*Shakes head* Everton again.

[Pete]

12 minutes ago, Anubis said:

No sniggering at the back.

 

terryefc

Player Valuation: £750k

• Yesterday at 4:07 PM

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• #125

I think he's alluding to - it ain't what you do its the way that you do it.
Like it or not - there is a certain class and style about our club. 
It doesn't always help us - but as they say - it takes a lifetime to earn a reputation - but seconds to lose it.
That Euro Super League would not have even been mooted if we had been involved in discussions.
There's not many clubs that are just 'proper'. And we are.

 

Dunno about proper but they are certainly ‘special’. 

[Remmie]

24 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

Big Sams Undies

Player Valuation: £6m

• Friday at 10:43 PM

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• #65

What would the Everton board do…

1) Spend a year chasing a lame duck named Marco Silva, blatantly tapping him up via the media before sacking the muppet once they got him.

2) Appoint fat Ronk purely due to his career as a player in the bizarre belief that it would increase our reputation.

3) Appoint Steve Walsh and let him go sick buying numbers 10s and absolute dead heads.

4) Blowing £500m in 4 years on dog turd players.

5) Let a DOF actually pay money to bring in Iwobi and Delph.

6) Give every failure and wrong-un a job because they happen to be a former player.

7) Project Kirkby.

8) Kings dock.

9) Lick Jim Whites bum hole for attention and come out with nonsense about Lukaku leaving due to voodoo.

10) Being had off by a bloke in a Manchester bedsit that he was wedged.

Yeah we’re a superb example for other clubs to follow… If they’d like to go go tits up.

 

Oh and 11) Fire up the Bat Signal for Fat Sam to ride in on his structurally reinforced horse to save us from a relegation that was never a threat

 

 

 

What's number 10 about? 

[Josef Svejk]

20 minutes ago, Anubis said:

No sniggering at the back.

 

terryefc

Player Valuation: £750k

• Yesterday at 4:07 PM

•  
• #125

I think he's alluding to - it ain't what you do its the way that you do it.
Like it or not - there is a certain class and style about our club. 
It doesn't always help us - but as they say - it takes a lifetime to earn a reputation - but seconds to lose it.
That Euro Super League would not have even been mooted if we had been involved in discussions.
There's not many clubs that are just 'proper'. And we are.

 

The party with all the hot chicks that we weren't invited to: we'd never have stood for that... 

[kemskem]

29 minutes ago, Anubis said:

No sniggering at the back.

 

terryefc

Player Valuation: £750k

• Yesterday at 4:07 PM

•  
• #125

I think he's alluding to - it ain't what you do its the way that you do it.
Like it or not - there is a certain class and style about our club. 
It doesn't always help us - but as they say - it takes a lifetime to earn a reputation - but seconds to lose it.
That Euro Super League would not have even been mooted if we had been involved in discussions.
There's not many clubs that are just 'proper'. And we are.

 

[Davelfc]

10 hours ago, Lee909 said:

I posted the other day

 

We were finished, not a big club in them 30 years

 

2 European Cups

1 Uefa Cup

3 FA Cups

4 League Cups 

1 Super Cup

 

3 More trophies than they have won in 75 years

3 Super cups - 2001, 2005, 2019

1 World club cup

 

3 League cups, the 4th you mention was in April 1995, so before neverwon picked up their last trophy.

 

We have basically picked up every single trophy we could since they won their last. Many of them multiple times. 

[General Dryness]

Just went looking for an answer to number 10 about the bloke in the bedsit. Google returned a result from GOT so I clicked on it, and was met with this.

 

Rent. Fucking. Free.

 

 

[General Dryness]

Anyway, it was something to do with this fella. He put them in touch with some con man who was skint. Allegedly.

 

 

(from GOT) Here's Kenwright's actual words:

They knew the small details of the club, the move to Stanley Park, the move to Kirkby. They had instructed a serious legal firm, they did due diligence, their costs alone must have been £150,000. We were six months down the line and the guy from Thailand was coming over to sign it all off.

'Then he was delayed due to the ash cloud, and it dragged on. Finally he said he was flying in Saturday, so I asked where he was staying and he said the Dorchester. But there was a small pause before he said it, a catch in his voice as if he had to think of a name, and I froze.

'I asked how he would get to my office and he said on the Tube. And that was it. We were doing a big deal for a film and I had a team of investigators on hand for that, so I asked them to run a check on these two. And on Friday a brown envelope arrived. And I turned the page, and turned another page, and with each one it got worse.

