2025/26 Charly Alcaraz

[TheBigIguana]

When Big Oil has it in for a player, there really is no coming back from it.

Not true. I really didn’t rate bringing Grealish in either.

 

[Goat]

What about :

Garner - KDH
Charly
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Bit lightweight maybe, but GOLS.

 

[Curtis]

Idk mate Chelsea basically trusted him for Thursdays in Scandinavia only and before that he was mixing it up in the championship. This idea that he’s beyond reproach is a lot to me.

So you're forming an opinion on a player by how Chelsea , a club that hoards even quality players like old man collecting footy merch? So by that logic salah and kdb barely got played while at Chelsea same with Lukaku, so they must be crap then?

Even solid players can be overlooked especially with Chelsea's clowncar of an extensive squad

 

[DualityNSNO]

What about :

Garner - KDH
Charly
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Bit lightweight maybe, but GOLS.

KDH is a CM by trade anyway, so it makes sense to pair him with Garner or Gueye.

Be pretty funny to watch our midget midfield too tbh.

 

[Curtis]

What about :

Garner - KDH
Charly
​

Bit lightweight maybe, but GOLS.

Garner right back , Jake with Keane or tarks
Then KDH in midfield with gana and Alcarez playing the attacking midfield role

 

[TheBigIguana]

So you're forming an opinion on a player by how Chelsea , a club that hoards even quality players like old man collecting footy merch? So by that logic salah and kdb barely got played while at Chelsea same with Lukaku, so they must be crap then?

Even solid players can be overlooked especially with an clowncar of an extensive squad that Chelsea has

So you’re putting him on the same level as Salah and De Bruyne so far?

 

[TheBigIguana]

What about :

Garner - KDH
Charly
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Bit lightweight maybe, but GOLS.

As long as we bring Gueye on at halftime for whichever midfielder got booked in the first half

 

[Curtis]

So you’re putting him on the same level as Salah and De Bruyne so far?

Not at all lol I'm just saying even significantly talented players have been overlooked at Chelsea in the past , so with such an abundance of decent players in that team it's easy to not get selected for various reasons.

Look at grealish he barely played at man city last season and I'm not equating talent but the fact that you can't determine a player's worth on the basis if a manager favored them

 

[TheBigIguana]

Not at all lol I'm just saying even significantly talented players have been overlooked at Chelsea in the past , so with such abundance of decent players in that team it's easy to not get selected for various reasons

An even greater number they’ve signed, realized they’re meh, and sent packing.

I just want to see the bolder, higher potential #10 play more and if that means the bland neat and tidy one needs to be shoehorned in somewhere else or benched so be it.

 

[toffeeblue9]

"Looking after the ball better" is not a quality I want from an Everton 10 compared to "risky, direct, penetrative passes".

By "more clever passes" I assume you mean slow build up play.

I would suggest that fans want to see Everton play with a high intensity, quick on the transition with risks taken to win football matches, rather than slow play by attacking players to keep the ball.

Said before that I'd rather have KDH as a left sided number 8 in a 433, he has a natural bias towards the left channel anyway.

He isn't a natural number 10, but I maintain that apart from games where we are going to be under the cosh and where counter attacks are going to be the main source of any realistic chances where Alcaraz's attributes are useful, I'd still rather have KDH there.

Think you're being v disingenuous to say that KDH doesn't play penetrative passes. He probably doesn't try stuff as speculative as Alcaraz, but he's more effective with it. And by looking after the ball, I mean literally being able to shield it while in possession, it's a skill Alcaraz is remarkably poor at.

But again, to reiterate, Alcaraz was brilliant yesterday. His energy and drive were exactly what we needed in that situation and there will be plenty of games where that's the case.

 

[pfim]

So you're forming an opinion on a player by how Chelsea , a club that hoards even quality players like old man collecting footy merch? So by that logic salah and kdb barely got played while at Chelsea same with Lukaku, so they must be crap then?

Even solid players can be overlooked especially with Chelsea's clowncar of an extensive squad

He's hardly lit the PL on fire in his career and he just turned 27. It has little to do with Chelsea to me.

Iguana is probably a bit over the top here imo, but bringing it back to the topic of the thread, he's been shown far more deference than Alcaraz so far, with little justification. That's probably my biggest beef. How he can be on the pitch for 90 minutes, create little, and someone like Alcaraz is getting splinters in his behind. KDH isn't Grealish where you wouldn't even think of subbing him off down a goal. He doesn't have the ability or cachet.

I don't think it was realistic for us to buy a bunch of no names this past off season and hope that some will work out. Clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton etc are much further along in their projects than we are. We needed some guys who are going to give you 6-7/10 each game. But we still need to give time to guys like Alcaraz, Dibling etc.

 

[toffeeblue9]

It's one thing for you to assert KDH is overrated by our fans or that you doesn't think his profile of play don't suit the squad, it's another to absurdly claim he's a lackluster footballer. Thats just a staggeringly perplexing shout but perfectly on brand for your contrarian perspective towards the game

I can't bring myself to unblock the dope, but the moment I finally pushed the button on him was when he said Rodri and Busquets were overrated

He's quite literally got the worst football takes I've ever seen on this forum and can you imagine the competition for that title?

 

[COYBL25]

You do realise that Big Ig never sleeps and this could well go in for another 48 hrs don’t you ?

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

An even greater number they’ve signed, realized they’re meh, and sent packing.

I just want to see the bolder, higher potential #10 play more and if that means the bland neat and tidy one needs to be shoehorned in somewhere else or benched so be it.

That's a perfectly validly opinion and one I share. But why not focus on the positives that Alcaraz brings rather than slagging off a good player that people like. Try to be more like a European Ryder Cup fan and less like an American one.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

KDH is a good player. I do not think he is a good no. 10 in most situations without a technically gifted striker or great creativity from both wings/fullbacks. I disagree with those that say he plays pentrative passes. He absolutely does not. He is very cautious with the ball. He has a good whipping cross but definitely hasn't proven to be a threader thus far.