Madison only just started playing
Don't think Kulusevski has played all season
Kudus is out
Solanke missed majority of games
I think they had 12 1st teamers injured at one stage all players I'd expect to get into our side
Unai Emery was sacked at Arsenal - he's not done too bad a job at Villa 
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but I don't think, certainly in the case of Thomas Frank, that Spurs was a good fit for him
I'd have expected Spurs to have gone for Iraola instead
Personally I think Thomas Frank would have been a much better fit for us
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Iraola seems to be a very good manager but so did Thomas Frank and Graham Potter.
Recruiting a manager who is doing very well in a specific structure, without having our own version of that structure, would be a mistake.
I think we need to adopt elements of what Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton do but our challenge is to create our own model that is consistent with our bigger fanbase, history and expectations. Previous Message
.....that Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford and - to a certain degree - Palace, are NOT Everton.
They may well be better teams over the 38 games this season but the environment is completely different.
Everton fans expectations are nothing whatsoever like the expectations of those clubs. The stadium is a completely different experience. The football culture in the city. And none of those clubs have the most successful English club in history as their fierce local rivals.
The pressure situation is completely different.
Getting rid of Moyes for Iraola - or any manager who has excelled at a club like those three - may well be persuasive in footballing terms but it IS a risk unless that manager has managed and survived in a football hotbed before.
Question is do we stick or twist? Moyes has infuriated me this season and I cannot fathom some of his selection choices ( centre backs, lack of subs, lack of rotation of tired legs, freezing out of players he bought ) but he WILL get the results to keep us midtable and the senior players love him. Previous Message
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??!
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