terryefc
Player Valuation: £8m
A goalie with 2 stretched arms should catch the ball over a striker jumping to head it. He could even have punched it. All started with another clumsy mis kick from Godfrey. Decent athlete but hopeless footballer.
Match Thread Everton v West Ham Utd; Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll.
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everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
Be fair he has only added Rondon to the pile of previous crap. I would love Rondon to suddenly turn on whatever skills he used to have. Can't say I can see it.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Oh dear!
For some reason different atmosphere even before game today. Some sort of resigned acceptance that our luck would run out today.
This dobbin fella who apparently should have started today played 1 game for the under 23's last season and got injured in that game after 32 mins, he also played left wing in that game
he also only started 7 games for the under 18's and scored 2 goals, both goals as a winger not a striker.
he also only started 7 games for the under 18's and scored 2 goals, both goals as a winger not a striker.
Runub
Player Valuation: £50m
Don’t know much about Dobbin to be honest. So our options are not really options? That is depressing. How can a PL club be in such a position having spent so much? Shoddy
everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
It was amazingly subdued as the hammer's fans kept telling us.
Didnt see a minute of the game but getting beat at home by West Ham under any circumstances is poor
we lost 1-0 under ancelotti with 10 shots with richarlison, rodriguez and dcl
we lost 1-0 under benitez with 15 shots without richarlison and dcl
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
There’ll be some in game factors the manager can control yes but more than likely we’ll end up in a very similar position between 11th-7th as we have been under recent managers because the fundamentals are not changing from season to season.
We are simply unable to back any manager with a decent squad of 22 players. Every season since I remember watching us there’s always a position in the team that we have only one suitable option for, or sometimes not even one. Why can other premier league teams some who have only just been recently promoted have strength in depth across most positions and we fail season after season at this.
We are also unable to ever keep our best players available for any manager. The last time this happened was Martinez’s first season when we went relatively injury free but every season since has been utterly blighted by injury after injury to key players that take ages to recover and even then aren’t fully right when they return. How come every other premier league team at the moment can select from pretty much full squads and once again we are down to the bare bones of kids and goalkeepers being sat on the bench.
Obviously issue 2 just exacerbates the failings of issue 1. God forbid Allan or Docuoure goes down this season because we really would struggle to win much at all.
Once someone at Everton gets to grip with these problems then we can maybe start laying the blame for our problems with the manager but at the moment it’s a bit like blaming a ships captain for not being a good sailor when he’s trying to navigate a dingy through a tsunami.
Im sick of seeing it though, it’s every season, no doubt the usual people will be out with the ‘injuries happen to everyone’ line but there’s a consistent pattern to ours.
At ‘best’ we manage to keep an on 11 on the pitch until about the first international break at which point there’s normally a strain of some sort that should keep them out for a game or two but actually keeps them out for a few months. We then get to around November going into Christmas where just as we are expecting a few players back we then lose others in key positions until eventually we’re down to absolute rag tag line ups over Christmas. We then patch the team up a bit during the new year as players return (but not for any key games) and then just as look like we might make something at the end of the season a key player will go down to just ensure we don’t.
At worst we get a raft of circulate injuries/broken bones/ quadricep tears through the key players of the team so that we’re completely screwed and when they come back they’re half the player they were.
It plagued Moyes continuously, Martinez was a bit more fortunate but even then the Kone Traore McCarthy Oviedo injuries cost him hugely in key moments. Koeman lost his main attacking signing in Bolasie, Allardyce was absolutely butchered by injuries, Silva lost his job because of the crippling injuries, and it cost Ancelotti Europe.
We simply cannot carry on running a football operation that can’t give their manager a suitable squad of players and can’t even keep the players we do have fit in any single premier league season.
Progress I suppose. Still hurts. Squad is weak
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
We were distinctly second best in all honesty.
it's too early to say he blew his £1.7m budget just on also rans.
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £35m
Heading to the library later to try and get my adrenaline pumping after that match!
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