No pre-contract agreement with Pereira

Send for Neville,Stubbs or Weir. `They were always our first choices`,Bill will say. ` They will build on the great foundation Davey has laid. I am here to build a dynasty.`

Now you`ve got me at it!

I wont expect an appointment until after Moyes has his last wage cleared. Does anyone know what Gary Megson is up to these days?

Yeah, that's a hard one...

Stubbs/Weir/Ferguson etc should not even be mentioned it's an embarrassment that they are

I for one am not a fan of appointing him and given the 8 names mentioned on Sky Sports yesterday could easily chop that down to 4 and Martinez would certainly not be in there.

But what do people think, maybe despite what Whelan says Martinez is chomping at the bit to take the reigns at Goodison Park ?

I cant believe that we are even considering this failure as a possible manager. I would take any of the other candidates mentioned than Martinez. BK you said you would listen to what the fans want, well I cant answer that but they clearly have enough sense not to want Martinez.

You oaf.

Welcome, Pip, Stubbs, Wier, Irvine, Round or combination of these names. I reckon even Malky or Lennon are too big for BK to pursue. I am so glad you are beginning to understand it Doddy. I know it's painful to realise you've been getting conned all along but it's never too late to wake up, lad.

That's it... chin up, Son.

The reason Martinez may be delaying is because he's waiting to find out if he's going to be offered the position.

I'd be happy with either coach to be honest. Both seem to have potential....but please no internal appointments. As James says, its totally embarrassing to be even considering them given their lack of experience.

They obviously have no confidence in their own exclusive story. Now there's a surprise!

Tell him and his meatball Martinez to make their mind pdq or fuck off and stop pissing everyone about.

Get Pereiera or whatever his name is before the RS put in an offer for him !!

I have adopted a similar strategy over the last week and developed it further today by placing a small wager on David Weir at 12/1. I have pictured almost every candidate standing in Goodison Park holding a scarf over his head. Fortunately I have no idea what Pereiera looks like.

Martinez has failed to do what Steve Bruce and Paul Jewell did before him and keep Wigan in the PL, what is the big attraction? I think its just because his brand of football is pleasing on the eye and victories against the big sky teams tend to stick in people memory. Lets put things in prospective though, Wigans leaky defence has been a strikers WET DREAM for many seasons now-and Martinez has done nothing to address this. Martinez has only excelled when it comes to buying and selling payers.

Pereiera does seem like the glamorous choice, but lets not forget he inherited a good team and has achieved nothing more then previous managers have in his 2 short years there.

The MUST for me is Bielsa, I strongly urge everyone to look him up on Wikipedia, i'm sure it will open your eyes. Where's Ross Edwards when you need him? Ross talks rubbish about most things, but he's spot on when he keeps putting forward a case for Bielsa

1. Ross talks rubbish

2. He's spot on with Bielsa.

Is it a case of a stopped watch is right twice a day? Or should we look over everything Ross has posted in the past because he's a man before his time?

For those of you fretting about why Martinez needs more time to think about whether he'll join us, I think it's more a case of Ruburto and Whelan trying to smoke out an offer from Everton. I seem to remember them trying a similar tactic with the RS after a meeting in the U.S of A.

Whelan wants him gone because there's a wedge in it for Wigan and he obviously thinks highly enough of himself to find an adequate replacement. Whelan sounds more like his agent than his employer sometimes.

Pereira may be a victim of his personality a little. I'm not totally clued up but, from what I can gather, he's a quiet man. We should have a strong enough set up to accommodate an EPL novice. Every foreign manager, at some point, had no experience of this league.

Ultimately, Bielsa seems like a very exciting choice but whoever it is, it would be nice to be inspired by the appointment

Of those who are on the radar as potentially realistic candidates, Pereira seems the best of the bunch by a long way.

Although I do find it depressingly amusing that the more likely he seems, the more the comments on TW turn to "yeah, he's won two titles and only lost once in two seasons, but he had a good team anyway, so what's he really done?".

Personally I'd look at Pereira, Di Matteo, Benitez or even Mancini with Stubbs and Neville as assistants. The only reason I haven't brought Poyet into the equation is that it seems everybody at Brighton is glad to see the back of him so not a ringing endorsement of the man and his management style.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any outstanding British candidates at this point in time.

With Athletic Bilbao, he has only been allowed to sign players from the Basque region of Spain and has totally relied on the youth team, bringing through players such as Munlain, Ander Herrera, Amorebieta (signed by Fulham on Wednesday) who have become world class players. They wiped Man Utd off the park in both legs in the Europa last season and came close to qualifying for the CL last season.

I know Bibao have struggled this season but it is difficult to sustain these heights with geographical and financial constraints. Bielsa has a growing reputation, Pep Guardiola said last year that he was the best manager in the world, and what's more he is FREE in June. He is being courted by Napoli.

Now, honestly, do we as football fans want him to rot in Italy, under trigger happy madcap owners?

