S-Clarke

The fact they have to bring up points such as ''first ever match programme'' ''invention of corner flags'' kinda makes them seem very small time. I didn't think it was possible, but I actually have a little, tiny, inchy bit less hate for your mega-mates across the park.

He's on England duty. Nothing to do with us if he plays or not.

I wouldn't mind a £250m handicap! He made a royal mess of the team at Utd to be honest, given the money he had and the failure he seemed to have integrating any half decent attackers into his team (Di Maria, Depay etc). I think he was a good club manager a few years back, great success in other leagues, but the game has possibly left him behind a bit and I imagine he will retire.

Maybe we're dragging this out so we have our stuff (backroom/manager setup etc) in place before it's confirmed, just a thought.

Have a look at my post on the first page of this thread, I think it's a little lazy to just write off his English football ability based on those two jobs. Those jobs weren't as they looked on the tin, very political.

Why on earth can you get odds on John Hughes?

The thing is, so many clubs have tried this approach. New owners come in and want to make a mark with a great 'big bang' approach, we're going to do this and this etc etc. It very rarely works, and a lot of the 'promises' are never seen. Look at QPR....apparently they were on course to be the mega team in London, new stadium, world famous players. They spent stupid money on the likes of Julio Cesar, Remy, Vargas, Isla, Granero - etc etc. That didn't end well, what so ever. Our own little friends down the road tried the same. Defoe, Crouch, Sol, Kaboul, new stadium in the harbour - it was going to be amazing. Now look where they are. The big bang approach rarely works. Keeping your own council and doing things within your means will ultimately reward you long-term. I wouldn't get too excited just yet Everton.

Jesus, these guys are relentless! small time or what.

TBF Agents seem to play off of Lewis quite a treat.

Seriously, someone needs to get a grip on these small time Evertonions. Never known anything like it. Maybe the Brighton fans came close.

...the whole Emery to PSG thing will have a domino effect, as it seems Flores is lined up to go to Sevila.

My shortlist is looking a little shortlived. come on AVB..

FdB seems to be out of the equation now....Lazio seem to have snared him. edit: damn you saint armstrong!

He holds the candle to being Spurs best ever manager in terms of a 38 game season.

He clearly hasn't to be honest.

Not sure he's that qualified tbh, fair enough he was a good ITK back in the day, but I wouldn't go with him. We need proper experience.

Former Porto manager I think?

What's pathetic is anyone suggesting Ryan bloody Giggs or Garry effing Neville as the next manager of a top 6 PL club.

For me, it's between 3. I think the club will look for someone with experience in European competition. One of the real regrets from last year was our lack to make a real fist of it, so with 6 games guaranteed this year I'd imagine appointing a manager who has had this sort of exposure is high on the list. So....FdB is highly rated, stock has probably fallen slightly in the last couple of seasons as PSV have pipped Ajax to the post, but he's still done a great job there. 4 consecutive dutch league titles and CL/EL progression isn't something to be sniffed at. I also remember when we played Ajax at a pre-season game a few years ago, possibly when we were in L1? FdB had great things to say about our academy after the game and actually picked out young JWP for specific praise. AVB - I think he was hard done by in England. Chelsea paid Porto something like £15m to get him, and his task was to set about 'dismantling' the old guard - i.e Terry/Lampard/Drogba. That was never going to end well, he was onto a loser as soon as he was instructed to do that to be honest. The 'old' guard played as big a role as getting him out as anyone else. For what it's worth, Romeu played his best Chelsea football under him. He also won the EL with Porto I believe, so has sufficient pedigree in the European competitions. His first season at Spurs was actually record breaking, people seem to forget that. It still is Spurs highest points total and I believe he had the highest % of wins as any manager they've had in that first year. Granted, he had a superstar in Bale, but he still did a good job that year. He was royally stitched up in the summer though. Bale gone, £80m in the bank, Baldini brought into oversea transfers....and then you get what happened. Players the manager didn't clearly have full say in, being shoe-horned into a team and struggling to find a system for all of them (it was a very lopsided squad). It's harsh that he gets tarnished with that, as his first season was better than anything Spurs have had. Emery - For me, the least likely. I think as a club/league, this is an attractive job - but I just feel he'll have bigger fish to fry with the likes of Milan and PSG sniffing, if not now, then in the future. He'd be a terrific appointment, no doubts about that. Personally, I've gone with FdB. I think he's the most likely of the 3 and still a terrific choice. EL experience, winners medals, top level playing career, out of contract...good with young players. He kind of ticks all the boxes of the type we'd look for. I'd obviously be happy with any of those 3 though!

Yeah, it was when we had the 'introduction' of the parking charges after 15mins at SMS. They had to queue up for a while, came back to a ticket. Handed their season tickets back in disgust. 9 months later, we were promoted after having a great home season.

This calls for only one thing...

Not sure if people remember him/her, but these Everton guys remind me of that Owl poster, we had back in our L1 days ''We're a massive club, bigger than Southampton, we'll win the league etc etc etc''. They finished bottom half, we finished 2nd. And we never saw him again.

English football would be a decent pull for most managers, a top 6 club an even better fit. As I've said before, people will be surprised at the level of options we can attract I think.

What is with these everton fans? get a few pounds and think they're billy big ********.

He seems a bit confused. I see people are still floating out the ''selling 5 players'' every summer statement, whatever floats their boat. But he says we cannot continue to be a stepping stone, yet that's exactly what will be happening with Everton with the likes of Stones/Lukaku etc. He states 'he will be given all the money to reinvest''. He was at Southampton, christ we spent upwards of £60m in that window, and that's not even including agent fee's and contract fee's etc. We will always be a stepping stone club as long as City, Utd, Chelsea, Barca, Real, Bayern and co reign supreme at the top end of the financial table - and honors table. If we continue to be a stepping stone club, then it will show we have been successful again and people want our players/staff. And I was never aware that Scott Dann was at a different end of the market.