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Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:33 pm
by NickNack
Bluenose91 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:22 am
The worst part was Moshiri letting him spend almost 60m on Tosun and Walcott when he knew full well he was getting rid of him in the summer.
While I’m more than happy for Allardyce to get the blame for Tosun, after seeing the video clip that was doing the rounds at the time I’ve a feeling that one was down to Moshiri
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:14 pm
by CannockPricey
I remember when he left thinking "thank fuck that's over, nothing can be as bad as that again" but my word did Moshiri prove me wrong.
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:46 pm
by Silas
Think I hated him being in charge more than Benitez.
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:15 pm
by velimski
Allardyce, Benitez, Dyche and a dose of nice but incompetent Lampard thrown in.
It's a miracle that we weren't put off Everton for life.
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:35 pm
by Toddacelli
Not even happy someone started a thread on him.
Please - let’s just forget it ever happened.
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:08 am
by 777Kidnappings
Had some absolutely rotten managers on elite money. Add koeman to the list. Apparently made him 1 of the highest paid managers in the world on the back of a dof work at Southampton. He couldn't even be arsed
Honestly we had a prolonged period where we pretty much got everything wrong. Managers, players, dof, board members all poor choices.
Surviving financially and as a top flight club was a pure fluke
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:37 am
by Gash
Anyone that uses the annoying "Everton that" line should just look back at the last 10 years or even longer. We should have been toast, relegated long ago, maybe even down to League One the way our finances have been dealt with over the years. It's an absolute miracle that we survived. We can go on about our bad luck and every one giving it "poor us" but when you look at our time during the whole Premier League era, we might not have won anything but we're one of the luckiest clubs out there. Relegation in 90's or in the last few years would have been a disaster for us yet somehow despite everything we've managed to stay in the league.
And now we've somehow managed to move into a world class stadium, we should stop feeling sorry for ourselves all the time, no one else does.
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 10:00 am
by Shogun
Gash wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:37 am
Anyone that uses the annoying "Everton that" line should just look back at the last 10 years or even longer. We should have been toast, relegated long ago, maybe even down to League One the way our finances have been dealt with over the years. It's an absolute miracle that we survived. We can go on about our bad luck and every one giving it "poor us" but when you look at our time during the whole Premier League era, we might not have won anything but we're one of the luckiest clubs out there. Relegation in 90's or in the last few years would have been a disaster for us yet somehow despite everything we've managed to stay in the league.
And yet after all that we've somehow managed to move into a world class stadium, we should stop feeling sorry for ourselves all the time, no one else does.
Everton that
Re: Big Sam.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:47 pm
by AjaxAndy
Gash wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:37 am
Anyone that uses the annoying "Everton that" line should just look back at the last 10 years or even longer. We should have been toast, relegated long ago, maybe even down to League One the way our finances have been dealt with over the years. It's an absolute miracle that we survived. We can go on about our bad luck and every one giving it "poor us" but when you look at our time during the whole Premier League era, we might not have won anything but we're one of the luckiest clubs out there. Relegation in 90's or in the last few years would have been a disaster for us yet somehow despite everything we've managed to stay in the league.
And now we've somehow managed to move into a world class stadium, we should stop feeling sorry for ourselves all the time, no one else does.
I have very little doubt that if we'd gone down in Lampard's last season or Dyche's full season we'd have had back to back relegations.
Our finances and the wages of players with no relegation clauses meant we'd have been docked points in the championship, who have a lower threshold for going over PSR, and also would have still needed to get those players off the books somehow leaving us with a shocking team and no way of buying anyone.
Can't be underestimated how much of a financial black hole relegation would have left us in.
It's definitely a miracle we survived and I'm still not totally sure how we did... Just thankful we're now able to look forward to a brighter future.