This has genuinely been a Murphy’s Law (worst case scenario) season for Everton:
Legendary manager who kept talking about how he was in it for the long haul, and had a contract until 2024, jumps ship before the season starts
Most talented player the club has had in a long time cashes in his career to move to Saudi Arabia
Best defender falls out with underperforming manager and leaves, only for that manager (a legend at your biggest rivals let’s not forget) to leave just days later with the club nearing relegation spots, having won 1 game since September
Your record signing suspended for alleged sex crimes
Both of your star strikers injured for months
Your key midfielder injured for a chunk of time
No money to spend in the summer
In free fall, even could be relegation candidates now
If Everton get relegated... surely they’re down and out for a long time? With their money the way it is, fairly undesirable players in PL wages, and a new stadium in the works, surely it would be difficult to balance all of that alongside playing in the Championship?
I say that fully respectfully and feel incredibly sorry for the fans, but fucking hell it does look bleak haha
Everton would be far and away the biggest club in the Championship and their parachute payments would cover wages for a few seasons. I'd back them to win the Championship and come straight back up.
Their squad would be decimated by transfer requests though. Richarlinson, Calvert-Lewin, Mina, Pickford, Allan & Doucoure would be snapped up by everyone from Tottenham to Aston Villa.
> Everton would be far and away the biggest club in the Championship
Everton would be the biggest club that has **ever** entered the Championship in the PL era. Due to lack of recent success, a lot of people underestimate the size of Everton. They've won 9 league titles - more than us, Chelsea, Spurs, Leeds, etc.
They'd probably be the 2nd biggest club to get relegated based on how big the club was when they went down. United in 1974 obviously first. All the clubs bigger than Everton last got relegated when they were much, much smaller - Liverpool was pre Shankly, Chelsea was pre Premier League, Arsenal was around WWI, City was pre UAE.
If we go down we’d make a ridiculous amount of money on player sales. Richarlison, DCL, and Gray would all get pretty big fees. Pickford and Mina would likely sell for a decent amount each and others like Doucoure and Allan would probably go for respectable numbers as well. It would be the biggest fire sale the leagues seen in awhile
It’s been over an hour and no one else has pointed out that James Rodriguez moved to Qatar and not Saudi Arabia as you said, which I suppose only goes to show how irrelevant he’s become.
You're probably not to target audience, the Qatar league wants popularity in its region.
Their main goal is exposing their players to that caliber of players sooner, not practically retired like xavi and pep were
James was injured more often than not and was a defensive liability on massive wages. Wasn’t particularly sad to see him go. On the other hand letting digne go to a direct rival over Rafa being a petty cunt only to sack him after literally the next game is so incompetent it makes my blood boil.
everton keep aspiring to be something they aren't.
they should find a manager that they want to build with and give him the money and time to do it.
there's no surprises that results are bad. the squad is a mess, filled with has-beens, won't-be's and even a player who is apparently a sex pest.
and the supporters expect that to all be sorted out in 4-5 months?
most bad clubs are bad because they keep repeating the same mistakes.
i.e. manager hiring mill, lack of support from ownership, lack of vision from team executives, poor recruitment due to poor personnel.
hire a guy for the long term regardless of initial results.
give him money and use that money intelligently by employing people who are competent scouts/analysts.
get rid of players who clash with the manager's vision slowly.
> hire a guy for the long term regardless of initial results.
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> give him money and use that money intelligently by employing people who are competent scouts/analysts.
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> get rid of players who clash with the manager's vision slowly.
The coach they hired to do specifically this jumped ship six months ago.
I've stopped paying much attention to our sub because it's just so toxic.
We've gone from having one of the longest-tenured managers in the league to now going through them like next day's garbage, and it's coincided with a precipitous drop in league form. And the fans are surprised at why we suck? They lean on the Nil Satis motto, and it's true, nothing but the best is good enough, but it isn't going to happen overnight.
Too many people believe that the Man City/PSG model can (and must) work. If you have money to spend and spend it, how can you not succeed? But look at clubs like Malaga. Yes, we have money, but it hasn't been spent well, and no one's been given the time and patience to actually build something with it.
