A lot more ladies would go to the match, that's for sure. It'd be like the front row of a Take That gig, minus the gay fellas, or maybe not ?
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A lot more ladies would go to the match, that's for sure. It'd be like the front row of a Take That gig, minus the gay fellas, or maybe not ?
Basically Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Utd have all spent between 30m-70m with one or two big signings.
We also probably needed to spend more than them as well if the "challenging for the champions league" wasn't just a load of hot air nonsense to generate season ticket sales.
dholliday
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I'm yet to see any sign that we "can compete financially with other clubs". Signing Koeman is not that sign. He has the potential but he wasn't in that top tier of managers we were discussing a few months ago.
Signing players our rivals are also going for, while keeping Rom & Stones, is that sign (as that points to the fabled 100m net spend).
When that happens, I'm merrily on board the fanciful train. No sign of it so far, tho'.
Our rivals don't seem to have this issue:
Or maybe Koeman knows that Joel is a very decent keeper and plans to use him as a number one? With the guidance of a WC finalist, in Stekelemburg, maybe Joel will be even better? Remember how he, at times, kept the results as "good" (read "not as humiliating") for us as possible? Yeah, he had the odd dodgy moment, but so does every keeper, it's a tough position.
With a good defense in front of him Joel can perform very well. I know you wanted us to sign imaginary world beaters from teams you've apparently scouted, but realistically was that going to happen?
To be fair it's only the youngsters he will need to run the rule over. He like any other manager about will know about all our 1st team players, he's played us 4 times to start with.
So basically the record of a decent journeyman manager which is what the original point was. A European Mark Hughes or a Dutch Davy Moyes.
Technically not even a friendly, but a warm-up/training game. Our first real one is against Barnsley in nearly a week.*friendly - ONE friendly.
..and you're welcome Zat, any time mate...
Ashtonian
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Thing is mate, you are forgetting he managed them at the start of his managerial career. So where he made mistakes and was nieve about being a manager it all came out then. As he is moving on he is learning from his mistakes, because he is getting repercussions from managing badly. Whereas martinez for example had none when he got here so he kept going the same way.
So in general perspective he done a much better job at Southampton than he did at Valencia because of experience. No koeman is not a top manager, those who a generally always successful are the ones that only move to top clubs (Jose, ancellotti, guadiola) so koeman isn't in that bracket. But point is, those top managers wouldn't look twice at us no matter how much we offered to pay them.
For koeman this could be the club where it all sticks for him, it could be another learning curve. But what he will do is make us better and that is the most important thing. He takes us back into Europe then that is a massive improvement on the last 2 years where we were nowhere near that level. Even city for all their millions spent aimed to get a Europe place before they kicked on. And if we are struggling to get the better quality players to the club as it may seem we are, even more important that koeman can turn us back onto a top 6 team to be a much better attraction next summer.
Lad over the road who is a sports journo for a broadsheet, says that from what he's hearing Everton will cane three or four big transfers in one week and what's holding them up is the minutiae of the contracts, so no need to panic.
ijjysmith
Calm
What in the blue hell is that?!
dholliday
deconstructed rep
There's no logical reason why we are slower than everyone else in securing signings.
Plus we've lost mainstay squad players due to retirement: Howard, Osman, Hibbert, Pienaar...they need replacing and urgently.
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
minutiae
mɪˈnjuːʃɪiː,mʌɪ-,-ʃɪʌɪ/
noun
- the small, precise, or trivial details of something.
"the minutiae of everyday life"
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dholliday
deconstructed rep
My uncle has a dog, he says his brother has a cousin who works for some newspaper: apparently we're in talks with one or two really long noses.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Even without any signings we are stronger than last season due to the fact we have a manager that can organise a defence. Not playing Howard will also lead to an improvement.
Everton have never done buying for the sake of buying. We moaned about dithering Dave but in that period we had one of the best hit rates for successful transfers and also for player retention at the club. This gave us stability, a good reputation in the market place with players and other clubs, a fantastic team spirit, and ultimately allowed us to compete on a shoe string.
Just because we now have the resources in place does not mean we need to abandon those principles that served us well in the transfer market. FSG have been burned multiple times, as have Ellis Short, Mike Ashley and Randy Lerner, rich owners who 'showed ambition' and 'backed their manager' throwing money at the latest names in the European game but to no success. Moshiri Koeman and Kenwright are all football people with so much experience. We should be glad they are at the club rather than trigger happy owners and scatter gun managers with no plan like Rodgers or McClaren or O Neill. If they are biding their time, then I trust they are doing it for the right reasons. If it's taking a few weeks longer to get a good value deal rather than spending 15 mill on a Jordan Ibe then I would rather do that every time than panic buy.
I am supremely confident that over the next month or so we will see the needs of the squad in the goal keeping position, creative mid and potentially backup striker sorted out with quality solutions.
Everton have never done buying for the sake of buying. We moaned about dithering Dave but in that period we had one of the best hit rates for successful transfers and also for player retention at the club. This gave us stability, a good reputation in the market place with players and other clubs, a fantastic team spirit, and ultimately allowed us to compete on a shoe string.
Just because we now have the resources in place does not mean we need to abandon those principles that served us well in the transfer market. FSG have been burned multiple times, as have Ellis Short, Mike Ashley and Randy Lerner, rich owners who 'showed ambition' and 'backed their manager' throwing money at the latest names in the European game but to no success. Moshiri Koeman and Kenwright are all football people with so much experience. We should be glad they are at the club rather than trigger happy owners and scatter gun managers with no plan like Rodgers or McClaren or O Neill. If they are biding their time, then I trust they are doing it for the right reasons. If it's taking a few weeks longer to get a good value deal rather than spending 15 mill on a Jordan Ibe then I would rather do that every time than panic buy.
I am supremely confident that over the next month or so we will see the needs of the squad in the goal keeping position, creative mid and potentially backup striker sorted out with quality solutions.
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