Koeman the latest to try to rewrite history

Koeman already did one of these some time ago and I can't remember much of what he said then. Irrelevant now.

I flicked over at lunchtime and saw the ruddy-faced Dutchman yakking on about Southampton and thought "Oh aye, he'll be on Everton next."

And then he made that "best in 15 years" comment and I did a double-take. Lol.

However, the club did him no favours selling Lukaku and buying a load of shite No 10s but still doesn't excuse his complete lack of interest in Everton who were paying his wages.

The lying blert.

Fair enough, but that doesn't mean you have to go and spend the same amount of money you could have spent on Kevin De Bruyne or Gylfi Sigurdsson. The idea is that you pay a player based on his value, not just say "I want a 㿞 million player but I will settle for a 㾻 million as long as his club still charge me 㿞 million."

Beyond that obviously you've got the Christmas tree, the use of "The Everton," and the fact the team got drastically worse over his tenure. But hey, poor old Ron, for a measley ٧ million, he had to endure 9 months at Everton.

It doesn't suprise me he didn't know where we finished, was probably checking his phone for the Barca call well more than the Premier League table.

"Hollywood" manager??? More Bollywood to me.

Keep this type of imposter away from our club in future.

He was the worst of all that followed Martinez in my opinion. A horrible chapter. Starting to feel like it didn't happen, which is good.

I wouldn't be surprised if at the FA and Uefa coaching courses there is a textbook titled "The Koeman experiment at Everton" and they have a day focusing on the perfect way to get a coach sacked and ruin a football club.

Chapter 1. Buy shit players for way more than anyone else would pay.
Chapter 2. Don't talk to them players or train them.
Chapter 3. Buy more shit players for the same positions as the previous shit players (see Chapter 1)
Chapter 4. Put all the shit players in the same team.
Chapter 5. Take the money & run.

Him and Walsh assembled a set of misfit players, and in my view, the club is just starting to rebuild and put them dark days behind us.

Hope eternal for Everton, and now there's genuine hope and belief and Everton are playing for the shirt.

A long way to go, but the squad is going in the right direction.

He did well in the Dutch league, but his time at Valencia and Benfica hardly warranted a big-money job.

Big name player, big ego, but the manager substance was lacking – and we then paid top dollar. First big mistake by Moshiri.

Chapter 6. Finish by four o'clock each day, stating in an interview that "If you need to do long hours you are doing the job wrong". Now that's commitment.

As to golf (Paul):

Chapter 7. Miss one afternoon most weeks to play golf.

Biggest mistake was hiring him without checking his background, which laid a lot of it bare with just minutes on the internet.

Now I'm reminding myself about him...

Get it right.

Not quite the fish in the barrel that the cognoscenti on here like to shoot, though.

As at Valencia and Everton, he came out with the same nonsense pretty well verbatim at Barcelona. He actually wretched Barcelona, as well. Koeman could talk all day long regarding the high press, but he did not have a clue how to get a team to implement it.

The real issue is that Koeman implemented a flawed strategy of overpaying for established, "reliable" Premier League talent like Ashley Williams, Morgan Schneiderlin, Gylfi Sigurdsson, etc (who, ironically, proved not to be all that reliable) as a supposed means of gate-crashing the Champion's League, without ever asking what the actual ceiling of such a squad realistically was (hint: it wasn't Top 4).

I didn't even really care that Koeman saw us as a stepping stone, because it still could have been a mutually beneficial relationship... but the fact he failed and then ended up getting the Barcelona job anyway was pretty galling.

But, on the bright side, his golf handicap was never lower and his bank balance never higher.

He actually did a good job with Holland. Not sure how as they had a fairly weak squad but they did well under him.

The thing that pisses me off about Koeman is that, as a teenager, he was my favourite player. He kinda looks like me, I played centre-back and had a knack for scoring from free kicks as well as a grasp on the dark arts.

But at Everton, he was detached, arrogant and seemed to have no plan… so to say I was disillusioned would be an understatement.

I understand why Moshiri hired him back then but I wish it never happened!

The thoughtlessness with which this prick spent our precious funds makes my blood boil to this day. I remember reading an interview he gave with a Dutch newspaper in the middle of his spree who were saying 'What the fuck?' and his response was 'This is England' like as in 'everything is crazy, nobody gives a fuck'.

After a decade of careful husbandry, Moyes must have been looking at it all open-mouthed.

The alarm bells started when it seemed that he had to be convinced to come to Everton. A reluctant volunteer.

Another failed and expensive experiment. This one probably the most.

He is a classic good player, poor manager with a streak of dull idleness about him. The balloon-headed chump.

Koeman and that clown Walsh wasted millions upon millions. I can't say for Walsh as he was behind the scenes, but Koeman appeared so arrogant, so nonchalant about the future of the club, it sickens me that we ever even gave him the chance. He did not deserve it, on reputation, skill, management… anything.

By far one of the most vile and unpleasant individuals ever directly involved with the club and I hope his career trajectory now aligns with his ability and he hits the dirt, hard.

And he can take his fucking rotten red Christmas tree and shove it up his ring.

Who exactly bought who during his time is open to conjecture; money went to the heads of Messers Kenwright, Koeman and Walsh, never mind if Moshiri got involved as well... After so many years of austerity, it was like watching a kid who found a 㿀 note going into a sweet shop.

His management of Barkley was disgraceful, he was more interested in his golf than the club..

I can't agree with you over Allardyce. I still resent us ever having appointed him. I know many won't agree and I accept (agree) that Koeman wasn't the person, but I could have got us to finish 8th that season.

Typical of what is hopefully going to be known as the first Moshiri era, we hit the Nuclear button. In hindsight, that season says it all. Scattergun transfers characterised by interference from the top down. Koeman, Unsworth and Allardyce. Was Bill writing a sinister-themed Pantomime with multiple villains?

Anyway, hopefully we're through the storm(s) and on calm waters, about to hit the shores of opportunity and success.

A few months before he put up his tree, the problems we are wrestling with now really began to manifest themselves. Ever since, we have been dealing with the consequences of the ghost of Christmas yet to come.

I sincerely hope Frank and Co are here for the long term as they appear to have integrity.

For someone so arrogant, one could almost write a book about his failings. Not only at our club.

If only it were possible for all Evertonians to have collective Men-in-Black style memory removal so he never enters our thoughts again and then the man himself be discreetly fired into space and eternal silence.