Given what he had to work with and unlike the teams he was competing against and trying to overhaul, he had to do it gradually, piece by piece, brick by brick, player by player, working with peanuts and adding 1 or 2 of the players we needed to overhaul the incredibly poor squad he inherited a season when we needed 8, EVERY season has been brilliant from Jurgen
I loved Rafa, but he got Alonso, Masch, Torres, Reina, Garcia and others within 3 seasons, he got his keeper 2 top class CMs, Garcia by his second season and inherited Gerrard, Sami and Riise at their peak
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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