despite Southampton having their best premier league finish and him being touted as the next Arsenal or Barcelona manager I just wasn't that excited about him coming in. I was behind him on the basis that this is Moshiri's first man and the start of a new era.
We never know what he is like behind closed doors and we can only go from snippets that we see and read which don't always show the whole picture but I just got the impression he wasnt overly bothered about coming, we weren't a bigger enough step up. He was likely lured by the chance of being part of Moshiris big project. This has turned into the kind of summer school project you had great plans for, only after 6 weeks of playing football with your mates down the local park, you can no longer be arsed and scrawl something together whilst eating your brekkie on the first day of the new term. Maybe Ronnie feels duped, frustrated and let down by the powers that be too.
If he does in any way feel he has been misled then I feel for him but that doesn't help cover up his current performance level as our manager. I don't like managerial discussions of late as they always get drawn into comparisons of previous managers and throw about sayings "told you to be careful what you wish for", "the old manager took a dagger to the gunfight", "you didn't want possession footy, now you don't want direct football"
Purely judging the current management and how it has gone so far, its looking really shambolic. It looks very unharmonious. Management staff just sat there on the bench like they've been dragged down the local cinema to watch some chick-flick with their wife of 30 years. Players, within the first half just going through the motions of existing. Frustrated players in the last 15 minutes finally waking up and realising what they are paid to do, shouting at each other, trying to grab the game by the scruff of the neck, running forward with the ball and showing urgency. The players I should imagine are quite rightly fed up of getting booed home and away at the end of 90 mins and cheered off the pitch when they are subbed but it really does appear that (bar a few) they are doing very little to remedy this. Apart from Gana nearly every one of them are losing their individual battles on the pitch each game and just going through the motions of turning up.
Something has to change, maybe Ronnie getting in who he wants over the next few windows but I do want staff who really want to be at Everton, whether it be Koeman on the bench or Lukaku on the pitch. If not I'm quite happy for others to come in who are more willing to be here.
