 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is New Year's Eve and we were sitting here thinking about the year 2021. What an absolute shit, yo. It's been just for Everton or just in general? Well in general, but Everton have followed the path they have. They haven't really, you know... Everton haven't taken to Cobra ferry well have they? No. Everton have taken to Cobra ferry well have they? Highs and lows. Yeah, mostly lows. Mostly lows. Mostly lows. A year of... I want to say transition, but I don't think it's transition from one thing to another thing. Yeah, stagnation is a really good word. Obviously two managers. One, one beloved. One not so beloved, but very, very similar in the end. No, very, very similar guys. Just one is warm Italian and has never managed Liverpool. And one is Spanish cold and house. So, you know, I'm full. One's got a fast tag. Knows the city. Where there's one just new Crosby. And that was there. The year started as it went on really. One they'll defeat by West Ham on the year's day whenever in fine form had been unbeaten in December. And I suppose that should have been the marker for the whole thing. You know, we come out of the back end of, you know, 2020. We were second on Boxing Day. Obviously there was no game against Manchester City. That stopped us really. That stopped momentum. And, you know, we started, we started with on a bit of a low getting beat. We were actually the catalyst for West Ham having a great 2021. Sliding doors. Some mixed results back end of, well, 2021. Obviously we had some defeats. We had, you know, three wins on a row, beating Liverpool in the Mayside Derby, but then defeats are the likes of Fulham, who had never been beaten by a home. Defeats by the likes of Sheffield United with a young striker who probably never, ever scored again in the Premier League. I don't know if he's all right. Obviously a lot of old players, I don't know if he's all right. Obviously all the games were behind closed doors until I think it was the Wolves game, wasn't it, that you went to, that we won. We won away at Arsenal. We got a 3-3 draw at Manchester United. We obviously, as we said, we won at Amfield. So we did break some who-dos that had been hanging over us for a while, but we went from being second in the league to finishing 10th. You know, 59 points, terrible, terrible running. You know, back end of the season, you know, those last, what was it, about 10 games? We were, or maybe more, we were really, really poor. We were, new year after the West Ham game, we were third, we were joint third, 10 points was less than we were in third. We did go second, obviously, on Boxing Day, when we beat Sheffield United, but we were joint third on New Year's Day. That defeat really was very frustrating, it was a rubbish game and they nicked it. And then we did have those, we did have those moments, you know, good-win at Leeds and good-win at Amfield, the draw at United, the three away game, won at Wolves, as well in that time, and got ourselves into a position where, you know, after we beat, I think it was West Brom away, at Charlotte and Zedda, we went fourth, you know, and it looked, it looked almost like it was impossible for us not to get into your, you know, we were in the top four with, we make the impossible possible. Well, we do, but we were in the top four with less than three months of the season to go, and we were on a good run, the games, and I think, you know, we beat Southampton after that, but we, the big, the big moments again, Southampton before that, the big moments in that, of course, was losing after that, or with that injury, and we went on a terrible run. West Brom was... March the fourth or something, wasn't it? Yeah, and we ended up winning three more games after that, Arsenal, West Ham and Wolves, so, you know... I mean, what's mad about that is we won at Arsenal and West Ham, we were both, you know, but West Ham were absolutely flying, we stopped beating. And when you look at the teams we played in that time as well, Burnley, a home, got beat. Palace we drew one-one late on, Brighton away, 0-0. Played Aston Villa twice, a drawing of the feet. Sheffield is the night of the home. We played some very, very average sides. It was there for us, you know, it was there for us. Two wins out of all of those, we were in your... You know, we played Chelsea away, we played Tottenham at home, we should have beat Arsenal away when we did beat, and Man City last game of the season, and, you know, that running. You look at the running and where we were, the position we got ourselves into going into that running should have seen Europe in football, because the sum which would have been, it wouldn't have been enough to keep Carlo in the end, and we know we'll talk about that in a minute, but it would have been an extra 10 or 12 million pound, which was what we needed, we needed for the FFP. You know, you can use Europe for players and for improving things. So, it would have been a bit, and obviously, you get kick-ons for your sponsors and all that. It would have cost, it probably cost everything. Yes, we gained 12 and 18 million in overall, really, and that's a lot of money. Because it was a disastrous year on and off the pitch, obviously not having any fans there. It was huge in terms of those defeats as well, but also, obviously financial, which we didn't really find out until, you know, the summer, how in a mess we were financially, obviously juggling the situation with the new stadium as well, but it only really come to light when we started being linked with players, and then it was a bit like, oh, no, we don't actually have the money for them, or, you know, the interest there, they want to come, but you haven't got the money. Yes, that was interesting because, I don't think as much as we probably had been told by certain people, I don't think any of us felt like it was ever going to be that bad, and it was that bad, and as you've just said there, if we'd gone