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New Everton Manager

Next ex-Everton manager


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People need to stop demanding loyalty as a prerequisite to becoming Everton manager. It doesn't exist in modern football. The only managers who are loyal to their clubs are managers with no better options. The next guy we hire will be here for about two years, on average. That's more than enough time to get us into European competition, which has to be the minimum target if we are going to seriously back him.

People are still dreaming of a Wenger-like figure putting his life's work into one club, but that's the exception now in football. Chelsea have been doing fine with up to two managers a season. Stability is overrated if there is proper funding.

I fully expect Moshiri to select a star name. He won't be able to help himself. But that's not to say he is wrong. Any up and coming manager who takes us into the Europa League or better inside two seasons will be off like a shot when a bigger fish comes snapping. If you want somebody who will, in all likelihood, want to spend the rest of his career on the Everton project, then Rafael Benitez is your man. He's in his sixties, lives locally, and would love to get his teeth into a properly funded upwardly mobile club. But the problem with prizing loyalty is that it usually comes with less desirable characteristics: like somebody having no better options due to mediocrity. To be fair to Benitez, he's been an excellent elite-level manager, but he's on the last lap now. His strength is his weakness and vice versa. Loyal to us, no doubt, due to his personal circumstances, but probably past his best, and so the attractive offers have dried up. He'd be a keeper.

The attractive young go-getters will be off to a Chelsea or United or City or abroad if they do anything of real significance with us - unless we are in the new stadium winning titles. So, resign yourself to getting somebody who can improve us over the next 18 to 30 months or who is not what they were but personally incentivised to stay with us.
 

It was a premier league winning squad. But they were on their last legs.

Seen people say this, wasn't that old tbh

Ferdinand and giggs aside it was a team in their peak

Rooney 27
RVP 29
Carrick 31
De gea 22
Vidic 31
Nani 26
Mata 25

They are good ages, again tbf no idea who Ferguson won the league with the likes of cleverly and Rafael starting games
 


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