Everton Rumours

10 Oct 2024 18:41:13
I see Giovanni van Bronckhorst is being tipped as our next manager once Freidkin takes over, would still prefer Potter myself.

10 Oct 2024 19:37:45
Not for me thanks.

10 Oct 2024 20:21:30
Managed Rangers didn't he? Don't know a lot about him apart from he played for Arsenal.

10 Oct 2024 22:00:14
Looks like Carsley has done himself no favours tonight after that result. Wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to appoint him at Everton….

10 Oct 2024 22:27:04
He has some pedigree but not sure how he would do in the EPL. Better than what we've got that's for sure. I still fancy Potter.

11 Oct 2024 10:53:25
Hmm not sure on that one yes give him granted he got rangers into europe league final like i would go all out for Rubin almiron from sporting that's of course if he would be interested and if not potter would also be good shout and me 3rd option would be fonseca but think whoever does take the reins we all have to get behind the new manager regardless of who it is.

11 Oct 2024 11:00:11
How can anyone want carsley as Everton manager, are you insane, we've been down this track before and it failed, it's not just I we will have him or him or even him, they need to see what he will bring, what he's achieved and for how long, tone can have a good season but can they do it year after year, carsly brings what, oh yes he played for Everton, give me strength.

11 Oct 2024 11:26:27
Can Bronckhurst has 57% win record as manager, that’s a lot higher than what we currently have, all be it in lesser leagues. There’s been rumours of Mourinho too…can’t see it personally as he fell out with Friedkin when sacked at saying many nasty things…although strangely I think he could be a good fit for us!

11 Oct 2024 13:36:12
It's like the calls for Mark Robins last season just because Coventry had a cup run. Massive step up managing us and even moreso under the circumstances we have been under.

11 Oct 2024 18:01:22
This new mob if they get it done, have already sacked Fonseca and Jose. Not sure they'll be on any list. When have we done a Carsley appointment before? I'm not endorsing him by the way but I'm intrigued to hear you enlighten me.
What has Potter done over anyone else in the rumour hat?
We seem to acknowledge the trick lots of clubs do in unearthing new talented managers with envy yet robustly dismiss anyone who hasn't the world class CV and the ones who do have a CV far more impressive than our entire PL history are also dismissed as not good enough. They'll all have the same problem, they'll need to polish turds and please us. I'm pretty sure we were once a club that was an innovator and not a impersonator.

11 Oct 2024 19:00:09
Spot on FBS.

12 Oct 2024 21:08:39
Some of you guys either have short memories or are too young but didn't one of our former players become one of our best managers with more trophies than any of the so called big shot managers of late? Howard Kendall is his name. I don't know if Carsley is the answer but rather have him than Fonseca or Jose. We need a young manager with passion for the club, one who has up to date coaching skills and one who has knowledge of the young players around the leagues who we could recruit for reasonable cost. Unfortunately non of us will do the picking so we could well end up with another costly has-been.

12 Oct 2024 23:35:13
We also had a former player as a manager who won our last trophy.

13 Oct 2024 17:55:58
Both valid points Blue mike and Shropshire Blue, but the game and world has vastly changed over the 30+ years when the majority of players, managers and owners were British Born and in a lot of cases local, all of which I preferred but the money and global coverage has taken away the values of clubs and football in general we all know this.

09 Oct 2024 18:00:21
I see there are rumours around saying DCL will sign a new contract, I really hope this is not the case, time for him to move on.

09 Oct 2024 19:36:52
I’d be happy for him to stay, we need more than one striker, he’d be decent competition for a number one choice.

09 Oct 2024 20:03:53
Him with broja alternating should be decent.

{Ed025's Note - hopefully Dixie..

09 Oct 2024 20:12:15
Not for me mate he’s had his day needs to go with Sean and others, new everything for me had enough of these has beens hopefully when Freidkin comes in things will change for the better.

09 Oct 2024 21:01:31
Please no no no please don't tell me he is staying, will we never learn.

09 Oct 2024 22:29:10
If he signs a year’s extension and we can sell him in the summer….

10 Oct 2024 08:27:37
I don't think that is something he will go for BR as then he will miss out on money. I also think that by the time summer comes around, less and less will be in for him as he will continue to show that he is a very limited player. A one-trick pony some might say and not a very useful trick in the modern game.