into Europe and we'd got, you know, a couple of extra places up the table or whatever, which we should have, because when you look at it, we missed out on Europe at like four points, and when you look at the points we dropped, it's, you know, stupid, stupid games. I don't want to go last few games, you've got Burnley at home, but with all due respect, he was struggling, Burnley, Sheffield United were relegated, Ville, we ain't great. You know, we've been fighting to win, aren't we? You've got them, you know, those three on games, you think, well, if we got seven points out of them, which you'd expect, you know, and we end up with no points out of them. I suppose the most disappointing thing from that, from the season was, we had a half decent run in the FA Cup, we beat obviously Sparser next to time, and a five-four thriller, then obviously going out to Manchester City, a Jals-Virgin, you played in that game, then because we'd obviously gone through the golews. But when you look at it from that West Brom game, because that was the third win, you know, in a row, you know, Mesa, Derby, Southampton and West Brom, and you're thinking, right, this is the time now to put it together, little run, and we did lose the call, that was a big thing, but it was like, can you sustainly, can you pick up what? An average of what? One and a half to two points again, that kind of thing. And we didn't, and I think Dominic Arvillun struggled towards the end of the season. We had Josh King there, who the manager refused to use, and you know, you've seen him this year with Watford, he's been a really good Premier League striker, scoring goals and doing his job. And I think the manager struggled with the limitations of the squad, but that, you know, world-class manager, that's up to you to get the best out of that squad. That's what you're there for, to look around and see how you can improve it, and pick up these wins, and yes, I know, it's behind closed doors, and a lot of the wins he had picked up, especially the away wins, were built on this counterattack on football, and maybe the court, it was a big part of that, but the win started dying up, and we ended up just sinking like a stone, and obviously, final day. Well, I mean, Sheffield, I think Sheffield's united, you know, three points there could have been a big catalyst, and obviously finishing last day of the season in Manchester City. And even that, we still had an opportunity to get into Europe on that day, and to go out on such a whimper, you know, was just pathetic, and obviously things like Hamas Rodriguez going away to South America on the same day and all these little things, it just left a bad taste in the mountain, and we couldn't wait to get out of the season into the next season thinking, well, there might be a few positives going in. We can, there's things to build on, but obviously that all come crumbling down quite quickly. Yeah, I mean, it was a terrible way to finish the season, given the way we'd started it, and we'd got ourselves into that great position, and that's all you're hoping for. You know, you're going in the middle of maths, and you're in the Champions League places, or, you know, there or there about, and you're thinking, can we just sustain it and guarantee Europe and create that extra whimfall and that buzz about the season, and then you finish the way you did, and losing the home games was just pathetic, really, the way we did. Sheffield United were relegated when they come to us, and they come and beat us, you know, we just couldn't do anything. I think we lost six home games at the back end of last season. Just six home games. Fullham, fullham had never won a game, it was only come and beat us. There was just so many newcastle, and come and beat it, there was just so many pathetic performances in that second half of the season, which cost us daily, and players can moan about, you know, I want to play in Europe, and I want to do this. It's the reason why we aren't playing in Europe this season. We did it. We got to the end of the season, and it was a case of, it was hugely missed off the tune that it was. We should have easily been able to post 66, 67 points easily to give it a position we got ourselves. We got 59, and we blew those home games. But you get to the summary, you think, well, we're linked with this player, and this player, and this player, and it was like you said before, I guess we just didn't realise the impact, you know, Covid. The reckon cost £15 million just through the gate. So you had that on to between £12 million and £18 million. We were talking about what Europe, and we were finishing, you know, every place is £2 million. We dropped down from fourth in March to 10th. You know, there's £12 million gone like that. You had that together. It's a big thing. And then obviously you'd have... Well, we spoke the back end of the season. We spoke quite a lot about just the club needing stability. We were... Obviously this was before, you know, the stadium. We were still waiting on the stadium. A few bits, obviously, we had a couple of things hanging over our heads. We had got, you know, we were waiting on the full plan of permission and the whole UNESCO thing and all that. So there was a few things hanging over the head, but it was about stability, and I think that's what we kept on saying, stability. We wanted to see some more of stability. First one in a while to, you know, to be able to, you know, to get us to go to the next level. And obviously the Real Madrid job came available and Carlo jumped at it. But where do you think that would have ended anyway? Because there's been rumblin' since that maybe Carlo's job was on the line anyway because of the poor performances and the way we finished. But where do you... Do you think, you know, that was for him the opportunity because he could see the writing on the wall, that maybe, because there'd been a lot of talk that he wanted to display on that player and there was, you know, there