Recent content by Socistep2

Totally correct re: wheels coming off, it was the covid season of course but we were in a strong position mid way through that season, a bit like villa this season, playing well and had a style that got results - after 27 games we were 5th but dropped to 10th, definitely an opportunity missed as...

Whilst the premise of FFP is generally sound, to stop a Leeds or Pompey like was experienced in the 00s, the application has now created an even harder glass ceiling that we experienced under Moyes The "big" sides have found ways to account differently and have the revenue to sustain being up...

One mate of mine messaged me on Sunday morning saying "You will escape. League will fix it. Just like the 99th minute equaliser." Tbf I've kept quite quiet with them as still not 100% sure what Everton will turn up next season...

Bug bear of mine as well this, it's just plain lies but keeps getting peddled, turned a profit in last 2 seasons and our spending isn't as bad as others

I live in Leeds, a Leeds fan at work told me last week that our result against Brighton was dodgy and needs investigating, as does the late equiliser versus wolves ..he then said he'd been emailing the FA/premier league regularly about our FFP investigation, made me laugh at the time

There seems to be a view that because we generally have been 'keeping up the numbers' and achieved very little in the premiership era we deserve to go down, agree that it seems that a lot of people think we've been struggling for years when reality is it's been 2 terrible seasons

Agree with this, it doesn't go down well with those who lived through the 80s but it's sadly true We don't have a successful recent history and have been making up the numbers for quite a while, even when moyes got us playing our best football of the premiership years we achieved nothing...

Spot on this - same happened to villa but there demise was quicker then ours after being close rivals during the Moyes era, we had a general decline into mid table then came the bad signings and regular changing of manager, particularly from 2016-2020, it's just caught up with us and a big drop...

100% - someone from Laing's is hastily installing the first blue seat somewhere so we can get a video out

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This I agree with - the major recruitment mistakes were made from 2016-2020, resulting in a much smaller budget now due to FFP and a squad that is too small and low on quality, signings like Onana, Garner, Patterson and Mykolenko should be given time to bed in but we have to throw them into the...

its been a terrible nearly 2 years now, 20-21 tailed off badly post march, for me the drop in performance levels started there and resulted in Ancelloti going at the end of that season - the Benitez and Lampard eras have been dire really, we managed to drag ourselves over the line last season...

yeah agree with that, its similar with Patterson and Onana, they need time to bed in yet for all 3 we've put them straight into the starting line up, shows how there is a distinct lack of squad depth

For me, its symptomatic of the reduction in quality in the squad, the drop in quality from Baines to Digne and now to Mykolenko sums up with state of the squad, he's not premiership quality

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