Leighton Baines - next Everton manager (but one)?

[Terrarian]

I also said I wouldn't forget what he'd said in the back end of RM's time here.

I am still only on page 2, I'm sure you have answered anything I'll ask already.

 

[RomanReigns]

if ryan mason can become manager then anyone can

 

[COYBL25]

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.

 

[MikeH72]

Very much enjoying Dave’s bullish pro-Benitez stance in everything he does.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

I have great respect and fanboy affection for Baines and my wife already knows that should we ever adopt a dog, we'll be naming it after him. I'd be very interested to see him running some games in a managerial position, but I wonder whether he's temperamentally well-suited to it. He seems canny enough but would he really be interested in investing the degree of focus on management that he did on his personal performance? He's long seemed to be someone whose footy talent was undeniable and worth the cultivation, but whose interests tended in various directions, and he often suggested that he'd be keen on investigating other stuff after his playing days were over.

Perhaps retirement from playing and his experience to date in the training aspect of footy have reinvigorated his interest (or made him think it remained his best bet for the sort of successful career to which he's become accustomed). Whatever. Love you, Bainsey.

I have already had a car and a dog named after Bainesy.

 

[Connor]

An Everton giant

 

[Tipp blue]

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.

A successor to Benitez, so its Baines in by Christmas?

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Is the rise of Baines some sort of effort to quell the rancorous fanbase after the repulsiveness of the Benitez appointment?

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Baines seems like he would be a much better manager fit than Dunc. Ferguson is full of fight, but i cant imagine he’s got the head for the strategic side of things. Baines seems a much sharper tack than Dunc. He was also a much better player than the big Scot.

maybe they would make a good team.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

I’m not sure Baines is a leader or a motivator and I’m not even really sure he’s that much of a football man and not just a guy who was blessed with a wand of a left foot. I’ve always felt his coaching job was very ‘jobs for the boys’ but I hope to be proved wrong.
In terms of appearance, playing career, eloquence and the way he handles himself I’d have him over most as a player to manager convert for sure and he’d certainly be a classy operator than Dunc in a press conference.

 

[matty1878]

manager of a shampoo store maybe

 

[The binman chronicles]

Well I didn't foresee this turn of events.

 

[barneygumble]

Go out and earn your trade.

If he’s a good enough manager and can proves it, fine… but disaster written all over it, if you give him a baptism of fire.

 

[john jako]

He strikes me that way. Doesn't he you?

No. Nothing about him makes me think he’s articulate.

 

[Cels]

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.

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