'The offices were rented, the Far East link lived in a one-bedroom flat in the worst part of the city, the Manchester guy was a small-time inventor, no more. They never arrived. And I have no idea why they did it, or how they did it. Maybe they thought they could secure the deal, then raise the funds. The problem was I wanted to believe. And I'll meet anyone if they sound straight.

[Anubis]

 

He’s incorrect as the bedsit investor was the guy in Singapore. Which is no less funny.

 

Structurally reinforced horse had me giggling.

[Harry Squatter]

A few of them still believe the lad I worked with getting in a taxi at Lime Street one night and telling the taxi driver that Kenwright turned down PSGs owners before they bought them.

 

The taxi driver nearly crashed his cab in a fit of rage when he told him. 

 

Someone on here said they overheard a bus driver talking to his mate about Everton saying "I heard a rumour that Kenwright turned down PSG's owners because he wanted to remain in charge, fucking knobhead"

[deiseach]

A few days on and I'd like to offer a considered opinion...losing Ancelotti is an absolute catastrophe for the Bloos. I remember saying when they gave Red Ronnie the bullet that they'd come to regret it. There are not many figures of the stature of Koeman out there, someone who makes you feel good about your club even when things are not going according to plan. Everton usually have to root around in the boxes marked "unproven" or "proven to be a cunt" when they are looking for a manager, so that they thought they were too good for Koeman was madness, something that was demonstrated by their next two hires which came from those respective boxes. And then they have the unbelievable good fortune to land Ancelotti. I think he was eager to have a shot at English football again, where top football men all over the planet are lured by the prospect of being dictators in contrast to the continent where they are strictly coaches with no input into transfer or academy policy. Had Arsenal not been eager to take their chances with the "unproven" box having tried the "proven" box to replace Wenger I have no doubt Ancelotti would have ended up there. But Arsenal were determined to deny Liverpool fans the chance to say 'where's the Arteta money, Bill?' (© Dave Usher) and Ancelotti had nowhere else to go so he thought yeah, why not? It took him 18 months to learn why not, and now they'll surely never get a name as big as him as long as their owner(s) are not willing to spend Abramovich/Mansour money. It's all too beautiful.

[Tj hooker]

4 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

A few of them still believe the lad I worked with getting in a taxi at Lime Street one night and telling the taxi driver that Kenwright turned down PSGs owners before they bought them.

 

The taxi driver nearly crashed his cab in a fit of rage when he told him. 

 

Someone on here said they overheard a bus driver talking to his mate about Everton saying "I heard a rumour that Kenwright turned down PSG's owners because he wanted to remain in charge, fucking knobhead"

Brilliant post one of the best on here I'm laughing my bollocks off now , we could do with a few more of these regarding the new manager 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

53 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

He’s incorrect as the bedsit investor was the guy in Singapore. Which is no less funny.

 

Structurally reinforced horse had me giggling.

Proposed investor said to be devasted when Everton pulled out of deal

 

 

 

[Trumo]

2 hours ago, Anubis said:

No sniggering at the back.

 

terryefc

Player Valuation: £750k

• Yesterday at 4:07 PM

•  
• #125

I think he's alluding to - it ain't what you do its the way that you do it.
Like it or not - there is a certain class and style about our club. 
It doesn't always help us - but as they say - it takes a lifetime to earn a reputation - but seconds to lose it.
That Euro Super League would not have even been mooted if we had been involved in discussions.
There's not many clubs that are just 'proper'. And we are.

 

 

To be involved in discussions, the topic would have to have been 'mooted' wouldn't it? Otherwise what are you discussing?

[Ron B]

56 minutes ago, deiseach said:

A few days on and I'd like to offer a considered opinion...losing Ancelotti is an absolute catastrophe for the Bloos. I remember saying when they gave Red Ronnie the bullet that they'd come to regret it. There are not many figures of the stature of Koeman out there, someone who makes you feel good about your club even when things are not going according to plan. Everton usually have to root around in the boxes marked "unproven" or "proven to be a cunt" when they are looking for a manager, so that they thought they were too good for Koeman was madness, something that was demonstrated by their next two hires which came from those respective boxes. And then they have the unbelievable good fortune to land Ancelotti. I think he was eager to have a shot at English football again, where top football men all over the planet are lured by the prospect of being dictators in contrast to the continent where they are strictly coaches with no input into transfer or academy policy. Had Arsenal not been eager to take their chances with the "unproven" box having tried the "proven" box to replace Wenger I have no doubt Ancelotti would have ended up there. But Arsenal were determined to deny Liverpool fans the chance to say 'where's the Arteta money, Bill?' (© Dave Usher) and Ancelotti had nowhere else to go so he thought yeah, why not? It took him 18 months to learn why not, and now they'll surely never get a name as big as him as long as their owner(s) are not willing to spend Abramovich/Mansour money. It's all too beautiful.

