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Koeman is what he is as a manager.
I don't know if people just assume because he was a world class player in excellent teams that it is how he would choose his own sides to play.
He is the Dutch Moyes - I said it when we got him - the facts were there for those who chose to see them. He will always favour defensive solidity and players who follow his game plan over attacking flair and unpredictable attackers. He'd rather have a team of 8/10 players than one with a few 10/10s and a few 6/10s. He has fallen out with or dropped almost every flair player he has worked with.
This is an effective strategy as the Moyes/Koeman Everton teams show.
If you are expecting tactical innovation and high flair football you have the wrong manager.
If you want good football with a solid base then he is your man.
My main concern is not the quality of the football. It is the recruitment. I feel we are selling off our best young talent and replacing it with expensive stop gaps. Just this time last year everyone was calling me a moaner for daring to suggest Ashley Williams was a poor value signing. Buying players at 27-30 is terrible business unless they are a massive upgrade on what you've already got or they are really cheap. They won't get any better and the likelihood is they'll decline. £10m on Williams, £25m on Bolasie, £50m (if it happens) on Sigurdsson is just ridiculous.
Add Stones, Barkley and Lukaku into our squad (I'll leave out Deulofeu) and you have top 4 challengers. Without them we'll do well to finish 7th again.
I'll try to be positive. Yes we are not pretty to watch at the moment, but half the team were making their debuts on Saturday. 3 competitive games and three 1-0 wins suggests although we haven't 'clicked' as a team to be able to grind out wins is a good sign. It's fair to say there is a lot more to come, if koeman gets siguardsson, left sides centre half and a striker we mean business. Also don't underestimate the loss of bolasie and in particular coleman down our right side. I'm expecting us to hopefully be there or thereabouts up till Xmas and really push on after Xmas when the team has fully gelled and these two return.Reminds me of that purple patch of 1-0 wins we had under Moyes years ago. He set us up to be hard to beat, perhaps Koeman is thinking similarly.
Sandro 21Koeman is what he is as a manager.
I don't know if people just assume because he was a world class player in excellent teams that it is how he would choose his own sides to play.
He is the Dutch Moyes - I said it when we got him - the facts were there for those who chose to see them. He will always favour defensive solidity and players who follow his game plan over attacking flair and unpredictable attackers. He'd rather have a team of 8/10 players than one with a few 10/10s and a few 6/10s. He has fallen out with or dropped almost every flair player he has worked with.
This is an effective strategy as the Moyes/Koeman Everton teams show.
If you are expecting tactical innovation and high flair football you have the wrong manager.
If you want good football with a solid base then he is your man.
My main concern is not the quality of the football. It is the recruitment. I feel we are selling off our best young talent and replacing it with expensive stop gaps. Just this time last year everyone was calling me a moaner for daring to suggest Ashley Williams was a poor value signing. Buying players at 27-30 is terrible business unless they are a massive upgrade on what you've already got or they are really cheap. They won't get any better and the likelihood is they'll decline. £10m on Williams, £25m on Bolasie, £50m (if it happens) on Sigurdsson is just ridiculous.
Add Stones, Barkley and Lukaku into our squad (I'll leave out Deulofeu) and you have top 4 challengers. Without them we'll do well to finish 7th again.
We have had to pay a premium for this talent, but you have got quality players with their best years ahead of them and proven Premiership experience.I agree to an extent, though based on what little I've seen of him I prefer Keane to Stones. In fact, Keane and Pickford are exactly the type of player we should be signing.
Did better then me mate. I had 2-0 mate. My only correct result. Got the other 5 completely wrong for my worst ever weekly score on sky super 6.As has been highlighted numerous times, we are struggling to gel as a team and the side looks unbalanced. However saying that stoke along with West Brom are probably the most negative teams in the league and better teams than Everton will struggle to look good playing against them. I predicted 1-0 to Everton in my sky super 6, it's just a pity I got the other 5 wrong.
Sandro 21
Keane 24
Pickford 23
Klassen 24
Henry 20
The majority of our business has been the recruitment of younger players.
i thought you were referring to our business this summer mate. Unfortunately Barkley, lukaku and stones wanted away, there is not much you can do about that. I consider Keane to be an upgrade on stones. We are going to struggle very much to replace lukaku though.I welcome the younger signings and am happy with Rooney/Schneiderlin/Gana as they are clear upgrades
But also
Williams 31
Schnedierlin 27
Bolasie 27
Rooney 31
Martina 27/28
and main targets
Sigurdsson 27/28
Gana 27
Players sold
Lukaku 23
Stones 21
Deulofeu 23
seemingly Barkley 23
We've aged the squad without clearly improving the first XI.