Paulo Fonseca

[Barnfred 55]

Everton are planning a summer revolution — and it is not expected to include Sam Allardyce.

Big Sam is under increasing pressure at Goodison Park and the Blues are looking towards a younger manager, with Shakhtar Donetsk’s Paulo Fonseca at the top of their hit list.

Major shareholder Farhad Moshiri is leading the push for change, but it is understood chairman Bill Kenwright is also very much on board, too.

They are also set to bring in PSV Eindhoven transfer guru Marcel Brands - as we first revealed in January - and that leaves Steve Walsh’s position as director of football also under threat.

Everton went on a huge spending spree last summer but it has not pushed them towards the top four like they hoped. The £25million signing of striker Cenk Tosun in January — when they also splashed out £20m on Arsenal's England forward Theo Walcott — has also had mixed results.

The Tosun move has brought their transfer business into sharp focus, although he has netted four times in their last four league games, and Brands will be asked to shake up the squad once again over the summer.

Everton will look to overhaul coaching, scouting and technical staff as well, in an attempt to keep up with the Premier League's powerhouses.

The fact neighbours and arch-rivals Liverpool has gone from strength to strength has only heightened the Everton frustration and they have forward-thinking board members eager for change.

Allardyce took over a month to be appointed as sacked Ronald Koeman's successor in late November because there were reservations at the time. Although eventually they gave him a contract until 2019.

Despite the 63-year-old guiding them to safety — they already have 40 points, with seven games left, after winning three of their last five — the fans have not warmed to him and his position has come under increasing pressure.

Everton tried to get now-sacked Watford boss Marco Silva — this week linked with West Ham — to succeed Koeman earlier in the season, while Fonseca, 45, has caught the eye for the job he has done with Ukraine's Champions League regulars Shakhtar.

Well reading that has improved my mood this evening.

 

[riddick]

I honestly don't get the "proven" PL manager. Who was the last "proven" PL manager to win the league? Mourinhow 3-4 years ago? Guardiola this year(with a billion in purchases), Conte, Ranieri.

"Proven" manager(or player) is what has gotten us in to this mess we are in. Substandard and limited.

 

[Connor]

You’re ok at this stuff, Connor lad

I like facts.

 

[ToffeeTownMilto]

Is there a single reliable source reporting any interest / chance of this happening?

 

[IV(AC)]

Henderson is on. There’ll be a bit of hush in here from the bantertastic reds for the last 10 mins of the game

 

[bluestevon]

Really good appointments if it happens, even more so if Brands comes in and has already given Fonseca the nod when asked.

 

[Connor]

I honestly don't get the "proven" PL manager. Who was the last "proven" PL manager to win the league? Mourinhow 3-4 years ago? Guardiola this year(with a billion in purchases), Conte, Ranieri.

"Proven" manager(or player) is what has gotten us in to this mess we are in. Substandard and limited.

Bingo.

 

[catcherintherye]

Its the Cross/Arsenal/Usnamov stuff that is really interesting.

I didn't know that, but it makes a lot of sense. I remember listening to Cross on the radio on the way to the work around 5 years ago. He always seemed very well connected to Arsenal and also supportive of the Wenger project. For whatever reason I (mainly changing job) I didn't hear him much after that.

When I heard him again recently he seems to have radically changed his tune re Wenger. It would seem quite logical he is close to Usmanov, or it would certainly fit with the wider behaviour he had.

 

[JLW]

How can you compare them? One is a manager in Ukraine the other one is a proven premiere league manager

Proven gash is what he is

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Who would your choice be?

I’d want the best available, someone who had a history of winning pots and preferably had PL experience.

Of the current crop potentially available top of my list would be Ancelotti. I’d start there tbh and work down the list, it’d be a while before I got to Fonseca though.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Cross is a regular on the Sunday Supplement. Hopefully he’ll go into more detail on what he has heard.

 

[bluestevon]

I’d want the best available, someone who had a history of winning pots and preferably had PL experience.

Of the current crop potentially available top of my list would be Ancelotti. I’d start there tbh and work down the list, it’d be a while before I got to Fonseca though.

Martinez and Koeman both fit your two criteria, pocchetino would not fit as he's won nothing.

We need to be realistic, we won't attract a manager whose been winning things in a serious top league, because those managers are in there own merry go round similar to the one at the bottoms of the league sees Pardew, Hughes, Pullis, Hodgson, Moyes and Allardyce rotating round clubs.

Spurs couldn't go out and get that calibre of manager either so they went for a young modern manager who plays attractive football, one who didn't have any glaring flaws besides inexperience.

Turning our nose up at a manager who got through a CL group ahead of Napoli and beat city, and who narrowly lost to a very good Roma with the disadvantages around his club seems a bit daft really.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Is there a single reliable source reporting any interest / chance of this happening?

The Fonseca/Brands links have been popping up for months from various people now. No smoke without fire at this point surely?

 

[Efctheblue123]

Very much not a kopite just don’t see the fascination in the Ukraine league manager

 

[toffeejack]

Everton are planning a summer revolution — and it is not expected to include Sam Allardyce.

Big Sam is under increasing pressure at Goodison Park and the Blues are looking towards a younger manager, with Shakhtar Donetsk’s Paulo Fonseca at the top of their hit list.

Major shareholder Farhad Moshiri is leading the push for change, but it is understood chairman Bill Kenwright is also very much on board, too.

They are also set to bring in PSV Eindhoven transfer guru Marcel Brands - as we first revealed in January - and that leaves Steve Walsh’s position as director of football also under threat.

Everton went on a huge spending spree last summer but it has not pushed them towards the top four like they hoped. The £25million signing of striker Cenk Tosun in January — when they also splashed out £20m on Arsenal's England forward Theo Walcott — has also had mixed results.

The Tosun move has brought their transfer business into sharp focus, although he has netted four times in their last four league games, and Brands will be asked to shake up the squad once again over the summer.

Everton will look to overhaul coaching, scouting and technical staff as well, in an attempt to keep up with the Premier League's powerhouses.

The fact neighbours and arch-rivals Liverpool has gone from strength to strength has only heightened the Everton frustration and they have forward-thinking board members eager for change.

Allardyce took over a month to be appointed as sacked Ronald Koeman's successor in late November because there were reservations at the time. Although eventually they gave him a contract until 2019.

Despite the 63-year-old guiding them to safety — they already have 40 points, with seven games left, after winning three of their last five — the fans have not warmed to him and his position has come under increasing pressure.

Everton tried to get now-sacked Watford boss Marco Silva — this week linked with West Ham — to succeed Koeman earlier in the season, while Fonseca, 45, has caught the eye for the job he has done with Ukraine's Champions League regulars Shakhtar.

Haha wtf have the bitters been doing for us to get angry.