New manager

toffeeblue9 said:
Potter would be close to the bottom of the list of managers I'd consider.

Did anyone read the piece Mark Douglas did on Everton, Thelwell and what's gone on behind the scenes with us? It's behind a paywall, so not sure what the rules are about posting stuff here, but if you read it, the style we are trying to implement at all our age groups is not very consistent with what Potter brings

inews.co.uk

Inside Everton's academy: 'We're building something very, very special'

Mark Douglas gets unprecedented access to Finch Farm where he hears from the brains trust turning the Toffees into a youth football powerhouse
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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what style is it?
 

toffeeblue9 said:
Potter would be close to the bottom of the list of managers I'd consider.

Did anyone read the piece Mark Douglas did on Everton, Thelwell and what's gone on behind the scenes with us? It's behind a paywall, so not sure what the rules are about posting stuff here, but if you read it, the style we are trying to implement at all our age groups is not very consistent with what Potter brings

inews.co.uk

Inside Everton's academy: 'We're building something very, very special'

Mark Douglas gets unprecedented access to Finch Farm where he hears from the brains trust turning the Toffees into a youth football powerhouse
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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As chief mod on here I give you permission to paste the full article
 
Billy Dean said:
what style is it?
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Hopefully just the one quote won't get me in trouble


So what are the Everton principles? “Out of possession of the ball Everton teams are front-foot,” Darlington explains.
“We have dropped the word defending from the model. We changed it to attacking without the ball to get the mentality right.
“We want Everton teams to be high up the pitch, pressing teams, getting the fan off their seat in terms of press. [We want to be] front-foot, aggressive, trying to get the ball high up the pitch, going in waves of support in terms of trying to defend from the front. We want a really aggressive, front foot mentality.
“When we get the ball we don’t want to be a Manchester City type team, a 75 per cent possession team, because it’s not Everton Football Club.
“We call it having controlled, purposeful possession. We have control of games and purposeful possession to get up the pitch.
“We want a bit more guile around us trying to get up the pitch and how we exploit overloads and then when we get there speeding the game up.
“Those are the fundamentals we’re trying to drill into the players. A front-foot mentality, purposeful possession.”

Archive Today is your friend for the full article

I'd maintain this is definitely not Potterball. Granted, it's nothing like what Dyche plays either so the next appointment, if we are genuinely going to have a long-term culture at the club, should be a coach who plays this style of football.
 

So if we were going to go down the temporary route with the whole 'club connection' thing could we do worse than, say, Carsley & Baines until the summer?
 

toffeeblue9 said:
Hopefully just the one quote won't get me in trouble


So what are the Everton principles? “Out of possession of the ball Everton teams are front-foot,” Darlington explains.
“We have dropped the word defending from the model. We changed it to attacking without the ball to get the mentality right.
“We want Everton teams to be high up the pitch, pressing teams, getting the fan off their seat in terms of press. [We want to be] front-foot, aggressive, trying to get the ball high up the pitch, going in waves of support in terms of trying to defend from the front. We want a really aggressive, front foot mentality.
“When we get the ball we don’t want to be a Manchester City type team, a 75 per cent possession team, because it’s not Everton Football Club.
“We call it having controlled, purposeful possession. We have control of games and purposeful possession to get up the pitch.
“We want a bit more guile around us trying to get up the pitch and how we exploit overloads and then when we get there speeding the game up.
“Those are the fundamentals we’re trying to drill into the players. A front-foot mentality, purposeful possession.”

Archive Today is your friend for the full article

I'd maintain this is definitely not Potterball. Granted, it's nothing like what Dyche plays either so the next appointment, if we are genuinely going to have a long-term culture at the club, should be a coach who plays this style of football.
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Not too sure mate that it isn't similar to what Potter liked to do, Brighton under him used to rank about 5th in pressing - usually in the opponents half, and whilst they didn't score many they had crazy high xpg and good chance creation stats - unfortunately for them they had Maupay as there top striker and no real natural finishers either.
 

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