How Long Before “Bottom Four Bob”

I bet my mate Alasdair never thought that his thread would go viral and break all records ! If Everton don’t beat Arsenal in the cup then it’s looking like the usual season of going through the motions for them ! This time last season ( After 26 games )they were 6th and just 6 pts off a Champions League spot, whereas this season after 26 games they are 7th and 9 pts off the so called promised land! If that is progress then so be it ! :dry:

I bet my mate Alasdair never thought that his thread would go viral and break all records ! If Everton don’t beat Arsenal in the cup then it’s looking like the usual season of going through the motions for them ! This time last season ( After 26 games )they were 6th and just 6 pts off a Champions League spot, whereas this season after 26 games they are 7th and 9 pts off the so called promised land! If that is progress then so be it ! :dry:[/quote]
They didn’t appoint Martinez to progress, they appointed him to replace their Man Utd bound manager.

On the face of it he looks a decent replacement.

Don’t see how any team can break into the top 6 tbh. Utd,City,Chelsea,Arsenal,Liverpool and Spurs will surely take some replacing so don’t see how Bobby can be classed as failing if they don’t finish within it. The fact that he has kept them in the top half of the division is testament to his managerial skills. Im sure there are a few chairmen in the Prem would gladly swap their own managers for RM if they could.

And Kenwright will have to keep his promise too;

Given Everton’s debts of around £45m, the assumption among Evertonians has been that the manager would only receive a portion of any players sales but the Chairman promised that should Fellaini move on, Martinez would get all of the proceeds to spend on new players.

“‘We are desperate to find new owners and new investment,” Kenwright continued, “but he will get support from everyone at the club and all the financial support — and by that I mean if he sells someone he won’t get 80 per cent of that he’ll get 100 per cent.

“Plus, he has a certain amount of money for the transfer window which David [Moyes] was going to have.”

That fund, enabled largely by the new television rights deals, is believed to be around £10m which, when added to any sale of Fellaini, would represent a substantial transfer kitty in excess of £30m for the new boss.

Meanwhile, Kenwright insists the search goes on for a buyer for Everton that can help the club compete more readily with the club’s better-endowed top-six rivals.

“There will be a lot of Evertonians out there asking, ‘Hold on a minute, where’s the billionaire?” he added.

“We’re still desperately looking for the billions but while you are doing that you have to try to keep going what we have established here.”

well that didn’t work for me phylis :pinch:

Well going off the last link I shared then I should hope they are getting in some more revenue because the big loan gamble doesn’t seem to have paid off so far ! ;)

Are you a scouser?

you seem to know a lot about everton, well certainly more than you do about WAFC.