was a large amount of money involved, which never obviously happened anyway. So do you think if he'd stayed, they would have somehow magically backed him? Because that's like the weird one, isn't it? That's the weird thing for me. And I just wonder whether the Real Madrid go to Real Madrid was like the perfect get-out for him. Like, he... Either he knew he was not going to get something or if he did get something, it was going to cost him something later down there. I don't know. It's a very strange situation when you look back at it now. Well, yeah. Because obviously we have had the rumblin', you know, the way in happy with his performance. You know, if you did certain things, you'll find out stuff that his job was under threat. Because he was paid, you know, paid a million pound a month. You've got to perform everywhere performing. And maybe you'll also find out that... It's really interesting because when you sit here now, given what Evan has spent, you look and think, well, quite clearly there was no real wiggle room to spend anything else. I mean, we probably could have pushed another, pushed the envelope a little bit more maybe, but when I say a little bit more, I'm talking maybe another 10 million pound, maybe, in the summer. But that wouldn't have got anti-Lotty what he wanted. You know, he wanted a lot more than that investor. So it did interesting to think, how could they have done the things he was on about? Because if you remember, you know, he was quite bullish the week of the Man City game. He was saying things like, as if Premier League are going to do us for FFP when the Super League teams have done this and done that, there's no chance they need to look elsewhere. So I don't know whether they like to be sharing that and us winning off. As I've spoken to him, I'm like, where should I spend the money mate? You're our manager, we're backing you. But there is the other side, that he felt like his job was under pressure. So maybe Real Madrid was just a perfect thing. So we got to look at Real Madrid and the biggest football clubs in the world. Probably one of them and United are probably the biggest three football clubs in the world. They come knocking. You like this time at Madrid and he's looking at everything going. With you just dropped off a cliff, these are already questioning whether I'm good enough to do this job. Is this going to end four months down the line of what Napoli did, where his stock's low or he's either one walking out back to Real Madrid, you know what I mean. And that probably was the reason why he went. Yeah, obviously for him it was a great move on all fronts wasn't it? And he's doing very well there. So obviously he spent the next month trying to get a manager. It went down to a lot of minutes in the end after a lot of names had been put forward but no name ever really cemented itself with the fan base. Maybe one of the reasons why Rema did went for Carlo Ancelotti was the lack of availability of the top talent out there not that we'd be chasing over but it did feel like one of summer's where there wasn't a lot going on and you had the euros and stuff. We brought him Rafa Benitez obviously. Do you think the club maybe when deciding to take Rafa Benitez the ground was already sorted? Do you think they may have looked at it just from what we've been talking about and gone we have to face FFP now and with this manager with what he's presenting to us we can get through this period by observing FFP trying to sort it out for the next couple of years by not going big after players maybe having a rejig of the squad because this is the kind of manager where another kind of manager might have come in and gone I want him, him, him, him, him and because you've just brought them in you've made promise and gone well we're going to have to and it's going to push FFP any more Do you think by bringing him in that's when they decided these two things will work together not having that real money because he can work under those circumstances? Yeah, I mean I think it's difficult to know exactly how they went about this process of identifying the manager but actually Marcel Brans was the director of FFP at the time and you know a lot of people saying just let him pick the manager or whatever and we know that great importer was someone he liked but whether Miserie trusted the decision making who knows and haven't stayed away from that and maybe it was the case that someone got older Miserie and some of them were like we can't continue to gamble here because the Premier League take us to task over it it'll result in point deductions and you know that's never good because we've seen it with Derby what they're going through so whether on or ever they just decided to go he's a manager that's worked under financial restrictions and done alright with it this is a chance for us to turn about the other way kind of thing turn the tanker the other way the only thing that goes against that slightly is Miserie's interview that he did with Kelsa Brars with Talksbot when he spoke about Benitez and said he's had no money at Newcastle and he's got money here it'll be totally different we'll back him where he did and that's the only thing if he wouldn't have said that had fully subscribed to that going like they've decided he's the manager would you ever think though that he's got the full not that he's got the full sense of the picture but he's just a king bullshitter like he just tries to present everything football come to the outside world using Jim White he's not put this way if he's doing an interview he's never ever gone on anything saying it's hard financially we've got to be careful with FFP I think for me he's always left that to Marcel Branson to come out and say little things like that now it's Benitez who says that whereas I don't really think Farhad Meshiri wants not that he doesn't want to accept it he just doesn't want to put that out there because it's failure doesn't he so I think he's