These players have failed under a variety of managers over a period of time. Ancelotti is a serial winner and I think he may be struggling to come up with a game plan that suits our limited ability and limited commitment squad.
We have to face facts and take a realistic look at the club we support, we are serial losers. We haven’t won anything in almost a generation, we have settled for our plucky loser status for years. We haven’t put our players under enough pressure to achieve. Look at the deadwood we had to clear out over the last couple of windows, we weren’t a challenging football cub we were a rest home for the lame, the sick and the lazy.
If anyone thinks the mess we are in and have been in for 20 years can be turned around in 18 months then they are deluding themselves.
The good news is the club are now starting to address the problems, the new ground is a catalyst for a change in attitude, no longer will we provide an easy life for players who feel they only need to preform intermittently but we need to weed out all those who aren’t interested in giving of their best for Everton and that will take time and money.
If you haven’t the patience to wait on the changes to go through and you need someone to blame for insipid performances blame the right people, the players who are under preforming week in week out.
I'm trying to always judge it on the fact that there are fewer players in the squad who have been part of a losing mediocre team in the past. Coleman has been in all the good and bad times but everyone else is new in the squad and untouched by his losing, small club mentality. But i suppose the problem is not so much that there's no Everton-mediocrity left in the squad, but the fact that there are no real winners here apart from James now. Even our current best players - Richy, DCL, Doucoure, Allan, Digne, Keane have not actually won anything have they or really experienced success? Godfrey is great but new, Holgate, Davies are inconsistent, but have something there that's worth nurturing, and would improve with more winners. Mina, Coleman, Pickford (for england) have played in squads or teams that have been better and are worth keeping and that's my squad of players I'd actually keep. Nkonkou, Gordon, Ellis Simms , couple of others, maybe Virginia...16 players there only worth keeping, and that includes 6 players who cannot play regularly - 4 youngsters, Coleman & James. To my mind, that means we are 5 serious players away from real improvement. So we're back to the transfers we need to do - 2 attackers, 2 midfielders, 1 RB - and amongst those, I would take the unusual step of naming a new player as captain and bringing in a fresh mentality. Definitely need to focus on mental toughness and leadership in our next transfers.
