Mr Happy
Player Valuation: £30m
Loving the renaissance of the word 'pillock'.
Massively underrated in my opinion.
Massively underrated in my opinion.
100%. Can you imagine the feeling on here if Moyes had been poached and we were promoting Charlie Adam?
No matter how much they like Andrews internally it baffles me that they’d appoint a manger in the biggest and toughest league in the world with no experience of the position anywhere. Very few walks of life where a business would make such a crucial appointment with such little experience.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I'd say English players were just as hyped back then.
English football is at its strongest now. TV money has attracted great managers and players to the league and Premier League is by far the best league in the world. That was never the case when Scholes, Gerrard, Owen and Cole played.
This season we had two of the worst Premier League teams in the Europa League final. Chelsea could win Conference League without breaking a sweat playing their reserves. West Ham won Conference League whilst being 14th in the league.
Aston Villa and Palace will be favorites to win Europa League next season. Forest should win Conference League.
It is an impossible task to rank football teams, but Opta has a model where they are trying. They have currently Everton as the 30th best team in the world. Looking at the big picture, that is probably the best Everton team David Moyes has managed. He has had better league positions, but in a much poorer league.
The Best Football Teams in the World: Opta Power Rankings
Who are the best teams in world football? A question that’s often asked, but one that hasn't always easy to answer – it is now.theanalyst.com
Not sure I agree with this. Spurs winning the Europa league is largely due to none of the CL team dropping into it for the first time. I expect this will carry on whilst the current format is in place that English teams will do well in the Europa league.
There’s no way this Everton team is anywhere near Moyes’s best Everton teams.
But back to the main point, a prime Wayne Rooney was better than any current English player in my view.
Its a £120 mill decision really - prob more.
DrEFC
Player Valuation: £40m
May cause murder here, but he's the most Albanian looking Serbian I've ever seen
Seems decent, be great if he's as effective as our last Millwall pick up for the first team (plus the youth player who looks great for the u18's)
Librarian
Player Valuation: £70m
Wand of a left foot (this type of thing?)Magic. (Starts digging out Merlin puns furiously)
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
Regarding Brentford, if we achieve a modicum of even relative success then there will be plenty of people who will say that we're only a change of manager, or recruitment model, from it all going pear-shaped. I guess it did after Moyes left too.
We really have to try and get into the CL sometime soon or win one of the other Euro cups. Even Spurs have managed it now and they already have a financial buffer that keeps them on the coattails of the elite.
We really have to try and get into the CL sometime soon or win one of the other Euro cups. Even Spurs have managed it now and they already have a financial buffer that keeps them on the coattails of the elite.
Librarian
Player Valuation: £70m
Had a fantastic spell at FreiburgMagic. (Starts digging out Merlin puns furiously
Exactly. Guy is going from deciding who takes the throw ins to multi million pound decisions on an almost daily basis.
Dyche by November I reckon.
I'd say English players were just as hyped back then.
English football is at its strongest now. TV money has attracted great managers and players to the league and Premier League is by far the best league in the world. That was never the case when Scholes, Gerrard, Owen and Cole played.
This season we had two of the worst Premier League teams in the Europa League final. Chelsea could win Conference League without breaking a sweat playing their reserves. West Ham won Conference League whilst being 14th in the league.
Aston Villa and Palace will be favorites to win Europa League next season. Forest should win Conference League.
It is an impossible task to rank football teams, but Opta has a model where they are trying. They have currently Everton as the 30th best team in the world. Looking at the big picture, that is probably the best Everton team David Moyes has managed. He has had better league positions, but in a much poorer league.
The Best Football Teams in the World: Opta Power Rankings
Who are the best teams in world football? A question that’s often asked, but one that hasn't always easy to answer – it is now.
I’m not sure that English clubs and the premier league being strong has much to do with the English players being hyped. As always most of the better players in the teams winning things aren’t English.
On top of that I think the quality of players and teams across Europe don’t seem to be particularly good at the moment.
Further proof that signing players to provide squad depth is a totally normal thing to do and it's not the norm to only sign players to go straight into the first choice XI.
They are saying 'next generation' though, so they aren't comparing them to Rooney.
Rooney imo was one of the best ever players in the world so Foden and Bellingham not being at his level doesn't mean they aren't great players in their own right
Margarita
Player Valuation: £500k
I think Bellingham is a better player than Foden if we’re talking current ‘top talent’
on last season's showing definitely, but the season before Foden was superb
Its a 16 man match day game now mate. Id say its more then normal, its vital.
Something we really need to look at without stating the obvious in our ability to change a game through our bench - the advent of 5 subs has changed the dynamic of games and teams have overtaken us and won games against us because they have had quality bench options to impact as opposed to us having 11 -13 warm competent bodies in the squad the last three years.
I think Moyes recognizes this, which is why i think he held McNeill back on the bench toward the need of the seasons - to impact - Charly to at times.
If we need to be pragmatic in profile with that - with a Noorgard, Ndidi profile etc - so be it.
Squad depth and improving our options of the bench would be one of my objectives of the summer. Vitally important.
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