Agree with all of this, not least about Ancelotti being a far more sensible choice for Arsenal than Arteta was (and Arsenal being a far more sensible option for him too). 
In my lifetime, Everton went for a long time making sensible - or at least explicable - choices of manager. Colin Harvey was already an insider and renowned coach, Kendall was a hero. Mike Walker was doing wonders with Norwich, Walter Smith had bossed it in Scotland, and Moyes was a promising Championship manager. Bobby Brownshoes had continually overachieved with Wigan, Red Ron had won plenty abroad and was proven in the Prem. 

But it wasn’t just the choice of managers that added up, the decisions to change managers seemed to make sense too, and the club seemed to have a plan or at least a planned direction when they were looking for a new boss. 
Koeman’s sacking is where that seemed to change. They were not in danger of relegation, but they panicked and sacked him. They made a big show of wanting Silva, then failed to get him. They openly wanted Allardyce only as a glorified caretaker, and when Fat Sam had too much dignity for that (yes, I know...) they folded and handed him an 18-month deal. They spent six months chasing Silva, but panicked the moment he hit a sticky patch. 
It was dumb luck that Ancelotti became available, and fair shits to them for landing him. But “I hope that one of the most successful managers in football history becomes available, for £11million a year, a job for his son, and zero compensation if he leaves with no notice,” is not a reliable plan. 
The Ev have continually got it so wrong when they’ve had time to pick and choose their manager that it’s hard to see them cracking it now that they’re on the back foot. The names being bandied around are so disparate that there clearly is no plan. Nobody targets Conte but has Eddie Howe as a Plan B; if it’s a choice of Nuno and Howe then there’s no benefit in delaying before losing half the transfer window whilst fannying around; and if it really is Big Dunc then they really don’t have to delay the announcement until my birthday as a special treat. 
It’s impossible to say who they’ll get in now, but at least there are some guarantees. The majority of the fanbase won’t be happy whoever it is, they’ll waste a load of money, and will be gone within two years after making little to no progress.

 

[Bruce Spanner]

1 hour ago, Doctor Troy said:

A few of them still believe the lad I worked with getting in a taxi at Lime Street one night and telling the taxi driver that Kenwright turned down PSGs owners before they bought them.

 

The taxi driver nearly crashed his cab in a fit of rage when he told him. 

 

Someone on here said they overheard a bus driver talking to his mate about Everton saying "I heard a rumour that Kenwright turned down PSG's owners because he wanted to remain in charge, fucking knobhead"

 

One of my favourite pastimes is telling taxi drivers random rumours.

 

Last time I was up I spun a yarn about Uncle Uzzy being on the KGB watchlist and they need to maintain being avarage so they don't annoy Abromovic as he's getting worried about his standing in British football for when the Ev really slap the money on the table. This could present delicate geopolitical moves, which the Ev were central to.

 

As always, hook, line etc.

[deiseach]

7 minutes ago, Ron B said:

Nobody targets Conte but has Eddie Howe as a Plan B

[Harry Squatter]

I need to do this again.

 

Last time I've got into a taxi pissed and seen all the Everton shite in the cab and they've said "are you into footy mate?" I've always said No. 

 

He then bored the shit out of me for 20 minutes about the PLANdemic.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Good blue neighbour and his two lads are gutted Carlo left his Red missus was pissing herself laughing telling me yesterday. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-everton-could-line-up-20693235

[Barrington Womble]

4 hours ago, Tj hooker said:

Duncan Ferguson, 49, has turned down a job on Carlo Ancelotti's coaching staff at Real Madrid because he wants to become Everton boss , This is on the the BBC gossip page from the rag .

Of course he hasn't 

There's loads of ways to take the piss out of the bloos without needing a helping hand from the rag. 

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-everton-could-line-up-20693235

What an utterly pointless article. 

[Pete]

6 minutes ago, Mudface said:

What an utterly pointless article. 

Like the club then.

[scudger99]

windymiller

Player Valuation: £30m

• 48 minutes ago

•  
• #7,830

DayL08 said:

Why not Steven Gerrard

In an ideal world we would get Pochettino but he turned us down before Ancelotti apparently and there’s nothing to suggest he would pick us before Spurs even if he becomes available. You do wonder why he keeps failing to win trophies, even a one horse race in France.

