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Homepage Article David Unsworth To Leave

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I think every club has ex players on their coaching staff. It's not a bad thing provided it's not at the expense of ability/credentials. I'd care more/work harder for Everton than I would Bristol City. It only becomes an issue when that replaces ability/credentials. Our new DOF - his only interview he bangs on about his Everton connections despite being a Kopite. All a bit weird.

As a side note - I find it interesting how the managers at top flight clubs - our own, Villa's, Crystal Palace's etc tend to be managers of high profile/who were top quality players. Why aren't mediocre ex players getting top jobs anymore? Eh, eh, eh?!
Because we live in the age of the pantomime where unqualified owners try to pacify raging entitled fans with a succession of media friendly decisions, to buy the owners more time. As they’re not qualified and those same angry fans agitate for more change after understandable dips during non linear progress, then the owners create the damaging boom bust cycle which will eventually cause the owner failure.
 

Very much needed, we want people in these positions that want to progress and anyone that is just happy being here isn't going to push us on.

If he has left on his own accord to pursue his ambitions then I'm pleased for him and hope he does well. Ferguson should do likewise. We need an enema at every level - no more jobs for the boys.
 
Because we live in the age of the pantomime where unqualified owners try to pacify raging entitled fans with a succession of media friendly decisions, to buy the owners more time. As they’re not qualified and those same angry fans agitate for more change after understandable dips during non linear progress, then the owners create the damaging boom bust cycle which will eventually cause the owner failure.
The sooner this club has no fans the better.
 
Agreed he's developed loads of good quality players like Dowell, Kenny, Ledson, Connolly, Davies etc who have unfortunately fell a bit short at the final hurdle.

That last step up is a massive step. Calvert Lewin arguably is down to Unsworth too.
Other than Davies (arguably) and Dom, all of them are not Premier league quality players.

His job was to get them ready to be a part of the first team squad. He kept players in that U23 team who had no chance of playing for us and were too old. Players like Pennington, McAleny and Garbutt were playing against kids while being in their mid 20's. That was clogging up spots available for players who needed time at that level.

Fair play to him for Dom, but he was raw as anything until Ancelotti.
 

Hopefully he does well elsewhere and dispels the jobs for the boys shout.

Could be a potential Everton managerial candidate in years to come if so.
I’d be more than happy if he did succeed; if he thrives and succeeds, he should always be considered for the big job.

Yet I don't think it's unfair to question the thinking behind previous appointment: Baxter and his antics; Branch funded and nurtured yet a convicted drug dealer.

That doesn't automatically implicate the likes of Unsworth and Ferguson, but when you consider it with other factors it's not an unjust concern.

I want people in roles based on merit rather than nepotism.
 
Honestly don't know how i would rate his efforts despite us seeing a lot of him, it's been quiet these last years. Shows that it's time he moved on, and hopefully it wil allow some changes to come about for the U23's and academy in general.

I would imagine the club splurging on various crap players has made his job, and the academy's prospects' job, worse. Weird to think it's already 5 years since his caretaker stint. As we know, it was entirely underwhelming.

Cue Unsie taking an equally underwhelming swing at somewhere like Wycombe. Best of luck!
 
Even if we just start to bring through a few Championship standard players that we can sell on for £5m-ish it’ll be an improvement.
We've genuinely had a few of them though to be fair, it's just that most of them have ended up in the first team or being sold for less, but that isn't really on him. I genuinely have no opinion either way on him because I just don't think it's easy to judge at that level, especially when you don't know what his instructions from above are. I think a lot of the criticism of him is unfair and unfounded for that reason, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.
 

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