Rooney, Kenwright and Allardyce to go in the summer

Moshiri is not happy with the money wasted on players and there will be a clear out in the close season, along with Elstone going to Rugby League, Allardyce and Walsh will follow and Brands and a new Manager will take over.

And Rooney will be offered to anyone interested in vintage players.

Then he hires Walsh, Allardyce, Shakespeare et al – what a footballing disaster that is. He's the author of his own downfall. He clearly knows nothing about football.

How much knowledge of football do you reckon the Liverpool owners have?

Blame Koeman, Moshiri or whoever you like, the fact is that success in this game is a bit of a lottery. If decisions (and purchases) come good the Chairman and Manager are the greatest thing since sliced bread. If not, then they are deluded idiots.

Personally, I think Allardyce was brought in at a time of panic to do a job – namely keep us in the Premier League. He has done that, although plenty would argue that it probably would have happened anyway under Koeman.

However, Allardyce clearly does not have the vision to move us on to the next level of playing against the likes of Man City, Spurs, Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool on something approaching equal terms (although don't forget that the two players he has brought in – Walcott and Tosun are just about the only success stories of the season). So we do need someone with more vision and the sooner the better.

I am sure Allardyce appreciates all of this but, like Koeman and Martinez before him, he is going to make sure that he extracts the best pay-off before he moves on into another lucrative position.

Appoint Fonseca by all means, plus his chosen backroom staff, but do so in the knowledge that the Premier League is rather different than what he has been involved with to date and be prepared for frustrations before he delivers results!

Which isn't to say it is also easy to be wise after the event, of course. I don't think that applies here though.

I agree that the appointment of Fonseca, or anybody really, is a gamble that could pay off or be a disaster, the same as buying new players - but that's football.

August could be the key to Boys Pen Bill going. August is the white-faced clown with the upside-down cone hat.

Perhaps Bill has written a new musical about a clown and a Circus loosely based on his time at Everton.

Major changes must come. Why? The culture of staying in the league is enough, it must change. Our manager settling for top eight is an achievement is not good enough. We are not Crystal Palace, West Ham, or Bolton we are Everton. We had this under Moyes and yes it was accepted because we spent nothing and we over-achieved. (I know, shocking... but we did.)

I have become one of those fans who accept that watching shit football is okay because we are staying up. That's the mentality. I have more ambition for my local non-league club than Everton. The club I spend more on merchandise and tickets than my car!

Ambition comes from the club. Let's raise the bar. Yes, it takes time but clear the decks and put a plan in place. Give us hope. Our owner wants more and so do we the fans. There may be ups and downs but the board must aim for the sky! If we don't then what's the point in being in the Premier League.

I know plenty of RS fans who, last summer, were asking why Klopp & Co has lashed out £40m on ‘Chelsea Reject' Mo Salah.

A couple of years ago, there was considerable criticism of Southampton's decision to axe Nigel Adkins and replace him with unknown foreigner, Pochettino....

And plenty of knowledgeable fans wanted ‘failures' Howard Kendall and Alex Ferguson axed before their fortunes changed. Still can't understand why we signed those two old crocks P Reid & A Gray.

And if Kenwright was the prime mover in signing Rooney it's another prime reason for him to be got rid of as well. Having forced us to endure twenty years of mediocrity whilst he allegedly searched the world for a man good and wealthy enough for Everton he finally stumbled upon Moshiri, "his perfect partner" - quote. That's "his", not "Everton's", or "ours".

The only snags are that Moshiri was never wealthy enough to take us up a level and in terms of being "good" it's entirely invisible thus far when it comes to knowing how to produce good football as far as I can see. "What an owner!" though.

Still, at least Kenwright and his family are now all made for life, and what's twenty years between "friends" after all? Cue the tears.

Some other players, for the most part out of favour with Allardyce, should be let go in the Summer. Some new class signings have to be made to improve this team to the level required to have any hope of beating the top six teams.

Funnily enough, that's about our average finishing position under Moyes too. So I'd argue we pretty well got what we paid for, although Moyes was expert at making it seem quite miraculous at the time, of course.

So, when I read on here of the wonderful job Moyes did, how we over-achieved season after season, with a minimal budget expended for new players, the truth is that Moyes's overall record in terms of average league position is fully reflective of his average spending?

So there was no "punching above our weight"?

John, no doubt those couple of positions above expectation must have been what got Moyes the job at Old Trafford.

Do you really want a squad player who earns over £150k a week. I think we could get a world class first team player for that money instead.

The trouble with Kenwright having a major input into who we have signed over the past 20 years or so, is that his knowledge have never extended beyond these shores. That's the reason we have never witnessed any 'greats' at Goodison, folks. Journeymen, triers and has-beens. All thanks to the "World's greatest (and richest) Evertonian."

The idea of bringing him back was a good one I think - but in the end, it provided more frustations than benefits.

He can’t be an automatic first choice starter when he hasn’t performed. I’m all for giving players a run in the team - but he’s had that & has been consistently poor.

