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If we go down, how do you start the rebuild?

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Thomasc said:
I agree with most of this, but do you think they are going to pull out of the stadium after dredging the Mersey for 3 months and building the corners?

Not going to just down tools and pack up lol
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I don't know really being an ordinary punter. I have seen some question the whole viability of the club post relegation from points deductions to administration. I hope like everyone else the stadium is unaffected but I'm always reminded of Valencia in that respect. I know to expect nothing of Everton and they seem to be adept of meeting that expectation at least.
 
brieverton said:
1. Keep Lampard. We need continuity and I'd like him to stay on.
2. Entrust all football matters to Thelwell, and Lampard working with him for the first-team squad.
3. Kenwright and DBB should resign - they are responsible for oversight and have failed.
4. We cannot simply sell everyone - we need a core of squad - but sell as many as possible.
5. We are then looking at a mix of cheaper prospects + reliable Championship journeymen to give us the nucleus of a squad that will be competitive.
6. The cups are not going to be relevant so its 46 games to focus on to maximise the points totals and see where we are with 10 games remaining.
7. Implement a post-Unsworth overhaul of Academy/U-23's - the core of our focus has to be on developing our own players.
8. Spend only what we can afford, obvious but worth saying and not like we will have a choice anyway. There will have to be a cost control and value for money aspect to absolutely everything that we do.
9. If possible, continue with the stadium development but only if its feasible. It would remain the one thing we could positively point to and a big incentive to go back up asap.
10. Recognise the trauma caused by this and let the dust settle, hopefully by building a team and squad that are reliable and consistent with a high work ethic. Relegation will indeed be a seismic event. The club has to commit to understanding why it happened, learning from it, and ensuring glaring mistakes are not repeated.
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problem with number 3 kenwright will never leave willingly he'll ziptie himself to the goal to prevent himself from being banished the utter parasite
 
It's not really a question of who is sold, who's kept and who is bought necessarily.

It's more about defining the strategy for the football side of the club and sticking with that over a long period (3-5 years minimum). If that strategy is to develop players from the youth team, try and money-ball the transfer market, buy experienced players on high wages or a combo of lots of different strategies then we need to stick with it. We also need to be better at appointing the right people to do the most important jobs at the football club.

In fact having a long term strategy that you don't deviate from, helps provide stability for the individuals you put in place to implement that strategy.

You also need the club and the fans to have a clear identity and a clear vision of the plans. Whilst sticking to a long term plan, as supporters you need patience to let it succeed.

If you get it right though you can become greater than the sum of your parts. All the better teams in the football pyramid do this. Whether near the top of the PL or playing in non-league. Have everyone pulling in the same direction with a clear vision of what that direction and underlying principles of your strategy are.

For too long Everton have been a mess with regards to mid and long term strategy. Flip flopping from one type of approach to another. Weak management at boardroom level to withstand supporter angst at times. Different parts of the club pulling in different directions. Basically the exact opposite of being greater than the sum of your parts.

Get some of the above in place and then make some smart decisions for key personnel and at least it provides a chance to rebuild. If that doesn't happen and quick fixes are looked for then it could lead to further pain with a muddled and ill defined oversight of what the club wants to achieve long term and how they plan to implement this.
 
Id sell or make available all bar Gordon, Mykolenko, Patterson, Branthwaite, Dobbin, Simms.

Id buy some experienced characters for the spine of the team. People like Jagielka who know the championship inside out and who are avaliable nearly all the time. Ideally all on free transfers.

Id try and buy two star players such as Mitrovic and Brennan Johnson with the premise of going up straight away.

Id promote youngsters like Price, Warrington.

Id loan players from premier league clubs such as Billy Gilmour to beef up the squad and have not long term committed costs in the hope we get promoted.

Id probably retain Lampard just or maybe go for Dyche on a two year deal.
 

Breakaway from the English football pyramid and form a European Super League. That way we don’t have to humour the PL and EFL with their relegation and promotion concept AND we can demand huge TV funding because the league we form will be the highest-ranked league in Europe, so all the big TV companies will want a piece.
 

SJB said:
I'd go with a mix of youth and experience, we need to consolidate and not get ahead of ourselves thinking we're good enough to make the playoffs.

Lonergan

Phil Bardsley
Sol Bamba
Branthwaite
Nkounkou

Gordon
Davies
Will Hughes
Tom Ince

Rondon
Ellis

Width and pace in the midfield with two battering rams up front, try to bully our way to championship survival and build from there.
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That team goes down again
 

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