Get him gone. He hasn't shown any commitment to us, especially after we have continued to back him during his barren spells.

Get somebody new in for me. Send him to Sheffield Utd. That is about his level.

10 Oct 2024 12:50:21
Would much rather him sign a new contract that leave on a free.

This season he’s looking a lot fitter and sharper than previous and think with the right manager he could well bag 15+ goals a season for us but not with the way Dyche sets us up and plays.

10 Oct 2024 12:54:38
Exactly BlueNose DCL and a few others will be going, new broom for me we have all seen what they can do and unfortunately cannot not do, get rid.

10 Oct 2024 17:01:24
Agree GB.

People can choose to keep making excuses for the lad e. g. not the right manager, style of play etc. The truth is that we should not be recruiting a manager or adopting a style of play to suit one player and as I say, a very limited player at that.

He has had 2 good seasons where he made double figures. The other 6 seasons he has got nowhere near, with his highest attempt being 7 goals - but I guess that is the managers faults hey.

The most overrated Everton player I have ever seen.

10 Oct 2024 18:06:23
I've never been a massive DCL fan but I think a 2 year deal with a release clause of X amount and then sell him after a year. He's still got to be worth £35m in today's market. More than likely we won't have any money to spend again next season so it's better than nothing.

10 Oct 2024 18:56:25
And we have had some overrated players eh BlueNose, but agree DCL now needs six try’s to score one and that’s being generous.

10 Oct 2024 19:25:24
Broja getting close to being available. It's convenient for DCL to push out positive news to keep fans on board.

10 Oct 2024 23:04:32
I just don’t get the DCL hate. We have only had one decent manager since Moyes and he managed to get a a tune out of him! We have a lot worse players than dom who I would show the door first. Everyone going on about broja what’s he ever done? From what I remember, he had 5 decent games for Southampton when unknown and has never done anything since!

11 Oct 2024 00:18:18
Why does having the opinion that he is overrated and not a very good striker labelled as hate?

We do have a lot worse players you are right but they need to go as well. I guess the difference is, is that they aren't given excuse after excuse and cleared of any accountability of failing to deliver.

How you have just described Broja sounds identical to DCL after his Carlo season.

11 Oct 2024 07:54:27
Not hate for me just my opinion mate.

11 Oct 2024 14:35:20
Difference is blue nose dom at least did it for a season. I’m not saying pay him whatever he wants, just if wages are reasonable he should stay. We can and have done worse striker wise in our recent history aside from rom and loads used to give him stick. What I would do for him now! Everyone seems to want to give Beto and broja a chance but in the times they have played, whether it be for us or others they miss just as many if not more easy chances. Broja was playing in a much better team than ours at Chelsea and they deemed him not good enough based on lack of goals so what’s suggests that will change with us?

11 Oct 2024 16:14:16
1 season out of 8 does not warrant getting paid over 100k a week for me mate. His record proves to me that he will miss more than he scores. No doubt he is great in the air but we don't provide him decent crosses to attack and also the game has quickly moved further away from that type of gameplan now.

Absolutely we can do worse than Dom but we can also do a lot better imo. It is always a gamble getting a striker in, after all it is the hardest thing to do in the game.

Beto has been handled poorly and now may be damaged goods forever. He was a quality forward for Udinese. The worst thing that could have happened to him is Dom finding his fitness for the first time in a long time. His bit-part spells and last 5 minutes of games decimated his confidence and he doesn't seem to have that capability to rediscover it. Just one of those ones that hasn't worked out.

Broja, I shouldn't really judge as he hasn't but on a blue shirt yet but from what I have seen, I was never chomping at the bit to get him in whenever we were linked.

Youssoufa Moukoko
Guirassy
Dia
Balogun
Orban
Moffi

All been available in recent enough windows and make much more sense to go after.

09 Oct 2024 08:55:19
Reading the Freidkin group will be making a new Heavyweight Senior management Team as soon as our takeover happens, at last the start of a new Everton can't come quick enough.

09 Oct 2024 13:21:28
Let’s hope so.

09 Oct 2024 16:45:49
That must be why their putting the big seats in the stands.

{Ed025's Note - love it Brass..

09 Oct 2024 17:06:42
I did read they planned to beef up the management team to support Dyche, gulp!

09 Oct 2024 17:15:51
Is that footballing side or fiance side 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️either way I'm happy 👍👍👍👍👍.

