Since the rich Iranian businessman Moshiri joined Everton, although Everton has become rich and will make high-priced acquisitions almost every year, Everton's achievements have not advanced and retreated, from the past every season as a dark horse to attack The European Race, to the current civil unrest, to fight for relegation. After a year of lows and not lows, 2022"New Year's Progress" has become an unspeakable word. The management is in turmoil, the director Marcel Brands is defeated; the boss still thinks that he has a share of the money and can ignore the culture and traditions of the team, coupled with the scandal of individual players, the team's key members are forced away by Benitez... Everton in 2021, with all due respect, is by no means an exaggeration to describe it as a "miasma of black smoke.".
In 2022, the team was hit again, first vice-captain Lucas Digne was forced away by Benitez, and two full-back players were introduced to replenish the strength shortly after the transfer window began; ironically, Benitez himself was dismissed after a few days of forcing Lucas Digne. However, the two full-back players are in line with Benitez's taste, which is stronger than the attacking generation, but after Benitez is fired, will they fit the taste of the new coach? Where did Everton go in the post-Benitez era? Frankly speaking, I believe that everyone does not know, nor dare to put any extravagant hopes on it, and this season only wants to be safe and secure to succeed in relegation, and I am satisfied.
The Benitez Rebellion - destined to happen from day one
As for why Benitez is disgusted at Everton, I believe the team mostly knows, this article mainly reviews the management chaos of Everton except Benitez this season, and Benitez's personal problems are omitted here. However, in order to let the so-called "famous coach" play a role, Everton first kept talking, calling on fans to give Benitez more time to correct the chaos, and worked hard to wash away the black history of his former rivals in the same city; then compensated a "break-up fee", sacked marcel Brands, the football director who had just renewed his contract more than half a year ago, so that Benitez could monopolize the transfer power; and then met Benitez's desire for full-backs to be stronger than attacks. Sell out Lucas Digne, who was offensively stronger than defensive and had questioned Benitez's tactics, and buy Vitaliy Mykolenko, a defensive-light left-back. As a result, less than a week after the sale of Lucas Digne, Benitez was hyped for his "poor" record.
Lucas Digne exodus - Everton manages the fallout of chaos
“Sometimes it only takes one person to destroy a beautiful love affair.”
After Lucas Digne left the team, he posted on the social platform thanking Everton for his support, and made it clear that he did not want to leave the team, but one person deliberately created a contradiction and finally made him make up his mind to leave the team. Needless to say, this "churning stick" is the infamous Benitez.
I remember watching the pre-season warm-up game for a few years, the process was quite dull, after the end of the team only Lucas Digne went to the sidelines and supported the fans to thank and listen to their hearts, then I thought that this player would be the material for becoming everton captain in the future.
By this year, Everton is subject to FFP, and if it is to sell a main player to raise money, it is understandable to tearfully sell Lucas Digne, who has declined in the past two years. However, why is it that a player with such a good attitude and popularity only expresses his dissatisfaction with the tactics to the manager, and then is banned by the manager and finally dispersed? Why is it that his work with Marco Silva and Ancelotti is not necessarily problematic, but only contradicts Benitez? The question of who it is is is obvious.
To everton management question: Fighting with the sky, fighting with the ground, fighting with people, is it fun?
Everton boss Moshiri himself runs a multi-billion dollar company, how can he not know the tricks of management? However, the difference between the team and the company is that the team belongs to the fans, not the boss's toys, and every decision is responsible to the fans. Therefore, understanding the history, culture, social influence, etc. of a team is very important for running a team. However, in the years after Moshiri took over, Everton only grew in funds, whether it was the team's record, the team's human touch, the vision of buying and selling players and appointing a manager, etc., all showed a significant regression.
Fans increasingly feel that they are more and more uninterested in the affairs of the team, from the cold farewell to loyalists and "one club man" Leon Osman in the early years, to the absence of even thanks on the official news after Lucas Digne's departure, which is extremely weak and chilling; on the other hand, Everton management faces overwhelming doubts from its own fans when appointing Benitez, but the management chooses to blindly emphasize that Benitez can stabilize the team. Ignoring his history of coaching rivals in the same city and speaking ill of Everton, and even more cutting off with radical fans, Benitez knew that he was the head of Everton's coaching position, but rarely networked with fans in office or participated in community activities to improve the gap with fans. It is necessary to know that Everton is "The People's Club" in the minds of fans, but now the management rarely takes the initiative to communicate with fans, creating a gap between fans and teams; and repeatedly ignores the wishes of fans, fights against fans, but repeatedly makes wrong decisions. This piece of chaos requires someone to be responsible. And the management is still posing a lofty posture, no one is willing to take responsibility for the chaos in recent years, and put forward feasible ways to improve, just blindly saying what Categoric review and other nonsense, then don't blame the fans for running out of patience and asking the entire management to step down.