Or shall we give him a secure tenure, with top class players at his disposal, to build an even more competitive, free flowing Blues that can continue from the Moyes era?

think it would be a triumph for Billy as well, he will earn praise from the football world and us fans for showing ambition, and his appointment would attract investment opportunities, as he is a well regarded figure in world football. Honestly, who would be of interest to Sheiks in Dubai, Alan Stubbs, or Marcelo Bielsa?

I hope John Gee and other sceptics, that you would take this arguement into consideration before criticising.

I see Solskjaer has come Into the reckoning with the bookies, I have gone right off him, as his ultimate aim is the hotseat at OT — I really don't want to go through all this again in two years, it feels like ten transfer windows rolled into one.

You mention Napoli, they've made an approach for AVB. We should try to move a bit faster here. Ancelotti has asked to leave PSG, Mouriniho is leaving Madrid and SAF has retired. This has sparked a managerial merry-go-round with dozens of top European sides either looking for a manager or maybe even thinking of a change. To mix metaphors, we don't want to be left with a rickety old chair when the music stops.

http://www.fullmatches.net/manchester-united-vs-athletic-bilbao-08-mar-2012-full-match/

Is Kenwright delaying this appointment until after Moyes clears his desk out of misplaced loyalty? For all his many faults I can imagine that he's reeling a bit from the unpleasant situation that his 'friend' dropped him in to.

As Phil Sammon suggests, We need someone to drop a little hint or a liitle rumour on Twitter. That would get flurries of bets, which would shorten his odds drastically, which would add to the rumours and the attention he needs to recieve if we want this man appointed.

He would be a good bet though, but does not seem the type to stay in one club for ages. We need a difference in tactics and things in my opinion, but we need a bit of stability as well. That's why Martinez is looking a shout at the moment, because he will do both.

Still worried about Martinez defensivley though, although Ramis and Alcaraz have been injured for ages, and easily their two best defenders.

Ross I hear what you are saying, lets find out what those twitter addresses are and put them up on here. For a start here is Bielsa's twitter account - @MarceluBinelsa lets drop him a message and tell him to contact Everton about the job!

Some twitter accounts to get the ball rolling:

@StellingJeff
@paddypower
@bbc606
/>@Joey7Barton
@philmcnulty (football correspondent for BBC)
@mdunn1982 (head of sport for sun)
@ColinMurray
@CWheelerDM (North West sports reporter for Daily Mail)
@SteveWilson1967 (BBC match of day commentator)
@talkSPORTKO
@mickquinn1089
@neilashton_ (football writer Daily Mail)
@MirrorFootball
@BKL_Productions (Bill Kenwright's official twitter)
@tSPressPass
@iomatrix23 (Marco Materatzi!)

Also back to the point I was trying to get at, if you're listening to the fans Bill, the vast majority want Pereira over Martinez, so pull your finger out and get him.

PS. Try Bielsa just in case.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/vtor-pereira-profile-find-out-1906179

Martinez is a no his record is shocking.

It's absolutely baffling that people still talk about his league performance at Wigan as something deserving of credit, given how poorly his results compare to those of Paul Jewell and Steve Bruce on the same budget.

Genuine question: what are your thoughts on his performance in the league and in particular how it compares to Steve Bruce and Paul Jewell? Does it not concern you?

Find someone else over the weekend and if on Monday he says he'll manage us tell him to fcuk off to Stoke.

I reckon tomorrow

It seems to me that there are two possibilities with our own situation - we're either delaying because discussions are ongoing with an external party. This would seem likely given that if it were to be an internal promotion, why not just promote Neville/Stubbs/Weir etc straight away?

Or, it IS going to be in internal promotion, and they're delaying to make it look as though they're looking externally as well - this would make us (the fans) feel excited/placated as usual, but then promote from within anyway.

The Martinez is a really unwelcome aspect to my mind - the guy has a TERRIBLE track record. Wigan won 6 games a season in the league under him. 6!? And people want this joker to manage Everton? Come off it, he didn't once address their shocking defending during his Premier League tenure, and he got them relegated (finally) which could have happened 3 years previously as well.

He may have won more than Moyes, but he also got more teams relegated than Moyes. The calls for Martinez are utterly beyond me, they really are. On what foundation is it all based? Please help me, because I really don't see it.

This is NOT the man for us.

The entrepreneur coach of FC Porto confirms the statements of Pinto da Costa in an interview to RTP. And thanks to the blue and white club.

Christophe Henrotay, a businessman who is Vítor Pereira said on Friday that the immediate future of the Porto coach will be known early next week. "We are talking with FC Porto and at the beginning of next week everything will be set," he told Radio Renaissance.

"I am very grateful to Porto for being to give this opportunity to Vítor Pereira, so he can think. I can say that everything the president said is completely true, I absolutely agree," he said regarding the interview of the Pinto da Costa RTP.

Christophe Henrotay refused to disclose the content of the conversations. "These are private conversations between me and FC Porto. Guardo them to me. At the moment the decision is under discussion and we'll see what happens. Nothing more I can add," he said.

Surely it's a wind up, hardly a manager who can manage on a shoestring, and I can't see a kenwright-redknapp relationship working very well either...

See if this lasts more than 30 secs