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Everton Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

Titus Shambles said:
We'll have to wait and see but I'd be astonished if 1 year from today Dyche is the manager of Everton Football Club under new owners. I cannot see someone as successful and ambitious as Friedkin clearly is spending half a billion quid/dollars on a football team and keeping someone else's managerial appointment in the hotseat.

We can all talk about "aiming for Europe" but that's also going to be the aim for Newcastle and Brighton and Villa and West Ham and Spurs etc etc, and they are all ahead of where we currently are. We have a manager who has been relegated 3 or 4 times, never won anything, finished in the top half once in about 12 years of his career, and has a 32% win rate here. I'd be shocked if Dyche cuts the mustard for where Friedkin will want -and expect- this club to be.
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I get the point you're making but at the same time he has never that the financial backing or talent on the roster to really ever do more than keep teams safe from relegation. Thats why I think he will get this season to prove whether he can coach at high level or is just a relegation specialist.
 


justladouxit said:
I get the point you're making but at the same time he has never that the financial backing or talent on the roster to really ever do more than keep teams safe from relegation. Thats why I think he will get this season to prove whether he can coach at high level or is just a relegation specialist.
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There's clearly a reason why no ambitious or "big club" ever considered him for a job in the decade he was at Burnley. His style would never be accepted at some clubs, but he's a Allardyce-esque figure you go to when fighting a relegation battle. It's true he's never had money to spend but I've always found that an easy out to justify what has been a career of largely awful, "functional football".

Granted in the Prem you need money to be successful but you don't need it to have a philosophy or style. There are teams in the National League and even lower down that play nice, entertaining, attacking, front foot passing football (call it the Guardiola effect on the way modern coaches work), yet here we are in 2024 playing 4-5-1 every week, going direct over and over, trying to nick set pieces, scrapping for 1-0 wins etc. It is what it is, but surely it can't be the future.
 
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Is Don Mitchell a lizard or what?
 

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