Leighton Baines - next Everton manager (but one)?

[Jebus_lives]

lol

No. Im just thinking out loud.

He's been very cynical in the past and I'll never forget that, but I could forgive it if he's talented as a coach and manager.

I'm enjoying this 'bygones be bygones' approach. Rafael in, Baines as apprentice!

 

[ToffeeDan]

Given that we rarely get managerial appointments right I'd be very happy if L Beatnik made the grade.

 

[nsno-chris]

Let's not make this about our best ever PL manager.

Baines loved Moyes

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

So who gets booted to make room for his ascension, Unsy?

 

[davek]

Same applies to him, go away and make your mistakes, learn your trade on somebody else's dime Then comeback...if you can.

Absolutley. Get an education for free off Benitez; get a Championship team if possible; develop your style and get good results.

 

[Jebus_lives]

So who gets booted to make room for his ascension, Unsy?

Benitez

 

[davek]

I'm enjoying this 'bygones be bygones' approach. Rafael in, Baines as apprentice!

I'll never forgive either for their misdemeanours, but wouldn't cut my nose off to spite my face if either make a fist of it in their objectives.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Absolutley. Get an education for free off Benitez; get a Championship team if possible; develop your style and get good results.

I think he'd do well at somewhere like Bournemouth or Blackpool.

 

[davek]

Baines loved Moyes

He wanted to join him at United and RM put the blocks on that. That was the poison in the well for Roberto.

Anyway, what do you think about his prospects of becoming future Everton manager? He seems determined, and Benitez is going to hand him a huge leg up in coaching profile to national status if all the talk is correct.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

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.

Dave...Am unshockable, but this has shocked me.

 

[Jimishorts]

A strange one from me given his record in undermining Roberto

 

[davek]

I think he'd do well at somewhere like Bournemouth or Blackpool.

Well liked at Wigan. Division 1 like.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

lol

No. Im just thinking out loud.

He's been very cynical in the past and I'll never forget that, but I could forgive it if he's talented as a coach and manager.

I could definitely see him as our Manager before Duncan.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Well liked at Wigan.

Bit too far down the Championship alphabetically for my lazy research.

 

[degsy]

Well liked at Wigan. Division 1 like.

So are pies but that doesnt mean a lot