now big odds on favourite for Everton job
Hope he takes it and fails.
Once a blue always a blue
This doesn’t sound smart. I think Moshiri’s best move now would be to keep Duncan for the rest of the season and give the board the time to sort things out calmly. Do things right throughout the club, not just the manager position.
Bringing in a new manager now would just put the players under unnecessary pressure, and the manager himself would be coming into a mess he doesn’t understand much about. It won’t do him much good.
Bringing in a new manager now would just put the players under unnecessary pressure, and the manager himself would be coming into a mess he doesn’t understand much about. It won’t do him much good.
Is Usmanov still involved in Everton?
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Random question, but what’s happened to Sigurdsson?
Was just going to post this.
Rooney turned down the job at interview process.
Doesn’t read well for Everton
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Rooney holding out for the United job?
Probably not
Probably not
What the hell?! How did I manage to miss this?
Shame , I would have loved to see him at Everton. I can understand though. He might just do the impossible at Derby and then he will just be flying .
Everton have always been notable for their lack of logic when choosing coaches, but Frank Lampard is a very odd choice even for them. Bringing in, after the experienced Benitez and Ancelotti, a coach who could not succeed with Chelsea's more established squad is a bad idea.
From having zero options previously in the season when we had a lot of injuries, it now feels we have too much.
Allan, Delph, Gomes, Doucoure, Richarlison, Gray, Townsend, Iwobi, Tosun, Gordon, Gbamin, Davies, VdB, Rondon, El Ghazi, Dele and DCL. That's 17 recognised first team squad members that can fill 6 positions.
Allan, Delph, Gomes, Doucoure, Richarlison, Gray, Townsend, Iwobi, Tosun, Gordon, Gbamin, Davies, VdB, Rondon, El Ghazi, Dele and DCL. That's 17 recognised first team squad members that can fill 6 positions.
That is some serious quality that there is that needed to be gelled into a team. The top 3 teams plays as a team and it is very rare they get individual players trying to do things on their own. It is a team effort unlike at United so far.
Lampard could make them a relegation candidate.
We already are.
Corrected it for you.
Why does it feel like most of Everton's recent signings are players who are past it or ones who've failed/lost their place at a club doing better than them at a given point of time?
Can't think of many clubs who have so many misses in the transfer market. Who's done well there recently? Doucoure? Richarlison?
Frank has his job cut out. Here's hoping VdB turns it around though.
Can't think of many clubs who have so many misses in the transfer market. Who's done well there recently? Doucoure? Richarlison?
Frank has his job cut out. Here's hoping VdB turns it around though.
Demarai Gray has been our player of the season so far so add him to the list of players whose careers received rejuvenation at Everton. Historically we actually have an excellent record of bringing in players for very little money who were going nowhere and turning them into vital players (think the likes of Cahill, Coleman, Baines, Stones, Pienaar, Jagielka, Lescott, Arteta, Calvert-Lewin, Digne) but you're right that more recently we've been throwing silly money at substandard cast-offs (Bolassie, Iwobi, Walcott, Tosun, Schneiderlin, arguably Gomes and Keane). That's been the difference since Moshiri took over. In the past we were spending a couple of million on these risky purchases. Lately it's been 25 million for this Crystal Palace winger, 30 million for that Arsenal bench-warmer (and 45 million for Sigurdsson for crying out loud!). We have been terribly, terribly run for the last few years, which is why that deal they pulled off last night for Deli Alli (basically a free transfer until next season and then a bunch of impractical bonuses that'll never be triggered) was so competently negotiated that I've been listening out for the four horsemen of the apocalypse all day. I can't remember the last time we made such a sensible purchase.
Lampard now has the tools (i.e the players) needed to get us clear of relegation, which is his only task for this season. Our defence is still awful, and footage from his first training session today suggests he's going for a high press (the Roberto Martinez school of "score more than you concede"), which could be risky, but we'll see how it goes. The next 3 league games are very winnable and we ought to be looking for 7 points minimum from them. Our squad is so much better than 16th in the league.
For the first time in a long time I feel some optimism as an Everton fan. Unite the supporters behind Frank (most are fully on board), get us safely in mid table by the end of March, hope for a decent cup run, and then put all focus in the summer on rebuilding the centre of defence.
Lampard now has the tools (i.e the players) needed to get us clear of relegation, which is his only task for this season. Our defence is still awful, and footage from his first training session today suggests he's going for a high press (the Roberto Martinez school of "score more than you concede"), which could be risky, but we'll see how it goes. The next 3 league games are very winnable and we ought to be looking for 7 points minimum from them. Our squad is so much better than 16th in the league.
For the first time in a long time I feel some optimism as an Everton fan. Unite the supporters behind Frank (most are fully on board), get us safely in mid table by the end of March, hope for a decent cup run, and then put all focus in the summer on rebuilding the centre of defence.
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Have you seen the League table? He could get them relegated but they're already a candidate!
Adore Frank and hope he does well tbh. Not sure if the job again may just be slightly too big.
So after a shocking season at all ends of the club and hearing nothing from the board for months, Moshiri made a statement to the fans yesterday which was a positive move. Finally some communication from the board that they want to make the right steps moving forward.
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Good move lads, good move.
Aside from that disappointment we seem to be bringing in Tarkowski which will be a nice addition to the defence. We have had a terrible record with injuries in our CBs so he will provide a consistent leader in the back 4 + he’s very solid. It’s a start.
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Good move lads, good move.
Aside from that disappointment we seem to be bringing in Tarkowski which will be a nice addition to the defence. We have had a terrible record with injuries in our CBs so he will provide a consistent leader in the back 4 + he’s very solid. It’s a start.
Are they really not going to sack Lampard?
Why would they? In short term he fulfilled the objective.
I don’t see why we would at this stage. The team improved since he was appointed and that’s without him having a transfer window to address any of the issues and a full pre-season.