New Everton Manager

[Bluestar]

I'm sure our football looks exciting too, if you speed the footage up enough.

No it doesn’t.

 

[bcblue1878]

Out of interest, how many games did Wellbeck play last year ? And to be fair neither him or Maupay have ever been prolific.

Welbeck scored 6 in 24 appearances, and Maupay 8 in 33 according to the man at Google!

 

[EFCPaul]

The Moyes brigade, FFS. No surprise it's mostly made up of fans who are early 20s or younger, people who don't remember him much and just judge his tenure on league finishes. As if he could be like Jupp Heynckes at Bayern, someone who enjoyed unparalleled success in his heyday and returned as caretaker whenever needed and always righted the ship.

He did well all things considered but by the final few years his flaws became impossible to live with. Bottling every big game, showing no ambition away from home, talking to the fanbase like we were all idiots whenever he was questioned, playing favourites who shouldn't have been in the team, never giving youth players any look-in.

No, the club has moved on mentally. In 6 months when West Ham have dropped off massively I'll be proven right.

 

[dholliday]

from Carlo Ancelotti, to Graham Potter.

Everton that.

 

[davids]

If Eddie Howe is really the best we can get then we should just be done with the pretence. Just give Big Dunc the job and be done with it. At least he'd have the fans behind him enough to generate a bit of an "us against the world" mentality in matchs that we'd do enough in home games to get our normal mediocre mid-table spot. With someone like Howe at the helm, we'll be lucky to stay up.

As soon as Ancelotti jumped ship a Kopite mate sent me a message that he was looking around for odds that we'd play our first game at Bramley in the Championship,Howe...

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I watched Brighton quite a few times last season, I watched a lot of televised football, every time they played they seemed to play controlled, joined up decent football, how I wished the Everton team, apart from the first seven games played football as good as that. At times last season we were painfull to watch, but I think we were all prepared to put up with it because of the type of player Carlo could be bringing in for the season coming. A lot of times the commentators were saying, if Brighton had a striker to finish the chances they were creating they would be winning a lot more of these games. They have much better strikers at Everton and a much bigger budget, I would not be adverse to giving Potter a try, with his brand of attractive football and our strikers, plus the or four very good signings, it could well work.

I just think there are managers out there who also play good football but have a better track record mate. Likes of Favre, Ten Hag are easy on the eye and probably less of a risk particularly the former.

Personally think the next manager has to be a Sgt Major who makes us hard to beat and focuses on hard work, high energy/fitness levels and grit. If we can add more pace to that style and make us an entertaining counter attacking type side blitzing with pace whilst being compact defensively that would do me more than when we try play possession based football as we always look slow and laboured.

 

[billyblue80]

Fonseca for me bring Zorro in we need saving.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I do not see any real talk in the media about Potter

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Marco silva showed nothing to suggest he should have been given a job here. Nothing. I have no idea why you have thrown his name in.

In fairness Silva was just as qualified as Potter is.

 

[JLW]

I do not see any real talk in the media about Potter

About anyone at all not just Potter

 

[Dykovski200]

I wouldn’t mind Potter coming to be honest, he can get rid of the highly paid wasters we have and replace them with hard working players who can string more than two passes together. Maybe he could bring Bissouma and Ben White with him.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I watched Brighton quite a few times last season, I watched a lot of televised football, every time they played they seemed to play controlled, joined up decent football, how I wished the Everton team, apart from the first seven games played football as good as that. At times last season we were painfull to watch, but I think we were all prepared to put up with it because of the type of player Carlo could be bringing in for the season coming. A lot of times the commentators were saying, if Brighton had a striker to finish the chances they were creating they would be winning a lot more of these games. They have much better strikers at Everton and a much bigger budget, I would not be adverse to giving Potter a try, with his brand of attractive football and our strikers, plus the or four very good signings, it could well work.

My biggest worry is patience. He'll make progress but it might be slow to be reflecting in the results. And if there is one thing I've learned over the last year it is that Evertonians have a very tough time with patience and looking past the result. We have to learn or at least the club has to hold its nerve and tell us to do one if we can't. Otherwise Potter or basically anyone else we choose is going to fall short of where we really want to go.

 

[billyblue80]

I do not see any real talk in the media about Potter

Brands likes him according to the Athletic. I am not convinced yet

 

[mahermi1]

None of our players can pass so you wouldn't be seeing that.

that footy seems incredibly fast and accurate to be true...or am I just used to watching our slow, one paced, sideways, Craggy Island crap.

 

[StevenSeagull]

I agree I think Potter is the best thing to go with based on the lack of options.

that being said I’d love to see Conte’s reaction to players like Delph or Iwobi as he might be the one strong enough to force the deadwood out of the club once and for all whereas Potter might try to polish that turd so to speak

No mate. Sorry but you're Everton not the bloody FA when they picked Southgate. If you're not happy with those options then widen your net. Be creative. Every coach in the world wants to manage a PL club. Probably. The Big 6 domination is now really only the Big 4 and they've not looked this vulnerable in years. There's Villa, Leicester, West Ham, Leeds all with realistic ambitions of a top 7 place like yourselves and you've got a squad at least equal to all those bar Leicester.