New Everton Manager

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

Are some of you high? Potter is averaging just over a point per game in the Premier League.

I'm all for a worthy candidate being given the chance to move us onwards and upwards, but can anybody explain what Potter has done that even gets him talked about in relation to our vacancy?
Just about keeping Brighton up is hardly an earth-shattering achievement.

 

[maccavennie]

Green Day

Madonnas was well better and she was miles fitter.

 

[ZissouBlue]

Leaning towards Rangnick now of all options that have been mentioned. I don't care about age, managers don't often stay for a long time anyway. He understands a project and how to instill a vision. He would fully understand our place in the Premier League pecking order and has always targeted young players with a lot of potential who have not yet broken out. It's interesting to hear him talk strategy - I think his style would translate super well to the Prem. The big question is whether he and Brands can co-exist. Seems like he would be taking a step down as a manager reporting to another DOF, but roles can always be amended slightly to make it work. It's not like Brands has the only hand on the steering wheel as it is.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Adrian Heath posting good numbers with Minnesota.

 

[the sniderman]

Conceicao seems to be getting a few mentions the last 24 hrs or so, He is used to working with a squad of misfits and would certainly not stand for any strollers like Gylfi.

mr butties there u r we have been trying to order from u. do u do burritos buddy??
bring us the moyes for coach dude.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

POTTER IN!

 

[BornBlue76]

You know I have no idea who this Potter bloke is.. haven’t caught one of the Potter jokes being going for weeks... best time to google him I guess

edit: oh that bloke

 

[Lanolin]

I'm all for a worthy candidate being given the chance to move us onwards and upwards, but can anybody explain what Potter has done that even gets him talked about in relation to our vacancy?
Just about keeping Brighton up is hardly an earth-shattering achievement.

I actually think he’s a good manager. He’s taken a boring, safety first side and turned them into a good, attacking, footballing side with a clear plan and identity, without spending a huge amount or making them any worse. He’s made players better. It’s not the most incredible achievement in the world, but it hints at something more. It’s like us signing richarlison or something, you’re not signing him because he’s scored 5 goals, you’re signing him because you think he’s shown enough promise to suggest he can do more than that.

It would be a risk though, not every manager who shows promise translates it into something more. He’s also not a particularly exciting candidate so I don’t know how much faith people would have in him. I’d definitely take him over plenty of the others though.

 

[riddick]

Niko Kovac could be an outsider you know.

He was at Goodison in December 2019 after we sacked Silva;



The day after that, Ancelotti was sacked.

If Kovac was a potential, it went the minute Ancelotti become available.

My friend in Germany is a huge Frankfurt guy. Says Kovac is exactly who Everton need as Ancelotti was a bit too much of a soft touch type of manager. Kovac does twice a day training, makes sure his players are in peak fitness year round, etc.

 

[Toffeelover]

I will be clear why I do not want Moyes. He ditched us back then in the same way Carlo has just ditched us. A right pair they are.

 

[Toffeelover]

My friend in Germany is a huge Frankfurt guy. Says Kovac is exactly who Everton need as Ancelotti was a bit too much of a soft touch type of manager. Kovac does twice a day training, makes sure his players are in peak fitness year round, etc.

But we are not talking to him.

 

[Nymzee]

Green Day

Showing your age there.

 

[riddick]

But we are not talking to him.

I mean, we obviously don't know that at all. We have no idea who anyone is talking to. It's all speculation.

 

[FTY]

Warming to Potter

xG is the future, as much as people don’t wanna admit it

 

[ForeverEverton]

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.

The most loyal manager we had took us from relegation candidates each year to European contenders most seasons and only left us to further his career at a massive club after it was clear Everton had hit their glass ceiling, who can blame him? All Evertonians apparently, I dont agree with the way it ended but we all make mistakes dont we? Loyalty is a 2 way street and the manager who was most loyal for 14 years is the last man this fanbase wants in charge again. I bet he would crawl across hot coles to come back as well.... not just for the colour of Farhads cash like other previous managers!