Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
I feel as though I've been shafted
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ProZ
Player Valuation: £40m
I want to lay back in my armchair and have his underpants rest on the top of my face while I inhale profusely.
Don't bs me by telling me I'm the only one who's been increasingly thinking about this.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
........ ill need more people come out, for me to comment. Soz. Admire the courage. I'm just not there yet. Courage wise.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
No doubt about it, he is having a considerable influence on our players and the way we are operating on the pitch.
PaddyJames
Player Valuation: £25m
I see a few of the hysterical cry girls are a bit quiet on this thread all of a sudden.
8) Gray proving to be bargain buy
The of sum £1.7m, pre-pandemic at least, is one top-tier clubs might have spent on a 15-year-old tearing up academy leagues. Rarely does it fetch you a Premier League starter, nor an English attacker coming into his prime. Yet in Demarai Gray, Everton have both. Still only 25, Gray has been a player of considerable promise for a while. Before his Merseyside arrival, Gray had started in a shade under 50% of his first-team appearances (104 from 210). Almost half of those came as a teenage prodigy for Birmingham City in the Championship. Rafael Benítez has trusted Gray from the off and has been rewarded by a pair of strikes; Saturday’s opener at Brighton followed on from last week’s Elland Road effort. Sometimes a player just needs a little TLC.Sam Dalling
Maybe a manager does as well.
blueconverse
Player Valuation: £35m
Really like him saying to Gray don't get ahead of yourself.
AmericasToffee
Player Valuation: £40m
I imagine he's about a 46 waist
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
...homo eroticism has spread into a thread where I did not expect to come across it.
kleew
Player Valuation: £8m
Peter Crouch reveals Rafael Benitez demands and makes 'dangerous' Everton claim
Peter Crouch previously worked under Everton boss Rafael Benitez and he has tipped the Blues to be successful this season.Peter Crouch believes Rafael Benitez will become one of the first people to be loved by both sets of supporters on Merseyside - and he knows what the Blues players can expect from the Spanish coach.
The former England striker worked with Benitez for three years during his time with Liverpool and he has tipped his former boss to be a success at Goodison Park.
He has also given an insider’s view as to what will be demanded of the Toffees squad each day at Finch Farm.
“If they follow his lead, those on the blue half of Merseyside will become more rounded footballers, more aware of the bigger picture, because tactically I don’t think I played for a better manager”, Crouch admitted.
“Everton are going to be dangerous this year with a manager who studies everything so meticulously.
“He would emphasise the small details that make differences in games, dissecting every weakness in the teams we were about to face. He would go around the team before games, each one of us, and explain what we were up against individually. Where to hurt them, how to exploit them.
“These are the tiniest things. He would ask questions of us in team meetings. ‘What foot does this young goalkeeper play off?’”, he wrote in his column.
“You are sat there having to answer and it kept us on our toes. Everybody’s brain was switched on in every meeting because you knew a question was coming your way.”
Everton have started the season strongly under the former Valencia boss, picking up seven points from their first three matches.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored in each game, with new £1.5m signing Demarai Gray also firing in two goals in as many matches.
Speaking about the Blues’ prospects this season, Crouch believes Benitez has clearly got his message across to the players, despite it being the start of a fresh campaign.
“Looking at this Everton team’s start to the season, he has already got them going”, he said.
“Demarai Gray and Andros Townsend are quality signings who had lost their way, but Rafael is letting them flourish. Dominic Calvert-Lewin is a born goalscorer, Abdoulaye Doucoure gives drive in midfield.
“Suddenly they are an exciting team to watch — not a label that has been put on all Rafael’s teams. And it is true, sometimes he can be very cautious.
“There was always going to be criticism when he took that job. If he had lost his first two games, it would have got difficult, but I look at that side, the talent they have, and it is one he can harness.
“Everton’s fanbase will take to him. I believe he will become one of the first men to be truly loved by both sets of supporters.”
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
7 points.
But I'm giving Rafael the edge because he won the aways with people in the ground and the performance against Saints this year was far better than last years.
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
Three league games. 2 dropped points.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Can't blame Benitez for that Keane blunder.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
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