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I like him a lot but just for reference:

Season 1
Spent £133m
Took until the 10th game of the season to pick up his first win
Finished with 48 points

Season 2
Spent £92m (but lower net spend due to selling Solanke for £60m)
Finished with 56 points

Season 3
Spent £188.6m
On 56 points with one game to play.

He's done a fantastic job but his playing style is high risk and perhaps explains why they rank high for losing points from winning positions, and also gaining points from losing positions. While Everton fans don't want boring possession based football I also don't think we want managers who rely on dice rolls and turning games into basketball matches (like Silva did).

Bournemouth have bought much better than us but that's a consequence of previous season squad building. They pay fairly big fees for most of their signings (more than we have).

Ironically if their "model" is young European players in the £10m-£15m range and taking some of the best talent out of the Championship for big fees (Alex Scott) then we've done the same with Rohl, Aznou and Dibling.

Recruitment is very hard in the PL and we're very much engaged in selection bias here. All focus is on Glasner and Iraola, which are 2 very successful managers and we hope they can replicate that in a different context.

But I'm genuinely interested whether people want Iraola because he'd have a higher ceiling with us (in which case where's the evidence our recruitment will be as good as Bournemouths) or because we'd get the same as what he's done with Bournemouth.

10 games without a win.
Maximum 3 points improvement from season 2 to season 3.

Who'd take that??!