Homepage Article Rafael Benitez Appointed Everton Manager

[Timbucktoo]

We had nearly £200m worth of players missing.

Who makes up that £200m?

 

[JLW]

Interesting comments from the game yesterday especially on Dobbin ‘at least he tried’. He also
mentioned the younger players trying. He was then going on about the things they’d worked on in previous pre-season games just not being there at all.

Isn’t that Everton all over? We’ve seen this for years, I think even Allardyce called it out, maybe Silva also, the things they are working on at the training ground are just completely disregarded when it comes to match day. Levels of effort and intensity seen during training just completely disappear at match day.

It’s an absolute disease at the club, this compete apathy that seems to grip every player and is undermining every manager we have. Imagine preparing a game plan all week, seeing the players on it in training, it’s all looking good, then match day arrives and players can’t pass 5 yards to each other, stop working, don’t run, turn off at set pieces, miss sitters. Then you just rinse and repeat every single week until you’re fired.

If will be Benitez’s biggest challenge to rid us of this. Not many other clubs suffer from this. There’s poor clubs in the league who play like it at times but there’s players in this team turning it on for international teams or former teams (Pickford, Mina, Allan, Siggurdson, Digne Richarlison) at a high level then turning out at Everton looking like a pub player. Watching Richarlison play for Brazil is just a smack in the face, this lad could barely trap a ball last season for us and yet is playing like one of the top forwards in the world for Brazil.

The players need a massive massive kick up the arse and Benitez needs to keep his foot on their throats until these clowns finally decide that they’ll break into more than a light jog for Everton. Until that point I’d play any young player who is willing to bust a gut for us. Throw Gordon Nkonkou Dobbin Simms in whoever and make the first team watch from the bench until it finally gets into their thick heads that they need to actually try a bit on a match day.

I'm not sure this bunch of players can be coached as they've failed numerous managers all with different styles, this isn't a comment based on the result yesterday. They either don't give a hoot to what's being asked of them or they're simply not good enough (if that's the case then Brands has a lot to answer for)
Some of these players have seen off 3-4 managers and yet still put in the same performances.


Benitez is on a hiding to nothing here and regardless of those who will or wont support him its not going to end well.
Nothing suggests he will be successful here it will be the same as its always been, no threat to the top and no threat of relegation.

The season kicks off next week and I'm already wishing it was May, that's due to the fact of the mess were in with the manager we have got.

 

[nsno-chris]

Got to love how the likes of Kean and Gomes all of a sudden were big misses yesterday. The only 2 players we genuinely missed yesterday were Lewin and Richarlison.

I’m lost, I didn’t realise Moise Kean (who the majority want rid) is now our saving grace

It’s baffling

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

We get beaten. The more players that are missing, the more we get beaten by.

That’s what happens. It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is.

Our record at Old Trafford is not exactly sparkling. If we go there with half a team this is exactly what I expect.

Only when those players missing would genuinely make a difference.

 

[orly]

We get beaten. The more players that are missing, the more we get beaten by.

That’s what happens. It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is.

Our record at Old Trafford is not exactly sparkling. If we go there with half a team this is exactly what I expect.

Wild. That isn't remotely correct.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I’m lost, I didn’t realise Moise Kean (who the majority want rid) is now our saving grace

It’s baffling

And Gomes, many said they hoped him not being in the squad was a sign he was moving on.

 

[orly]

I think our home record was so poor last season because Gbamin and Kean were unavailable lads. It's irrefutable evidence.

 

[nsno-chris]

We get beaten. The more players that are missing, the more we get beaten by.

That’s what happens. It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is.

Our record at Old Trafford is not exactly sparkling. If we go there with half a team this is exactly what I expect.

I’ve seen some marvellous defending of the kopite, but this by far the best yet.

A goal conceded for every first team not on the pitch is the new low bar; almost as bad the “if we finish 6th from bottom it’s been a success”

 

[ically]

The club is toxic at the moment and as much as I don’t want him as our manager, hounding him out will not only affect results but also affect any chance of somebody decent to replace him, why on gods earth would anyone want to come here?
Any frustrations should be directed at the idiots who appointed him.

 

[Bluestar]

Oh so their value determines how good they are, Jesus wept

With the exception of DCL and Richarlison, that’s as close to our starting lineup against Southampton.

For crying out loud. We got walloped by a far better team at their place putting out a significantly weakened team. DCL, Richarlison, Kean and Gbamin would all have played.

That’s what happened.

 

[nsno-chris]

And Gomes, many said they hoped him not being in the squad was a sign he was moving on.

He’s obviously now an integral part of their plans

People are all over the place, clutching at anything that remotely looks like a straw

 

[Bluestar]

Who makes up that £200m?

DCL, Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Gomes, Gbamin and Kean.

 

[nsno-chris]

For crying out loud. We got walloped by a far better team at their place putting out a significantly weakened team. DCL, Richarlison, Kean and Gbamin would all have played.

That’s what happened.

Neither of who played last season for us; how are you now determining that they are important first teamers

You’re all over the place fella

 

[Marius57]

Who makes up that £200m?

It will include a load of players who have a handful of starts between them and haven't been part of the squad for a year or more, or that a lot of fans want moved on, or are normally squad players and not in our first 11.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

He’s obviously now an integral part of their plans

People are all over the place, clutching at anything that remotely looks like a straw

You know what the sad thing is for me mate, we've actually got fellow blues defending Benitez to the hilt.