09 Oct 2024 18:01:12
Bloody hell, why aren't some of you lot on the telly, the wit is rapier like haha.

09 Oct 2024 18:04:23
I certainly wouldn't throw any money at him to try and improve him. You can polish a diamond but you can't polish a t. d.

09 Oct 2024 18:41:55
Could do with some of the Heavyweights on the pitch at the mo.

09 Oct 2024 22:30:22
Sorry GB, we’ve nothing but deadweights out there sometimes.

05 Oct 2024 15:15:58
Hope Tim is in midfield today in place of Doucoure, am reading DCl will not even consider signing a new contract at the mo, this won't end well I'm sure.

05 Oct 2024 15:22:03
Let him go then. We haven’t had the value out of him we should’ve over the last few seasons. Misses too many chances but admittedly is excellent holding up the ball.

I’d like him to stay but I won’t miss him either. He clearly wants to try pastures new. It’s the game, it happens to all clubs and there’s little else we can do about it.

I would hope though that knowing this has been coming for as long as it has, we have identified targets for January or the summer.

{Ed025's Note - we still have Broja to come in Ace..

05 Oct 2024 15:27:09
Let him go if that's his loyalty to Everton. Invested time and money on him and won't get anything in return.

05 Oct 2024 15:30:34
Then get shut of him if he won’t sign, never mind we will be above united today when we win.

05 Oct 2024 15:50:26
Agree not sure I would keep him even if he agreed to a contract.

05 Oct 2024 16:31:00
Should have got shut over a year ago.

05 Oct 2024 16:33:54
If he's not interested in signing anew contract pug someone else up front. If geto don't cut it then try Sherif or Benjamin out the u21s.

05 Oct 2024 16:00:51
Yes Ed we do. Escaped my mind. Love this guys energy so I’m hoping we get him going and claim his permanent move in the summer if it works well.

{Ed025's Note - yeah Ace, looking forward to what he brings mate..

05 Oct 2024 18:20:00
Hope Broja likes balls being lumped up to him.

{Ed025's Note - its the midfield thats the problem for me JB, they are all over the place and nobody seems to know where they are supposed to be playing mate, and Doucs is just roaming around like a zombie, a very hard watch up to now and to be honest i cant see us holding out for another 45 minutes..

05 Oct 2024 18:40:06
Can’t argue with that, Ed. We’re still a couple of transfer windows away from having a decent team. Dacoure just doesn’t have the legs for the Premier League anymore.

{Ed025's Note - your right JB..

05 Oct 2024 19:17:47
Agree about midfield Ed025. Never organised and probably because Dyche don't use them during matches. Doucoure needs to come off. Looks like he's running in mud.

{Ed025's Note - Doucs tries Dentie but hes a waste of time like Harrison mate, you cant play with 9 men and expect to beat teams, we got away with a point there but we cant ride our luck in every game..

05 Oct 2024 20:37:55
Have to agree about Midfield, he has got them playing like a load of strangers. As fir Dom i wouldn't even offer him a contract, i know it can be difficult the ball just lumped up to him but he can't hold it up at any time.

06 Oct 2024 00:35:31
Midfield are all suffering from stiff necks watching the ball sail over their heads. It’s the Neolithic tactics that are killing us, this long ball crap in the hope we get on to a knock-down. Again conceding possession to the away team, I bloody hate this hoof ball crap.

06 Oct 2024 13:35:00
We play so much hoof ball I think we could do with a farrier when fitting players with boots.

07 Oct 2024 15:06:50
Tim doesn't work in our set up playing deep

individually he started nicely, got found out at spurs and Villa (no shame in that)

he's still finding his feet, played more PL minutes for us already than he did at Villa, but i'd rather have Gana/ Mangala in there right now, or Garner when he's not RB.

03 Oct 2024 18:46:42
Reading that JB has pulled up in training, hope all is well for him by Sat.

03 Oct 2024 19:35:14
OH God, not Keane again. Last season Keane played nine league games, we lost seven of them. This season he played five league games we lost four of them.

