Ronald Koeman discussion

[Joey66]

Why would we have took a caretaker manager for the first half of the season?

No offence but Koeman is doing fine. He needs the board to step up to the plate and stop their phantom bidding nonsense. Europe is a good return. What makes you think Unsworth would have done better?

The young players to come through

 

[balggy]

He will he it soon enough. He has a very good gig

 

[Kurt.]

just spoke to my older brother he has managed or been an assistant 10 times before joining us - never in it for the long haul!
TBH would have liked Unsy and big Joe see us through till last January!

don't talk wet joey ffs....... some massive bedwetters on this forum

 

[ToffeeTim]

The young players to come through

Unsy is doing a good job with our kids, helping them learn how to win, whilst getting valuable coaching experience for himself.

I hope there's a time when he's ready and fully equipped to become our manager, but let's not be silly. Last June was certainly not the time.

 

[Verbal Kint]

Has been for about three weeks.

It was a better read with him.

Nah

 

[Cork Evertonian]

The defence and home form has greatly improved from last season.But the away form is even worse than last season and guile creativity and attacking play is an issue.At home there's no worries but Everton so far under Koeman are not very good travelers.

 

[TheFinnFan]

This is what you get when you secure your position early

 

[degsy]

Unsy is doing a good job with our kids, helping them learn how to win, whilst getting valuable coaching experience for himself.

I hope there's a time when he's ready and fully equipped to become our manager, but let's not be silly. Last June was certainly not the time.

How about next June?

 

[Mick O]

No width, aging centre halves and no creativity in midfield, just ball winners and as for the full backs not delivering any decent crosses it's no wonder we struggled to score, liked the look of Kenny when he came on got to be given a run out from the start against Watford and move Holgate to Centre half and drop Jags who looked ponderous yesterday

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

At least some of the youngsters are getting proper game experience rather than being loaned out down the lower leagues.

 

[EFCccc]

Koeman has got us exactly where we belong 7th. Lets not pretend we can match any of the teams above us because where worlds apart. We can't compete financially with them, and we can't attract the calibre of players they all can. Koeman is doing just fine.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Even though some of this is a mess of his own making (Stek, Valencia, sending out Del and Galloway on loan etc) he's done well to get this side to 7th in some ways, as it's not that great a team

He's got them at about the level they should be, and a lesser manager would maybe have them worse off

He got it wrong yesterday though, and our away form in general needs serious improvement

 

[Rugby Toffee]

This summer window is so important. Get the players he wants in and remove the rest of the deadwood.
Then we can see where we are

 

[polish]

When Everton lose a game.....

I love those overreactions. You can bet when we're losing you'll read here that Lukaku is gone, we don't deserve Barkley, Koeman is disgrace and Moshiri won't spend any money.

We are a weird bunch of lads.

 

[banno]

Even though some of this is a mess of his own making (Stek, Valencia, sending out Del and Galloway on loan etc) he's done well to get this side to 7th in some ways, as it's not that great a team

He's got them at about the level they should be, and a lesser manager would maybe have them worse off

He got it wrong yesterday though, and our away form in general needs serious improvement

Can't say sending out Del and Galloway on loan as a mistake. They were dropping off alarmingly. Galloway may come good and Del we know can be good but cannot last a full game in the PL and finds it too physical that all he did was dive and whinge and not produce. Koeman had a decision to make and didn't see them as part of his immediate plans.