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Honestly cant believe Grealish doesn't start.

He looks a decent player

I’d have him back in a heartbeat. Quality player and does well internationally.

I’ll get behind who ever gets the job 100%. If it’s Nuno, hopefully we can get Pedro Neto here because he’s exactly what we need at RM. who we get, hopefully it’s in the next few days and they can get to work on those 3/4 transfers we desperately need.

I'm not sure fans will be happy with Nuno's sit back and counter type of football though. I'm still hoping for Galtier and if he can bring 1 or 2 of his stars from Lille we will push on.

Honestly I think we could be a pretty attractive prospect for any manager really. Think about it, 4 out of the last 5 went onto potentially the biggest and best jobs they could have landed whilst not even having to succeed with us. ( I refuse to count big sam ) Moyes - Man U. Martinez - Belgium. Koeman - Barca. Carlo - Real Madrid. So if any one fancies the City, Bayern or PSG job just throw 18 months here and it’s pretty much yours I figure.

1 - Davy does not in fact have those physical attributes listed 2- Hopefully if we get this guy we dont get another 3 RB's at the same time like we did when bought Davy.

Watch Moshiri panic and throw a mega contract at him now

Absolutely this. As mentioned, we could potentially lose our best players if Potter comes in and we could very easily be looking at finishing a lot lower than we were this year. We need someone with a good amount of ability as a manger ( which Potter very well may have ) but also be able to attract/keep top players. Potter is a bigger risk than any manager we have had recently imo.

I think Christopher Galtier - he did so well with that Lille team and after doing some research I think he had them set up tactically so well. Really compact narrow 442 style defence that pushed opposing teams wide and lilles CB were confident dealing with crosses - Mina, Keane & Godfrey are all strong in this area. Attack was fluid passing game. All in all I just want to see us play good progressive football and be organised.

Thing is if we go into the season with no hope of finishing top half we will probably finish the season second - most likely leading for every game until we shit the bed against brentford at home and liverpool finish first because that is exactly how we do things.

Massively. And it’s surely thrown doubt into any neutrals mind about the Everton project.

My fear is by the time identify a new manager, make the appointment and then develop targets for the squad there won’t be much time left in the window.

Sad thing is he might get trophies at madrid but with us - getting trophies and champions league would have been a true achievement and his reputation would have been held in even higher esteem. Especially amongst us evertonians.

Already seeing bits about our piss poor end to season stemming from this. I can’t comment for sure but the ways this has all played out people are always going to link the results to him potentially already knowing he was leaving.

Yeah I understand your point. I just love that type of football, it’s intricate and attractive. I started following us during the Moyes era and Martinez was such a refreshing change to go to the big clubs with out fear. I hope he has progressed as manager because that mindset you mentioned is what lost us the game away against Kiev really.

I think the biggest thing that limited Martinez was our budget. Having to sign Alcaraz on a free because we were so skint. I’d be happy to see Martinez back personally.

If he is going sulk and drag his heels he can fuck off. He also said we were the only team to really give him a chance last season. See what he’s really made of now.

Especially when he blatantly denied these rumours. Makes it so much worse. Always held him high regard and felt he had so much integrity but this is piss poor. No respect for him now. Needs to be statement here in our next appointment. Conte’s passion with our crowd could be immense. Right now, I feel deflated.

Rumours are it could be announced in the next few hours... I’ll be devastated if so. Part of me thinks he’s really invested here but if we aren’t going to back him this window in re shaping the squad I could see him walking.

I mean in regards to us paying way over the odds for a player who’s value to his current club is much higher than his value to his next club

It just has Gylfi written all over it.

He looks like a real athlete. Reminds me of Lukaku before he stacked on the weight

All comps mate https://www.transfermarkt.com/james-rodriguez/profil/spieler/88103

Nah James had 26 apps for 6 goals & 9 assists.