This is the major issue I have with Big Sam - he’s very stubborn in his ways. He would have won over a lot more supporters if he drops players that aren’t performing, no matter who the big name player is, and let other players have a chance to prove themselves and learn. There is no better way to adapt to the Prem, than actually playing in it.

Let’s give Davey & Vlasic game time in the last two PLEASE.

I work with a lad who is a big Arsenal fan and I always tell him that they moan because Wenger has only managed three of the last four FA cup wins, 7 wins in total, two doubles, gone a season unbeaten, got them into the Champions League for 20 seasons consecutively and has only finished below their local rivals about twice in 20 odd years. Imagine if he just brought us one FA cup win. Even now they're considered a poor team, they put something like 11 goals past us this season. It won't happen though and we'll be stuck with Allardyce or we'll take a chance on someone who takes us backwards.

Still, the new home kit looks decent. Despite me saying to the missus I wasn't giving them any more money until we show some ambition, I'm tempted.

Rooney's remaining assets are that he can shoot, he can make some incisive short passes/chips into the box, he can finish, he can trick his way past a defender, he can head and can make clever short runs into the box.

A decent manager would look at his assets and tell him he can only be picked to play just behind the striker and if he starts to drop too deep he will be subbed.

I agree with your last paragraph Ray, but would add that I think the team would get a lot more out of Rooney, coming on to play as an impact sub?

By all means get rid of the WeightWatchers club but if we can get the right (energetic, skilful) players to play alongside Rooney I’d keep him for next season.

P.S. I blame Moshiri for the mess we are in. Fucking amateur.

1. Diego Simeone: The Argentinian is in my view the best coach in the world. The work he has done at a similarly sized club to us as Atletico has been phenomenal. The fact they have been able to compete with Barca and their hated rivals who have much larger resources and control the Spanish FA has been extraordinary. He may want a change of scenery since the other two clubs keep winning plus it looks like their star man Griezmann is going to the Camp Nou.

2. Eddie Howe: Howe is the brightest young manager in England. He has taken lowly Bournemouth from the lower leagues to the Premier League and consolidated their top flight status. Bournemouth don’t have as much resources as a lot of the rest of the league and they have continuasly competed against the big boys. He plays expansive, attacking football and his players get on really well with him. I think it’s time he was given a chance at a bigger club.

3. Unai Emery: The Spaniard has recently announced that he’s leaving PSG after two years in charge. It has been a failure at PSG even though he won the title back off Monaco this season, they fell well short in Europe going out to Real this season in the last 16 and Barca last year on the last 16 letting a 4-0 lead slip from the first leg.
His job at Sevilla was brilliant though with three back to back Europa League titles plus his sides play good football. We were also supposedly in for him after Bobby Brown Shoes got the chop but we opted for Koeman instead.
Perhaps he might like the challenge at our club.

4. Paolo Fonseca: The Shakhtar coach has been the favorite to take over for months now. He’s young at 44 and has won two titles at Shakhtar after basically playing away from home every game. They also got to the last 16 of this years Champions League playing really attractive football.
Their are question marks though because the Ukrainian League is a poor league while he failed at Porto.

5. Marco Silva: the second favorite for months and another Portuguese. We tried so hard to get him in with even bidding 15million for him which is unheard of.
Silva is a progressive young coach who is similar to Pochettino and has done great work wherever he’s been.
Questions marks over the fact Watford imploded after our repeated interest which could show he’s not very loyal but however, in fairness to Watford we are a much bigger club.

Other coaches would be Dyche, Jardim, Mancini and Phillip Cocu.
Who are all good managers.

Just as long as we finally get a modern board to bring out great club out of the 90s and Moyes years and into the 21st Century like our rivals.

He's still young enough and hungry enough to be a league manager. Someone, give him a call – he'd love the chance to manage us. He can go and manage Italy in another 10 years.

Simeone is a nutter but top manager. He'd never manage us unless we were in the champions league. Likely Chelsea or Tottenham.

Howe. Leave him be. When he's done a few more years in the Premier League then we can judge. Same as the overrated Silva. Needs to prove himself.

Emery yes because Spain is a quality league and he did well with Sevilla. He's done a decent job at PSG. It would be a few steps back before heading forward but I think he's a worthwhile risk. I think other London clubs will be after him.

Fonseca, Ukrainian league... No thanks, I'd rather have a kit kat.

Low (German Manager). Agree a deal for after World Cup. Manager, Coach, DoF, Scout, anything will do. Again act quick before he's hunted by other clubs.

Therein lies the problem folks... Moshiri,that lucky fucker has the only job I always wanted,he does share the same vision it seems that 99.9% of Blues on the planet crave,getting us moving on up in the Premier League,breaking that glass ceiling & joining the big six for the C.L party.

Not gonna happen sadly the way things stand,last time I looked there was no trophy for 4th place & just how far will we get in the C.L ?, more live tonkings on the telly ending with more misery & disappointment for the fan base to endure.

All I ask for next season is seven complete 90 minute performances,full of great attacking football,total effort,blood sweat & no tears,games to look back on with real pride...just 7 glorious games full of total joy that ends at Wembley with the lads FINALLY bagging the League Cup...then & only then we can really start over proper.

Everton Football Club...WINNERS !!!.