03 Oct 2024 19:36:10
That’s all we need.

03 Oct 2024 20:29:52
Out until after the international break apparently.

03 Oct 2024 20:38:02
Keane, tarky and young up against a player of Gordon's pace.

03 Oct 2024 21:38:59
Can't finish his dinner though.

04 Oct 2024 12:29:12
Hopefully Jake O Brien will play.

04 Oct 2024 21:47:01
Well one would hope so GB but SD has to shown any willingness to use him over Keane. Can't really see why we bought O'Brien if you prefer to use a player like Keane who has shown time after time that he is not good enough.

04 Oct 2024 23:27:00
I'm sure dyche plays Keane when he can in the hope he plays well.

{Ed025's Note- its certainly not ideal Dentie as is playing Young, but its a case of mend and make do im afraid mate, yes he could gamble with O,Brien but he sees him every day so there must be a reason he is reluctant to throw him in..

05 Oct 2024 00:08:50
Ed025 Well we see Keane game after game and he is useless and the statistics tell us that if he plays we have a good chance of losing. Not sure what we have to lose in giving O'Brien a chance. If you remember SD said the same thing about JB last season and played Keane with the same losing results, when he was pretty well forced into playing JB things turned around.

{Ed025's Note - yeah i agree BM and im not condoning the selection process of Sean mate, im just saying why i think he will play Keane, he actually said Iliman was not premier league ready a few weeks ago and he has been probably our best player..

05 Oct 2024 11:54:05
Thanks Ed025 mate, what I do know is that Keane is not premier league ready. Well as usual, regardless of who plays, I will have my Everton jersey on and be yelling for the blues, we need a win and against Newcastle and Gordon, it will be even more satisfying.

{Ed025's Note - i think we are all the same Mike, we dont always agree with Dyche on his team but once they cross that white line we are all rooting for them mate, im not a fan of Young or Keane but once they wear that blue shirt i am praying for them to do well (actually Young has done well the last 2 games), a win today would be massive but they are a decent team and a draw would not be the end of the world i feel mate...i just want us to move up the league so i can breathe easy and enjoy my golf tomorrow without my red mates giving me stick.. :)

05 Oct 2024 15:26:32
I look at the table and keep thinking we should be 3 points further up. Still struggling to get my head around the Bournemouth game. Would love 3 points today and sitting in or around 13th going into the break.

27 Sep 2024 08:43:57
Henrique Carmo from Sao Paulo the latest to be linked.

Know nothing about the kid but had a little watch of him. He has brilliant feet and ball control. Perhaps most surprising, especially as he is a winger, is his intelligence to play the ball and find the right option rather than hold onto it.

Would much rather be linked to the likes of this lad and Minteh than some bang average wingers we have been in recent windows. This new approach certainly looks a lot better.

27 Sep 2024 18:52:43
You mean like Harrison? Who Leeds think we’re going to give them 11m for.

27 Sep 2024 19:46:38
Zero chance of getting a work permit.

29 Sep 2024 16:18:02
We can only dream Harrison needs a work permit….

30 Sep 2024 13:09:12
Harrison as a squad player for 10M is a good deal. As our main RW and/ or for more money, no.

25 Sep 2024 08:43:43
Ed25, what do you believe is a realistic time frame for the takeover to be completed?

{Ed002's Note - Perhaps three months.}

26 Sep 2024 14:31:43
I can’t see it taking three months.

{Ed002's Note - Based on what?}

26 Sep 2024 16:56:19
You would be lucky at 3 months Uran. Still things to get sorted from what I read. Hopefully in time for the next transfer window.

26 Sep 2024 22:23:06
Dear Santa.

26 Sep 2024 22:35:39
Even if it’s done tomorrow it’s doesn’t mean there’s suddenly loads of money to spend. Both Ed’s have warned us about this. FFP is still there even if we’ve changed ownership.

27 Sep 2024 08:27:23
We spent about 45m and made about 80m. Onana was on about 120k a week in wages.

We will have flexibility to spend in January, especially with us moving into the new stadium next season which will increase turnover. Hopefully Dom's wages will be gone and we get rid of Keane and Doucoure's too

If Friedkin is in by Jan, then we will spend. He did the same at Roma and they were in a pickle financially too. He is not going to do anything to jeopardise us as he seems an astute businessman.

We are the lowest spenders in the league for the last 5 seasons. I think Big Al even said we will spend in January and I trust what he posts tbf. He is usually spot on and doesn't butter the fans up with what they want to hear.

Onwards an upwards Swinners. Up the Ev!

