Rafael Benitez

[StevO]

18 minutes ago, Formby said:

At this moment in time, I will go along with anyone who can just keep us up.

No one's going to agree on the next manager so it will be more of the same nonsense, though. These players are quite something. 

What a joke we are....

I don’t think we’ll all agree, but I think we will unify behind the next manager (short term at least). 

[Bailey]

1 minute ago, StevO said:

I don’t think we’ll all agree, but I think we will unify behind the next manager (short term at least). 

As long as its not Dagleish!

[nyblue23]

Just now, StevO said:

I don’t think we’ll all agree, but I think we will unify behind the next manager (short term at least). 

Genuinely can't think of a more contentious appointment. Maybe Gerrard or Rodgers? Not even sure those two would have ruffled as many feathers as Rafa. I agree that no one will have a problem breathing a collective sigh of relief to support whoever comes in.

[Btay]

1 hour ago, Zoo 2.0 said:

Rumblings are Kenwright is pushing for Martinez.

I want Dunc for the rest of the season and Martinez at the start of the next one

[RuffRob]

Unfortunatly our problems run so much deeper than Rafa Benitez. I agree he should never have been hired in the first place. For the simple fact he was never really wanted be a large proportion of the faithful. He above any other manager actually need the exact opposite to to start he has endured.

Now I will maintain he has been extremely unfortunate with transfer budgets available, injuries, i think this has had more impact on results than who the manager is. A tough task for any manager, let alone an unpopular one. 

I am so desperately sad we are on the cusp of again parting company with yet another manager.

What half decent manager would want to come near this club? My real fear on actually sacking Benitez is who actually comes in gets the most of these players playing again. Everton managers job is the worst job in the Premier League by a mile. 

I would have liked to have seen Benitez given at least 4 more games, to show what might be with new additions and a some fit players. Sacking halfway through a transfer window, with two of the new signings yet to get a minute on the pitch. 

I know some will be over the moon at Benitez going. However, us being totally rudderless actually scares me even more and my personnal view is our odds of relegation increase slightly when Benitez goes.

Terrible owner, no DoF, poor squad, little money and now looking like no manager. A fooking shambles. 

Fuck me hiring Martinez for stupid money after sacking him a few years ago and him taking us to the cleaner for £10m compensation. All he has done is managed internationally what is the best group of players in Europe and won nothing with them. 

or Blind faith in Big Dunc being a Premiership manager? The management experience he brings is been around a lot of failed regimes at Everton FC.

The solutions don't look any more appealing that the problem.

 

[RuffRob]

Although whoever does take the position of Everton manager I will whole heartidly get behind them. 

[RuffRob]

Such a shame Arsenal didn't sack Arteta a few months ago. 

[Zoo 2.0]

Fabrizio reporting it now, so basically nailed on.

[Hafnia]

Got a feeling we will have Rooney with Dunc as number 2. I’d be happy with that. 

[Cornish Steve]

Once he's gone, I doubt Rondon, Iwobi, or Delph will ever play again for Everton. It probably puts Davies in a precarious spot as well, whereas Dobbin and other youngsters will likely be well pleased. Can we reverse the El Ghazi decision?

[Cornish Steve]

Just now, Hafnia said:

Got a feeling we will have Rooney with Dunc as number 2. I’d be happy with that. 

I was thinking Lampard, given real Prem experience as a manager, but I'd be OK with Rooney as well. He'd certainly garner instant support from fans.

[Gwlad]

2 minutes ago, Cornish Steve said:

I was thinking Lampard, given real Prem experience as a manager, but I'd be OK with Rooney as well. He'd certainly garner instant support from fans.

Sorry but would see that as a knee jerk reaction. However don't know which way is a way forward for a future.

[Matt]

9 minutes ago, Cornish Steve said:

I was thinking Lampard, given real Prem experience as a manager, but I'd be OK with Rooney as well. He'd certainly garner instant support from fans.

Lampard was a shitshow, it only worked because of emotion and Chelsea acyally having a squad. Rooney would be the same I think but without the squad quality.

Duncan needs this until the end of the season because I think only rage will save us at this point. Then who knows after the summer. I'd love Martinez back but he was another who made excuses and didn't change, and he is also a smart guy who might well be too aware of the quagmire he would walk back until. He's probably too nice to hold a grudge with the way he was treated but I wouldn't blame him if he did to be honest. 

So empty when it comes to Everton nowadays, they have drained me to the point that I want to say I don't care, never again. But I do, which is why I've always called them an addiction and recently that analogy has never been more true. 

[DownUnderToff]

No idea what we do for the rest of the year but hopefully Lucien Favre is high on the list for next year.

[Romey 1878]

1 hour ago, Btay said:

I want Dunc for the rest of the season and Martinez at the start of the next one

I don’t mind Ferguson for a game or two but anything more than that would be a huge mistake. 

