A thread for things that seem either too good to be true, or unsubstantiated things that would be SHOCKING IF TRUE.
From the JFK files released yesterday
Signing AWB makes sense as he's a solid, if unspectular FB. It allows us to move JOB to CB and look for a cheaper riskier developmental signing at RB alongside him.
Assuming we sell Patterson, which we should if we sign AWB.
He was, but let's not get carried away, he hasn't really hit those heights or put in one of those standout performances enough in recent years.
Good value for 8-10m, if the wages are sensible.
If we keep trying to fill the team with players from relegated clubs then we'll continue to find ourselves in the bottom half of the table.
Everton must have the least imaginative transfer committee in the league. I just hope it's lazy...
Your dead right here, mate. Obviously we can look at the table at the end of the season, even with the 8 points deducted, and tell yourself that we weren't in danger. But if we fail to win that game against Forest, after winning 1 game from Jan...
But the points deductions happened, and we'd taken nine points from the previous 15 games and had just been absolutely smashed by Chelsea. If anyone didn't have a single worry about relegation that season then they have a legitimate superpower...
That’s a bit of a myth, he had Hibbert as his main RB for like 9 yrs, Coleman also was filling in at right midfield quite a lot, think it may have been Moyes’s last season he cemented his place as right back