Everton have been through plenty of managers under Farhad Moshiri’s reign, all ending in similar fashion.
Despite strong starts and rare pushes for Europe, the subsequent season after a huge financial splurge often saw a minor downturn in form, and the Iranian would then recklessly act on the vocal minority, sacking them.
Marco Silva fell fowl to this treatment, as did Roberto Martinez, but perhaps the fairest dismissal of the lot was Ronald Koeman.
After all, the Dutchman never really got Everton, and was constantly putting himself at odds with the fanbase despite a solid first season in which they finished seventh.
The campaign that would follow was nothing short of an embarrassment, and the money he spent still haunts the club to this day.
Phil Jagielka has sought to shed some light on his tenure.
What Phil Jagielka said about Ronald Koeman
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, the former Everton captain was a mainstay under the former Barcelona player and manager, and therefore best-placed to pass comment on his rule.
It was a chequered one that ultimately ended in despair, but not before he unloaded a small fortune on many players who have since failed to offer anything near what was spent on them.
Arguably, their current PSR mess can be traced back to the free-spending nature of his 2017 summer window. A reckless one which sums up everything wrong with the Moshiri era.
Jagielka was keen to detail exactly why he never really felt like Koeman would work as manager of the Toffees. He claimed: ‘I think when he came to Everton, I don’t think he understood how big the club was as in the Premier League.
‘But to the same extent the clubs that he played for and the teams he’d been a part of… like it’s incredible.
‘And I think when he came and didn’t realise that maybe all of our centre-halves couldn’t spray a 90-yard diag or step up and take a free kick or you didn’t have Van Basten to volley it in. I don’t think he could grasp.
‘I don’t think he was an amazing coach in that respect, because I don’t think he could deal with, I mean we were still in the Premier League, international players, but we just didn’t have FIFA’s World XI from 1980 playing and stuff.
‘And I think he struggled, because he got frustrated a lot.’
Ronald Koeman was never a good fit for Everton
Alongside the small things like rarely referring to the club as ‘we’ or having a red Christmas tree (looking back on that, perhaps we as a fanbase might have overreacted there…), there were many reasons why Koeman was never going to work with Everton.
His glittering playing career had clearly given him an ego which made him feel like he was owed a fast track to the top of the managerial pyramid, and with the Toffees, that was never going to happen.
Nothing ever comes easy to the Merseyside outfit, but his efforts to promote that only dug the club into a financial hole of which they are not yet out.
Not only that, but his treatment of certain members of the team remains a disgrace to this day, with Oumar Niasse one such player who rose above the petty and frankly disgusting way in which he was handled.
He did not really embody the People’s Club motto, with his cold and calculated demeanour seldom selling himself to the fans.
Sean Dyche instead paints the picture of what a true Everton manager looks like: an uncompromising leader who takes no fools and is willing to put in the hard yards to earn his success.
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