Leighton Baines - next Everton manager (but one)?

[davek]

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

I did wonder whether to post it.

However, my thinking is that many people are either confused or angry and looking to the future for solace. This looks like a possible scenario given Benitez's interest in seeing Baines join him as a key coach.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

I thought Baines wasn't really a fan of football, just accidentally very good at it?

 

[nsno-chris]

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.

baines will never be a manager

 

[T LEAFE]

Penno is our next (player)/ manager

 

[john jako]

This lad should stick to cleaning Ashley Cole’s boots.

 

[davek]

baines will never be a manager

Please explain why?!

 

[Jebus_lives]

baines will never be a manager

Always struck me as an assistant.

 

[davek]

Love it

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I must say, Martinez was personally resposible for that. Sent him back in way too early on a couple of occasions. https://giphy.com/gifs/tDrqsm5Sm8fpm

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Least he's fighting killer viruses!

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and maybe best gold is 'Digne plus this lad Hickey as his understudy. That's the way to go. There are people who are so nostalgic they'd have Baines here in his 40s. Thank goodness those same people didn't influence the board to hire the galoot as our manager.'

Doesn't contradict the proposition of this post.

 

[john jako]

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.

What’s this based on mate?

 

[windymiller]

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.

What is going on?! Dave is OK with Benitez and is now promoting the idea of Baines as a future Everton manager.

OK, who's hacked his account?

 

[Kev50]

he's just not driven enough, and his love for football does not match a fanatic like the manager. You can see half the time Baines would rather be talking about bands.

 

[nsno-chris]

Please explain why?!

Because I do not believe he’d like the pressure or the responsibility that goes with it.

Working with the players, organising training sessions and being one of the lads is ideal for him

 

[NathDogg]

I'm scared, this does not compute, and my entire GOT belief systems has been sent into a tailspin.

On top of the fsw rocking up, I'm genuinely perturbed at all this, my tiny mind cannot sort out the information.

@davek - is it really you and are you ok mate?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Dear Lord, the Benitez appointment has certainly had a strange effect on folk.

 

[jazzy]

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.

WTF