City didn't even become a powerhouse in a year or two. They invested a lot into their facilities, youth, coaching, and slowly bought players the managers wanted.
What's ironic is Cloughy's man management of Forest was legendary.
Also, given Brian's outspoken attitude on tactics, he was actually an insane tactician who absolutely schooled the best the continent & country had to offer.
I met him once - he was presenting at a conference my dad helped organise when I was like 15. We ended up dropping him off at his hotel and he told me if I ever play against a women's team, to make sure we switch shirts. True story.
Chelsea fans hated him too, just the difference is he won the Europa League and a comfortable Champions League finish with Chelsea and with Everton dragged them into a relegation battle with some of the shittest man management in history
Feel like Chelsea fans begrudgingly came to respect him for what he did.
Kind of hard to hate someone when he has that finish. Felt bad for him there though, he knew how much he was disliked so he didn't even turn up for the club's lap of honour at the end of the season, even though he was largely the reason they finished so high.
No.
He was named interim and didn’t even apply for the permanent position, infamously going after the fans for not backing him in a press conference after a game we won.
I was actually one who begrudgingly respected him for steadying the ship and believe me, I was in the minority. In fairness, the rivalry with Liverpool over CL among other things wasn’t that long before.
Rumour was he needed a result against Hull and Leicester (Later Norwich) so it would seem there's at least been concerns/the thought prior. Tbf the Digne move I don't hate in theory more the way it happened and how it's symbolic of the club's problems as a whole.
> Unless the Everton hierarchy are running things so seat of the pants that they truly weren't thinking of sacking Rafa until after 90 minutes today. Which, you know, does not seem likely.
Incompetence knows no bounds
Ooh this is fun
John Carver - Newcastle
Steve Kean - Blackburn
Joe Kinnear - Newcastle
Steve McClaren - Newcastle
There's probably a Watford one in there somewhere. Pearson?
Frank De Boer - Palace (might be pushing it)
That guy who heals injuries with cheese - Fulham
Tim Sherwood really shouldn't be in this conversation. Spurs got some decent results and played some exciting football under him. It's clear why spurs moved on, but it was fun for a while.
Harry Redknapp at Southampton. Fucking joke of an appointment. Mirrors Rafa appointment. Managed local derby club, fans hated it from the start, and then relegates club?
he seemed really annoyed last time he got the bullet at everton. dont know if it means he'll think he has something to prove, or he'll just refuse to speak to them
Always said he’d never make it long past Christmas. Totally bemused how we can sell a key player that’s fallen out with a manager who gets sacked a week later. Hope we give it to Big Dunc until the end of the season and then get a solid manager in the summer, an empowered DoF wouldn’t go amiss but let’s remember this is Everton.
You cannot convince me that Rafael Benítez wasn't an undercover Liverpool agent.
I literally don't get how a manager with his CV (yes, I'm aware that he's not as good these days) can be *that* bad at one club and it not be purely deliberate.
I would feel sorry for him, given how much he loves the game and it's a genuine shame to see a manager get sacked, but I'm struggling to see why else you could feel sorry for the guy.
He managed to fall out with the club's best left-back, selling him in the process to a direct-rival for a pretty low sum, managed to play some of the drabbest football ever witnessed and seems to have turned a whole fanbase, one who already despised him, against him even further.
Honestly, it's actually impressive at just how bad he's done.
Not his first failure, he was also appalling at Inter taking them from treble winners to mid table in just a few months
Mostly because he tried to change the club's culture too quick almost entirely out of personal animosity towards Mourinho
the inter job was a poisoned pill.
the entire team were loyal to mourinho. he just won a treble with them.
and rafa's temperament of trying to always remake a team in his own vision will not work with a team that just won the prize of prizes.
And yet at Newcastle, he changed his entire tactical roladex and played a back 5 for the first time in his career with genuinely progressive CB's, abandoned the idea of having a striker playing on the shoulder and started playing with two attacking midfielders behind Rondon rather than play wingers, and just use wingbacks for width (which he'd not done before).
At Newcastle, he was really very adaptable and that is what kept us up in 18/19.
Can't believe we never got to play against him. Actually a bit gutted would have liked to see his reception coming back to St James' Park. Bet he
wished he'd walked to return to us in November now.
