MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
Mostly today, there a board meeting which is probably today as well.
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I thought we played well last night, and judging by the reactions from the players - they still back the manager.
Half of me wants him to be given a summer to sort out our problems, and the other wants him gone today.
He was never going to be a long-term appointment.
Half of me wants him to be given a summer to sort out our problems, and the other wants him gone today.
He was never going to be a long-term appointment.
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Are you trying to get sued?
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royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Won the game with one shot on target, say's it all really, and that's entertainment Allerdyce style.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I wonder if Allardyce and Brands are incompatible? Short term at least. It would be some call for Brands to come right in and choose the manager. Best let him acclimatise and make that decision might be another way of looking at it....not that I advocate SA staying.
Gladystweet
Player Valuation: £50m
Some might say we're "clinical"....
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Ye takes some doing, well done Sam.
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
This is a dangerous road to go down. Where he's done the most damage to his previous clubs is in the transfer market. He wouldn't sort out anything, he would make them worse.
He's even saying himself when he's asked about transfers: "we'll see who comes available."
No plan, no strategy, just more of what hasn't worked in the first place. He'd bring in overrated crocks like Wilshere and move on promising young players like Lookman. That man should not be allowed to influence anything as long term to the club as player recruitment.
I agree mate, i think he is a goner, i think he knows it to and his attitude is devil may care for a reason in my opinion of late.
On a broader level the hierarchies approach to managerial recruitment has been awful. I have a bee in my bonnet about the cost, some 50-60 mill will likely be handed out in compensation for managers if Allardyce goes, beofore looking at coaching staff since the Mosh took over. In a time were we are looking at financing a stadium and a squad that obviously needs recruiting that is unforgivable and largely damaging the club.
What appears evident to me in managerial recruitment is the chop and change approach and the damage and inconsistency in philosphey this creates reflected on the pitch and in performeces and results. We clearly recruited last summer with the Dutch philosophy or possession based football in mind, sack that manager and employ a manger who prefers a direct style of play, he spends another 50 mill on direct players in Tosun and Walcott, while the rest of the squad doesnt seem to fit, partly because they dont fit the managers philosophy, so he is shoe hornng players in i dont think he really wants or making the best of whats available.
There is no coherent plan, i was listening to Martinez last night and we know he was far from perfect, but he had a philosophy and everything stemmed from that in coaching to recruitment over three seasons. The club badly needs to recruit a manager, pick a philosophy and everything else stems from that and it needs to be committed to for a period of time.
We play like we have no identity because we dont have one, we play with a team recurtited by one manager to play a certain way, but are playing under a new manager who wants to play a different way and their skills are redundant to an extent in his new philosphey. The next managerial appointment is crucial, but the clubs approach to giving the manager time and patience needs to happen as well, since the Mos has taken over its been shockingly bad and partly responsible for where we find ourselves. We are what decisions have led us to be. if anyone thinks that is solely down to Allardyce they are fooling themselves. He has done a good job, in a basket case situation, with a team that doesn't fit his philosophy, he will go but he will have done what was asked of him. Bigger questions need to be asked higher up at Everton and of our major shareholder.
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Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
If a newspaper published that, they'd be sued by sAm without a doubt. You can't, morally at least, and I'm pretty sure legally as well, libel people and get away with it just because its t'internet, surely?
Little Ralphy
Player Valuation: £15m
So by your own logic and going on league games only, Koeman only played 3 games against sides currently below us, and 6 against sides above us (3 home 3 away). Unsworth played 5 games against sides currently below us. Both managers had to contend with playing midweek games as well with the busy Europa league schedule, meaning they had little time to prepare for the league games.
bfs has played 13 games against sides below us (7 at home), without the midweek games meaning he has a whole week to prepare for certain opposition.
I'd say that's an easier fixture list, wouldn't you? He played WBA twice - arguably one of the worst sides in Premiership history - and barely mustered a shot on goal.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Normal game under the lights at Goodison then.
I've always said that the Goodison crowd react to whats happening in the pitch. Far too often it takes a bad refereeing decision, rather than good footbal, to lift the fans.
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
If Brands is buying the players (and he should if we're going to have that position at the club) then we'd need to have a manager who A. buys into those sort of players and B. would know how to work with those players.
If Brands does come in I can't see him buying many players who'd work in an Allardyce team. I also can't see Allardyce trying to make it work with players like Ziyech, Lozano etc when he'd prefer wastes of space like Wilshere.
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