Alan Shearer suggests Rafa Benitez sack firmly on the cards after Gary Lineker update on Everton
Alan Shearer feels it’s likely that Everton will sack Rafa Benitez after Gary Lineker told him about reports of a board meeting at Goodison.
The Times has reported that there have been emergency talks behind-the-scenes at Everton and Benitez could be sacked before the Blues’ clash with Aston Villa next weekend.
Lineker suggests that Benitez’s ties to Liverpool didn’t help his situation in the first place while Shearer believes the issues at Goodison go deeper than the man in the dug-out.
“Lots of reports this evening that there’s a board meeting at Everton to probably discuss the future of Rafa Benitez,” said Lineker on Match of the Day on Saturday night.
“They’re on an awful run, it was an interesting appointment in the first place as he was a legendary manager of Liverpool. A lot of fans were automatically against him in the first place but now it’s all-consuming, isn’t it?”
Shearer then replied to say: “(Benitez) has been in the game long enough to know that you have to get results as a manager or a coach.
“If you don’t you’re under huge pressure and the probability is you’ll probably lose your job.
“Yes, those results have been dreadful, but the problems run deeper than the manager at Everton when you see how many managers they’ve gone through and how much they’ve spent on some of the players.
“It’s just phenomenal, absolute madness.”
Spot on
However you look at Everton’s issues, the buck stops with Farhad Moshiri.
Since he joined the Blues’ board, the club has thrown mega-millions at players and managers, only for no progress at all to be made.
Benitez is the fall guy right now but who hired him in the first place? Who offered him a contract knowing just how thin the ice he’ll be treading on would be?
Benitez was set up to fail by Moshiri, who threw the former Liverpool manager under the bus of an angry mob of Evertonians.
Moshiri’s senseless spending left Benitez to work with one hand tied behind his back too but the players at the club also need to take a look at themselves.
Look at Seamus Coleman, Andre Gomes and even new signing Vitaly Mykolenko. They were horrific on Saturday in that 2-1 defeat to Norwich.
Benitez should never have been hired and has to go right away.
But we really hope Moshiri is the one to follow him next.
In other Everton news, Jim White says it’s all going off after major transfer news at Goodison this week.
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