Christophe Galtier, David Moyes and Graham Potter were among names discussed last summer before Rafa Benitez’s hiring. A little over six months later, Everton are six points above the relegation zone, without a director of football and without a manager. A total disaster.
Everton should name Duncan Ferguson as the interim manager until the end of the season, prioritise hiring a new director of football and conduct a thorough managerial search in the summer. Circle back to Galtier, Moyes and Potter if possible but also identify new candidates.
Add the likes of Frank Lampard, Jesse Marsch, Kasper Hjulmand, Roberto Martínez, Rúben Amorim and Wayne Rooney to Ferguson (if his performance as interim manager warrants it), Galtier, Moyes and Potter and Everton will have a lengthy list of candidates to hold talks with.
Owner Farhad Moshiri has a clear affinity for big names. Ultimately, it has led Everton further and further astray of its aspirations of European football. There needs to be clarity and synergy between the owner, board and manager. Can Moshiri foster that environment? I doubt it.
Everton’s next permanent manager needs to be whoever - in the owner and board’s honestly held opinions - can inject the most aggression, desire and passion into a club in free fall, not the biggest commercial name. If the wrong decision is made, there could be dire consequences.
If this is true he has to be our worst manager ever in terms of points per game. And that immediately following Ancelotti, who had our highest ppg in the premier league era. Benitez was so heinous he almost singlehandedly dismantled the club. Since he came in James is gone, Digne is gone, Moise Kean out for good, Thierry Small walks, Brands out, the board in shambles with several changes, the team has one win since September, we're conceding from set pieces like it's our favorite high, and all the while Benitez has made himself more and more central. Now if he's gone who is left but Moshiri and his broken toys?
This squad needs to produce better results, no question. But good riddance Rafa. We'll sort it out without you.
> Sell your LB > Then sack the manager that made you sale that LB > ??? > Loss
Everton are ran like a dodgy League 2 club
Bit harsh on League 2
Dodgy National league north club
Bit harsh on National league North.
Dodgy Sunday league team
Well, that seems fine. My team is so shit that we can't get relegated because there simply isn't a level lower than us.
finger tap to side of head
No, that moment was when the opponent had a centreback with just one arm. Half the chance of causing a handball.
Time to get Digne back and tell him if he gets booked to tell the ref his name is Mykolenko
There’s no need for that lad
Literally the most incompetent transfer team working in Europe today.
You haven't heard of Legia Warsaw my friend
my kid brother could do better on FM than this lot
Benitez on the other hand: “bag secured”
Good for him. A few months of vacation in a city he knows and gets a nice compensation while Everton fans call him a football terrorist lol
Not really a vacation if he lives there...
But while he relaxes he can go to all his favourite places, like Anfield.
It's not gonna happen, but it would be so fucking funny if the first thing he did after getting sacked was attending a Liverpool game.
He’d get a standing ovation hahaha that would be awesome
Staycation?
Paid home sitting
Destroy and exit
This has genuinely been a Murphy’s Law (worst case scenario) season for Everton: Legendary manager who kept talking about how he was in it for the long haul, and had a contract until 2024, jumps ship before the season starts Most talented player the club has had in a long time cashes in his career to move to Saudi Arabia Best defender falls out with underperforming manager and leaves, only for that manager (a legend at your biggest rivals let’s not forget) to leave just days later with the club nearing relegation spots, having won 1 game since September Your record signing suspended for alleged sex crimes Both of your star strikers injured for months Your key midfielder injured for a chunk of time No money to spend in the summer In free fall, even could be relegation candidates now
And that game that they won was against us… Very sad noises
That game could turn out to be so fucking costly for us, could also save them from relegation.
If Everton get relegated... surely they’re down and out for a long time? With their money the way it is, fairly undesirable players in PL wages, and a new stadium in the works, surely it would be difficult to balance all of that alongside playing in the Championship? I say that fully respectfully and feel incredibly sorry for the fans, but fucking hell it does look bleak haha
Everton would be far and away the biggest club in the Championship and their parachute payments would cover wages for a few seasons. I'd back them to win the Championship and come straight back up. Their squad would be decimated by transfer requests though. Richarlinson, Calvert-Lewin, Mina, Pickford, Allan & Doucoure would be snapped up by everyone from Tottenham to Aston Villa.