27 Sep 2024 16:57:30
Hopefully the city legal win against the premiership will help with our FFP.
We’ll get one of his companies to buy a box in the stands for £500m. 😁.

27 Sep 2024 21:20:29
12 weeks appears to be the timeframe norm, with no hiccups. 3 months is 12 weeks.

26 Sep 2024 10:48:40
Fabrizio Romano stating this morning that Sarri is the managerial choice of Freidkin to replace Dyche.

{Ed002's Note - He is one of a number of coaches the Freiedkin Group has taken advice on - but come next week he may have another job.}

26 Sep 2024 11:30:50
Sarri was recently interviewed about whether he wanted to go back into management and his answer was “yes” hopefully by January …that would seem to tie in with our timeline of takeover as Friedkin hopes to here and in control by before Christmas…but we shall see.

26 Sep 2024 15:43:34
Well I believe that a number of things have to happen before we have a new manager. The takeover has to be completed. The potential new Manager has to want to manage Everton. Whoever the new owner wants has to be available. It may also depend on what results we get before the takeover is complete, if SD wins all of the games (unlikely) then he may hang on until the season ends.
One possibility is that Moshiri will agree to a management change before the takeover is complete. Not sure about the legalities of that happening.

{Ed002's Note - Obviously there is no legal issue if anything were to happen to the manager before the take over is completed.}

26 Sep 2024 16:35:51
OK thanks Ed002. So if Friedkin and Moshiri agree we could see a managerial change at any time?

{Ed002's Note - That is not how it works.}

26 Sep 2024 19:45:41
If by the end of the takeover Dyche has them playing and in a better position in the league (hopefully) . Then it would make sense to leave him in charge to the end of the season. Now i'm no Dyche fan, but changing halfway through the season with a manager who has a different style could be dangerous. So if things are going ok then leave him there.
Why? Because this would give the club time to get the next manager right. It would give the new man time to discuss targets and look at what he already has. And don't forget Dyche's contract runs out in the summer.
So new season, new ground, new owner, hopefully new start.

26 Sep 2024 21:09:52
Yes I agree BB but if we continue to lose games because SD insists on playing Young and Keane and making stupid substitutions that lead to losing points from a winning position then something will have to be done sooner. Maybe even the end of this year maybe too late. Still not sure what the options are for changing manager before the takeover is completed. Can't see Moshiri doing anything so we can only hope that the results start improving so no action is required. What's so galling is that we could have seven points instead of one with better management of the games played.

27 Sep 2024 10:02:33
Agree BM.

27 Sep 2024 11:40:56
Is he due a lobotomy or something?

25 Sep 2024 11:18:16
Sarri is the new name for Manager, who is next "the special one"?

25 Sep 2024 12:12:15
Sure that will infuriate the Roma fans even more to Friedkin.

Mind you sure local shops near ground would do ok when he calls in for his fags! 😃🤮.

25 Sep 2024 13:25:59
why would it bother the Roma fans? because he's ex-Lazio?

25 Sep 2024 14:16:49
Exactly!

26 Sep 2024 19:46:26
Means nothing, we took on Benitez .

24 Sep 2024 22:55:16
Don't know if this has substance, but heard that a mayor bank is in discussion over naming rights and that a big up front payment could be a way forward in terms of the debt issue. if true there may be a little more light at the end of the tunnel. !

25 Sep 2024 06:14:11
I’d be surprised if naming rights generated that much cash. I thought it would be in the tens of millions and we need hundreds of millions if not more to make a dent on the debt issue.

25 Sep 2024 06:15:21
Typical of our style of football,
The CHASE arena 🤣🤣.

25 Sep 2024 07:36:14
Friedkin should have a word with Toyota.

25 Sep 2024 11:56:36
Think it depends on the deal, Twickenham is supposedly 100m but Man City leave it blank til they know how much it needs to be to cover ffp.
Doubt we're getting more than 60m.

26 Sep 2024 16:40:50
Wouldn’t city have to own their stadium to sell the naming rights?

24 Sep 2024 22:50:13
Suggestion now that Freidkin has his eye on Carley as a possible contender. Would be an interesting option.

24 Sep 2024 23:09:33
Carsley sorry.

25 Sep 2024 01:12:37
Prefer him over southgate.

25 Sep 2024 07:36:35
Could live with that.