Next Everton Manager

Rafa, you heard it here first :D
-Likes the area, family lives there etc
-Lots of experience of Thursday night football, which Everton aspire to

From the list above I think MON might make the most sense if Everton are happy with a short-medium term solution, I think he is a decent manager who can motivate players in the short term although he does like to spend a bit of cash too. Obviously in a few years, he will grow tired of lack of funds, lose the ability to motivate certain players and maybe fall out with the board or whatever but I think he could bring a couple of decent seasons to Goodison.

Other options, Hughes seems likely in the sense that he's available for nothing, former player, has expressed veiled interest in the job already etc. I don't think he's good enough for Everton though.

All seems quiet on the Alan Curbishley front, what is he doing with his life these days?
 
If Everton mess up this appointment, they could very well end up in a relegation battle within the next few years - they simply don't have the resources.
 
No chance Everton will go for Hughes, he's an awful manager and damaged goods after disastrous spells at City, Fulham and QPR. In fact, I'd be concerned if any Championship team took him on let alone a Premiership team.
 
HangTime said:
Rafa, you heard it here first :D
-Likes the area, family lives there etc
-Lots of experience of Thursday night football, which Everton aspire to

From the list above I think MON might make the most sense if Everton are happy with a short-medium term solution, I think he is a decent manager who can motivate players in the short term although he does like to spend a bit of cash too. Obviously in a few years, he will grow tired of lack of funds, lose the ability to motivate certain players and maybe fall out with the board or whatever but I think he could bring a couple of decent seasons to Goodison.

Other options, Hughes seems likely in the sense that he's available for nothing, former player, has expressed veiled interest in the job already etc. I don't think he's good enough for Everton though.

All seems quiet on the Alan Curbishley front, what is he doing with his life these days?
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Pigeon_Killer said:
No chance Everton will go for Hughes, he's an awful manager and damaged goods after disastrous spells at City, Fulham and QPR. In fact, I'd be concerned if any Championship team took him on let alone a Premiership team.
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He was excellent at Fulham and built a very very decent team on a shoe string, he also took City from lower mid table to a points total that over the whole season would have finished exactly where Mancini did(mancini got like a couple more points with a significantly strengthened in Jan team) and he kept QPR up last year when they were looking to go down, had a terrible start to the season with a newly built team and didn't actually fail, Redknapp did(look at game stats, QPR were significantly better before Redknapp). Large chunks of the team were injured through that first third of the season and their main strikers got injured....

What disaster did he oversee at City and Fulham?

Fulham were only poor in scoring in the first half of the season when Zamora AND Dembele broke their legs, they drew a lot and when those two got back they shot up the table playing very good football.
 
Derek W said:
lennon would be hilarious. he'd be permanently banned from the dugout

Di Matteo would be a decent shout
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Would love to have Lennon out of Scotland but I see he says he has unfinished business here. Read that as not wanting to get found out. :-)
 
Think after today, Martinez is probably in pole position for the Everton job....so that means Everton will now be flirting with relegation for the next few yrs:p.

Mind u Everton getting Rafa in as their manager isnt necessarily a bad thing, hes done an ok job at Chelsea this season despite the abuse he has received from their fans...if anything it will annoy the Liverpool fans that their neighbours have their ex manager in charge:p.
 
drunkenmaster said:
He was excellent at Fulham and built a very very decent team on a shoe string, he also took City from lower mid table to a points total that over the whole season would have finished exactly where Mancini did(mancini got like a couple more points with a significantly strengthened in Jan team) and he kept QPR up last year when they were looking to go down, had a terrible start to the season with a newly built team and didn't actually fail, Redknapp did(look at game stats, QPR were significantly better before Redknapp). Large chunks of the team were injured through that first third of the season and their main strikers got injured....

What disaster did he oversee at City and Fulham?

Fulham were only poor in scoring in the first half of the season when Zamora AND Dembele broke their legs, they drew a lot and when those two got back they shot up the table playing very good football.
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I have to agree. I don't really understand the negativity towards Hughes. He did a great job at Blackburn, people seem to have completely forgotten that.
 
I wouldn't mind him either, it's just I think he'd need or want to spend a lot of money himself. I think he's a great tactician but he needs the players to suit his system.


Pereira in!!

Incredible scenes at the end of that! Jorge Jesus drops to his knees after Kelvin's last second winner, Pereira goes mad and nearly ends up in tears! I watched Porto play a few CL games this season and the way they play would really suit us with Coleman and Baines, and if we managed to kept Fellaini him in front of the defence in his natural DM position like Fernando does would be perfect for him.
 
Slime said:
I have to agree. I don't really understand the negativity towards Hughes. He did a great job at Blackburn, people seem to have completely forgotten that.
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http://www.statto.com/football/teams/fulham/2010-2011/results

If you look the games lost in the whole season, Spurs, Chelsea, City, Arsenal, Pool, Verton, Utd, the only outliers are West brom and West Ham, you wouldn't expect Fulham to win the rest. There were far too many draws in the first half of the season but he had two strikers with broken legs, they got fit, second half of the season they ran away with 30 points, the same amount Moyes has got with Everton so far this half of the season.

The thing I respected was through all the negative attention from the press throughout the first half of the season he said the same thing, we'll struggle till strikers are fit then we'll have no trouble with relegation at all, and thats what happened, completely calm, and Fulham played some great football. Jol got a hell of a lot of credit for mostly Hughes team last year and this year Fulham could win both games and won't match Hughes season there.

I don't agree with him leaving, could be as simple as not offering him a new improve contract, he had them performing like a team that could finish with 60+ points when he left, not really sure why he did.

He did keep QPR up the first season, he didn't this season, I doubt he would have and didn't buy well, though the team had a huge defensive injury problem for the first 1/3rd of the season and he bought Johnson(daft risk) and he promptly got injured for the season. Zamora did his hip and was playing injured and won't ever fully recover now, Cisse decided to forget where the goal was, Hoillet get injured, Faurlin(their best player for me last year) got injured, his fullbacks and cb's got injured. He didn't do well, but I can't imagine they wouldn't have done at least a little bit better without the injuries.

Either way, failing at one club apparently is fine for players, but for managers means everything they did before is instantly negated, all failing as well and, meh, people are weird about managers.
 
Youstolemyname said:
Can't see Martinez leaving to join a smaller club myself.
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lol hilarious are you a liverpool supporter. For all the years of hearing about bitter toffees it's the liverpool fans on here falling over themselves to display those attributes. Where the Everton fans pay Liverpool no more regard than any other mid table club they are fighting for 8th with.
 
Didn't realise Dave Whelan had an account on here - anything less than a Real Madrid & Spain job share would be a step down for Martinez.
 
dannyjo22 said:
lol hilarious are you a liverpool supporter. For all the years of hearing about bitter toffees it's the liverpool fans on here falling over themselves to display those attributes. Where the Everton fans pay Liverpool no more regard than any other mid table club they are fighting for 8th with.
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I think you'd be doing well to find someone even on rawk calling everton job smaller than wigan :p, the guy is surely being sarcastic of the back of whelans comments

Also last bit is completely untrue for many bitters :D
 
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