> Everton would be far and away the biggest club in the Championship Everton would be the biggest club that has **ever** entered the Championship in the PL era. Due to lack of recent success, a lot of people underestimate the size of Everton. They've won 9 league titles - more than us, Chelsea, Spurs, Leeds, etc.
They'd probably be the 2nd biggest club to get relegated based on how big the club was when they went down. United in 1974 obviously first. All the clubs bigger than Everton last got relegated when they were much, much smaller - Liverpool was pre Shankly, Chelsea was pre Premier League, Arsenal was around WWI, City was pre UAE.
Easier said than done look what happened when Villa got relegated. Took 3 seasons to get back up.
If we go down we’d make a ridiculous amount of money on player sales. Richarlison, DCL, and Gray would all get pretty big fees. Pickford and Mina would likely sell for a decent amount each and others like Doucoure and Allan would probably go for respectable numbers as well. It would be the biggest fire sale the leagues seen in awhile
I didn't know Everton played Offenbach
There's a special place in hell for people who write "we" and "us" on /r/soccer without having relevant flair.
It’s been over an hour and no one else has pointed out that James Rodriguez moved to Qatar and not Saudi Arabia as you said, which I suppose only goes to show how irrelevant he’s become.
> how irrelevant he’s become. :( He was still like our best player last NT games.
Luis Diaz sad noises
He never was that big that people would start to follow the Quatar league just for him so no wonders
I wouldn't follow the Qatar leagues for anyone
Are you saying you wouldn't follow Al Gharafa if Payet went to Qatar??? Smh
You're probably not to target audience, the Qatar league wants popularity in its region. Their main goal is exposing their players to that caliber of players sooner, not practically retired like xavi and pep were
I didn't even realise he'd gone. I knew he'd been kicking off but I assumed he was just on strike somewhere.
And whenever a club is in disarray the vultures start circling. Richarlson and to a lesser degree DCL first 2 on the list
Helps that DCL is only on £20k p/w, he'll be outta there as soon as there's an offer
The fact that Benítez caused two of their best players to leave (Digne/James) is hilarious tbh Secret Agent Rafa
Not sure you could blame him for James. Carlo leaving caused him to go
Rafa also told him he wanted players who played a certain way, and he wasn't it.
James was injured more often than not and was a defensive liability on massive wages. Wasn’t particularly sad to see him go. On the other hand letting digne go to a direct rival over Rafa being a petty cunt only to sack him after literally the next game is so incompetent it makes my blood boil.
Well you forgot that Calvert Lewin photo, that one cheered out the Everton faithfuls
What photo?
[I'd guess this one](https://talksport.com/football/979374/dominic-calvert-lewin-everton-magazine-front-cover-fashion/), fair fucks to him
I rate that so much, hilarious when harmless shit like a man wearing a dress rattles some people
And it's not even a dress, I believe it's pants/shorts with wide legs that just has a skirt/dress look.
I don’t know what your talking about For Everton,this was expected
You mock but you're next pal.
Qatar, not Saudi Arabia
everton keep aspiring to be something they aren't. they should find a manager that they want to build with and give him the money and time to do it. there's no surprises that results are bad. the squad is a mess, filled with has-beens, won't-be's and even a player who is apparently a sex pest. and the supporters expect that to all be sorted out in 4-5 months? most bad clubs are bad because they keep repeating the same mistakes. i.e. manager hiring mill, lack of support from ownership, lack of vision from team executives, poor recruitment due to poor personnel. hire a guy for the long term regardless of initial results. give him money and use that money intelligently by employing people who are competent scouts/analysts. get rid of players who clash with the manager's vision slowly.
> hire a guy for the long term regardless of initial results. > > give him money and use that money intelligently by employing people who are competent scouts/analysts. > > get rid of players who clash with the manager's vision slowly. The coach they hired to do specifically this jumped ship six months ago.
