Carlo At Everton.

[Nymzee]

Are you really suggesting he should have honoured his contract at Everton and turned down winning Trophies at Real?

Blud?

If he had anything about him, yes. If trophies are all he’s supposed to go for he’d never have come here in the first place would he.

 

[Furey1878]

Confirms what many of us guessed all along. Looks like Carlo's refusal to play Josh King was also a protest of the crappy business we did when we were 2nd at New Year.

Oh well, it was a beautiful dream.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Interesting interview with Davide Ancelotti about their time, relationships and events at Everton.:


“Me and my father (Carlo Ancelotti) enjoyed our time at Everton. We came in at the end of 2019 with a plan to get the club to where we all felt it deserved to be, competing at the top.

The owner (Farhad Moshiri) sold us a vision which really excited us, we knew then that this was the place to really achieve that. The club had clearly went through a period of instability and we were determined to change that.

Everyone knows that the Premier League isn’t easy, that first season was difficult. Everton was at the wrong end of the table when we took over. What we took from that season was the assessment of the squad and how we would improve that in the Summer.

Unfortunately by this time, the world was a few months into a pandemic. This had a significant impact on Football and the financial implications were great. This is something we had to work with.

That summer (2020) we were able to do some business to improve the squad including bringing in a player me and my father knew very well in James Rodriguez. However during this time problems began, there was a number of disagreements with the Director of Football (Marcel Brands) on strategy.

He (Brands) wanted players which we felt weren’t the right fit for Everton, in the end we came to an agreement on the players we would pursue but this was a long and difficult process.

The Chairman (Bill Kenwright who passed away in October 2023) would often sit in at these meetings giving advice which we found strange as this was something I had not seen at other football clubs.”

Following the summer we started the season (2020/21) really well and we were confident that the club could really achieve european Football. There was of course a couple of poor runs throughout the season which ultimately cost us and we finished 10th, this was very disappointing.

My father had grown increasingly frustrated with the business done in the January window that season and after a meeting with the Chairman at the end of the season we discovered that the club had very little to spend in the summer (2021).

We were also told this was something unlikely to change for a number of years, at this point I think my father had made his decision that this project was coming to an end.

Just a day after this meeting Real Madrid had approached us to take over there, it was a pretty easy decision but that isn’t out of respect for Everton. It’s a wonderful football club however with the serious financial problems it was facing we decided that is was the right decision to leave.”

That account has posted a bunch of fake quotes before, pretty sure they made up a Lukaku one that got shared a lot. Unless there’s an original source for those quotes would treat with a pinch of salt.

 

[Furey1878]

If he had anything about him, yes. If trophies are all he’s supposed to go for he’d never have come here in the first place would he.

If he was promised money to spend and those terms massively changed AND Real Madrid came in for him.

I get on a computer game level what you're saying but in reality, not many managers stay at Everton in that scenario.

 

[RomanReigns]

Unpopular decision but we should have hired Moyes instead of him for the long term project knowing that he could deal with clubs that have no money to spend

Your guardiolas, mourinho’s and ancelottis all want to spend 300 mil every window

 

[Frenk]

Waste of time really in the end. Completely pointless exercise done out of desperation. It was fun though.

 

[pfim]

It was a ridiculous appointment given the state of the club.

 

[Ruairi77]

So frustrating.
Get one of the best ever in, just let him do his thing and give him as much money as possible.

Don't make a load of empty promises, have the chairman giving advice and the DoF digging heals in.

And when he eventually leaves, dont replace him with Rafael Benithez.

A generation of mismanagement.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

No ego as big as Bill's, funny how he fell out with Brands as well. Sounds as if Brands wanted possibly young, up and coming, Carlo wanted the proven, more expensive player. A wedding in Hell.

Brands has played a massive part in our struggles when you look at the money he blew on rubbish. Benitez saw right through him and punted him first chance he got.

 

[Ruairi77]

Brands has played a massive part in our struggles when you look at the money he blew on rubbish. Benitez saw right through him and punted him first chance he got.

Brands never stood a chance. Kenwright and Moshiri didn't listen to him when it came to managerial appointments and clearly both stuck their noses in when it came to signings.

Half or more of the senior appointments made since Moyes would have faired much better if the club was run like most other clubs, not even well, just normal and not dysfunctional.

 

[Canuck Darryl]

A very expensive experiment, that failed miserably. It always seemed like he was slumming, and would bolt at the first opportunity…which he did.

 

[Ferguson1878]

imagine if someone told you after the win at anfield, that in a few months carlo would be out and Rafael would be in !.

 

[twoblue]

Can’t find the quote in el pias…

 

[bluejohn66]

Carlo, the RAT that deserted a sinking ship !!

 

[bernie inn]

We clearly couldn’t afford him, bonkers appointment, good fun while it lasted though, shame there were no fans in the grounds for the best bits