always coming out presenting this way of things to people but that's not really the true reflection and it's a politician's answer yeah we're fine because when you're not buying people you don't have to say it because we haven't got any money you just go because we couldn't make terms or he wanted to go somewhere else or we didn't like him or whatever we've had seen this on day one with the whole James McCarty he's part of the family don't want to sell him and all that kind of thing so I know what you're saying I just don't think he's even though he's the owner he's not the CEO he wasn't the director of football he's not the manager he doesn't have to live in the same world as them because he can just go everything's fine but I suppose from it there will be that and I guess from his perspective he sees the pot of money that could be available you know what I mean there's even a big pile of money going we can spend that it might be totally different to the actual reality isn't it but it does quite clap Mike Hapley will put another 300 million in for players because we want to get today maybe someone at the football club for once has actually gone we can't mate that's great let's keep that down the line because right now we can't let's start turning it back and you know what if Everton have done that then I've actually praised them for that because it would show signs that actually someone's going we've got to get older I always thought him bringing in Brincis was a clear sign of that though I always said Brincis is like a placeholder for me for three years he's the fella who you just go just keep us competitive for three years don't want to spend loads of money rejig the squad which needs rejigging anyway and you're the fella who comes in to do that that's fine though but why not be grown up a bar because he can't be grown up a bar but someone else can the fella who wanted to be grown up a bar I don't think it's at the club anymore but but there's no one have the ability to come out and speak that truth to me bringing in Raffa Benediff was always that sign that you were doing it in a certain way but you didn't have to you could still do that and present it in a positive light couldn't you because what you could still do is you could say we've got Raffa Benediff he's coming he said some of the stuff he interviewed the best he's got experience he's done this he's done that and what we're trying to do is we're trying to retain the football club this fella's got the experience to carry us through we need a period of stability to move forward the person who he allows to do that is the manager himself on the manager was like we have got money but there are rules and we will try and work on those rules and I think people may have thought because Michelle he was slightly contradicting that the idea was well there's rules now but by the end of the summer there won't be rules whereas I think he was more thinking no no this is going to take a year to get certain players out of the squad you know whoever they were obviously the four that are set to leave at the end of the season would be the first ones because you know they're nailed on but then we'll look within the squad and people will probably start saying he might have looked at certain people and wanted to turn them against who knows as we move into January as people come in and out we'll know more about that but I think the manager started to basically start mentioning FFP and he was going after but what I would say is at no point did anybody ever say to my knowledge we can't afford that person it was always there's a rule blocking us at the moment there was never ever we can't afford that or we can't go after that this is whatever and really clever I have always found whether clever might be the right word when things can be like links can be through the roof or someone could be 99% getting a job Everton just never speak a barri and I know most clubs don't but we've seen that some clubs do Everton just keep the part in case it goes tittle and when it does they've got plausible deniability and that's not a bad strategy it's not a bad strategy for a club like Everton because when you are linked with people or something some managers will get involved and go oh yeah we'd love him at the club but Everton just don't because they never can tell your man we were never in for him we were just never in for him so that's how it started obviously you go into the summer pre-season we went over to America which was really positive for the club as a whole going to America it was tough because it was a tournament that started off with four clubs and ended up with one which was interesting obviously again Covid big factor we brought in Sanzend Damari Gai quite quickly we brought in Begavitch quite quickly so the manager did bring in players and then you were just waiting them for the next one and the next one didn't really come and obviously we got Lornaugan in as another goal and we got Ronddon in on Deadline Day and that right back never came in which was a major frustration and still is a frustration that we hope to get sort in 2022 but we didn't I think for a lot of us we didn't really know how it was really exciting coming back as a fan missing a season obviously going back for the Southampton game and it was really positive and obviously we went 1-0 down and came back and won 3-1 and it was really positive went away to Leeds, got through against Huddersfield and the Cup was a positive start but obviously only bringing in that one player in Ronddon going into the international break Dominic Cavallun getting injured it just started to unraveled in it a little bit this strength of the squad as players got injured it's just been a really tough star for the manager in terms of the players available to him and building just building what he wants to build whatever that is building what he wants to do that we didn't even we didn't have a full compliment to players on day 1 Ben