Hi Everton fans
Koeman has done brilliantly for us, kicking on after the "meltdown" of Poch, Lallana, Lovren, Shaw and Lambert leaving and improving on our league position twice in a row.
With regards to how much of the transfer acumen displayed was down to Koeman personally or our fabled black box, I don't know but suspect that we had a list of players identified to play a certain system or style that was preferred and he then got final say (if you do get him I'd expect you to get Ziyech in).
There are however a couple of caveats to the brilliant performances under Koeman. Firstly, we've been absolutely bloody dire for a month and a bit over Christmas both seasons and the wheels have come off a bit until he shook things up and it got back on track (we are 2nd in the league for 2016 after Leicester which shows how bad we were at the tail end of 2015 that we ended up 6th).
Secondly there is a noted lack of youth team products making debuts - a very common theme under Pochettino at both Saints and Spurs and a key part of Saints' business strategy as (has been pointed out) our rich owner inherited the club and is now looking at it as a self sufficient investment rather than a fun money pit.
I'm in Japan so am expecting to wake up tomorrow to news that you lot have signed him so if that's the case congrats and we'll have Emery!
Ps we're definitely a bigger club - I mean, how many Johnstone's Paint Trophies have you won? None? Yeah that's what I thought...