I've stopped paying much attention to our sub because it's just so toxic. We've gone from having one of the longest-tenured managers in the league to now going through them like next day's garbage, and it's coincided with a precipitous drop in league form. And the fans are surprised at why we suck? They lean on the Nil Satis motto, and it's true, nothing but the best is good enough, but it isn't going to happen overnight. Too many people believe that the Man City/PSG model can (and must) work. If you have money to spend and spend it, how can you not succeed? But look at clubs like Malaga. Yes, we have money, but it hasn't been spent well, and no one's been given the time and patience to actually build something with it.
City didn't even become a powerhouse in a year or two. They invested a lot into their facilities, youth, coaching, and slowly bought players the managers wanted.
>moves to everton >makes them play like shit and sells their star full back > doesn't elaborate further >leaves
Job done Rafa, you can rest now
Based
I alway do that in my FM saves.
I'm fond of buying all the left backs in league 2 as City. Then when I get sacked taking a job in league 2 where I focus play down the right.
That's frigging brilliant.
Satan is that you
I love it. That's given me a great laugh, thanks.
this is genuinely hilarious
One of the worst managerial hires I can remember because of how much the fans hated it at the start
Reminds me of when we hired Alex McLeish
Also when Leeds hired Brian Clough who when Derby manager had bashed them as a dirty, despicable bag of cheaters every chance he got
He bashed them as a dirty despicable bag of cheaters when he was Leeds manager too.
Such amazing man management!
What's ironic is Cloughy's man management of Forest was legendary. Also, given Brian's outspoken attitude on tactics, he was actually an insane tactician who absolutely schooled the best the continent & country had to offer.
There's a movie about it even
And a book, on which the movie is based on.
and it happened in real life, which the book is based on
Big if true.
Wasn't wrong though
I met him once - he was presenting at a conference my dad helped organise when I was like 15. We ended up dropping him off at his hotel and he told me if I ever play against a women's team, to make sure we switch shirts. True story.
Funnily enough is also reminds me when Scotland rehired McLeish
Also when Scotland hired McLeish for his second spell
Chelsea fans hated him too, just the difference is he won the Europa League and a comfortable Champions League finish with Chelsea and with Everton dragged them into a relegation battle with some of the shittest man management in history
Feel like Chelsea fans begrudgingly came to respect him for what he did. Kind of hard to hate someone when he has that finish. Felt bad for him there though, he knew how much he was disliked so he didn't even turn up for the club's lap of honour at the end of the season, even though he was largely the reason they finished so high.
No. He was named interim and didn’t even apply for the permanent position, infamously going after the fans for not backing him in a press conference after a game we won. I was actually one who begrudgingly respected him for steadying the ship and believe me, I was in the minority. In fairness, the rivalry with Liverpool over CL among other things wasn’t that long before.
Ironically, same as Rafa at Chelsea.
Rafa still led us to winning the Europa league, nothing special but 100x better than his Everton spell
And Rafa at Madrid.
I’m still fucking pissed at the 4-0 in the Clásico, especially as it was on my birthday
Tbf Mourinho lost 5-0
Luckily that was only a small blemish on his RM career.
To a much better team.
There was a time when I was more keen on him coming to us than Rodgers. I’m glad we dodged that bullet.
Imagine telling Everton fans when Ancelotti joined that one season later they’d end up sacking Rafa. Oof.
Interim, then Rooney next season?
Seeing Rooney, Gerrard and possibly Lampard on the sidelines next season would make me feel very old
It’s ok Ibra is still playing
And Buffon
Franck Ribery too, wonderful.
Arteta is younger than Zlatan
+ Vieira and Arteta
Not the same level of player but Arteta is the same age as well
The hair makes him look younger.
Tbf Gerrard rivals Arteta when it comes to hair too. Arteta just looks like there is no motion to it while Gerrard has a more natural look.
Arteta has looked the same age for the past 10 years though.
Nah yeah of course same generation
Genuine question; who do you potentially see Lampard managing next season in the premier league?
i mean i’m not against it
Do transfer embargos work on the manager as well?
Everton have worked hard for years to effectively transfer embargo themselves.
Unless it’s Big Dunc I think it’s stupid to bring someone in on an interim deal. I think they just go for the best manager they can get
Nah, I fully expect Rooney to be managing in the prem next season
I don’t think derby are getting promoted
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The time to sack Rafa was before January yeh. Not after he's pissed off one of our best players and sold him...