Goffrey this mission Covid and Moise Keane and all of these players who at the time were in that look to be fully in the pity we'd had 5 out day 1 in Southampton and they carried on Brighton we lost people at Jeri Mina I think Mr Brighton game after playing really well against Leeds the week before so we haven't had we haven't had what most Evertonians would go that's our best team we've not had it all season and we're into the new year so there's mitigate situations and we'll talk more about that at the end of the video where we are we had 10 points in the opening 12 we beat Burnley we went 1-0 against Burnley at home and came back and beat them 3-1 and that was with no dom and Tarkovsky trying to put the Charlie's in into 2022 early and then did that put him out for 4 or 5 games so we won that very positive result against Burnley and then we went to Villa a few days later on doing well and but even at Villa game we had no pick fit no Calvert losing, no the Charlie's they're just off the top I think no shame is Coleman as well when we went there so we went there depleted and that was without the other players that we'd had coming back as well so injuries hit us very early and that disrupted any kind of rhythm we've only picked up since the 2nd of October we picked up 5 points drawing into Tottenham drawing into Chelsea and beating Arsenal it's the first time ever in our history that we've only won one game between October and December and this one we've had obviously the back end of this month we've obviously had games that were winnable and they've all been off so obviously they've got to take that into consideration but it's been a horrendous run squad wise just on its bare bones big players missing from the Calvert losing obviously has been played since the back end of August hopefully we'll be back for the start of 2022 Michalisyn missing Jeri Neenyn missing the Coray missing everyone's been missing at some point I think there's only Michael Keane he's the only ever player who is not considered who's not missed the game through injury with everyone else even lad through a third membership a third placed down on a squad so we were the only Premier League squad last season to have every single outfield player injured for more than three games and we've done it again this season it's horrendous and we've seen obviously a change in the medical staff as well with Donahue leaving and the injuries have just been horrendous we also saw Hamas Rodriguez Hamas Rodriguez went obviously I was going to talk about that in a minute the squad was always a major factor it was always a major worry for me the squad first 11, 5 push for a European place but after that we were very very light and that comes down to again the cutting and cutting of the squad which you'd have to do but obviously there's been other things as well we tried, we got Moise Keane out we got Hamas Rodriguez out to try and help with wages but obviously loosen up some to time being players in which didn't happen the big miss over the summer was days wasn't it that deal was very close to being done and I guess if Hamas would have gone to Porto in part of it that's when it looked like it was going to get done he would have been someone who would have I think he would have really I think other Traunions would have absolutely loved him he'd have broke holes and stuff but I say we've had we've had off the field stuff we can't really talk about you know the fans December fans starting to obviously starting to get a little bit ugly Marcel Brans ends up losing his job there's going to be a review we don't know whether the director of football role is going to be continued got to start with all the different Bransons left as well and Dampere did there was a change at the academy you know there's been a lot of change looks like Rafa Benitez I mean ironically five points since the beginning of October is now going to get full power he's going to bring in players hopefully in January there's a lot of there's a lot going on the stadium thankfully is you know it's on its way it's nearly ready to be the land's nearly ready to start being built on so that's a positive but 2021 is just being such a year of turmoil at the football club um and I just hope that all settles down in 2022 and because I was thinking about this on the way in and I was thinking just like how much ever in this season of just this year sorry it's just just being you know two managers and you know taking over a players and it's just always in flux the board room now as well it's just ever it's just like we are continually in transition it's not a very good transition and all we can hope for and this is what we hoped for last year was just going into a summer with a bit of positivity and I know this will go against what a lot of people want when you get a summer where you're trying to build and you're not being cut down by the manager leaving and then oh another set of players or because the squad going into this summer with lots of players going out of the club on free time phase and stuff it just feels like this is an opportunity to start building or from this January you start replacing some of those older players whether you like your owner and start replacing them with younger players you can grow into the team and that's all you can hope for so as I say 2021 just seems to be just one disaster to the next forever it is mad when you think back to all the stuff that's gone on and we did see the positivity of the dock being filled in on the summer onwards and that's gone relatively smoothly in fact ahead of schedule the sand is all in and we've had the face concrete structure coming out the ground and stuff like that so already it's above ground so that's really positive the way that's gone but when you think back we've had two board members leave in the last couple of months Savarish Milov won't go on about two months and we've had obviously Marcel Brans gone as well so a small board which is what