Mourinho takes himself out of the running for Everton job

Thank God, another mercenary dinosaur 🦕

That's a relief

Blimey two bits of good news in three days. Things are looking up.

Amen to that, lads...

A sentence I never expected to write in my lifetime:

Thank you, Jose Mourinho.

Drats, I was hoping he would consider my offer for him to do one.

A third dinosaur in a row would well and truly have finished us off.

Ancelotti... Benitez... Mourinho. Has Moshiri watched any football over the past 7-8 years?

Thank God. It's Goodison Park not Jurassic Park.

We need a hungry manager who is looking to make a name for himself not yet another one on the way down but chasing another payday.

It assumes, of course, that we ever had any true interest in him in the first place?

You know what these journos are like.

Vacancy at a Premier League Club - who is avaiable and who is under pressure at the club they are at currently?

2+2 = 5.

Rumour.

Gives egos' like his a chance to turn us down before even being asked.

Hopefully Dunc will get a raptor-ous applause Pat.

I thought this was a media piss take anyway. In the same realms of popularity as Roberto Martinez for the job.

Myers was reporting on this, so may have been some truth in it? What it shows if there is any truth in this, is that Moshiri is a law unto himself and still wants the Hollywood type manager - the last thing we need. I don’t think we’ve heard the last on Martinez either.

Always wanted him here we don't just need to win stuff we need to rub the neighbours nose in it ~ Jose's forte.

His record is best fighting the aristos not being one of them our chippy bitterness and hatred of anyone and everyone would be an asset to a man like him.

Trouble is he can spot a duff deal a mile away which is a pity because he could have reignited this club in 5 mins flat if Mosh hadn't blown the kitty and loaded the BMD albatross around our necks.

The return of relative penury rules out the likes of Jose.

It’s a no from him, thank god.

Why cant the board just give it to Ferguson till the end of the season and stop all this uncertainty. The squad looked much happier today in the training video. And seemed to be doing more pressing work.

Only sky bet propaganda that he was ever involved...but fortunately he's not interested thank god

John Gregory and David O'Leary both also confirmed they're both looking at other opportunities.

There is a God.

Hopefully this was rumour.

No more has been sat Everton FC.

Phew!

Hooray 'GREAT' news .

Can someone in the club please inform Moshiri that Jock Stein is dead.

If he even now needs to hear it, there's a limit on the level of incompetence true fans can endure,

There is an article on the BBC about Mourinho, asking if time is running out for him there.

It could have been written word for word about Everton just with the names changed. Inherited a bad squad, no concentration in defence. Absolutely not what we need here.

Presumably, we're all hoping for a manager (probably after an interim appointment) who will stay for about 3 years or more.

Most established mid-tier managers (below managerial Royalty like Simeone) seem to last about 18 months or so. If we hire someone from this tier, like Garcia or Fonseca, we're hiring someone with a track record of being sacked. We're not hiring a squad builder or someone who will create a dynasty. The same goes for a guy like Mourinho who just doesn't have the drive anymore (I don't really buy the idea he is now outdated tactically).

Arsenal might have shown us the way forward with Arteta - picking up a coach rated exceptional and then sticking with him through thick and thin.

It is high risk too though, because Arteta might have taken us down before we saw the rewards of some patience.

There are excellent coaches out there like Dortmund's Terzic who was strongly linked to Palace and Spurs.

If we go down this route then we need to reinstate the DoF model and, maybe more important than the new manager search, replace Brands.

Thankfully "The Special One" doesn't want to work for us. That will have saved us one busted flush. There's still a big list of ghastly British managers Moshiri can consider:

Megson, McClaren, Hughes, Pullis, Pardew, Bruce, Brown etc.

There is a up and coming manager in the Championship playing exciting attacking football and has his team scoring for fun and top of the league.
Hang on a minute!!!

Thank goodness - I think Mourinho would have been a terrible appointment.

Last time we won the league we had an ex Everton player as manager.

Last time we won the cup we had an ex Everton player as manager.

Why is it that many people on here don't like the idea of ex Everton players coming in as manager?

I know the game has moved on. But it seems that people with an affinity for a club tend to last longer and are less likely to be drawn away by the lure of (say) Real Madrid. This in turn makes it more likely that you will get the chance to see planned progress.

This is a no-brainer for me. Big Dunc in charge until the end of the season, which I am sure he will take. He doesn't strike me as having a Big Sam style ego that would need an 18-month mega contract.

Review meeting in May to decide if he stays in charge or we phone Derby.

Martin, that is true but we don't win that much anyway, compared to some. Like many, I grew up with Liverpool's bootroom culture and the trophies they won, Bob Paisley particularly. But look at them now... they ain't doing too bad, and Pep certainly never played for Man City.

It's probably coincidental more than anything, the esx-Everton player connection. What I do know is Rooney and Lampard ain't stuck in the past and like attacking football. So does Duncan; it's just we've never seen him manage a team over a period of time.

I'm just glad it won't be Mourinho.

Thank god for that. He's the last manager we need here.

Good news at last,he's now lost his edge and would be too self centered to address our main problems on the pitch.

Let's see how Dunc and his assistants can do before making any rash decisions this time eh Mosh!.

Really looking forward to the Villa clash now,just believe Blues and put a shift in please.

This is Special news to us fans !

I have always maintained that Mourinho, even in the early days was a good Manager, ' was ' being the operative word. However he was also a chequebook Manager and lucky enough to be at Clubs where he was almost given a blank one. I also believe there is a certain element of luck in that too !

Going out and buying the best players in the World, is no guarantee that they will all be able to play together as a unit ! Maybe I am discrediting him unfairly, but I won't be shedding any tears that he has declared he will NOT be joining us.

Don’t want him but he’d sort that defence out.

It would never have worked – the battle of the egos.

There's too many at Everton... that's the problem!

Ange Postecoglou. I've seen Ange be questioned many, many times. He has proven himself to be pure quality every single time. Exactly what we need!

If only Everton could look past the blatantly obvious. I believe Ange could turn around what is honestly now a train wreck!

Thank fuck for that as Mourinho is yesterday's man, a busted flush of a manager, all he is good at now is losing a dressing room and it's not like our players need any help with that...

Excellent news.

I think the 'AFSW' (After Fat Spanish Waiter) period is becoming more embarrassing than the last 7 months.

Every day, we always seem to hear that Moshiri's latest crush is a 'Hollywood' manager. We've been shafted by Ancelotti, conned by Benitez and we still keep looking at more of the same!

Martinez (again!!!!), Mourinho – the absolute busted flush who seems now to be on the verge of a separation from Roma! Then we have the mini-Hollywooder, Frank Lampard, who would only be using us as a stepping-stone to get back to Stamford Bridge!

Fortunately, we have not been threatened with the spectres of Allardyce, Koeman and Rob's (#27) list of unemployed perpetual failures:– Megson, McClaren, Hughes, Pullis, Pardew, Bruce, Brown etc!

I am surprised that Moshiri's all-time fave has not been mentioned, ie, Marco Silva, who seems to be ripping up the Championship with a team that cannot stop scoring goals!

Magic !

Any other has-beens and never-was bellends want to opt out ?
kenwrong ?
Mish-mash-Mosh ?

More the merrier

Best news this week!