Next Everton Manager

[Groucho]

...I have always been of a similar view regarding the promotion of a reserve team manager. Generally it doesn’t work and I have been against the Unsworth shouts but there is increasing reasons to consider them:

- the appointment of a DoF means experience and a good track record in the transfer market is not the key competency it once was. Saying that, we know for certain it was Unsworth who recommended DCL to Walsh and convinced the Board to splash £1m on the unknown youngster.

- the U23s are PL2 Champions. Teams like Man City and Chelsea have global stars but Unsworth sets his side out as hard to beat in the last third and creative in the top third. He’s lost his best players from last season and is more than competitive despite upheaval. You can’t achieve that without tactical nouse.

- more than that he has engineered a remarkable team spirit. That is something that cannot be overstated. U23s are a group of young men in competition for limited contracts yet they play in a joined up, integrated way. Watch this weeks win over Man City. It really is some achievement.

The selection of any manager carries risk. We have gone down the experienced route with Koeman. We have gone down the experienced route with Martinez. We can go down the experienced route again and it might be third time lucky but it’s no guarantee.

I was against Unsworth but I really think he’s worth considering as next cab on the rank.

I’ll be honest I’m all for him, and now.

Give it to him caretaker-style till Xmas. If he does well then until May.

If he does well again then permanently. If not then he can go back to the U23’s and take another crack when he’s more ready.

 

[Gladystweet]

I’d give Unsworth the gig before Dyche if they were the only two choices.

I honestly hope they're not the only choices. They've got it wrong big time with Koeman, hopefully they've got the bottle to admit it and make amends.
Quite who would want the gig is another question. Should be one of the biggest jobs in the league, but in the space of a couple of months, it's looking a well dodgy job.

 

[zzebra]

Oddschecker quoting 20/1 for Chris Wilder!

I actually had to Google his name tosee who he was!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Oddschecker quoting 20/1 for Chris Wilder!

I actually had to Google his name tosee who he was!

Done well at Sheffield United

 

[Kenshin]

Liverpool sacked Rodgers and went and got bundesliga winning jurgen klopp

Let's see in the coming weeks where our ambition lies

 

[danny=)]

think its time

 

[ijjysmith]

Done well at Sheffield United

He has. But still no.

 

[ijjysmith]

Liverpool sacked Rodgers and went and got bundesliga winning jurgen klopp

Let's see in the coming weeks where our ambition lies

Hahaha.

 

[Blues Harp]

Guardiola is the coach he aspires too. He is a micro-manager, everything to the last detail, which can be as infuriating as it can be a good thing. He played a lot with a diamond at Mainz, at Dortmund he played quite a bit 4-1-4-1 with auba up top, and Weigl holding, and two men out wide. First season it went well mostly for the first 2/3 of the season so it was a very stable foramtion. And it wasnt till late in the season when things didn't go so well that he started changing it up.

2nd season he would change formations a lot as the season went on, he tinkered incessantly - often multiple changes during games, going 3 at the back quite a lot and Reus often playing off Aubameyang, then other times 4-3-3. It was kinda hard to keep up last season with what he was doing as it was never settled.

Thanks for that mate, doesn't sound like our next manager to me based on that description...

 

[jinkyali]

He is probably the perfect candidate. Never happen though.

Wanted him prior to RK.

Would be great

 

[Borussin]

Liverpool sacked Rodgers and went and got bundesliga winning jurgen klopp

Let's see in the coming weeks where our ambition lies

Liverpool where lucky though, cos most high profile coaches wouldn't have touched that job with a bargepole. Klopp is quite diifferent to many high profile coaches in that he doesn't do the obvious jobs. Ancelotti was a name mentioned when Rodgers was sacked too - and no way would he have taken it. It's tough to convince high profile managers who want to be in the CL every year. And the prem is the worst league for guarnteeing that with 6 teams always fighting of it looks like.

But the Bundesliga does have some good coaches - a couple of them out of work at the moment too, always suprises me really that so few German coaches do move to coach in UK.

 

[brieverton]

We are not unused to failings at Everton, so even if Koeman’s neck is genuinely on the line at FF, you could be forgiven for thinking the board are not proactively sounding out possible replacements now.

If the axe falls, then Unsworth inherits by default almost. You would imagine he gets at least a few games as a trial run, and they can then turn elsewhere if things are still a mess.

 

[jonnyboy316]

The amount of support for Unsworth is concerning

 

[Gladystweet]

The amount of support for Unsworth is concerning

....not as concerning as the 60 votes for Moyes.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Tuchel would be great. It did go slightly pear shaped in the end but you've got to consider the nonsense in the CL with their business getting attacked and stuff. Certainly wasn't helped by unforeseen circumstances.