it was anyway a five is now down to three one of them is Bill Kennight he's the chairman obviously he's one of the grand singles who has to come and sit on the board and the other one is Denise Barrabach so we've got three board members at the moment so that obviously has to be increased for me by 50% at least more than what we've got now we've seen players leave the club the manager everything everything is in turmoil everything won't move forward there's a football club till things settle down you can't continue to go through members of staff the way we do whether any footballers manages board members whatever we've got to get a strategy in place and stick to it and that strategy has to come starting in January and obviously we have to decide what we want to be and where we want to go and how we're going to do it and these things don't seem to have been major considerations in the last few years we put a structure in place but the structure was it was pointless because people were grabbing at different jobs and stuff or taking different responsibilities whether people like Rafferbynnesys or they don't like Rafferbynnesys I think he's in charge and I don't know whether people won't like that but in some way I take half of the fact that if he's in charge he's in charge and I don't see other people getting involved then and that might be the writing for a lot of people but at least it's a strategy what I want to see is I've never been linked with it already anyway and obviously the bringing in rightfully Michael Enco who's 22 years of age okay we're going to lose Luke or Dean it looks like but that's the way it is it's football players moving in the country but he's 22 that's good linked very heavily with Nathan Patterson it looks like they're trying to do that deal to get him in as well then that's 20 and 22 they're the right type of age for players can we now go home then and pick up another couple of that age group once you do that and you're getting rid of the likes of Nathan Patterson we'll all walk out the door John Joe Kenny John Joe Kenny is 25 but the other three are all 28, 29, 30 whatever out the door big wages and you're turning that if Luke or Dean does go he's 29 in the summer Yeri Mina we still got time left but it is that if you start to turn those ages round you've got to bring in equality as well but that would be a strategy you think well if we develop well then we can sell them again and reinvent because let's be honest everything like a lot of football clubs probably like most football clubs not all of them but most you've got to be able to make yourself sustainable and that sustainability comes from having to sell players every now and to regenerate them funds because that's the sensible way to do it it's business any normal business you don't keep going to them and then there's more that's not how you develop a strategy and a winning strategy so if it is Rafa Benitez and if people have gone the club will let's try this way we've tried this directly the football way it hasn't worked let's tweak it if he's the fella then I guess we have to try to back him he's got to be better let's be honest I'm not giving him a free ride he's made some huge mistakes we've won one game the end of September and that's on him because none of us picked the teams it's on him yes he's been decimated with injuries yet fair enough there is that that kind of caveat throughout poor we've been but he's got to do better but if he is by properly, by young build got to have the right quality try to get these lads who we've seen over the last few weeks within our own academy now Ellis Sims, Lewis Dobbin Tyler O'n Yng Nghymru make these parts of the squad if he does that and we see a little bit of a turn and he had to couple in his own with the experience then at least Everton will get a base level of the squad who are at a good age competitive we know with this league if you're organised and you're quite competitive you can get into Europe it's not difficult it's hard to go to Champions League it's hard to win stuff but to get where you want to be let's have a look at the numbers for the year so obviously games play 40 wins 13 draws 10 losses 17 which is just horrendous squad 42 conceded a 58 points 49 points per game 1.23 which you look at that 49 points from 40 games that to me tells me how bad a year it was you know well it's by Carlo Ancelotti won 8 games in 23 he played 23 games from the turn of the year Everton won 8 of them Rafa Benitez has had 17 games in charge of Everton and he's won 5 of them so he's 6 games shy of Ancelotti's record Everton won 50% of those games and they've got some winnable ones he'd have the same kind of that tells you that they probably stack up similar as managers but what it really tells you is that's the quality of the player and the one thing I would say in Benitez's favour over Ancelotti is Ancelotti had his two strikers for the 23 games you know he had mainly his without the corey he had mainly his best players but he had his two strikers where his Rafa Benitez hasn't had his strikers with the Arlesons 6 games I think in the Premier League 7 games Don's missed 15 which is a hell of a lot for your main striker so Benitez may have got more results but overall it tells you that the quality of players the players haven't done enough they're not good enough the squad's not good enough like I've said before Everton have got 12 or 13 players I think that if you kept them all fit would challenge for your own the managers to maybe getting two or three players in January so if Everton can do that then we'll move on hopefully and we'll play his back as well so there you go 2021 comes to an end thankfully it's been at end this online I just think every front this was supposed to be the year it got better 2022 that's the big one that's the big one for those back 2022 so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this numbers wise 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