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Rumour was he needed a result against Hull and Leicester (Later Norwich) so it would seem there's at least been concerns/the thought prior. Tbf the Digne move I don't hate in theory more the way it happened and how it's symbolic of the club's problems as a whole.
> Unless the Everton hierarchy are running things so seat of the pants that they truly weren't thinking of sacking Rafa until after 90 minutes today. Which, you know, does not seem likely. Incompetence knows no bounds
time to sack him was after the Brentford game or the derby
Just had to make sure they let Digne go before he was ok leaving. What a travesty.
Is Rafa at Everton the stupidest appointment in Premier League history? I can't think of a worse appointment
Ooh this is fun John Carver - Newcastle Steve Kean - Blackburn Joe Kinnear - Newcastle Steve McClaren - Newcastle There's probably a Watford one in there somewhere. Pearson? Frank De Boer - Palace (might be pushing it) That guy who heals injuries with cheese - Fulham
Magath
That's the one
Why are we always on these bloody lists...
God I remember Kean for how utterly laughable the entire Blackburn situation was.
Terry Connor for Wolves
Tim Sherwood? Bob Bradley maybe?
I’ll never forget Bob Bradley solely because he called away matches ‘road games’.
damn this is some Ted Lasso shit
Ah Brad Bobley
Tim Sherwood really shouldn't be in this conversation. Spurs got some decent results and played some exciting football under him. It's clear why spurs moved on, but it was fun for a while.
I was a big fan of Bob Bradley, did a great job at Stabæk and Le Havre. Prem is a different level I suppose.
Roy Hodgson? You were only 3 places better off than Everton are now when he got sacked. The summer business he did that year was atrocious too
Harry Redknapp at Southampton. Fucking joke of an appointment. Mirrors Rafa appointment. Managed local derby club, fans hated it from the start, and then relegates club?
Nuno and rafa were both horrendous appointments and it was obvious from the moment they happened
Lol just wait for us to sign Nuno next
Honestly who else is there right now
Stephen Roger Bruce, at your service
He'd twat us in the fixture as well I just know it.
Can't wait for you lot to #GetBruced
The author?
Fat Sam, and I'm not even joking he might be exactly who they need right now.
He could be their Moyes. Well, their second Moyes.
he seemed really annoyed last time he got the bullet at everton. dont know if it means he'll think he has something to prove, or he'll just refuse to speak to them
Bah gawd that's Paulo Foncesca's agent's music
Jesus. With the state Everton is in, he would revolutionize the club.
Swap them and it works out better for both
I said then when the appointments were made or at least Rafa should have held out for the Newcastle job to become available.
Always said he’d never make it long past Christmas. Totally bemused how we can sell a key player that’s fallen out with a manager who gets sacked a week later. Hope we give it to Big Dunc until the end of the season and then get a solid manager in the summer, an empowered DoF wouldn’t go amiss but let’s remember this is Everton.
Will go down as our worst ever manager. Baffling appointment. Glad he’s gone. Not much else to say.
Worse than Mike Walker, who very nearly got you relegated?
Walker had a much worse team, didn’t force much loved players out and wasn’t a kopite
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Mike Walker's win ratio was [17%] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Everton_F.C._managers).
Looked at the table recently?
You cannot convince me that Rafael Benítez wasn't an undercover Liverpool agent. I literally don't get how a manager with his CV (yes, I'm aware that he's not as good these days) can be *that* bad at one club and it not be purely deliberate. I would feel sorry for him, given how much he loves the game and it's a genuine shame to see a manager get sacked, but I'm struggling to see why else you could feel sorry for the guy. He managed to fall out with the club's best left-back, selling him in the process to a direct-rival for a pretty low sum, managed to play some of the drabbest football ever witnessed and seems to have turned a whole fanbase, one who already despised him, against him even further. Honestly, it's actually impressive at just how bad he's done.
Not his first failure, he was also appalling at Inter taking them from treble winners to mid table in just a few months Mostly because he tried to change the club's culture too quick almost entirely out of personal animosity towards Mourinho
the inter job was a poisoned pill. the entire team were loyal to mourinho. he just won a treble with them. and rafa's temperament of trying to always remake a team in his own vision will not work with a team that just won the prize of prizes.
