We get new owners.
We get Mourinho.
Mourinho gets financial backing to do what he does.
New owners get club on 'cheap' with potential to return to the pinnacle of English football.
Kenwright can get some sleep. He must be knackered after looking for new owners 24/7 for what seems forevevr.

First, Everton have not, in my mind, one of seven clubs guaranteed to be safe from relegation. I don't agree with Moyes stating it publicly but it only takes a bad run to leave you down there and Everton don't have the resources to buy their way out in any January sales.

The suggestion of Mourinho is also ridiculous. Why would he come to Everton. No money, shit board, shit stadium (as far as generating income goes).

Tactically aware
Committed and have a track record of positive attacking football
At least 5 years managerial experience and managed at the top leagues in Europe (Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany, Portugal)
Defensively sound - need to be able to organise a team who can defend (this to me rules out Martinez straight away)
Have a good record at bring young players on and improving existing players
Have a good record in the transfer market.

My fear about all of this is that Kenwright got lucky with Moyes because of Walter Smith's recommendation. I wonder if Moyes has made any recommendations and who they are?

Kenwright has had his safety net pulled away and it is time for him to quit the nauseating, sentimental , vomit inducing act and go and do what he owes us. Find the right man or appoint someone to find the right man.

I'm all for shit or bust someone with a bit of spirit and charisma at least trying to get Goodison roaring.

A relegation scrap is the only thing to get pressure on Kenwright and co. so it's better we go for it and fail than have another "survival/challenging for europe" merchant breathing life into their sorry carcases.

No more excuse ridden surrender monkeys please.

Anything above mid table and a good cup run would be a Brucie and someone to turn a few players around and make a profit.

I just hope he doesn't let his ' boys pen' emotions rule what's left of his head.

I'm shitting myself

http://www.efcsa.org/2013/05/09/timing-of-the-everton-fc-egm/

Get a grip mate the FBI and Interpol wouldn't be able to find me there's enough nutters on here when we're toddling along in mid table obscurity!!

I don't mind Paul Lambert, Martinez

I'd love Michael Laudrup, Pochettino (Southampton)
I dream of Mourinho, Pellegrini

We can move forward if we make the right appointment, sign the right players, and get right behind the team. Our fans can make Goodison the most intimidating atmosphere in the League, it doesn't matter who the manager is. We sell out every away game, I hate it when I see Fulham bring 80 fans to a mid-week game at Goodison, and then someone has the bare faced cheek to compare us to them!

This is a big club, with some great International players, people forget just how big a club this is sometimes, because of the lack of trophies.

We need to lose the plucky little Everton tag, and get nasty, never mind being patted on the head by Fergie, fuck him and every other patronising twat in the media.

If we set the bar high enough, the new manager will soon get the message, just like Moyes & the players did after the Wigan game.

We could be looking a the biggest transfer pot in our history.This is a perilous time for the club, but if we can grasp the opportunity by the neck, and make the right signings, we could be in with a real chance of success. The wrong manager and the wrong signings could see us set back for the next 10 years.

If only we could trust the people in charge.

We are in a position of strength in that we are free to pick a quality manager if we do it right. We have plenty of time. Pre-season doesn't start until the start of July. The new season doesn't start until mid August. We also have a very attractive wage packet on offer. We are also beholden to no one and are not obliged to pick any one person.

However, considering our finances, it is as much a precarious position we are starting from as a position of strength. Get the manager wrong and we will fade away very quickly.

Laudrup is a massive gamble. Yes they won the cup but have been pretty garbage in the league. He might be great but I'm not sure its a gamble worth taking.

Martinez doesn't even deserved to be linked with the job. Looks like he will finally take Wigan down. I really don't get the hype with this guy.

What will RVP say having to play back to goal for 90 mins while expected to run the channels. RVP goal tally will dry up quicker than the Everton transfer kitty in the January window.

I still can't believe Utd have actually done it to be honest. It's a gamble of MASSIVE proportions, like selling your house, car, jewellery and raiding the kids piggybank and walking in the Casino and putting the lot on your lucky number type gamble. We all know the Man Utd job is way too big for Moyes at the moment. Moyes may be many of the things the pundits are calling him but he ain't no winner. Not the type of winner Man Utd expect anyhow.

