Poor players have a poor mentality because more often than not they lose. Football fans seem to have an odd view that if their players just ‘have a go’ even if they’re massively inferior to the opposition they’ll win, every time as well. So a poor group of Everton players can beat Chelsea, Leicester, and Arsenal but then when they lose in the 87th minute to United, suddenly it’s because the players didn’t have a go.
It’s all down to quality. These ‘disappointments’ will continue to occur until we go out and get a squad of players where every player is at the level of the premier league top 6. We can’t do this currently because Koeman hamstrung the club with FFP problems. We have to walk a tightrope window by window of moving high earning under performers off the book, getting in better players for cheaper, meanwhile staying competitive. At the same time our challengers like United can drop 60 mill on a January signing without issue to partner their 90 million pound midfielder.
That’s the challenge. The days of Everton fans just extorting the likes of Davies Coleman and Sigurdsson to ‘have a go’ needs to be over. They never have done it, they never will do it, they’re not good enough, how many years do we need to see this before we accept it? This is now a waiting game unfortunately, and Ancelotti Brands and Moshiri have to somehow pull off one of the hardest jobs in football, competing against 6 of the richest clubs in Europe who are already ahead of us whilst we have our hands tied by FFP.
It’s like Luke taking that shot against the Death Star. We’re holding out for that one in a million miracle shot given the conditions. That said, we might just have the man in charge who has even a slim chance of doing it. Yet some people want this bloke out. I despair .
