CB Fry

Not really. I love it when my football club does well. You and others are in raptures whenever things go wrong. #everysap

Crabby very quickly moved from his lies and hate phase very quickly to sobbing about why he's being "bullied". Solid forum gold.

Planet Cortese. Just a few saps who never got the "I told you so" moment they so desperately craved and just will not ever let go. It might be next season, it might be five years time, but the year we will have a dud season they will be on here partying in the street like it was Charles and Di's wedding. It's all gone wrong since the Cortese left, you know. We are failing we are we are we are we are. Why aren't we failing?

Good. If the next five managers use us a stepping stone to a bigger club then we will have had a phenomenally successful decade.

It's stats like that which makes me think he might join us - his league record is good but not outstanding and maybe the truly elite clubs have a couple of question marks about him. If it was unequivocal that he is the next great manager then obviously no chance but these little weaknesses make him everso slightly more likely to end up at SMS. We would give him the perfect platform to get a massive job next (if he feels Sevilla doesn't already give him that). Still feels virtually impossible but would be absolutely brilliant if it happened.

We haven't appointed Eddie Howe.

Quite right. Our team is almost entirely a Koeman team assembled, I'd say, almost identically to any other Premier League team - players primarily identified by the manager, sometimes identified by the boys in the lab. Evolving that into a team for the next guy may or may not be easy. Much like Koeman isn't going to turn Everton into us overnight either.

You two make such a sweet couple.

They haven't made any money out of us yet, six years on, but crack on.

Pointless. What if Emery will sign for 3 years for us but not 5? I know what I'd take.

Where?

Koeman on course to basically be the Dutch Mike Walker at Everton.

Not really practical with Ronald but I'd like to see us stick Erwin on enforced gardening leave (assuming he's on a similar contract and Ron wants him at Goodison). No Erwin you don't have permission to speak to Everton. Ask us again in 2017. We can afford to be petty here and there.

I think FDB's agent is the good angel agent who wanted RK to stay not the evil devil agent who wanted him to take the Everton cash.

We are the Everton to their Southampton. #elmeltdownio

So Guan is saying De Boer is not on the shortlist despite quite significant Dutchness, same agent as Koeman (as was) and general Black Box suitability?

Your guy will run out of money and interest quicker than Randy Lerner. If Koeman is taking a step up and Everton are aiming higher than we are, that's top 4 then. You won't do it. At best Top six a couple of times then your sugar daddy realises he's having to pump in £100m every frigging year and the fanbase start grizzling when you don't and then it all goes to sh it. Hopefully you will concentrate on getting the stadium built because your current toilet needs some work and that's what will really set you up, not ludicrously overpaying for a manager who is perfectly fine but not worth nigh-on Mourinho money. Good luck.

I doubt we will sell anyone to Everton, except maybe Wanyama who we just need to cash in on somewhere.

That is a new forum username. Two posts in and I have no doubt it us one of the usual suspects.

Emery seems ludicrously out of reach and at absolute best coming to Saints would be sideways move, even with us being close to the New Forest and stuff. No doubt we'd probably pay him more, but I can't think of any manager these days that would take on such pointless pathetic sideways move just the effing money.

If Emery came to us, stayed two seasons then walked out to go to Barcelona or Manchester United then I for one would be over the moon.

Why would AVB get stick? The media loves a redemption story and if he does well here they've got one. I'm saying it and I'm saying it now. AVB is our Ranieri.

Even if he is allowed he's hardly going to say "I've left for the money I'm rich I'm rich I'm rich". In his Everton press conference he'll make one reference to "they matched my ambition" and the cretins on here will go into absolute meltdown and will be quoting that phrase day in, day out until Christmas.

Walked out on S****horpe.

Except Les has appointed four managers, all have been successful and Koeman wasn't a lucky appointment. But you know that and choose to be pig ignorant.