Carlo Ancelotti: 'Deadwood, mismanagement & a total rebuild' - is this his biggest challenge?

[Carlito]

It’s no surprise of our standards when we had Bill for so long.
The personality to make it in the luvvy duvvy entertainment world doesn’t work in football.

He's been wasted in football. He could have rivalled Mandelson as a grand manipulator if he'd ever gone into politics.

I was gutted when he managed to blag Moshiri into keeping him on in a Rasputin role.

 

[evilwebby]

Dayom. That was a pretty brutal, but I have to say fair, assessment. We've been totally mismanaged for decades now. It's a wonder we're still any sort of a force in Premier League football, and that is only down to our fanbase.

I'm not picking on the lad (well, maybe I am a bit) but we effectively supported the Tony Hibbert early retirement fund for 16 years without ever having the ambition to try improving on a player of very modest ability.

Now that our dear neighbours are at the top of the tree, perhaps we look across the park as we did 40 years ago and use their transformation to inspire our own desperately needed changes.

 

[T LEAFE]

Ratcliffe is wrong
We need 9 new players not 4

 

[blue61]

How's he's sticking the boot in?

He's stating facts.

Got more respect for him being honest than the likes of Sharp who's the clubs bitch.

I'm not denying the facts, my point was he's talked us down for years, as though he's got some beef with the club. He can't even pronounce Jagielka properly, the daft get.

 

[Blue83]

Pretty honest column there on the task we all know Carlo faces and out of all the managers we've had since we last won any silver, Carlo is the one I'd pick for this task
Just have to hope there's going to be money backed behind him to do it otherwise it's an impossible task

 

[larrygobfiend]

I don’t think we can be fixed. The club’s like a recovering crack head, it’s trying to sort itself out, but the damage is already done.

 

[Cool_Blue]

The first step in dealing with any problem is to acknowledge its existence. Hopefully there will be a long overdue dose of realism and reflection at all levels of the club starting now.

Amen to that

 

[Big Sams Undies]

Moshiris first act should have been to clear the stench of mediocrity from the club starting with Boys-Pen Bill.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Well done Kevin, finally got to read on the press what’s been said on here many times.
Takes a winner like him or Big Nev to say it as they see it.
I hope it gets read in the Liver building, and hopefully doesn’t mean he ends up sitting by Big Nev on match days...
(ie not welcome)

 

[Roachey11]

Very much enjoy reading McNulty's articles, usually calls it spot on when it comes to us.

 

[APN_EFC]

Dayom. That was a pretty brutal, but I have to say fair, assessment. We've been totally mismanaged for decades now. It's a wonder we're still any sort of a force in Premier League football, and that is only down to our fanbase.

I'm not picking on the lad (well, maybe I am a bit) but we effectively supported the Tony Hibbert early retirement fund for 16 years without ever having the ambition to try improving on a player of very modest ability.

Now that our dear neighbours are at the top of the tree, perhaps we look across the park as we did 40 years ago and use their transformation to inspire our own desperately needed changes.

Whether we like it or not, they've got a realistic model for transformation, albeit with more money and a better starting point.
What gets me each time though is that new managers instantly improve teams, in many cases, Lampard has just done it, so did Arteta, and that's why it makes you think sometimes Everton is kind of unmanageable or impossible. Silva was bad, but THAT bad? Forget Allardyce and Koeman but how is it that there's no sustained improvement in decent managers coming in?

 

[verreauxi]

The part regarding Silva was particularly on point. Never understood why he was so targeted.

 

[Papa Shango]

How's he's sticking the boot in?

He's stating facts.

Got more respect for him being honest than the likes of Sharp who's the clubs bitch.

I mean he DOES work for the club...

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

I don’t think we can be fixed. The club’s like a recovering crack head, it’s trying to sort itself out, but the damage is already done.

Deep down I think this may be true.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Yikes some pessimism, maybe a grounding what is needed. That run in was proper relegation form, no mistaking. Midfield center and wide is huge problem in defending in creating and chipping in with goals...