The manager spent £1.7m in the summer and is doing his best but structural flaws overseen by Farhad Moshiri and Marcel Brands are the root of the club’s problems
The reaction to Everton’s 13-minute collapse against Watford was telling. Scorn rained down on players and manager alike after a 2-1 lead in the 78th minute became a 5-2 defeat by the 91st, but a sizeable number of fans in the main stand at Goodison Park headed for the directors’ box to accuse the major shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, and the director of football, Marcel Brands, of deep-rooted mismanagement. Anger has understandably risen to the top.
After three successive Premier League defeats, one win in seven matches and a woeful response to the Watford debacle at Wolves on Monday, it is Rafael Benítez’s turn in a spotlight that has passed from Manchester United to Tottenham to Everton in the past fortnight.
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