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If you were appointed manager tonight

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Harryflashman said:
If Frank got the bullet and you were immediately installed as the new manager , what would you do ? Limited , clearly very limited funds so who do you try and bring in ? How do you try , your best to put a sticking plaster over the rift until seasons end both on and off the field and how do you line up at the weekend ?
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1: Sign 2 attacking full backs: Sergio Gomez on loan from Man City and maybe Lamptey on loan from Brighton. This would be absolute priority. Too much pressure is on our wingers to create at the moment and they are wilting under it.

2: Sign a dead ball specialist. Don't care who, but someone good at corners and free kicks. This will help get free best out of Dom and Onana height, plus our centre backs. Preferably a number 10

3: Sign Coady and make him captain or send him back to Wolves. He has to be captain as someone that prominent and voiciferous has to be leader or they undermine the person who is captain.

4. Play 4-3-1-2 with the full backs providing the width and 2 strikers up top. Onana, Gueye and Doucoure with Iwobi in front of them and DCL Gray up top. Tell DCL to run about a bit more. He used to before Ancellotti was manager. Maupay may look better in a 2 and may make some impact off the bench. Would look to add another striker though and Ings would have been perfect. At the weekend I would play McNeil at LB Next to his mate Tarkowski. He actually can defend pretty well. I would play Mills at RB. It needs some energy and something different. His old man can give him some pointers..We can't keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. That is the definition if insanity.

5. Wear my lucky pants till the end of the season.

BTW, hi Frank (AKA Harryflashman)
 
I'd hire a really decent assistant coach, Davide Ancelotti maybe.
I'd even consider bringing Dunc back.
Someone to do tactics at half time and also someone to scare the crap out of them.
That team HKtoffee posted looks half decent.
Jut need tactics.

I watched the Southampton game and was baffled that they looked like no one had given them any game plan and then Lampard said they didn't need tactics.
Insane.

I weirdly think if we beat west ham there's a bigger chance of us getting relegated.
 
Harryflashman said:
If Frank got the bullet and you were immediately installed as the new manager , what would you do ? Limited , clearly very limited funds so who do you try and bring in ? How do you try , your best to put a sticking plaster over the rift until seasons end both on and off the field and how do you line up at the weekend ?
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For me, I’d be absolutely running them ragged and getting their fitness levels up.

We’re the least fit side in the league. Sand dunes, endurance whatever to get them fitter.

Players who I believe could be sold, and replaced like Calvert-Lewin and Gordon, who you can generate money for, would go for me.

I’d then be
Scouting South America, Italy and France and bringing in players who have pace and can cross, are built to actually play midfield and someone probably two strikers, one who is good in the air the other who’s quicker.

We’d still go down though :lol:
 
Harryflashman said:
If Frank got the bullet and you were immediately installed as the new manager , what would you do ? Limited , clearly very limited funds so who do you try and bring in ? How do you try , your best to put a sticking plaster over the rift until seasons end both on and off the field and how do you line up at the weekend ?
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You really think people are going to give you a straight answer and show up their lack of football knowledge?
 

Id start by raising a private Security Force with my exorbitant wage, overthrowing the board, installing myself as El Presidente, creating a Police State and invading Anfield. My junta would then start a campaign of terror never before seen in the League, kidnap the worlds best players and force them, at first, to play for the mighty blues before rewarding them with riches and women and punishing mistakes with the gulag. Id make Goodison my palatial home and turreted fortress while fans would be given free entry each week to games in lieu of tributes and unfettered loyalty.

Matchdays would be family affairs with a day long festival of concerts, street food, craft ice cream and probably gladiator fights with public humiliation / torture of any seperatists, Agents or Pundits opposing my rule.

Id bring back the good times.
 
I’d go and tape this over every sign in the training ground with NSNO on it
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Play McNeil centrally and carry a big placard saying "told you so" as he takes us to glory (well 17th).

I would also randomly fine players and when they complain asking what they did I would just respond with "you know what you did" to get them thinking.

Mind games.
 
Harryflashman said:
If Frank got the bullet and you were immediately installed as the new manager , what would you do ? Limited , clearly very limited funds so who do you try and bring in ? How do you try , your best to put a sticking plaster over the rift until seasons end both on and off the field and how do you line up at the weekend ?
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I'd tell Bill, The Tea Lady, whoever is running the Sizshow this week, I can save them £1.5 / 2.0 mill this week and maybe get 3pts - Are you in?

Then I'd spin the Players some tale or other about The Usbek Mafia, FFP, The Bank, Interest rates, Bitcoin whatever.

Long story short; No Win - No Pay, Draw and its half pay not only that, the Stats guys are up in the stands deducting points...for points read money off your wages if you do win or draw, for lack of effort, misplaced passes.
Oh, and trainings at Ainsdale Monday 9am - anybody who hasn't signed the attendance book by 8.59 - half a days pay docked. No shows 2 days pay.




Edit; and just for spite I'd seriously key all the fancy motors in the carpark
 
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everton1953 said:
Would they be footballers somewhere and going cheap and clear improvements on what we've got and would love to come?
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Youth's always a gamble but has its pay offs.
You need hungry young players to push the others for starters, if you got the manager willing to play to this.
(McNeill for me just seems like everything they should not be going for)
Noa would be an improvement, he's got the expression, vision and skills that are lacking and can play wing or 10.
Elayis Tavsan would overtake Gray on the right by the end of season imo.
Dallinga for longer term but would be a show of intent and may surprise in the heat of this moment. Would cost next to nothing.
 
I admire the breadth and depth of your knowledge of obscure foreign players that few have ever heard of. You should be a scout for Everton.
 

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