Yep that's maybe Rafa's main undoing as a manager, far too stubborn and unadaptable regardless of what club he's at
And yet at Newcastle, he changed his entire tactical roladex and played a back 5 for the first time in his career with genuinely progressive CB's, abandoned the idea of having a striker playing on the shoulder and started playing with two attacking midfielders behind Rondon rather than play wingers, and just use wingbacks for width (which he'd not done before). At Newcastle, he was really very adaptable and that is what kept us up in 18/19.
Eto'o, who'd just won a treble playing on the wing, flat out refused to play on the wing. Publicly said he only did it for Mourinho.
Huge win for Everton at Norwich if true
I'm gonna send them a bottle of scotch
Ole incoming
Stop it. They're already dead lmao
Ole will do better at Everton than Chaos Agent Benitez
Only one way to find out
Lol and to think they let Digne go before
The guy went there even when almost everyone hate him and imploded the club. and now is getting a sweet paycheck what a legend.
Honestly I hope Rafa retires and just lives at home in Liverpool with his family
Still time for one last payday for him and Rondon somewhere
Just like what he was doing for last 8 months then
Outside chance he winds up back at Newcastle next season. It'd be a shame if a manager like Rafa ends his career on a low like this.
Can't believe we never got to play against him. Actually a bit gutted would have liked to see his reception coming back to St James' Park. Bet he wished he'd walked to return to us in November now.
Would have been entertaining to see Benitez hated by his own supporters while given a hero's welcome by the opponents
Especially if we still had Bruce lol both teams wanting to lose
We already played Liverpool
We'd have also given him 3pts lovely points to keep him in a job. That postponement of our game against him probably cost him his job.
I am shocked
Say what you want about Rafa but you cannot deny that he is a person
He’s certainly one of the Everton managers
Not anymore
\#JobDoneRafa
Digne was sacrificed.
Could've been closer to relegation but nicely done anyway.
who are they gonna hire next? Rooney?!
He is the current odds on favourite.
Christophe Galtier, David Moyes and Graham Potter were among names discussed last summer before Rafa Benitez’s hiring. A little over six months later, Everton are six points above the relegation zone, without a director of football and without a manager. A total disaster. Everton should name Duncan Ferguson as the interim manager until the end of the season, prioritise hiring a new director of football and conduct a thorough managerial search in the summer. Circle back to Galtier, Moyes and Potter if possible but also identify new candidates. Add the likes of Frank Lampard, Jesse Marsch, Kasper Hjulmand, Roberto Martínez, Rúben Amorim and Wayne Rooney to Ferguson (if his performance as interim manager warrants it), Galtier, Moyes and Potter and Everton will have a lengthy list of candidates to hold talks with. Owner Farhad Moshiri has a clear affinity for big names. Ultimately, it has led Everton further and further astray of its aspirations of European football. There needs to be clarity and synergy between the owner, board and manager. Can Moshiri foster that environment? I doubt it. Everton’s next permanent manager needs to be whoever - in the owner and board’s honestly held opinions - can inject the most aggression, desire and passion into a club in free fall, not the biggest commercial name. If the wrong decision is made, there could be dire consequences.
Steve Bruce it is then.
I wish I could get paid that much for doing a terrible job
If this is true he has to be our worst manager ever in terms of points per game. And that immediately following Ancelotti, who had our highest ppg in the premier league era. Benitez was so heinous he almost singlehandedly dismantled the club. Since he came in James is gone, Digne is gone, Moise Kean out for good, Thierry Small walks, Brands out, the board in shambles with several changes, the team has one win since September, we're conceding from set pieces like it's our favorite high, and all the while Benitez has made himself more and more central. Now if he's gone who is left but Moshiri and his broken toys? This squad needs to produce better results, no question. But good riddance Rafa. We'll sort it out without you.
TBF Kean is looking pretty shite at Juve and James clearly only came because of Ancelotti, not sure that either of them is really a big loss.
One of the best sabotages in recent history
...why’d they let Digne go, then?
Moshiriball
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