Everton must make a statement with their next managerial appointment

If true one up to Moshiri. Let us hope his contacts and ambition will bring us a manager worthy of a club whose ambition may finally reflect its status.

Man City: Guardiola
Chelsea: For an obvious reason
Liverpool: Klopp
Arsenal: Arsene

Juventus: Allegri just signed as new Manager
Inter Milan: Already won league with them and wouldn't go back
Milan: Financially not in a good place

Bayern Munich: Carlo Ancelotti
Borussia Dortmund: Alexander Tuncel doing well as manager.

Barcelona: Louis Enrique not likely to leave
Real Madrid: Have Zidane and he wouldn't go back there.

PSG: Would never manage in French league as its so weak and no team to compete with PSG.

So who else could he go to other than Everton or Man Utd? Would Man Utd already have taken him if they wanted him so badly?

However, the reality will be he chooses Man Utd because Van Gaal looks to have failed to get them into the Champions League. We will end up with De Boer.

He will build a short list and interview them and hopefully one will stand out for him and then he will need that one unknown ingredient no matter how meticulous his interviewing has been which is that huge slice of luck that manager and players come together and produce.

It could be a very defining time in our history and I for one wish him all the luck in the world.

Who knows we may get a manager that both owner and fans have around for quite sometime and WIN THINGS.

Unfortunately I think Bill is probably just on WhatsApp to Moyes promising him half of everything we get from the sales of our Crown jewels.

I am having problems with the Guardian's article confirming the board was split. Surely this cannot be true. BK surely could not possibly have thought RM should stay? If so, it beggar's belief

And even then, we have no idea if it will work. The managerial choice everyone loves might turn out to be a disaster. The one everyone hates might work out brilliantly (see Ranieri). All we can do is try to maximize our chances of getting things right.

Personally, I just want Bielsa as manager and mentoring someone like Unsworth to take over. But while I love that idea, I also fully acknowledge that if any choice would likely be a feast or famine one, it'd be Bielsa.

We need a big name to come in and shake things up and get this club back on its feet asap.

The new manager MUST be someone Everton have not gone for before, someone with real pedigree and success. I know the likes of Pochettino can come out of nowhere and prove a genius but that's rare.

The one question I ask: will the new manager be able to stop our stars from leaving? If not then he isn't the right man. The players need to see the new manager as a real chance for glory and not just another attempt for mid table security.

That's why I'm not sold on Koeman. Seems a very good manager but I don't see it as inspirational.

I've always had a soft spot for mad geniuses and that's why I ticked the Bielsa box. But back to who would keep this team believing in the Everton "Project" putting everything else aside: It has to be Mourinho and Simeone as top 2.

I don't think Simeone is impossible. Managing in England is where it's at next season and to test himself in the most competitive league in the world with Moshiri millions and the reasons above I think he will come for the right salary.

Of the names that are in the front of the "official" list I pin my hat to de Boer. From an article on top young managers where he is voted number 1 (Simeone at 3) his supposed style is:
The key points are: possession-based play, high pressure (as soon as the opponent gains possession), high defensive line and foremost the team should act as ONE unit.
Exactly what I want from my team.

THAT is all that counts.
21 barren years.

Mr Kenwright appears to have been outvoted, well about bloody time, because his mindset has overseen our pomp & glory replaced by gutless gratitude.

Rafa Benitez ?
I don't like what he has said, in the past, but it really would send a roar like a jumbo jet that Everton mean fucking business !

RM was here 3 years, achieving almost as much as his predecessor did in 11. I don't care if our next gaffer lasts 2 years fills the cabinet then we ditch him, replace and refill.
These are heftily paid employees, not gods.

Stop thinking like Everton are fortunate to be at "the big kids party" FFS we ARE the big kid !

Silverware, not Villa & Newcastle.
Silverware.
Bag some silver and the good, great and talented will be queueing down City Road for a chance to pull on "The Royal Blue Jersey".

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Now to check out where my man Frank sits.

Defensively disciplined, tactically very good, hes won 4 titles in different leagues. Prem experience and also takes no shit just ask, Tevez, Balotelli and Hart.

I'm assuming here of course that you are not being serious.

There's so much luck involved which is always overlooked. I wouldn't dish out a long contract to anyone so they can be sacked without money being a big issue. Managers always get sacked, unless it all comes together for them including stuff which is out of their hands. Might as well face reality and be ready for it. There is no perfect manager out there, the chances of finding our own Fergie are very slim.

Might as well name 6 then roll a dice. Personally I'd go for number 5.

Totally agree Dan that any new recruit - be it manager, player, or - dare I say it? - new majority shareholder or CEO, is a gamble.

There is never any guarantee that they will perform to the levels desired.

That said, you can roll the dice in your favour by doing proper due diligence and studying in detail their career history and talking with people who have worked with them.

That should filter out the wannabes from the can dos.

A professional forensic interview in which candidates have to sell what THEY can offer and bring to the club, rather than the club having to sell what they can offer any applicant, will further inform the interviewer(s) of the candidate's suitablity.

The club also needs to know what it wants and expects. At Everton, we have a good academy. In truth, we have seen a very low return on young players actually breaking into OUR first team and cementing a place for years.

In recent games we have had glimpses of some promising talent. Rhino reckons there are 6-7 who could be pushing for first team slots in the next 12 months.

Sadly, as proven over many years, many a young talent blooms early then withers quickly. Kenny, Branch, Cadamatari anyone?

If, however, we genuinely DO have a rich stream of 'Busby-Ferguson Babes' we can soon tap into, surely that should be one cornerstone of any managerial recruitment.

If so, the preferred candidate should have a track record (and a willingness) to give youth a shot.

Frank de Boer and Koeman tick that box, as do Coco at PSV and Emery at Seville. All have also had to work in the knowledge that each season their best talent would be sold for big money. Even when hamstrung by the latter, all have continued to be successful. Each have been astute in the transfer market.

Only Koeman of the four have experience and (relative) success in the English PL. That gives him a distinct edge, but should not absolutely rule out the candidacy of others.

Holland has had 7 PL managers. IMO Guus Hiddink and Ronald Koeman were/are 'successful,' Louis van Gaal, Dick Advocaat and Martin Jol a mixed bag, with
René Meulensteen and Ruud Gullit failures.

Spain has coughed up 5 PL managers. Again IMO Rafael Benitez (cough! spit!) was a success, Quique Sànchez Flores and Roberto Martínez a mixed bag with Pepe Mel and Juande Ramos out and out failures.

A candidate's fluency in English should also be thrown into the mix. I really like Emre and his work, but I don't know how fluent he is in the language - Scouse! - we would expect him to work in.

Then there is the availability and cost of recruiting a prefered candidate. De Boer and Mourinho are free agents on that score.

If we are not going to land a real 'sit up and take notice' marquee manager such as Simone or Mourinho, on balance, I would be looking at the Dutch candidates first.

I really hope someone in the corridors of power at Everton is being very, very thorough in our search for a new manager, rather than taking the word and recommendation of former managers or fellow chairmen at other clubs on who to appoint.