You've just countered your own argument here...
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £50m
You obviously have not looked at the table lately or watched them play.
On current form Sunderland will take Tottenham apart.
Woefully lacking up front, and not just goals either, the link up play from Beto and Barry is none existent, and this adds so much pressure elsewhere.
Personally in January I would add a journeyman striker, or at least a proven goalscorer that guarantees goals, we cannot afford another experiment as in Barry.
When a new Manager eventually comes in let him decide which new striker we pay top dollar for.
Personally in January I would add a journeyman striker, or at least a proven goalscorer that guarantees goals, we cannot afford another experiment as in Barry.
When a new Manager eventually comes in let him decide which new striker we pay top dollar for.
smileychap
Player Valuation: £10m
Leeds was grim, Villa uninspiring. Our average form during a soft run of fixtures and the positive Brighton game, are now in their correct light.
We're still a bottom half team:
- Strange, slow summer business
- Moyes perennial slow start
- long term gaps in our squad ( Lb, RB, CD, CF )
- sustained poor attacking player recruitment (years, now)
Moyes sides tend to improve during the season and we look more like grinding to 11/12th/13th than a surprise European berth or cup run which I'm obviously still hopeful for, but it's hope not expectation.
I would've taken 8/9th over a cup run, because scraping Europe starts to make targeting proper talent easier, rather than pay through the nose for the likes of Jack ( who's doing his best ).
Smaller / recent prem additions like Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace and even Sunderland it seems still miles ahead in that area of scouting. This part of Everton I simply don't understand.
As disappointingly, Frank's confidence in very simple tactics exposed us badly yesterday. It was a blatant advertisement for beating Everton with simple football. Physicality, concentration. Set pieces. We succumbed to championship tactics. Not all clubs have the physicality of spurs though ( weird saying that about spurs ).
We had players in position for the first two goals. They just weren't as good or as organized in the moment as Spurs.
We'll be safe, but the rebuild on the pitch is scarcely 30% done.
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £50m
No they won’t.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Leeds was a breath of fresh air then.
Other than Spurs scoring three goals compared to our zero it was an even game.
Same with Arsenal, other than them having double our points tally we are joint top with them.
Same with Arsenal, other than them having double our points tally we are joint top with them.
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
Fine margins.
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £60m
It wasn’t a great performance and it certainly wasn’t a good result but for the second game on the bounce if we had a competent striker we’d probably be looking back at both games very differently.
We’ve been Criminally mismanaged on and off the field in a relegation battle for years , unfortunately it takes time to turn that around .
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
Good post. Do not disagree with any of it. We are subpar in a lot of areas. I just hope that they get addressed sooner rather than later and that even just addressing one or two will make discernable improvements - though we'll need to address all of them to make any long lasting progress.
If you can't defend competently and you never look like scoring then you are not very good.
We lost 3 nil because we were rubbish in the areas that matter. I didn't like anything that we were trying to do. Pedestrian build up play and bullied in defence.
We lost 3 nil because we were rubbish in the areas that matter. I didn't like anything that we were trying to do. Pedestrian build up play and bullied in defence.
Had to read that 3 times
Jersey Baz
Player Valuation: £225k
The Spurs defence were outstanding, some of the blocks and saves made were top class. Another day, one of those opportunities goes in and suddenly it's a different game. That wasn't a 3 nil game, disappointing result obviously, but definite signs that it can get better. Getting more of the 50/50 decisions would also help.
If you were clapping Richarlison coming on when we were 2–0 down, you’re a massive ming.
Some of the loudest noise the “can you sit down please” South Stand lot made all game was when they applauded him coming on, oh, and when they booed the taking of the knee too.
Some of the loudest noise the “can you sit down please” South Stand lot made all game was when they applauded him coming on, oh, and when they booed the taking of the knee too.
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