I give Moyes 2 years tops before he is shifted out, unless of course SAF is holding his hand for the first season or two... When it comes down to DM making the decisions then Man Utd fans will be all over him... Oh, PLEASE take Steve Round with you Dave FFS,.

With an experienced attack minded European manager who knows how far we could go but it is down to Billy Boy to pick him and the way he has been shuffling around and simpering to the media you would not have any confidence in him.

Lets aim high and see just who we can get we might be surprised but stay clear of the Championship dross and the old Scots club.

Here is my top 10 candidates anyone of these and we would be laughing

Frank Rijkaard
Felix Magath
Marcelo Bielsa
Michael Laudrup
Rene Girard
Marco Van Basten
Diego Simeone
Vitor Pereria
Frank de Boer
Roberto di Matteo

My interest in Italian football is only passing but they seem to have come from nowhere over the last few years and become a real force.

Surely we pay better than them.

They sacked him. Surely he has a point to prove. Where better place to?

That said, he's not a fool and could easily see through the phoney that is Bill Kenwright.

I'll go leftfield and throw the name of Frank Rijkaard into the mix. He's available and I've heard he's been looking for a job in England, and is a former Champions League and La Liga winner as a manager.

NO to Roberto Martinez. Why would we want someone who looks like taking Wigan down? Overrated.

Manager of Napoli is Walter Mazzarri, been there since 2009 and seems to have done a good job, previously the manager of Sampadoria. I don't know enough about his management style or have watched enough of Napoli to make a proper judgement on him.

I sacked my season ticket 3 years ago because of the shite old Ginger Nuts served up – not because of the board who "never gave him money". This man cannot handle top class players – fact! His tactics are naive and always reverts to type whatever, for every rough diamond he unearths (Arteta) and a flop to counter it (Krøldrup, Davies, Richard Wright, Beattie... the list is endless.

Don't believe the hype, I saw through this chancer 3 years ago and he has got worse since. It will be hilarious watching him bottle it in the CL with Round and his cronies all speaking into their hands wondering what the fuck to do...

Example:– the other day in the derby, Rodgers took about 5 seconds to make a substitution during a throw-in. Later on, the headmaster took nearly 10 minutes boring Jelavic with his insane instructions before he decides to send a striker on... tactical genius?

As for his record with strikers , he has fucked everyone of them up – from Rooney, Beattie, Johnson, Yakubu and now Jelavic all ending up on the wing. They all can't be shite..., the turn-around in Jelavic's form is down to the "Moyessiah"

Yes, he did steady the ship and raised the standard compared to what went before... but he is no great manager, fuck him.

Surely this was only done specifically because Moyes was a 'safe' manager who the board trusted completely to take us to a good (in their opinion) position, was not going to get sacked and was also set to get us maximum compensation when a top club inevitably came in for him (which has been neatly sidestepped). I can't see a new manager getting the same amount straight away as the board won't have the same 'guarantees' from them.

I also have to say it's hilarious to see the likes of Tony Marsh getting their excuses in early 'He'll definitely fail, but if he doesn't it will be because of someone else and absolutely not because I was wrong about him'.

Pereira, for example, has achieved what exactly? He's taken over a side which had won 7 of the previous 9 championships and 5 of the previous 9 domestic cups and taken them to one championship and no cups in 2 years (granted he may get the 2nd title if results go their way to overtake Benfica). More than Moyes will ever achieve? Maybe, but I doubt Moyes will fail to win a single trophy at United, and if he does fail there he'll still walk into a top job elsewhere just for having Utd on his cv.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying Pereira's not a good shout but he's hardly redefining football, nor is Laudrup, with finishing 9th and winning a much derided trophy this season pretty much being his biggest achievement in management. Similarly, while Moyes (who's not good enough for us remember) was being courted by possibly the biggest club in world football, Girard was touting himself as a possible manager at a championship club in England.