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Guess the axe and sword fight on formby beach at the weekend scared him off
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Although on paper Favre seems to be a decent choice...hes another manager over 60 and failed at Dortmund in terms of league progress. Got mauled by Dortmund after a poor run and left them in 5th.
I think we either need to aim for a young manager who has already won silverware and done something at a club which no other managers have done (Gallardo/Amorim) or we go for another big name like Ancelotti but younger who can attract the players.
Don’t think most were getting fed up. We wanted to see better but fully understood he couldn’t polish a turd.
He’s ditched us. He shouldn’t get our respect for it.
but, at the same time, the club is clearly a mess
KindofBlue
Player Valuation: £2.5m
There are arguments to be made for both sides as to the quality of his performance as manager but he gave the club and the current project a certain legitimacy it hasn't had for some time prior to his arrival.
The next appointment will tell us more about how this "project" is viewed by the football world post Ancelotti and how much or if he improved our stature at all. Who we can attract both as a manager and players this window with him gone will be quite telling.
Personally, I am somewhat ambivalent about the situation. I liked Carlo quite a bit but 10th is poor and the lack of desire shown by the majority of the team at the end of the season left a sour taste.
The next appointment will tell us more about how this "project" is viewed by the football world post Ancelotti and how much or if he improved our stature at all. Who we can attract both as a manager and players this window with him gone will be quite telling.
Personally, I am somewhat ambivalent about the situation. I liked Carlo quite a bit but 10th is poor and the lack of desire shown by the majority of the team at the end of the season left a sour taste.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Baggzio
Player Valuation: £15m
Couldn’t have put it better. Quite honestly this day has confirmed to me what many knew for a while, football is just a business, the players, managers and owners only care for one person and that’s themselves.
The fans mean nothing to them, doesn’t matter if you’re someone who’s had a season ticket for 25 years, someone who gets up at 4am to watch half way across the world or someone who was spent their life loving a football club.
What absolutely kills me is there are obvious snakes and parasites in the world of football, Mino Raiola, Allardyce, Perez who’s now back with Carlo after sacking him all those years ago as well as the gang of scum along with him that all tried to take football away from us not too long ago. At the very least though these people are clear and honest about what they are.
Carlo Ancelotti, a man of great respect, class, a real footballing man, he’s just as bad as the rest of them. Words mean nothing from these liars. It’s all just lip service until they can get to their next multi million pound bonus.
The thing that hurts most with Carlo is he could’ve coasted here quite easily, get us consistently into the Europa League, challenge for the CL but miss out and go on cup runs. He’d have been treated like royalty by us, instead he chose to opt to go back to Madrid, who are in crisis, where they’ll hound him out if he gets only second in the league.
He literally had a free pass to do anything with us, look at him now he just finished 10th and he’s gone to Madrid, it doesn’t matter how good or bad he would’ve done with us. If anything getting us consistently into Europe would’ve been seen as a great accomplishment for him and he’d have been paid a kings ransom to do it.
I’ve rambled here now I know but it just hurts that this is indeed just the state of football and nothing will change it. It’s been a long day which is upsetting and angering. It is my hope that if Carlo has any integrity at all he’ll look back one day and say it was either a mistake to come here in the first place or instead say it was a mistake to leave because if he doesn’t then quite frankly it will have been a quick money grab which should be above a coach of his pedigree.
Onto the next one anyway, I think it’ll be tough though. Martinez was the first manager in my life that I truly thought loved the club more than anything and despite his shortcomings I’ll always have a soft spot for him and wish him well, with Carlo every positive word he’s said about us I can’t see as nothing but a PR spin lie. I want us to be a success more than anything and want to see us win something in my lifetime but I’ll take someone who may not be the greatest manager ever like Martinez than a “winner” who’s come for us for nothing more than the amount of 0’s in his contract like Carlo.
I truly just want to feel positive about the team I’ve supported since I was a boy almost 20 years ago and that’s all, anything with success and trophies is a bonus honestly.
I want a football club that will make me smile and be something to be proud of. I’ll never not love Everton but football is becoming something I’m starting to despise.
Pat Butcher
Player Valuation: £10m
Honestly, I've called him a Fossil and said he was pathetic, maybe its just the idea of him I liked more than the reality of it all, no hard feelings, Ancelotti is a Legendary manager but in my opinion the game has left him behind, especially in a fast competitive league like the Prem.
I don't even live over there and I can guess he's a mouthpiece of a club that's terrible with communications.
Carlo was worried that the terrible football he had been producing would get him in troible so he ran away? That's some club spin there..
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
We're about the 7th biggest spenders in the league. We're no Man City.
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
Here is a post that was left on Ancelottis facebook page. I would have to fully agree with the sentiments expressed by this gentleman.
Mildredblues
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Why did anyone expect anything different? He was only at Goodison for the big paycheck. All the talk about the long term project and waiting to play at BMD were just that. Talks and PR fed to him by the clubs PR. He obviously couldn't say the truth about him only being at Everton for the money. As soon as a big club came calling with a comparative maybe even better offer, off he went.
arbok
Player Valuation: £15m
this was the biggest snake move I’ve seen in sports. He left a club that wanted him here.
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