It’s a pretty decent summary of the season though.
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We were close, but far too timid towards the end of the season. It was so predictable that we would lose at home against poor opposition.
I think that we finished as high we could playing with that style and system. The experiment was a failure. If the transfer rumours are true, we seem to be going back to spending on younger players and things will take time. By all accounts, we want high energy players, which pleases me very much.
Toffeemeister
Player Valuation: £8m
I'm willing to give him my full support. He is the Everton manager!
* on the grounds that James stays. If not he's dead to me ?
* on the grounds that James stays. If not he's dead to me ?
What about the 12 games we won in 19 between December and March, or did that not happen either
Brizzletoffee
Player Valuation: £1m
Sack.
AndyC
Player Valuation: £70m
Whether we like it or not, Benitez is the manager of Everton FC.
Arguing amongst ourselves on here won't change that or influence the club one iota.
Abusing Benitez on here won't change it or influence the club one iota either.
The reason Benitez is the manager of Everton FC is not down to him.
He's a professional football manager and Everton had an employment opportunity.
He applied or was approached, discussions and negotiations took place and ultimately, whether he took any advice from club personnel or not, and whether he simply chose to ignore the clear feelings of some Evertonians - the majority shareholder made the decision and appointed Benitez.
Now as Blues, and irrespective of who the manager is, we should be looking to support the team on the field and praying/urging them to massively improve (certainly at home) on the form of last season.
If things go well, then again whether we like it not, Benitez will be deserving of some credit.
If things don't go well then no doubt, Benitez will be under no illusion where many will lay the blame - at his door.
However, everyone needs to remember that since Moshiri arrived and was instrumental in the departure of El Bob, he's employed Koeman, Allardyce, Silva and Ancelotti. He's backed them, largely ridiculously, in the transfer market much to the detriment of the clubs current financial status whereby in order to strengthen, we're looking at having to sell to buy.
If the necessary sales cannot be made in order to provide the funds for purchases, we cannot blame Benitez - the blame will lie predominantly with the majority shareholder and partially with the DoF who actioned and sanctioned some, not all, of the poor signings and crazy salary packages.
Benitez, to some extent, is managing with one hand tied behind his back in that he's having to try and turn a pigs ears of a squad into a bunch of silk purses.
If he manages to get a better tune from this squad than Ancelotti did last season - and I'm with @GrandOldTeam here - and achieves a higher finish than 10th, he'll have done an acceptable job considering the resources at his disposal.
I didn't want him as our manager but, there's nothing we can do about it now (or indeed previously as the bedsheet protests proved), and coming on here and calling him names is hardly helpful in terms of the equilibrium of the forum.
By all means reserved judgement on the manager but as Evertonians, it's time to support the team.
Arguing amongst ourselves on here won't change that or influence the club one iota.
Abusing Benitez on here won't change it or influence the club one iota either.
The reason Benitez is the manager of Everton FC is not down to him.
He's a professional football manager and Everton had an employment opportunity.
He applied or was approached, discussions and negotiations took place and ultimately, whether he took any advice from club personnel or not, and whether he simply chose to ignore the clear feelings of some Evertonians - the majority shareholder made the decision and appointed Benitez.
Now as Blues, and irrespective of who the manager is, we should be looking to support the team on the field and praying/urging them to massively improve (certainly at home) on the form of last season.
If things go well, then again whether we like it not, Benitez will be deserving of some credit.
If things don't go well then no doubt, Benitez will be under no illusion where many will lay the blame - at his door.
However, everyone needs to remember that since Moshiri arrived and was instrumental in the departure of El Bob, he's employed Koeman, Allardyce, Silva and Ancelotti. He's backed them, largely ridiculously, in the transfer market much to the detriment of the clubs current financial status whereby in order to strengthen, we're looking at having to sell to buy.
If the necessary sales cannot be made in order to provide the funds for purchases, we cannot blame Benitez - the blame will lie predominantly with the majority shareholder and partially with the DoF who actioned and sanctioned some, not all, of the poor signings and crazy salary packages.
Benitez, to some extent, is managing with one hand tied behind his back in that he's having to try and turn a pigs ears of a squad into a bunch of silk purses.
If he manages to get a better tune from this squad than Ancelotti did last season - and I'm with @GrandOldTeam here - and achieves a higher finish than 10th, he'll have done an acceptable job considering the resources at his disposal.
I didn't want him as our manager but, there's nothing we can do about it now (or indeed previously as the bedsheet protests proved), and coming on here and calling him names is hardly helpful in terms of the equilibrium of the forum.
By all means reserved judgement on the manager but as Evertonians, it's time to support the team.
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4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
The worst part of all this is the timing, when he left Newcastle we should of gone for him then, if we had of done we could be 2 years into the 5 year project he is going to have with us, seeing things run smooth until Bramley Moore opens.
We finished 10th.
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
and?
That usually shows the teams at the very bottom were a bit weaker than usual, but we were pretty rubbish against them picking up our against the 'better' teams.
We were one win away from 7th place.
Carlos had us performing pretty well for most of the season. If we'd have avoided some of our long term injuries in midfield we may have got Europe.
Personally I think that Carlos never really got over having his house burgled and his safe stolen. Things started falling apart from there.
But I suppose none of this counts since the Fat Benny Kopite Kool Aid Kult have rewritten the history of last season.
Three older squad players for £1.5m rather than tens of millions is a far better approach. The rumours are that any significant spending will be reserved for younger players.
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