Unai Emery

[Clark W Griswold]

I think most of us were pleased with the signing at the time. 1.5 games in a new league tells us nothing, indeed under carpethead too. The only concern i have is in terms of how he'll recover from the injury, it can take players some time to get back to their best.

[Risso]

1.5 games under carpethead too

Next to Konsa as well. Without Luiz too.

[paul_e]

Whilst not on the same level as Kamara I think Carlos was still a bit of a coup for us, a defender who had looked very good for a team that won major trophies and did so on the back of a top class defence.

[Risso]

Whilst not on the same level as Kamara I think Carlos was still a bit of a coup for us, a defender who had looked very good for a team that won major trophies and did so on the back of a top class defence.

Exactly. Transfers weren't the reason that Gerrard got the shove.

[pauliewalnuts]

Whilst not on the same level as Kamara I think Carlos was still a bit of a coup for us, a defender who had looked very good for a team that won major trophies and did so on the back of a top class defence.

Exactly. Transfers weren't the reason that Gerrard got the shove.

Gerrard was the reason Gerrard got the shove.

[PeterWithesShin]

Funny how Gerrard never said Villa should be going to Bournemouth/Forest/Fulham and wiping the floor with them. Twat. I still think we should have made him walk back from Craven Cottage. Twat.

[brontebilly]

...because someone from his call centre was about the only person he could find that would be ok with MON being the real power at the club.

We had Bob Kain for a while remember and he at least had the right credentials. I seem to remember a few other names from that period as well.

Yep, there was Kain and others with a similar pedigree, then we ended up with his credit card office manager and his mate the General.

O'Neill was just a dinosaur and I agree entirely with paulie's post above. I think of his 50+ transfers, only two or three were bought from outside either the English or Scottish leagues. Wasn't his final flounce at least partly to do with the fact that Lerner wouldn't sanction the £10m transfer of Aiden McGeady, a player who went on to be utterly shit at Everton and who then played mainly in the Championship and League 1?

McGeady and Robbie Keane I think were suggested at the time, to be funded by the Milner transfer. He definitely didn't want that idiot Steven Ireland either as part exchange. Not sure who authorised that one. He eventually signed after MON had left when we had no manager.

[pablo_picasso]

Whilst not on the same level as Kamara I think Carlos was still a bit of a coup for us, a defender who had looked very good for a team that won major trophies and did so on the back of a top class defence.

Exactly. Transfers weren't the reason that Gerrard got the shove.

Although, he did sign Robin Olsen, Ludwig Augustinsson & that Polish lump from Southampton...

[LeeB]

Don't forget the one that got away, Kenwynne Jones. Could've been the gamechanger for us

[rob_bridge]

Saw what he did at Sunderland.

Signed Fletcher - white Heskey and Adam Johnson (next Downing) Danny Graham

Zero imagination

[RamboandBruno]

Saw what he did at Sunderland.

Signed Fletcher - white Heskey and Adam Johnson (next Downing) Danny Graham

Zero imagination

The less said about Adam Johnson

[OCD]

Was it Aguero we were linked with who MON had never heard of?

[FatSam]

His failure to get us past sixth, for example, was IMHO a reflection of the fact that there was a glass ceiling on how far that sort of management could get you any more. Above us, with perhaps the exception of Moyes, we had more switched-on, modern managers, whereas we had someone who was fighting for the championship of ten years previously.

Even Moyes was more progressive than MON. He was also much better at getting value in the transfer market. Players like Jagielka, Baines, Cahill and Coleman served  Everton very well.

[eamonn]

What was O'Neill's issue with non-UK based players? Sure, there's a risk inherent that they don't adjust to the PL but if that's the one and only reason, you're forever going to be playing cards with one hand tied behind your back.

[Toronto Villa]

His failure to get us past sixth, for example, was IMHO a reflection of the fact that there was a glass ceiling on how far that sort of management could get you any more. Above us, with perhaps the exception of Moyes, we had more switched-on, modern managers, whereas we had someone who was fighting for the championship of ten years previously.

Even Moyes was more progressive than MON. He was also much better at getting value in the transfer market. Players like Jagielka, Baines, Cahill and Coleman served  Everton very well.

MON never played 4-6-0. Moyes definitely was progressive with finding a new system to bore the world.