85 mill on a lad who doesn’t have a senior French cap yet and has a less than 1 in 2 strike rate in the bundesliga? Not saying he won’t be a good player but straight after Nunez being a flop that’s one almighty punt that.
Barry didn’t leave CL football with Villarreal to sit on the bench.
We also didn’t part with 30 mill for a backup striker to Beto.
As soon as he’s acclimatised to the PL he’ll he starting in my opinion unless Beto is on such a goal scoring...
In most games absolutely, it could tear apart a bottom half team at home. There’s a reason we never won away at the top 4 sides though. We tried to out play them with players like Pienaar Osman Arteta Baines whilst those sides were much too...
You also need absolutely rapid DMs and CBs to play this way as the wide playmaker and full back will nearly always be ahead of the ball if caught in possession. The only time we’ve done this effectively was 13/14 when McCarthy was covering...
Yep, I've no issue with slowish playmaker types in wide areas. It's pretty much how he set us up last time he was here. The issue is that you've got to have full backs who can overlap and deliver the ball and we currently don't have them on...
Patterson flying down the flank on the overlap.
In all seriousness we’re not good enough to build an attacking game around our full backs. I’d rather we just had a solid deep defence that could pass the ball effectively and some pace in attack...
Think the Lukaku goal was v Chelsea in the cup not the league.
Best PL goal in terms of skill I’d probably go McFadden v Charlton. Never liked the Beckford goal as he essentially gets lucky bobbling it off the Chelsea defenders.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see this from Moyes you know. He did it with Coleman. Get the lad a bit of confidence playing in the team where mistakes aren’t punished as much and then move him backwards when he’s playing at a better level. Could...
And that's without accounting for our most significant move of the summer: the retention of Jarrad Branthwaite.
Heck, I'm mad for us to spend big wonga on top players - but I'm reasonably happy with where we are at the moment. There's lots to...
Depends how you phrase it.
If you’d said at the end of last season that by the middle of July Everton would have spent 42 million on a number 10 and a striker, with the striker being the biggest fee paid by the club since Onana, it doesn’t...
That Bronze could walk into a bar and neck your missus in front of you and drink your pint and there’s not a thing any of you little pissants could do about it.