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Leighton Baines - next Everton manager (but one)?

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Probably a very old fashioned take, but I always assumed - even in this day and age - that a manager would have to have to have some snide and grit about them for when the team needs a telling off. Can’t imagine that from Baines. He’d probably sing them a song to try to get the proverbial tune out of them.
 
degsy said:
Same applies to him, go away and make your mistakes, learn your trade on somebody else's dime Then comeback...if you can.
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Apparently the prevailing sentiment within the game is, if you're going to go down that route, do it at/with the best facilities...if you can.

Hard to argue with that, provided you don't take it for granted. I can appreciate both sides of the debate.
 

davek said:
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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Absolutely incredible

Not an ounce of substance to ANYTHING you have said
 
davek said:
A strange one from me given his record in undermining Roberto
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I’m surprised because of this but fair play mate.

I will say though, taking Ferguson, Baines and Unsworth’s previous attempts at caretakering, we need to start our own in-house managerial conveyor belt and like everything, you’ve gotta start somewhere.

If the three above are the embryo for that then great. After all, Liverpool had success with their boot room boys for donkeys years and there’s nothing wrong with nicking ideas.
 

I can’t lie- I would love Baines to go out and prove himself and return to Everton to become manager and kill it here. But as with Dunc and Unsy, I don’t want him to stumble into the interim role. Get some XP son
 
While I will not be dragged in to your honey trap, sourpuss...I will say this:

I do not remember what match it was but, we won (hell, it could have been under Martinez' first season)...anyhow, before it ever got to post-match interviews I thought to myself "damn, we really mixed it up well".

He was interviewed after that match and said the exact same thing, apart from the expletive. I implore someone to find it, if they can

I have my reasons for being a staunch fanatic but, for my personal take on how football "should be played", that's why I would be all-in; literally one comment. I mean, talk about "hit and hope"...

As ever, we'll see.

Guillem Balague, not that I really give a flying f about him, is going around spouting that the heads of all slackers at the club are going to be chopped by Benitez...so he may not even be around much longer, if LB3 lives up to your past expectations.
 
Groucho said:
I’m surprised because of this but fair play mate.

I will say though, taking Ferguson, Baines and Unsworth’s previous attempts at caretakering, we need to start our own in-house managerial conveyor belt and like everything, you’ve gotta start somewhere.

If the three above are the embryo for that then great. After all, Liverpool had success with their boot room boys for donkeys years and there’s nothing wrong with nicking ideas.
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Has Baines been a caretaker manager at some level?

I have no regard for Ferguson or Unsworth. They were all promoted as part of some clique system, but Benitez promoting Baines to the first team squad means something for me. I dont think he suffers fools gladly and he's pretty particular who he surrounds himself with. He;s not the type to go in somewhere and just take a local hero to sit next him.

Baines might have something. He might not and I could be massively wrong. But he shapes up profile-wise as someone who could be a serious proposition as one.
 

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