Everton Summer transfers 2021

davek · August 5, 2021

Brizzletoffee said:
He was taking us backwards. No doubt his first season, I thought we played the best football in the league. Sunderland game cost us top 4. After that we went backwards, and quick.

He couldn't operate with a team sullenly in 'revolt'....a situation repeated since his departure.

davek · August 5, 2021

Bluewolf said:
Why are you using two different types of ways of calculating spending as a comparison?

Whichever you cut it, Martinez spent vastly less than Koeman.

MikeH72 · August 5, 2021

toffeeblue9 said:
Don't have much of an opinion on this, although I do seem to remember that it was under Benitez that this lad looked really good, but seems to have dropped under the radar since Bruce came in

He hardly played under Benitez.

Zatara · August 5, 2021

MikeH72 said:
He hardly played under Benitez.

Broke through under him didnt he, then suffered a serious knee injury...

MikeH72 · August 5, 2021

Zatara said:
Broke through under him didnt he, then suffered a serious knee injury...

Welcome to Everton.

MACCA75 · August 5, 2021

MikeH72 said:
He hardly played under Benitez.

He had 7 or 8 very good games and then got injured. He was the one Newcastle player I thought Benitez would go for.

Bluewolf · August 5, 2021

davek said:
Whichever you cut it, Martinez spent vastly less than Koeman.

He still bought crap though. He bought 17 players in and only 4 of them were any good (Lukaku, Barry, Mccarthy and you could argue deulofeu).

He was also backed to the hilt considering what we were like back then. We spent 30m on a striker with kenwright in charge! I nearly fainted when that happened.

deipnosophist · August 5, 2021

Brett Angell Delight said:
Not enough haiku
Posts on this forum these days
Excellent effort

*I’m drunk

...so was I

BigDuncTributeBand · August 5, 2021

tim cahill said:
I agree about the lack of goals/assists. I'm hoping Gray could do quite well but we really need a RB who can contribute.

Doubt it, in his five seasons where he actually got game time at Leicester he registered 10 league goals in 133 games. A goal every 13 games. His best goal scoring season was 4 in 34 league games for them. The other 4 seasons he got 0, 3, 2 and 1 league goal. In those five seasons he played 30 games or over in three of them and over 20 on another. He’s a sporadic goal threat.

davek · August 5, 2021

Bluewolf said:
He still bought crap though. He bought 17 players in and only 4 of them were any good (Lukaku, Barry, Mccarthy and you could argue deulofeu).

He was also backed to the hilt considering what we were like back then. We spent 30m on a striker with kenwright in charge! I nearly fainted when that happened.

Net profit from RM's time here on players.

granter79 · August 5, 2021

Back to talking about RM. This place has gone to the dogs . Cant wait to have the WH fans in here next week to complete the set

Quadvod · August 5, 2021

Brizzletoffee said:
He was taking us backwards. No doubt his first season, I thought we played the best football in the league. Sunderland game cost us top 4. After that we went backwards, and quick.

It started going downhill with a shambolic pre-season before the 2014/15 season - the opening two games against leicester and arsenal we were by far the better side and should have won at a canter - unfortunately we hadn’t trained properly and so were blowing out of our backsides from the hour mark and drew both.

I remember distin having a fall out with martinez about the training regime or lack of and being banished - all of the professionalism of the moyes era was quickly lost and we drifted