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His boss was telling the world That he was “The best in the business” John – How quickly the memory of “Davey” faded.

Roberto was getting so much smoke blown up his its wonder he needed a plane to come home.

Tommy

You may be right, but if I was a betting man (and I am) I would bet that Roberto lies awake at night and wonders what might have been if he had stayed focused and declined the offers from the TV company.

Yes Dave. The tackle/hoof did work. perfectly as it happens, but I think even a Tarks fan like you would agree that Beto is entitled to file that goal under “All my own work”.

Its funny the way the game has gone. Tarks clears his lines in an anywhere-will-do fashion and gets an assist. Yet a few days earlier Rohl Burns the City defence alive, but his cross is deemed not a cross because the goalie got his finger tips to it.

Totally agree, John, but we should at least be reaching for potential greatness. FourFourTwo recently ranked Dumfries as the #4 right back in the world. Sports Illustrated has him #5. And he was ours for the signing in 2021. Terms agreed and everything. Rafa blew up the deal because he preferred… that’s right… Nathan Patterson.

There are right backs out there with Dumfries potential (maybe Juanlu?). We should be pursuing them, not veteran plug-and-plays pushing 30. Like Tete and Justin.

Another one Darren.
Is it just our club that repeatedly fucks up?
He should have been told he couldn’t do it by our strong chairman.
The boss has to be there on the first day.

@255 Darren

Yes he of course made an error of judgement there but measuring the impact of that is not possible in my opinion.

Having finished 5th and having had an awesome season he lost Ross Barkley to an awful injury just prior to the season starting. We spent big to make Lukaku a permanent signing but after that, the club spent no money in improving the squad. He was also contending with European Football (which we got to the last 16 of) and we beat very good Lille and Wolfsburg sides along the way. A 6/10 compared to his 9/10 the previous season.

I felt he was a little unlucky and if there is a feeling that he didn’t do a good job at Everton then I completely disagree.

I also disagree that players were ignoring his instructions. Maybe some had lost faith in his methods but they probably sensed he didn’t have the backing of the board and that he was a dead man walking. We know from what has been written and reported on since that this was a concerted effort by some in the board to develop Rhino into our next manager.

That’s the reality of what we are talking about here.

A board that used the club to manoeuvre Russia money via the Oumar Niasse transfer and then thrust that player on Martinez. And one that ultimately had designs on shifting him on and replacing him with Rhino.