2019/20 Carlo Ancelotti

[Lowste]

Silva I think is one of the poorest managers I’ve ever seen, no plan B. Zonal marking, kept playing the same players whether they are performing or not. I’m over the moon he’s gone.

I agree

sadly he just wasn’t up to the task
He wasn’t helped by a group of players that once again down tools and offered little in terms of fight

 

[Goat]

I agree

sadly he just wasn’t up to the task
He wasn’t helped by a group of players that once again down tools and offered little in terms of fight

Yeah I dont think thats true personally.

IMO he never lost the players, they tried their best, but sadly his tactics left a LOT to be desired and when you dont even have a plan A nevermind a plan B your gonna struggle.

No ill-feeling towards Silva me, he gave it his best shot, but he was lacking in most areas.

 

[Toffee-nerd]

Yeah I dont think thats true personally.

IMO he never lost the players, they tried their best, but sadly his tactics left a LOT to be desired and when you dont even have a plan A nevermind a plan B your gonna struggle.

No ill-feeling towards Silva me, he gave it his best shot, but he was lacking in most areas.

He lucked into the biggest job of his career and by all accounts was fully committed to doing the job well. Shame really as he was a likeable character but in way over his head. Still cant quite get my head round the fact we have Ancelotti in charge tbh. Won everything there is to win in the game and managed some of the biggest players/egos around it will be a monumental wake up call for a lot of these players. Put up or shut up time and is exactly what we need.

 

[dannyboy]

Yeah I dont think thats true personally.

IMO he never lost the players, they tried their best, but sadly his tactics left a LOT to be desired and when you dont even have a plan A nevermind a plan B your gonna struggle.

No ill-feeling towards Silva me, he gave it his best shot, but he was lacking in most areas.

I never really rated him that much myself but can acknowledge he was lacking in some luck this season. There were a lot of close games that swung the other way and he got dealt a bad hand by injuries. All said and done, we have to be happy that's how it played out because if he'd had a bit more fortune we probably wouldn't be sitting here with Ancelotti at the helm now.

 

[dannyboy]

He lucked into the biggest job of his career and by all accounts was fully committed to doing the job well. Shame really as he was a likeable character but in way over his head. Still cant quite get my head round the fact we have Ancelotti in charge tbh. Won everything there is to win in the game and managed some of the biggest players/egos around it will be a monumental wake up call for a lot of these players. Put up or shut up time and is exactly what we need.

Obviously you can't move them all on at once but I'm hoping for a few big name departures this summer. There's plenty who just haven't performed since they arrived and it'll send out the right message that it won't be tolerated anymore.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Yeah I dont think thats true personally.

IMO he never lost the players, they tried their best, but sadly his tactics left a LOT to be desired and when you dont even have a plan A nevermind a plan B your gonna struggle.

No ill-feeling towards Silva me, he gave it his best shot, but he was lacking in most areas.

He was absolutely tragic and had no business managing Everton Football Club, a man whose previous role seen him sacked by Watford,not good enough for Watford ffs.

 

[zukai12_]

Still can't really believe he's our manager haha, keep expecting to wake up and see Howe announced

 

[Toffee-nerd]

Obviously you can't move them all on at once but I'm hoping for a few big name departures this summer. There's plenty who just haven't performed since they arrived and it'll send out the right message that it won't be tolerated anymore.

Would be good to see the back of schneiderlin this window but we are so short in midfield it just wont happen. Sigurdson frustrates the life out of me, hes capable of so much more but he is a complete hindrance on the team at the moment.

 

[dannyboy]

Would be good to see the back of schneiderlin this window but we are so short in midfield it just wont happen. Sigurdson frustrates the life out of me, hes capable of so much more but he is a complete hindrance on the team at the moment.

Unfortunately our problem is we've got quite a few of these players on bumper contracts who are more than happy to see it through to the bitter end regardless of whether they are playing. Big part of our failure to kick on since we've got money is the fact so many of our signings have actually regressed since they arrived.

 

[Toffee-nerd]

Unfortunately our problem is we've got quite a few of these players on bumper contracts who are more than happy to see it through to the bitter end regardless of whether they are playing. Big part of our failure to kick on since we've got money is the fact so many of our signings have actually regressed since they arrived.

Yep. Which is ultimately due to mismanagement. Nobody made an example of, they all are still in and around the squad regardless of performance level so to them it sets a standard of it being acceptable and spreads throughout. I look at the experienced EPL players we picked up in the last couple of windows like Walcott, Iwobi and Delph. Their first few games they all looked quality and looked to be a step up from what we had available. Slowly though they become evertonised and performance levels drop so low but of course they're still in the matchday squad. We are an easy pay packet for a lot of players tbh.

 

[Lowste]

Yeah I dont think thats true personally.

