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Evertonthat said:
Massively dried up? Yet still has a win percentage well over 50% over the last 9 years (was higher before granted). Whats Dyche's? Below 20%?
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But that's not relevant at all is it? Like not even a little bit. Neil Lennon has a win percentage of 56.45% and has won 12 trophies, shall we get him in? Mourinho has managed a load of clubs who are expected to win trophies and have a recent record of doing it, he's been very good at getting that extra couple of percent out of them for a short period and winning stuff before it unravels quite quickly after. He has no record at all of doing what we would need from him. He took over a Roma side which had finished 7th with 62 points the season before and led them to 3 consecutive 6th place finishes all with 63 points. He's now at Fenerbahce who finished 2nd last year, 3 points behind the winners having lost 1 league game all year, and halfway through the season is 8 points behind having already lost twice. This idea that he's some sort of unstoppable winning machine is over a decade out of date, he's managing in a backwater league for a reason.
 

bluestevon said:
I pretty much agree, the one caveat I'd say though is that what Mourinho does bring is a complete winning mentality to a club, and boy that's something we have had maybe one season since Martinez and not many before that either.

Would it be worth the risk, that's the question, would Mourinho see us safe, I think that's a no brainer he'd manage it tbh, would it make the first season at BMD an even more memorable one, pretty sure it would too, would it enable recruitment if players we'd not have thought possible - again yup.

Would we be able to get all those positives without and still put in place a mong term recruitment and building plan....

That's the conundrum. The thought of a Mourinho taking a club and really investing in it long term is always the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but like that I don't think it ever exists.

Funnily enough though taking an Everton side at the lowest ebb in its history, really committing himself to it and turning it back over a 6-7 year period to being a club it once was would cement his legacy as possibly the greatest ever manager, just don't think it's in his nature to do so though
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A lot depends on what the new owners want to do really. And that's why to some extent it's a bit futile saying what type of manager you want until you know the plan.

Like their view might be, that they are going to be aggressive in the transfer market, and buy better players and a bit like how we did under Ancelotti look to rise up the table quickly. Before he lost heart, and RM turned his head we were in the top 4.

And that was 12 months after being in the bottom 3 under Silva. There's this myth (amongst many myths) that it's impossible to move a lot quickly. Forest have shown that to be totally untrue this season. Villa did it the year before. Like Villa basically just got a strong manager, gave him a load of money and let him get on with it. We did it with Carlo.

The issue becomes, of you can't match that spending, and they get frustrated. That would be the big challenge with a Mourinho.

But honestly, Ancelotti had Calvert Lewin in the England squad looking like he could get 20 a season. There's no doubt whatsoever that the best managers can make a huge difference to the players they have.

We won at Anfield at a canter, with Holgate, Keane and Godfrey in a back 3 being protected by Tom Davies.
 

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