2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[Sheedy's right knee.]

Last seasons strategy did bear some fruit and I thought I could see a positive direction in football andplayers recruited. This season has been poor but for some reason I half expected us to stutter at the start of the season. I was just hoping we would win a couple of marginal games. I was expecting us to get into some rhythm October but it hasn’t happened. He’s got to show a more ruthless side he is the boss. The players will still be there if he’s sacked.

 

[Kever10]

Big Sam got a lot of stick, but he did come in and do the job he was asked to do, I’ve got no issues with him, not great football but he did what he had to do.

Definitely. Like Martinez, it's the cool/popular thing to hate him. I was embarrassed at the reaction of the fans near the end of his term, the way we had to cancel the player awards because of protests, the questionnaire, the refusing to stay behind for the lap of appreciation combined with banners and booing which led to him not coming onto the pitch. You'd think he'd spent £150m on Sigurdsson, Keane, Pickford, Bolasie and Klassen.

 

[Undisputed_blue]

How have silva transfer worked out well, we rarely ever win usually lose. We do have some decent individuals but he hasn’t a clue how to play them together, very poor manager with no plan B. If we go out of the cup and lose to spurs, I reckon that’s his lot, the cup game is massive for him.

TBF, Silva hasn't a huge pool of players to choose from. The likes of Keane and Schneiderlin are underperforming and Sigurdsson is an enigma on how to fit him in to a team patters. All those player's aren't Silva's recruitments. There is no squad depth to encourage players to compete for their places. That's the crux of the problem.

Sam Allardyces transfer antics? He was only ever here short term. I'm actually amazed they let him spend what he did. And both them contributed massively to our upturn in fortunes. It was nowhere near as flamboyant or wasteful as the 2 either side of him.

Short memory, the likes of Tosun and Walcott were a waste of millions.

Big Sam got a lot of stick, but he did come in and do the job he was asked to do, I’ve got no issues with him, not great football but he did what he had to do.

We didn't need him in the first place. And good riddance.

 

[Fansince1988]

TBF, Silva hasn't a huge pool of players to choose from. The likes of Keane and Schneiderlin are underperforming and Sigurdsson is an enigma on how to fit him in to a team patters. All those player's aren't Silva's recruitments. There is no squad depth to encourage players to compete for their places. That's the crux of the problem.



Short memory, the likes of Tosun and Walcott were a waste of millions.



We didn't need him in the first place. And good riddance.

Didn’t need silva either, we had tried with average managers like Martinez and Koeman. We needed a winner of a manger in place, who did we get Marco silva the mind boggles what the board saw in him. Like him or not I’m Sure there would be many more points on the board if Sam was in charge how, don’t get me wrong his football was awful to watch, but Silvas flaws as a manager are as awful as sams football. I just want us winning consistently, that won’t happen with silva in charge he just doesn’t have the know how.

 

[Undisputed_blue]

Didn’t need silva either, we had tried with average managers like Martinez and Koeman. We needed a winner of a manger in place, who did we get Marco silva the mind boggles what the board saw in him. Like him or not I’m Sure there would be many more points on the board if Sam was in charge how, don’t get me wrong his football was awful to watch, but Silvas flaws as a manager are as awful as sams football. I just want us winning consistently, that won’t happen with silva in charge he just doesn’t have the know how.

Last season, Silva had proved his worth by beating many of the top 4 teams last season. The current Silva's team needs further additions before we can see the real Silva in action.

 

[Kever10]

Short memory, the likes of Tosun and Walcott were a waste of millions.

The likes of? That was it. Just those 2.
As far as my short memory goes, and him wasting money, I remember it as follows. He identified that we needed a striker and we needed pace. He signed a striker and fast winger for less than the price of Gylfi the ghost. Between them, they scored or assisted 11 goals in 14 games, directly contributing to 18 points.

He had a thankless task of coming into a club that didn't want him, that were performing poorly and knowing he was going to be turfed out regardless of how we did in 6 months. He achieved what was required if him and was ridiculed for doing it.

I also think we'd have been better giving him the following season, but it was never gonna happen with the reception he got from fans.

 

[Undisputed_blue]

The likes of? That was it. Just those 2.
As far as my short memory goes, and him wasting money, I remember it as follows. He identified that we needed a striker and we needed pace. He signed a striker and fast winger for less than the price of Gylfi the ghost. Between them, they scored or assisted 11 goals in 14 games, directly contributing to 18 points.

He had a thankless task of coming into a club that didn't want him, that were performing poorly and knowing he was going to be turfed out regardless of how we did in 6 months. He achieved what was required if him and was ridiculed for doing it.

