Re Everton, it really is mystifying why they always start out so poorly. You look at the way they finish seasons almost every year and you think "no way can this team perform so badly at the start of next season" but it routinely happens. Something to do with training, the dates they come back, their pre-season regime? They don't get much investment under Kenwright as a general rule, maybe a defeatist mentality runs through the club at first, a perceived lack of ambition upon returning for the new season? I'm purely speculating, it's a strange phenomenon. They looked so quality in the last few months though especially with Jelavic who is exactly what they've needed for ages and I'll be watching them with interest come August.
Where Redknapp is concerned, good riddance to the utter kunt. People saying the sacking is harsh but I don't really think it is. You can say they came 4th etc and were unlucky to miss out on CL but they had 3rd completely wrapped up in a nice little bow until they went 7 or 8 games without a win, letting Arsenal back in.
He's not good enough to be a top-level manager and Levy knows this, kind of like Martin O'Neill in the regard that despite being a decent manager he just has too many flaws, certainly his ineptitude at rotating his team effectively is a stand-out. Uses the same core group of players all the time and whenever he tried to change it round made a complete arse of it (putting Bale on the right wing, Modric on the left etc). Also made a tit out of the last transfer window, I seriously don't have a clue what he was trying to accomplish in January. He got rid of Pavlyuchenko and Pienaar also turfing Bassong out to Wolves on loan, and brought in Louis Saha - who hadn't scored a goal in 942 minutes of league football prior to leaving Everton, and Ryan Nelsen - released from Blackburn. Spectacularly poor business by anyone's reckoning, and this is at a time where they should have got capable bodies to kick on, secure third and even mount a outsider's title challenge.
The bad run wasn't because of the England thing either (it started before the speculation) but his refusal to rubbish it certainly wouldn't have helped. The most hilarious thing was after he was turned down for the England job he was so sure he'd be swanning off to - not to mention constantly trying to unsettle other teams' players by divulging contract details and commenting on them unnecessarily in press conferences and interviews - he actually had the nerve to start demanding reassurances about his own future from Daniel Levy. When taking into account all the other dodgy stuff he has or hasn't been involved in that have been smeared all over the press, it all adds up to the man being a complete liability and an embarrassment to Spurs.
I can see them trying for Garcia, Villas-Boas, Bielsa, Martinez. Someone like that. Don't think they'll go for Moyes but I've been proved wrong on almost everything concerning us last season so I guess we'll see.
