New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

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Thomasc said:
Even more ironic is the fact that anything Martinez achieved, he achieved with the crux of Moyes team and a couple of new additions.

Then he started buying players like Aidan Mcgeady and Tom Cleverly and calling them world class.
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Then Moyes’ defenders started retiring/getting old and he replaced them with Funes Mori.
 
brieverton said:
I understand the sense of disappointment and disillusionment amongst some, but I don't think the comparisons with Bournemouth and Brentford are valid.

Both clubs have been doing very well generally and by their standards, Frank was assistant at Brentford. We have been in a perpetual crisis which has escalated to acute danger for practically the last three years.

It's easier to take a calculated gamble when you're in a stable/strong position. Everton going down is a massive story, and with respect to both of those clubs, it would not be so for them.

It's not impossible, but it's just objectively more difficult for a club in our position and at this time, to have their pick of managers and nobody out there represents no risk.

Honestly I would have been quite nervous about someone like Fonseca. And if they appointed some obscure foreigner then it might be Jesse Marsh Mk. II. Then TFG are hung, drawn, and quartered weeks into their ownership.

I'm not dancing with joy that Moyes is returning, far from it. But I can understand why TFG are going down this route. There are no guarantees with anyone, but they're hedging against what they think is a safer bet. There is a logic in it, in our position.
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Well said.

Going by some reactions you'd think TFG are deliberately trying to stick 2 fingers up at the fans, weeks into taking control.

You're allowed to be seriously underwhelmed by this but also at the same time understand the logic behind it, especially when you consider the very likely lack of options.

As has been said, if this happened in the summer people would be right to be fuming. But its not. Its the middle of a relegation fight in January that Dyche has put us in and has seemingly decided he couldn't turn it around.
 
Exeter_Gently said:
Which up and coming manager is coming in half way through a season and straight into a relegation battle?

While I'd rather the contract not been 2.5 year "apparently" we are where we are.

Like I said earlier today all this upheaval is a still a symptom of the lack of governance over the past 30 years.
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We are where we are i just think the 2.5 is far too long a contract
 



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