Confirmed Signing James Rodriguez

[Wat Tyler]

Madrid gave him till today to complete the move or return to training. Has to be done by tonight.

Need to start tracking planes to Madrid now then

 

[Kenshin]

Last season was the exception not the norm it was our lowest finish in 16 years.


Burnley have finished above Everton twice in those 30 years you mention. Why include the last 7 years and not the last ten when we finished above the mighty Liverpool twice in succession.

This league is so poor that any well drilled team which is what Wolves are can challenge the top 6 there is nothing to fear from any team that finished above is they all have 11 players and every game starts 0-0.

If we keep spending money we will get it right eventually who is to say it won't happen next year?

We have spent money and it got us 12th. It got us 11th twice and that is the last 5 years.

That's the thing , football isn't about the past anymore. Who cares where we finished 10 years ago? Noone else does. So Burnley right now finishing above us makes them a better team whilst we have spent far more to finish worse off.

It's time people realise this. Doesn't matter if wolves were a league below us 3 years ago, they are outperforming us year on year now and that's all that matters these days.

How can the 5th best team in a 4 horse race end up 11th and 12th only 10 years later?

Best of all, do you think anyone will care who won the league last season come may? That's what football is now.

 

[marnie]

Need to start tracking planes to Madrid now then

Don't think it will have the same excitement somehow lol

 

[neilsyd]

I HATE him

Why do we get so wound up when pundits don’t suddenly say, I think they’ll push for top 4/6 now because of these signings. They’re gonna gatecrash, etc, blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is, we’ve spent money before and got worse. Pundits will never take notice until we perform consistently enough and beat the top teams. The reason being is, our squad is still not near the Chelsea’s, man utds, city’s etc. we’re all excited and rightly so by the three signings but I’m fairly sure we’ve spent the last six months complaining on this forum that the only top players we have are Digne and Richie. So why are we so angry? It would be quite a feat to gatecrash the top six next season. They don’t hate us, it’s just an impartial view. Which sadly, we don’t have.

 

[Anti]

I HATE him

Calling 8th and a good cup run an "unbelievable" season is absolutely rotten but I can see where he's coming from, In the modern game we are pretty much a big club in name only we haven't done anything of note in the last 20 years apart from put money into a blender.
A good cup run is absolutely pointless anyway if you don't win it, Who the hell wants to go to the finals and lose and go yeah but least we had a good cup run didn't we lads, Just dressing up failure.

 

[TGW89]

Was listening to this in my car on the way home tonight, back in your box Everton,they really don't like us at all do they? lol lol lol

Look mate, I've been holding this sex wee in for three days and my balls are about to burst.

SIGN THE GOD DAMN CAMERA LENS JAMES! NOW!

 

[willo30]

Calling 8th and a good cup run an "unbelievable" season is absolutely rotten but I can see where he's coming from, In the modern game we are pretty much a big club in name only we haven't done anything of note in the last 20 years apart from put money into a blender.
A good cup run is absolutely pointless anyway if you don't win it, Who the hell wants to go to the finals and lose and go yeah but least we had a good cup run didn't we lads, Just dressing up failure.

Don't let Dave catch you talking like that.

 

[Kure]

Contract Dave, where art thou?

 

[Connor]

Madrid gave him till today to complete the move or return to training. Has to be done by tonight.

It’s obviously done

We’re likely waiting on international clearance to announce it

 

[BlueToff]

We have spent money and it got us 12th. It got us 11th twice and that is the last 5 years.

That's the thing , football isn't about the past anymore. Who cares where we finished 10 years ago? Noone else does. So Burnley right now finishing above us makes them a better team whilst we have spent far more to finish worse off.

It's time people realise this. Doesn't matter if wolves were a league below us 3 years ago, they are outperforming us year on year now and that's all that matters these days.

How can the 5th best team in a 4 horse race end up 11th and 12th only 10 years later?

Best of all, do you think anyone will care who won the league last season come may? That's what football is now.

But once Allan, Doucoure and James come in, it's not really incorrect to say we have a better team - on paper - than Burnley, is it.

 

[rochdaleblue]

What what number he’ll be given. If we’re going to maximise him commercially (something our commercial team seem incapable of) then siguardisson needs to give up his number 10 shirt.

 

[LostLegend]

Decent article here - apologies if already posted:

James Rodriguez Transfer Will See Everton Sign Star Quality For Just €25m

By James Nalton. There was a reason Real Madrid were so desperate to sign James Rodriguez in the summer of 2014, and that reason wasn’t just because he was the best player at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (even though Lionel Messi was the official Golden Ball winner). James was, and still is, a […]

worldfootballindex.com

 

[BlueToff]

Fun fact.

My mate's uncle runs a car dealership in Birmingham.

When Bent was at Villa, he traded in his car there. In the glove compartment, there was an iPod (yes, an iPod) with a highlight reel of Darren Bent's best goals.

True story.

 

[wainy]

Its off, contract Dave has lost his pen.

 

[mahermi1]

Think it will be tomorrow now for all three. And I'm in bloody work.