Confirmed Signing Tyler Dibling

[blueboy72]

Not sure what to think about us moving on. I believe this lad has the potential to be a top player so it’s balancing how much we have to spend on potential. In an ideal world we would have the resources to just buy him and I think in a few years he’ll go for a lot more, but I understand we have other needs.

We haven’t moved on

 

[Bluebonic]

I think he is very overrated personally.
I’ll always prefer a little less pace and little more intelligence and technical skill.
It’s fine having a sprinter on the wing , not so fine when he gets to the byline and just hoists into a box , with no other plan .

I always think back to Tony Daley at Villa, one of the fastest players I recall, but his brin could never catch up with his feet. He’s
D always lash his crosses in before the CF was even in the box

 

[Drico]

I always think back to Tony Daley at Villa, one of the fastest players I recall, but his brin could never catch up with his feet. He’s
D always lash his crosses in before the CF was even in the box

The quintessential headless chicken.

 

[Marc bolan]

southampton got too greedy

its the classic tale of icarus, southampton flew too close to the sun and got their wings burned

Do you think soton have the parachute payment to fall back on
So they are sticking to there price ??

 

[Bluebonic]

The quintessential headless chicken.

Fast though mate, used to leave every defender for dead. My dada used to say ‘he doesn't have the brains, god gave geese’

 

[Ming the Merciful]

The quintessential headless chicken.

Im sure I went to see Dalian Atkinson at a preseason/triallist match once but something says I had the same with Tony Daley too?

Am I imagining this or did it actually happen?

Exciting team Villa at times under Big Ron.

 

[Drico]

Fast though mate, used to leave every defender for dead. My dada used to say ‘he doesn't have the brains, god gave geese’

Oh, he was lightning. Like Roadrunner. Looked a bit like him as well, now that I think of it...

But that's why he disappointed sooooo much. He burned fellas alive and got into fantastically promising positions, only to balloon the cross into row Z or contrive to miss Ian Ormondroyd's giraffe-like neck.

Truly he was the headless chicken's headless chicken.

 

[Drico]

Im sure I went to see Dalian Atkinson at a preseason/triallist match once but something says I had the same with Tony Daley too?

Am I imagining this or did it actually happen?

Exciting team Villa at times under Big Ron.

Villa - despite their relegations - have had a better last 35 years than stolid, consistently anonymous Everton.

 

[Ming the Merciful]

Villa - despite their relegations - have had a better last 35 years than stolid, consistently anonymous Everton.

Depends really, if you count success and excitement as being better then you may have a point!

The length of time we have spent I the top flight does mean a lot to me and others I suspect though, not sure I would swap positions in the last 35yrs for that despite our troubles.

What matters is our futures, I'm optimistic about ours for the first time in a long time. Within reason, the sky cartel appears unbreakable for either of us.

 

[Andy2402]

I think this will drag on and we will get him eventually. KDH and Grealish will go straight into the 11 for Leeds so was important to rush them through.

Would imagine Moyes would ease Dibling in gradually so no rush to get this one done. Patience!

 

[Drico]

Depends really, if you count success and excitement as being better then you may have a point!

The length of time we have spent I the top flight does mean a lot to me and others I suspect though, not sure I would swap positions in the last 35yrs for that despite our troubles.

What matters is our futures, I'm optimistic about ours for the first time in a long time. Within reason, the sky cartel appears unbreakable for either of us.

I can understand that point of view - but I'd take a top-flight title, a relegation, and a promotion every decade over being seventh for 10 years.

I, too, am proud of our ever-present status, but that in itself has been used as an excuse for inertia. "Don't jeopardise the top-flight status, these are good times" while not spending a bob or refusing to sell to proper investors.

Consistently building is laudable - but only if it means reaching a destination. We never did. The Moyes years amounted to nothing, in the end. Not a single cup. Sure, it was better than being relegated, but we've got to set a higher bar than that when measuring success and striving for it in the future.

I suppose, in the end, I can sum up my feelings by saying Moyes - for all his sterling work at Everton - would admit that the greatest moment of his career was winning that pot at West Ham, even if his body of work at Everton was objectively better.

 

[Fonzy]

I think this will drag on and we will get him eventually. KDH and Grealish will go straight into the 11 for Leeds so was important to rush them through.

Would imagine Moyes would ease Dibling in gradually so no rush to get this one done. Patience!

KDH & Grealish are the sort of quality signings that make other players think Everton mean business.

So from now to the window closing hopefully becomes easier to convince players who were 50/50 on joining us

Might make Dibling and his agent push harder for the move

 

[Ming the Merciful]

I can understand that point of view - but I'd take a top-flight title, a relegation, and a promotion every decade over being seventh for 10 years.

I, too, am proud of our ever-present status, but that in itself has been used as an excuse for inertia. "Don't jeopardise the top-flight status, these are good times" while not spending a bob or refusing to sell to proper investors.

Consistently building is laudable - but only if it means reaching a destination. We never did. The Moyes years amounted to nothing, in the end. Not a single cup. Sure, it was better than being relegated, but we've got to set a higher bar than that when measuring success and striving for it in the future.

I suppose, in the end, I can sum up my feelings by saying Moyes - for all his sterling work at Everton - would admit that the greatest moment of his career was winning that pot at West Ham, even if his body of work at Everton was objectively better.

It's fine to disagree, I see your point.

If you were to offer me our last 35yrs against City's then that would be a different conversation.

But for all the ups and downs we aren't a million miles away currently. Would I swap the last 35 with Villa? Nope I wouldn't and that's fine as well.

I loved the Moyes years and as bad as it go sometimes, if you were to offer me the same without him at the helm and the next 5yrs with Dyche or Benitez I'd probably sing a different tune.

I've sat in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Spain, Slovenia surrounded by people who came to watch Everton with me because it meant so much to me. Invariably we lost every game or drew in a manner so boringly the match lost all meaning.

I still loved it, couldn't picture it any other way. Better to live without comparison to others, just enjoy the journey.

 

[Drico]

It's fine to disagree, I see your point.

If you were to offer me our last 35yrs against City's then that would be a different conversation.

But for all the ups and downs we aren't a million miles away currently. Would I swap the last 35 with Villa? Nope I wouldn't and that's fine as well.

I loved the Moyes years and as bad as it go sometimes, if you were to offer me the same without him at the helm and the next 5yrs with Dyche or Benitez I'd probably sing a different tune.

I've sat in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Spain, Slovenia surrounded by people who came to watch Everton with me because it meant so much to me. Invariably we lost every game or drew in a manner so boringly the match lost all meaning.

I still loved it, couldn't picture it any other way. Better to live without comparison to others, just enjoy the journey.

We can do better, though.

Why not enjoy a better journey?

One man held us back. His passing has opened new possibilities...

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Either Southampton is being wildly unreasonable or they’re using us as a stalking horse to get a better bid from someone else. That’s the danger of all the “get your business done early” shouts. Unless you’ve got unlimited money and you can pay whatever the price tag says, it can’t be done.