Conte is obviously the big name available. This certainly wouldn’t be a bad appointment but he would only worth hiring if he agreed to work with players chosen by Brands on top of Rom if we could entice him back. What Carlo has shown us is that there is no loyalty whatsoever in football so we cannot buy another load of footballers only coming to us because of a manager who will be gone within 2 years.

Galtier seems like an interesting appointment who has done a fantastic job at Lille despite his best players being sold and is certainly somebody I could get on board with. He would be willing to work with and develop young, hungry, ambitious and quick players in the Godfrey mould that we need to be targeting going forward

Please stop with the Potter shouts. The man has done absolutely nothing to suggest he can take a club like ours to the next level. It is such a small minded appointment which would show the mediocrity of the club that we have just gotten away from with the Ancelotti appointment. The lowered expectations of the Kenwright era has affected you all. A lot of you actually wanted Big Sam! You will be the same ones moaning in 2 years time of a lack of ambition when we finish mid table again

More than anything think about the optics. What does it say to potential players going from Ancelotti to Potter. Does that sound like a club on the way up. Ancelloti to Gerrard doesn’t seem as bad. His name alone will attract players especially younger players who probably idolised him growing up

However the worst choice we could make is Moyes. Even Big Sam would be better than Davey as we know Sam would be gone in 12 months. As I said when it looked like Moyes would come back before we appointment Carlo, Moyes is a good enough manager to earn a new contract but he won’t win you anything which is what we all want. He has done exactly that at West Ham. Appointing him would be another 5 years wasted. Moyes was the right coach at the right time when he was appointed but he outstayed his welcome. I’ll never forgive him for how he blew the semi final against Liverpool. Even at one up it was clear in that first half that things were going wrong and he did absolutely nothing to change it. Who wants to go back to the plucky underdog narrative that Moyes did his best to harvest as it made him look better and excused his lack of fight against the big clubs, sitting back, inviting pressure, waiting to concede

So on to Gerrard. Despite how much most of us hate him there is no doubt he is a winner. Does anyone think he’ll stand for Sigurdsson or Gomes strolling around in midfield with the ball getting passed round them. He’s a local lad who was around in the 80s so knows what it means to see Everton as a winner. He’ll certainly have us fired up in the Derby. Despite his loyalties he does seem the type to want to lose at anything. Let’s not forget he was happy to leave Liverpool twice for Chelsea before he got threats (allegedly)

At least get him in for an interview. What’s the worst that can happen. One meeting will tell you if he’s up for the fight. Failing that the meeting will give you a useful insight into a potential manager of our arch rivals and it’ll unite the fan base behind anyone that it eventually chosen if we don’t appoint him!

He has just won a trophy which is what we want. Yes it was Scotland and you can say it’s a two horse race but it hasn’t been a two horse race up there in 10 years. Going undefeated and only conceding 4 goals at home all season (if I read that correctly) is unbelievable especially in a COVID no fan year. It’s clear we need to sort out our home form

Moving to Everton is a step up in players he is managing so there is no issue with a big manager like Ancelotti or Conte suddenly having to deal with lesser players. He will be happy working with and developing the young, hungry players that Brands has to bring in.

Are we a stepping stone to Liverpool, yes probably. However it’s not going to be like Barmby who left us out of the blue. Both sides know it’s a marriage of convenience. He needs to win a trophy/ get into the Champions League to persuade Liverpool to hire him and we are desperate for either. It’s a win-win. Most managers are going to leave after a couple of years and any player or manager who joins us should be looking to go from us to a massive club. It’s just where we are at present

So onto the biggest issue, the fact that he’s a Liverpool legend. We all love Beardsley, Watson, Sheedy and Ablett. I agree it’s probably not the same. Let me try it another way. If Klopp fell out with FSG tomorrow but wanted to stay in the area and would take the job if Moshiri was willing to make him the highest paid manager in the world, how many of us would take him as manager. Most of us would if we’re honest. He too is a Liverpool legend

I would be genuinely be interested to see how many of you would have him

 

skumar55 said:

I'd have Gerrard, he's a winner, not really follow scottish football much, but he's done a good job there. Gerrard to me is a better shout than who we are linked with at mo

Two different approaches, both equally transparent.

 

Reply

 

 

Their delusion is off the scale.  2 chances of Stevie G managing those bitter twats - fuck all and even less.

Comical reading though, despite being accurate.

[sir roger]

To be honest it is as realistic a post by an Evertonian as I have seen in a while. 

[Bad Red Bull]

3 hours ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Good blue neighbour and his two lads are gutted Carlo left his Red missus was pissing herself laughing telling me yesterday. 

Ermmm, what?