IMO he never lost the players, they tried their best, but sadly his tactics left a LOT to be desired and when you dont even have a plan A nevermind a plan B your gonna struggle.

No ill-feeling towards Silva me, he gave it his best shot, but he was lacking in most areas.

I wouldn’t disagree in the main
Just hoping with Ancelotti we stop this merry go round of hiring and firing

 

[Faroy86580]

Rumour is that Ancelotti has got his son-in-law appointed now as Sport Performance Manager -Mino Fulco. Worked with CA at Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Napoli.

Posted in The Athletic which I don't think I'm allowed to copy paste. I will say it's a good value subscription tho.

 

[Nymzee]

Nepotism as per.

 

[Lelouch]

Carlo Ancelotti has strengthened his backroom team with the appointment of sports performance manager Mino Fulco, The Athletic understands.

Everton are yet to make an official announcement on Fulco’s arrival but multiple sources have confirmed the move to The Athletic.

Fulco, who is married to Ancelotti’s daughter Katia, has already joined his father-in-law on Merseyside. He is staying at the same hotel on the outskirts of Liverpool city centre as the Everton manager, and was at recent games against Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Albion.

At Goodison, the Italian is expected to fulfil a similar role to the one previously occupied by Bruno Mendes, who left his role as head of performance when Marco Silva was sacked last month.

Speaking to The Athletic shortly before his own departure, Mendes said: “My main job is to advise strength and conditioning, be the link between the technical staff and the medical staff, and help with the analysis and assessment of players.

“We come to Finch Farm early to discuss training, then I go to the medical department to see if everyone is fit and we make a plan for the guys to go to the gym. They all have individual work to do there. The main two things to take into account there are the player’s history with injuries and our assessments.”

Mendes’ successor Fulco counts pilates among his main interests and worked as an instructor alongside his wife at Milan-based gym Vita Reform. He is said to have learned MFX pilates — “pilates with copious sweating” that leaves clients “exhausted and euphoric” — under founder Matt Field in London. Upon returning to Italy, his joint classes at Vita Reform with Katia were described as a “mix of energy, rhythm and intensity” by the gym’s website.

The 34-year-old comes to Merseyside having already been a key part of Ancelotti’s staff at Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Napoli. A native of Mondragone, some 30 miles north-west of Naples, Fulco previously worked as an assistant nutritionist at a surgery in Milan and at a swimming club before being integrated onto his father-in-law’s backroom team at Real Madrid.

Fulco describes his job specification as follows: “Diagnostic and applied science for performance and recovery in sport. Analysis of the individual athletic condition and development of specific recovery strategies to improve the recovery after training and match, to promote muscle regeneration and to reduce muscle soreness.”

It’s a philosophy that dovetails neatly with the methods of head of fitness Francesco Mauri, who takes the view that “training a lot does not always equate to training well”.

“The aim is to prepare footballers, not marathon runners,” Italian football expert James Horncastle recently told The Athletic. “Mauri and his assistants would argue that the careful attention to detail —personalised load-management and the necessary emphasis on recovery — actually reduces injuries and leads to players finishing games stronger.”

Like long-time colleagues Davide Ancelotti — Carlo’s son — and Mauri, Fulco has had to contend with the same accusations of nepotism that have at times plagued the camp.

Yet his outstanding resume in football is backed up by academic credentials. He has a degree in biology from the University of Parma and is completing a doctorate centred around “defining the molecular basis of diseases and to translate the scientific knowledge in concrete applications for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases” at the University of Siena.

Despite his importance within Ancelotti’s set-up, Fulco rarely makes media appearances, preferring to remain as one of the less well-known members of the group.

“He stayed in the shadows at Napoli and wasn’t in front of the media a lot,” says Naples-based journalist Vincenzo Credendino. “He wasn’t a football man like Ancelotti. His passion was nutrition and fitness.”

Whatever his interests, Fulco is the latest — and potentially final — piece in the puzzle as far as Ancelotti’s backroom revamp is concerned. He joins assistants Duncan Ferguson and Davide Ancelotti, fitness expert Mauri and goalkeeping coach Alan Kelly on the new-look staff.

“This is a strong team,” says Credendino. “They are very close and trust each other a lot. At Napoli, the players initially thought that Davide was there because of his father but in the end, they recognised that he was good in his own right.

”I would point out that Carlo had Zinedine Zidane (as his assistant) at Real Madrid and he had strong voices alongside him at other clubs as well. Davide is very skilled but I don’t know if he can be a strong voice like Zidane.

“It’s very clever that Ferguson, a club legend, is on the staff as maybe Carlo needs a figure like this.”

(Photo: Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)"

THE HERO WE ALL NEED

 

[firefighterblue]

I hope this is the start of a fitness regime. Our fitness levels have been terrible last couple of years. Need to get them to match the RS then we might compete. Plus a proper pre season please