Ronald Koeman

[bluegirl]

They have more money than us and their traning ground is unbelievably great tbf

Brighton have got a better training ground than them. Somehow I don't think a training ground plays a massive part in which club to manage.

 

[ijjysmith]

Just had a conversation with a Southampton fan on Twitter, who told me any neutral would say Southampton to Everton is a sidestep at best. And then went onto tell me Southampton have a better squad, better facilities and more money.

Either I've lost the plot or I've woken up on another planet.

This is my everyday.

 

[toffee matt]

Brighton have got a better training ground than them. Somehow I don't think a training ground plays a massive part in which club to manage.

Just making an observation

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

They have more money than us and their traning ground is unbelievably great tbf

/had

 

[BlueToff]

Just had a conversation with a Southampton fan on Twitter, who told me any neutral would say Southampton to Everton is a sidestep at best. And then went onto tell me Southampton have a better squad, better facilities and more money.

Either I've lost the plot or I've woken up on another planet.

Hate to say it, but objectively speaking I think they're right.

We are the bigger club, no doubt about it.

But at the moment they've got a good squad, a brilliant academy and a good set up and have established themselves now as a top 7/8 club.

Still, if we can offer Koeman assurances on transfer fees and wages that they can't, then we could snag him.

 

[Gladystweet]

Just had a conversation with a Southampton fan on Twitter, who told me any neutral would say Southampton to Everton is a sidestep at best. And then went onto tell me Southampton have a better squad, better facilities and more money.

Either I've lost the plot or I've woken up on another planet.

Detwitterfy (or whatever the correct word is) them at once.

 

[malmic]

Don't want him or De Boer. Want Mourinho, Emery, Favre or Garcia

Southampton can keep him, even Benitez is a better choice

 

[ianefc]

it is an interesting scenario. That's for sure.

 

[bluegirl]

Just making an observation

Probably a valid one too, but one I didn't want to hear

 

[TheFinnFan]

Cmoon lads give them hell...who are they...no marks compared to Everton i'll say

 

[GlosBlue]

Just had a conversation with a Southampton fan on Twitter, who told me any neutral would say Southampton to Everton is a sidestep at best. And then went onto tell me Southampton have a better squad, better facilities and more money.

Either I've lost the plot or I've woken up on another planet.

At the moment we don't really appear to be a step up as such to a neutral. Though how said person knows what our finances are compared to theirs is interesting. Overall squad wise I do not necessarily think ours is any better. Lukaku, Stomes and Barkley are obviously talents but without them we would be doomed!

 

[bluegirl]

Hate to say it, but objectively speaking I think they're right.

We are the bigger club, no doubt about it.

But at the moment they've got a good squad, a brilliant academy and a good set up and have established themselves now as a top 7/8 club.

Still, if we can offer Koeman assurances on transfer fees and wages that they can't, then we could snag him.

For me there's no contest - maybe I'm turning into a deluded football fan (I'm usually quite level-headed).

7th/8th is there aim every year, they're happy with that. We want so much more, granted we haven't hit it recently but our expectation is a lot higher than there's - surely that tells you everything you need to know.

But then, that might be want keeps him there. In his comfort zone down there, not really much pressure etc. And like you say, they do have a good set-up and the squad he's built is decent.

 

[flibbyflob]

They are entitled to their opinion as are we. Doubt you would ever get fans of clubs agreeing when one is allegedly after the other ones manager.

No idea what happens now, guess we will find out soon enough.

 

[paulbefc]

Because his pedigree isn't one of winning major-league trophies (bar one domestic cup with Valencia). His recent pedigree is stabilising Southampton into a decent league position. He didn't win them a cup but they might yet just about qualify for Europe.

De Boer has no major-league experience, so we can't realistically think stability would be the aim as he's an unknown quantity.

Pellegrini has won the Prem and will be expected to get us top 4: we'd be pushing for quick progress under him, not working towards stability (which would then come naturally anyway through Champs League qualification). Sounds great, but then there's a risk involved as some of the City performances have shown.

Koeman is the stability option to return to where Moyes had us. Considering how much ground we've lost under Martinez, this is the sensible option.

So just to confirm, he finishes around the top 6 with Southampton, a nothing club with an inability to say no to offers for star players and a negative net spend of £22m and comes to Everton, a club with far greater financial resources with which to build a larger and higher quality squad than he could do at Southampton and we expect his performance to be the same?

 

[bluegirl]

At the moment we don't really appear to be a step up as such to a neutral. Though how said person knows what our finances are compared to theirs is interesting. Overall squad wise I do not necessarily think ours is any better. Lukaku, Stomes and Barkley are obviously talents but without them we would be doomed!

Oh god, he's right isn't he