I also think we'd have been better giving him the following season, but it was never gonna happen with the reception he got from fans.

Personally those stats didn't happen under Fat Sam's reign. Both of FS signings aren't exactly lighting up Everton's world now

 

[Kever10]

Personally those stats didn't happen under Fat Sam's reign. Both of FS signings aren't exactly lighting up Everton's world now

They kinda did, no matter how personally you think about it. Tosun scored 5, Walcot scored 3 and got 3 assists, and they each scored in games that attributed us gaining 18 points against Leicester, Crystal Palace, Newcastle, Stoke, Huddersfield and Brighton. I even missed out Walcots assist for Niasse in the West Brom game, which makes 19 points.

Anyway, it is what it is. He wasn't my 1st choice, but he did what was needed. I think it would've been interesting to see how we faired under him for at least 1 whole season.

 

[Undisputed_blue]

They kinda did, no matter how personally you think about it. Tosun scored 5, Walcot scored 3 and got 3 assists, and they each scored in games that attributed us gaining 18 points against Leicester, Crystal Palace, Newcastle, Stoke, Huddersfield and Brighton. I even missed out Walcots assist for Niasse in the West Brom game, which makes 19 points.

Anyway, it is what it is. He wasn't my 1st choice, but he did what was needed. I think it would've been interesting to see how we faired under him for at least 1 whole season.

Not for me.

 

[Sheedy's right knee.]

Not for me.

Not for me.

I thought. Rooney assisted Walcott in that game. Regardless that was one of the worst performances I’ve seen at Goodison. And I’ve seen a fair few bad ones.

 

[DickRitchie214]

Last season, Silva had proved his worth by beating many of the top 4 teams last season. The current Silva's team needs further additions before we can see the real Silva in action.

Unfortunately, that strong run of form at the end of last year, and the 54 pt finish, is what kept him here for this year when the Board could have had all summer to line up a replacement for the long-term, instead of the panic move they're surely considering right now.

Hindsight is 20/20 but we would have been better off finishing 16th last year.

 

[Fansince1988]

Last season, Silva had proved his worth by beating many of the top 4 teams last season. The current Silva's team needs further additions before we can see the real Silva in action.

As I put before we only beat them top teams at the end of the season because they had bigger fish to fry, yes they were fighting for league positions but lots have very big games in Europe to. I don’t classthem wins as good as they looked, most of them teams at that stage had played loads of game and imo fatigue was setting in, they the only reason we got good results against them. Personally I’ve seen very little since he came here, that Silva can do any better than the ones before, it’s been long enough and he’s still showing no improvement.

 

[Fansince1988]

Unfortunately, that strong run of form at the end of last year, and the 54 pt finish, is what kept him here for this year when the Board could have had all summer to line up a replacement for the long-term, instead of the panic move they're surely considering right now.

Hindsight is 20/20 but we would have been better off finishing 16th last year.

Totally correct those results just papered over the many cracks that Silva had made. We are paying for that now.

 

[COYBL25]

The likes of? That was it. Just those 2.
As far as my short memory goes, and him wasting money, I remember it as follows. He identified that we needed a striker and we needed pace. He signed a striker and fast winger for less than the price of Gylfi the ghost. Between them, they scored or assisted 11 goals in 14 games, directly contributing to 18 points.

He had a thankless task of coming into a club that didn't want him, that were performing poorly and knowing he was going to be turfed out regardless of how we did in 6 months. He achieved what was required if him and was ridiculed for doing it.

I also think we'd have been better giving him the following season, but it was never gonna happen with the reception he got from fans.

Wrong.

He had an 18 mth contract, which he could`ve seen out.

Once he had us safe, he had a golden opportunity to show the footballing world and us, that he wasn`t just a footballing dinosaur and play footy in a system other than 9 men behind the ball and hoof it up to a lone striker. If this had happened, he`d have got to see out his full 18 mths.

He also had the chance to redeem his soiled reputation after the Ingerland fiasco.

However, it`s the only way he knows how to play footy and when rightly called out by the fans for continuing to play his up and under footy, he took great delight in popcorning us.

Ex players have openly stated in the media that playing football under Allardyce was " primitive ".

I can`t remember the game last season, but we had more shots during that game, than the team managed during the WHOLE of the Allardyce tenure.

He will forever remain a stain on the proud history of our club.

 

[sharkey1001]

Big Sam got a lot of stick, but he did come in and do the job he was asked to do, I’ve got no issues with him, not great football but he did what he had to do.

Jesus, I thought I was depressed with Everton, didn't think it was this bad.

Was expecting to come on this thread and give DCL some well-deserved abuse, I didn't expect to see someone remembering fondly Fat Sam's time here.