Everton suffers a crisis of results. A very bad new era. An exaggerated wave of expectation without results. One of those bad streaks that, on this side of the world, would have already caused a hecatome.
But it is England and there is not only more patience but less intention to go around paying compensation left and right. That is why they are the best and most lucrative league in the world: they know how to take care of money.
The issue is that they are not getting rid of the dictatorship of the result and that is suffering, right now, Rafa Benítez at Everton. His campaign, which led to three initial wins, quickly turned into uncertainty when he spent six dates without winning, which has the team in 14th place, far from the worst presentations of Ancelotti, who came to be tenth.
The club’s owner, Farhad Moshiri, is said to be desperate to get Benitez to deliver results after five coaches have passed without success. In fact, he fired the sports director, Marcel Brands, which was interpreted as a triumph in the internal power struggle that the Spanish is giving.
But everyone knows that this experience could end soon if Everton’s free fall doesn’t stop, and so they think of a shocking possible replacement: none other than the legend, the World Cup player, the terrible child of British football, Wayne Rooney.
According to the newspaper The Sun, there were already first unofficial approaches with the man who started, just with the ‘toffees’ his amazing career.
At 36, Rooney has remained loyal to Derby County, which does not have a good time in the EFL, but has had the loyalty of the famous former player despite sporting and financial woes.
The point is that if Everton is calling, it’s like a first love call: irrefutable. “It would be very difficult for Rooney to turn down the prospect of returning to Goodison a second time … As a player he returned for a season in 2017 and went to United in a record £ 27m move when he was just 18 years old,” says the source.
And is that good or bad for Yerry Mina? Well, surely. The arrival of a man with that career, that respect and that figure will surely be a motivational bath for the entire squad. Of course, for the Colombian the first thing is to recover well from his successive muscular problems. But if it is true, as it is said in the local media, that Benítez has already lost his patience and is looking for his replacement, clearly a DT change is good.
The Spaniard has also caught a couple of uncomfortable fights in the locker room: a talent like Lucas Digne has been erased, apparently because he questioned him publicly, and Richarlison took him off the field and had to endure the tantrum, which all the cameras captured and spread. That dressing room doesn’t seem to support him.
We will have to wait for what happens in the coming weeks but it is a fact that a return from Rooney to Everton is, to begin with, an invitation to illusion.
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