20 Apr 2018 13:32:13
Could Arsene Wenger be a candidate for DoF, I think it would be a good choice.
20 Apr 2018 16:05:29
Why d. o. f, why not manager, still life in the guy yet, cannot think of a better replacement, might be a moaning git and the I did not see it, but cannot knock how he sets a team up to attack and entertain., of all the managers linked, I would welcome this guy above any other.
P. s bring Unsinov with you.
20 Apr 2018 18:08:09
Usmanov wanted rid of Wenger last season and couldn't understand why he had another contract.
Not DOF we already have one who hasn't done the job before and Wenger has bought some poor players over the last few years.
20 Apr 2018 18:49:02
Are people really up for Wenger?
Lucky for the rest of us, you don't make the decisions.
Another dinosaur is all we need.
21 Apr 2018 05:51:02
I want the next Wenger, not the old Wenger. I want the next Kendall, Ferguson, Shankly. More currently I want the next Guardiola, the next Cruyff, the next Mourhinio.
I want a young manager but one with some experience, who knows how to set up a team, who knows how to motivate players and one who wants to create a new dynasty like Ferguson who wanted to erase Liverpool's dominance.
They still exist but we have to find them and show them patience. That doesn't mean giving them time just for times sake, Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd, all the top teams haven't been afraid of moving on managers who aren't doing the job to their satisfaction.
They need to show commitment to Everton and evidence of progress. They need to give us an identity that we can be proud of. They need to buy into Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I don't think it is asking for much personally - it's not a case of anyone but Sam - it's getting the best for Everton.
{Ed001's Note - Dyche? He is willing to be patient, work on a club's infrastructure and create a great team spirit pulling the club together as one team. A proper community club, rather than a group of players and the rest being left separate, the tea lady is a part of it there. When he got the first Prem windfall, he refused to spend it on players because the future of the club would be better served by improving the infrastructure, so he spent the money on things like the training ground.
He also makes discipline into fun, so that people actually want to behave but actively try and catch out their team-mates breaking the rules and no one minds because they love what he does. They have a 'wheel of fortune' they spin (if I remember rightly it is weekly) for each instance of rule breaking. Each section of the wheel has a different forfeit on it, things to embarrass the player heavily while all the rest of the team get to watch and film it for later viewing. It gets rid of that nastiness about discipling a player, where they can feel hard done by because they had a genuine reason for being late but still got fined. Now they no longer have the sulk about getting punished as it is a team building exercise each time.
Tactically it is difficult to know if he is right, but a man who can get a team spirit like he has got at Burnley will always have a chance of making it. Teams that work together do better than teams with better individual players who are playing for themselves (take not Harry Kane!).}
21 Apr 2018 06:22:59
Personally I would prefer Fonseca but don't know why as never seen one of his teams play nor listened to a great deal about him.
Just shows my ignorance and the challenge the people hopefully tasked with finding a new manager have.
I would have no problems with Dyche. I think what he has done at Burnley is admirable so what could he do with Everton's extra clout? And boy, could we do with some team spirit!
We just need to end all the speculating, get on and do something, and then everybody can get behind them, which will never happen under Big Sam.
{Ed001's Note - I have to admit I know little about Fonseca, so can offer no insight or opinion on the man. I just think sometimes you need to appoint on the right kind of person rather than who seems the best man. Dyche seems to fully embody that community spirit that Everton are famous for. A 'we are all in it together' attitude, rather than Allardyce's antagonistic 'do it my way or get out' attitude. Everton, to me anyway, are a club that needs a manager who becomes part of things. That is why, in my opinion, Allardyce was always a big mistake, as he has no interest in becoming part of the club, he never even did that at Bolton, it was always about Sam and what he did for Bolton, never about what they did as a whole. It is just not the Everton way, for me.}
21 Apr 2018 06:41:37
ED
I can't disagree with any of that.
I think we made a similar mistake with Koeman who never was an 'Evertonian' and only saw us as a stepping stone to better things and we never convinced him otherwise which is our fault - he never embraced the 'Once you are touched by Everton' mentality.
Allardyce? I don't need to say anything - you have already said it
We need an Evertonian. Not necessarily a previous player but someone like Dan Weis who seems to understand what we stand for and embraces it and helps us improve
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum.
{Ed001's Note - Koeman was too arrogant to become a part of anything, he always thinks he is better than those around him. Nothing wrong with a touch of arrogance about your abilities etc, but Koeman took it way too far, a bit like Mark Hughes does. Managers like that are fine when things are going well, but the moment it goes against them no one is playing for them because they are not seen as part of the team so it falls apart.}