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Marco Silva Confirmed As New Everton Manager
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He deserved it
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
Attitude, get it in! Keep Rooney and get him to teach others winning attitude.
Wwf attitude.
Agreed.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
That makes both of them, they'll be like the two class pets battling eachother to finish their home work first.
roydo
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He has gone now Mikey.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-to-replicate-atletico-madrid-model-2z0fhfv9n
There was a reason why at the start of Everton’s initial managerial search, those days in between Ronald Koeman’s sacking and prior to Sam Allardyce appointment, Diego Simeone was discussed as a possible candidate by the powers-that-be.
The link was greeted with predictable guffawing in the predictable places — why would El Cholo consider Everton? — yet feelers were put out in the hope of somehow pulling off a surprise appointment.
Simeone has remained out of reach, of course, and yet his body of work remains the reference point.
Silva said he wants Everton fans to be “proud” of their teamTWITTER: EVERTON FC
There are those in the new-look Goodison Park hierarchy who believe Everton should be the Atletico Madrid of the Premier League, a label presumably demanding a team that plays with attitude, a club that is united behind the cause, is savvy in the transfer market and manages to regularly upset the natural order.
In other words, a philosophy far removed from what the club had become by the end of Allardyce’s brief reign and an insight into why he was not retained despite the statistical improvement of lifting Everton from 13th to eighth.
It is a bold vision, easy to dream up but more difficult to deliver, and one which serves to underline the scale of the task facing Marco Silva now that he has been confirmed as the club’s fourth permanent manager since May 2016.
Players who have worked with Silva speak highly of him. They chronicle his obsessive attention to detail, with and without the ball, a penchant for pace out wide (which should offer Ademola Lookman an opportunity if his head and heart is not already in RB Leipzig following his loan spell in Germany) and an ambitious outlook that says the best teams are not unbeatable.
Silva said he wants Everton fans to be “proud” of their teamTIM IRELAND/EMPICS SPORT
“I know what our fans expect — they expect results but not only results,” said Silva, who has signed a three-year contract. “I want our fans to be proud when they see our team on the pitch. I want them to feel that we are committed, that we are working hard and enjoying our football because that is important as well.
“We want to build a great connection between the squad and the fans, and I’m sure that with our attitude and demands of commitment then our style of play will see that.
“Everton is a really ambitious club and that is what I want. What we are seeing now are good changes at the club. The club is changing its approach. But one thing we cannot change and nobody wants to change is the huge history and ambition of the club.
“Everybody knows Everton’s history. When you are a club like Everton, you only have one solution — to aim to win. In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.
“That is what I want and I’m sure we will show that every single week.”
Shaping the modern history of a club without silverware since 1995 is now the task in hand.
Everton’s interest in Silva dates back to November and he remains subject of an official tapping up complaint by Watford that is now likely to require Premier League arbitration to resolve.
He fits the “modern coach” criteria Marcel Brands, Everton’s new director of football, outlined last week and which feels a more substantial brief than the desire for a “Hollywood manager” that led to the recruitment of Koeman as Roberto Martínez’s replacement.
The 40-year-old arrives with plenty to prove, having won just 16 of his 48 games in England during brief spells with Hull City and Watford. His assistant manager João Pedro, Hugo Olivera, the goalkeeping coach, Antonis Lemonakis, the technical scout, and Pedro Conceicao, the fitness coach, will join him, while Duncan Ferguson is set to remain on the staff.
Allardyce was unpopular with fans due to his style of football
And so if Everton’s new power structure, in which Farhad Moshiri, the major shareholder, wields all of the influence, is serious about the club becoming the “Atletico of England” then they are on trial, too.
Money has to be made available for overhauling a squad lacking in quality and, crucially, personality at a time when Everton are already seeking to borrow £220 million to go with a £280 milion Liverpool City Council loan to fund a new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock.
Weeding out the weak and moving on the deadwood from Everton’s current squad will not raise untold riches. Efforts to sell Wayne Rooney behind his back are motivated by a desire to save money on his wages, while jettisoning the likes of Ashley Williams, Kevin Mirallas, Sandro Ramírez and Muhamed Besic will not raise much towards reinforcements.
Moshiri has already injected £150 million into the club through the company, BlueSky Capital, and now the informed talk is of a potential rights issue to raise further capital.
But most of all there must be a willingness to invest time — as well as funds — in Silva and look beyond the inevitable glitches in form which will prevail as the Portuguese looks to embed his way of thinking and playing.
The same is true of a supporter base that embraced Martínez and quickly grew tired, embraced Koeman and quickly grew tired and simply grew tired of Allardyce.
However, the lead must come from the very top. Otherwise, the only true similarity with Atletico will end up being the “hire ‘em-fire ‘em” mentality which was always so prevalent before Simone marched through the door seven years ago.
Hopefully because hes been confirmed today that means tomorrow we can sign 20 new players whilst selling 20 players as well
Darren1972
Player Valuation: £500k
Lol that clip brings back memories of when i was 11, her boob falls out of her top in that clip.
Ok we have a new manager and a new DOF. Let's see if they can manage to do the unthinkable and buy people of quality for the positions we need so we don't have to start the season with one left back and a major hole(striker last season) .
Gutted no one asked him about how he feels about playing players that cba and give a minimum of effort, would have been very apt for our club.
Gutted no one asked him about how he feels about playing players that cba and give a minimum of effort, would have been very apt for our club.
B_Cook_1932
Player Valuation: £225k
Anyone after Allardyce is an improvement good luck Marco proper football again please
Frang
Player Valuation: £70m
all our players have seen that this manager has already downed tools once at Watford, so it kind o f gives them a license to do the same to him if it starts off badly.
Muppet Basher
Player Valuation: £6m
Good luck an welcome to Everton Marco.
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