[Btay]

2 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

I don’t mind Ferguson for a game or two but anything more than that would be a huge mistake. 

If it brings fight and passion we can’t be any worse than what ever it is we are now.

[Romey 1878]

9 minutes ago, Btay said:

If it brings fight and passion we can’t be any worse than what ever it is we are now.

Just like last time it wouldn’t last for more than a game or two. By the time he took charge of his final game that had been used up and we looked crap again.

By all means, give him the Villa game to get them fired up and hopefully get a result, but use the time that can give us to hire someone permanently that can keep us up.

Do I have much faith in them being able to do that though? Not really because we’re run by clowns that clearly don’t have a fucking clue. If we’d had a properly functioning DoF (actually let them do their job and not interfere!) then I don’t think we’d be in this sort of mess now. 

[barryj]

7 hours ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

It’s not a Rafa thing for me and I’m certainly not some kind of fan boy of his, I would say the same with any manager

If he goes I won’t lose any sleep but I just don’t think sacking managers every 6 months is the answer

It’s not, but he shouldn’t of been hired in the first place. You only have to look at how divisive and fractured we have become as a fan base in recent weeks to see why it was a ridiculous appointment.

I wasn’t over the moon with his appointment like a lot of others, but still gave him a chance. Any manager, at any club, in any league would likely be sacked after this run. 

This alone though doesn’t solve all our problems they are more deep rooted than that. The next thing to be concerned about is letting the same people make the next choice of manager. Unless there is  significant change it’s just rinse and repeat. 

[Btay]

It’s actually going to infuriate me more if we sack him 1 game after backing him to get rig of Digne. Sums up how short sighted the Managment of the club is.

[Shukes]

We need a manager today. We’re in the middle of a transfer window where we desperately need a leader at the back.

Why don’t we sack the manager and wait till the summer? That way we have an excuse not to buy one.

Ahh dont be silly Shukes the DOF can sort it out inbetween managers.

 Our board is full of bloody genius’s! 

[RuffRob]

8 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

I don’t mind Ferguson for a game or two but anything more than that would be a huge mistake. 

I think thats is exactly right.  My fear would be Ferguson could be the type of naive appointment that might just well take us down. 

[Shukes]

Hard to tell with Ferguson.

Can he motivate? Yes. Is he a no nonsense type? Yes. Can he attract? No idea. 
 

For me he did enough to show he should be given a chance. Again people are saying he started well but soon dropped off….. how many matches was he in charge? What was his last result? 
 

Biggest risk would be attracting new players. Could you see that young Portuguese prodigy whose life ambition was to work for Big Dunc?

[BedfordBlue]

Graham Potter for me

[Shukes]

1 minute ago, BedfordBlue said:

Graham Potter for me

Would love him, but can’t see him leaving Brighton for us. Not after watching us sack so manny managers. He is young and has plenty of time ahead of him, so no need to rush into a job that could ruin his reputation.

Unfortunately, that’s the club that we are.

[London Blue]

I think Potter would come, especially if we took Brighton's Director of football as well.

[Romey 1878]

3 hours ago, Btay said:

It’s actually going to infuriate me more if we sack him 1 game after backing him to get rig of Digne. Sums up how short sighted the Managment of the club is.

Can you imagine if the new manager doesn't fancy the new signings? That'll be another £40m pissed up the wall.

[Newty82]

2 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

Can you imagine if the new manager doesn't fancy the new signings? That'll be another £40m pissed up the wall.

Par for the course for us these days. What a horrible situation to be in.

[Newty82]

23 minutes ago, London Blue said:

I think Potter would come, especially if we took Brighton's Director of football as well.

Their DoF knows his stuff. Problem for us is the Brighton board also seem to know their stuff and allow the DoF to do his thing.

The evidence that has piled up these last 5 or 6 years says that's the opposite to what is happening at our club.

[Romey 1878]

4 minutes ago, Newty82 said:

Their DoF knows his stuff. Problem for us is the Brighton board also seem to know their stuff and allow the DoF to do his thing.

The evidence that has piled up these last 5 or 6 years says that's the opposite to what is happening at our club.

Us having a DoF under Moshiri's ownership has just been another case of pissing money up the wall. They'll have been paid very well to not actually do their job.

It really is mind-blowing the incompetence at this club.

[Palfy]

1 hour ago, Shukes said:

Would love him, but can’t see him leaving Brighton for us. Not after watching us sack so manny managers. He is young and has plenty of time ahead of him, so no need to rush into a job that could ruin his reputation.

Unfortunately, that’s the club that we are.

There are loads of managers who would come to us at a drop of a hat, let’s be honest a 3 year contract worth 21m paid out within a year, we definitely won’t struggle in that department, we are the cup that keeps giving.