Leighton Baines - next Everton manager (but one)?

[Death]

What. A. Player.

 

[Tommy.]

What. A. Player.

Superb player mate, we'll be lucky to see another like him soon.
Home grown and an absolute wand of a left foot.

 

[Death]

He'd be our standout legend if he was in a team that won a few pots and was in champions league.

 

[everton1953]

A privilege to have him as a player. I would be surprised but pleased if he moved towards football management. He would need to learn the business somewhere first before any big club would consider him.

 

[Death]

A privilege to have him as a player. I would be surprised but pleased if he moved towards football management. He would need to learn the business somewhere first before any big club would consider him.

The Arteta route.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

The Arteta route.

Except better...sit yo' a$$ down, Mikel.

 

[Toffeepot]

Rumoured to have leapfrogged the Galloot in the pecking order and about to become a key member of the Everton first team coaching staff. A successor to Benitez might be pushing it time-wise, but he's apparently done well as a youth development coach. I'm sure he'll be doing all his coaching badges in the next year or so if he hasn't already done them.

He's a much more credible blue to be making manager than Ferguson; Baines is serious and articulate, whereas Ferguson is all spluttering OTT passion and he lacks polish. Baines has demographics on his side too: he's a hero and role model to a younger generation of blues to the one who hero worshipped Ferguson. The new generations who probably make up the majority of Evertonians now in their 20s and 30s have dads who worshipped Ferguson; they respect his standing at the club but they dont identify with him as much as they would Baines.

A strange one from me given his record in undermining Roberto, but if I were a betting man - and notwithstanding that Usmanov/Moshiri tend to go for established industry names as managers - I wouldn't mind enquiring what odds I could get on Baines being manager well before the decade's out.

Don't you mean 'his record in refusing to undermine reality'

 

[little elfin]