Solskjaer is also in the running

I would be ecstatic if we got Solskjaer, since he rebuffed Villa and Stoke it becomes even better, and it proves that Everton is above the rest of the best.

I feel sure that Solskjaer can do just as well as Moyes, but he can do even better than Moyes in the League Cup and FA Cup, he is a natural winner and a former top striker who knows what is needed to be a winning team.

Come on, Bill Kenwright, hire Solskjaer and you will have done Everton the world of good!

"I have interviewed thirty seven candidates for this position, and not one of them came close to convincing me they are the right man for this great club more than Philip. He has a vision to take this club into the future, and for Everton to win the League by 2056."

Cue bottom lip quivering, wiping a tear away under his glasses, and me on the phone to the box office.

12 games in - 2nd bottom.

It'd be almost impossible for the bookies to get this one wrong. It was only a couple of weeks ago, they literally had a different favourite for each day of the week.

It is true that Solskjær has won the Norwegian league twice with Molde, but in both seasons the opposition hardly got back to back wins at all, and Norway's best team Rosenborg were in transition and a complete shambles.

This season has been a disaster for Molde and after 12 matches they are in the relegation zone. It's the first time in his managerial career that he is really struggling, and I think that how he copes will say a lot about his true abilities as a manager.

So far it's not looking good, there's no stability in the team and he has gone all sir Alex and started to boycott journalists and so on. He does not look ready for the PL, and – if my memory is correct – once revealed to Norwegian press that he was a red as a kid.
Rangnick please, Bill.

Yep Molde are down there right now, but, thats after their top scorer got poached for the Chinese league and the keystone of their defence left to join Southampton. Its not like Solskjaer suddenly forgot how to manage after 2 league titles.

Academic point of course as it wont be him by this stage.

I just want Everton to announce the new manager so we can all get on with saying how we were right / wrong about who we thought it would be be, who we are going to sell / buy? You get the gist.

Jesus Christ, Ross. My little black heart would fuckin' explode.

"What is written in the media should not be taken seriously." (R. Rangnick)

http://www.krone.at/Sport/Abgang_zu_Everton_Rangnick_weist_Geruechte_zurueck-Doch_nichts_dran-Story-363641

If Solskjaer is struggling to cope with the loss of two key players, a selling club like Everton is not what he needs. Also, it seems to prove he was not up to the task of replacing them. I don't know anything about Molde's transfer policy or dealings so I will just make that assumption.

I don't believe he has forgotten how to manage overnight either, but going from league champion to league fodder 'overnight' is a bit of a drastic turn of events, two key players missing or not (there are plenty of others in a team). He needs to go to the championship or League 1, Di Canio style, to prove himself instead of being linked with us. Saying that, he has way more credentials than any of the internal candidates, which makes me shudder.

Aside from that I would see him as another instrumentalist in the ever continuing concerto being played from OT toward their perceived feeder club. No way Ole if you please.

I have absolutely no idea what you are on about.

Thats ok. Just chill out and have a sandwich as another Ollie used to say (cue same reply as before)

Vitor Pereira or Ralf Ragnick. Either one of those is the correct choice.

You can't help wondering what game BK is playing this time. Maybe Philip Green has to rubber stamp the appointment?

There we are, then.

I think Bill & co. have ran rings around us all concerning the new man. Martinez is the only candidate who has actually shown his hand. We haven't heard a peep from anyone else. Today, Rangnik has denied any contact, Pereira's camp have not substantiated any rumours reports etc. In fact, Sky are camped everywhere in London, and Pereira hasn't even been spotted in the country or at G.P.

The only thing we have known for sure, is that MartInez has thrown his hand in at Wigan, something he never did when the shite & Villa were after him. He doesn't seem the type to alienate his loyal support at Wigan, unless there was something concrete on the table.

The club are quite happy to let us believe they are interviewing 25 possibles, why deny anything? It only makes them look more diligent.

I am happy with Martinez in the big chair, I think he will have the respect of the first team, and he has actually won something. He will definitely give us decent value in the transfer market, and has contacts in Europe.

The fan-base is divided and have been effectively kettled by the media and bookies into believing it's between one of three candidates and of them three, one candidate just doesn't stand out to the majority of fans (hence the tight TW poll results). To be honest, I can see why; we're being asked to consider a smiley bloke who has just won a cup but got his team relegated and two blokes who, without the benefits of Google or an encyclopedic knowledge of European football, are somehow contenders who we have been casting our Sauron-like eye on for the last few years, I can honestly say I haven't got any justifiable preference between any of them three and I think a lot of fans are as bemused as me. Up until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of Rangnick or Perriera and don't really feel as though my ignorance is to my detriment as neither have stood out on the European stage (I class standing out as winning stuff).

What we would ideally like is an up and coming blue-blooded guy with fresh ideas and methods to come in and take the club forward, but sadly there is no-one out there who fits that bill (don't even mention in-house), so we're left to 'take what's going'. Whoever we get is a wildcard so let's all just get behind the guy and give him some breathing space... at least until after the Anfield derby in the second half of the season... if we win there and we're also in the relegation zone then the MOB's heads will explode.

Maybe Wenger is a little out there, but many top candidates are possible and I have heard almost none linked to Everton and that disturbs me. Get a manager in who has come far in the Champions League, and who has also won the Premier League before in his time.

Martinez has not won any league, yet he is being thrown around as a "top manager" by his old chairman and others. What a bunch of huffing and puffing, just like a blowfish, to make him seem larger than he is. Just because Liverpool were after him does not mean we have to stoop as low.

My biggest problem is the lack of a winners' mentality on the executive and board level at Everton. It needs to change, or we will revert quickly back to Walter Smith times... or even worse – someone like Gary Megson.

Why do Everton aim for a lower qualified manager, when we just had David Moyes? I guess I cannot understand the club's logic here.

The following tells you all you need to know:

"Everton began with a list of about 30 names and have interviewed internal candidates, turning their attentions to out-of-work managers or those whose contracts are expiring - like Pereira - before lastly sounding out those currently working at clubs."

So they are looking at the cost-free options before bothering with contracted candidates. This chimes will everything one hears about Kenwright's miserly ways.

There is an amateurish, losing mentality about Everton that has stuck with us for virtually the entire Premier League era. Until Kenwright sells up and fucks off that will not change.

The longer this goes on the less I care about it, I think Kim Jong Bill is making sure the media do all his work for him in highlighting manager's names he either has not considered or never has or would interview, all the while placating the fans into thinking these names are realistic candidates.

The media are making out that Bill has some sort of forward thinking plan in place for the appointment, his entire Everton tenure as chairman makes me think otherwise. Lets face it, Bill doesn't do "planning" in any sense of the word.

Get ready for Alan 'Industrial, blue blooded' Stubbs..... wow!