Is this cause or correlation?
How far off are we from replicating Man City 2010/11 (top 4 finish)
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Is this cause or correlation?
If lukaku had stayed i would have fancied our chances... need another striker and someone like icardi etc... but attracting them is a problem... dzeko would be my choice as I think we could throw money at him and he would come... he's 31 so coming to the end of his career and a big 3 year contract would convince him IMO... not good handing out these contracts but I feel that's what he have to do to get someone in .... if he fires us to CL and then when he's 33 is still on big Money but isn't good enough... that's just something we will have to bare.
Charles Hawtrey
Player Valuation: £50m
We are talking about the same Everton here regardless of players brought in.... Saw today we were 125/1 for the title... great price for Top 3! what price relegation - the Everton way, really.
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
Extremely far off. We don't have the money that Man City had back then and Spurs have taken one of the top 4 slots.
Spurs is a better route...we are kinda in the Bale sale mode.
The biggest thing they accomplished was making two of their kids stars. They bought some good players too...but for me the difference for them is Alli and Kane.
Canuck Darryl
Player Valuation: £2.5m
We are in the process of assembling a pretty impressive squad. If we aren't ready to break the glass ceiling, we're getting close. We're knocking on the door; add a prolific centre forward, an attacking midfielder and a competent left footed CB, and we'll kick it down!
bignev23
Player Valuation: £35m
I think Kompany, Toure and Tevez may have been miles better than anyone we have at the moment. They signed Robinho in 2008 so they've been splashing the cash for ten years now and although they've wasted a hell of a lot of it with signing overpriced players We have a lot of catching up to do. Can we get top 4 this season ? why not anything could happen but I'm not expecting it .
flibbyflob
Player Valuation: £40m
Agree with this, they were just trying to break into a 4 not 6 like we are. Overall standard of the league has dropped since then though.
bignev23
Player Valuation: £35m
I'd say Lukaku was in that bracket, he certainly has a goalscoring record in the Prem comparable to tevez but now he's gone anyway.
Couple of seasons at the very least
There's far more competition now than what City faced. Literally all of the top 6 have a viable shot of finishing 4th or higher, it's going to take a while to break into that club
We need some consistently good seasons and to get the stadium sorted, then we'll have the base to build for a top 4 finish
It's a marathon, not a sprint
There's far more competition now than what City faced. Literally all of the top 6 have a viable shot of finishing 4th or higher, it's going to take a while to break into that club
We need some consistently good seasons and to get the stadium sorted, then we'll have the base to build for a top 4 finish
It's a marathon, not a sprint
Carlito
Player Valuation: £50m
Not for me. Tevez was a world-class footballer, which I don't think you could say about Lukaku.
bignev23
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Yeh when he wanted to be, remember when he refused to come on as a sub and went on strike at City he's a worse biff than Lukaku.
Carlito
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Haha - he's certainly a character.
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