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I had a spare 20 minutes and pulled together some quick thoughts on our recruitment situation;

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Everton’s New Era Stumbles as Recruitment Questions Mount

Everton entered the summer with the promise of a new dawn. A move to a state-of-the-art stadium, new ownership under The Friedkin Group (TFG), and greater financial flexibility had created optimism that the club could finally move beyond years of turbulence both on and off the pitch. Yet, as the...
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GrandOldTeam said:
I had a spare 20 minutes and pulled together some quick thoughts on our recruitment situation;

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Everton’s New Era Stumbles as Recruitment Questions Mount

Everton entered the summer with the promise of a new dawn. A move to a state-of-the-art stadium, new ownership under The Friedkin Group (TFG), and greater financial flexibility had created optimism that the club could finally move beyond years of turbulence both on and off the pitch. Yet, as the...
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As it stands if we get two proper fullbacks we'll be ok(if they stay fit) . What was glaring last night is if you have no natural left or right back the opposition can keep their shape. You're pulling nobody out of position. Thats how important fullbacks are today. Garner instinctively wanted to come back on his right. Not his fault. He's neither left footed or a fullback. And Ndiaye and Alcaraz. Absolute thankless task. Nobody to link with
Just ended up chasing back. And to be fair to both of them they put that thankless task in.
Its nothing short of scandalous that Everton have no natural fullbacks to choose from. I want to go and bang some heads together at Everton because im so pissed this hasnt been addressed. Almost every single Evertonian knew we needed to go buy in that area. And buy ready to hit the ground running. Not one for maybe a year or two. We had one fit fullback in mykelenko so we again knew we were one injury away from having none.
Scandalous this is happened again.
 
GrandOldTeam said:
I had a spare 20 minutes and pulled together some quick thoughts on our recruitment situation;

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Everton’s New Era Stumbles as Recruitment Questions Mount

Everton entered the summer with the promise of a new dawn. A move to a state-of-the-art stadium, new ownership under The Friedkin Group (TFG), and greater financial flexibility had created optimism that the club could finally move beyond years of turbulence both on and off the pitch. Yet, as the...
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The only good thing is that transfer windows have a defined end.

We will know where things stand on Sept. 2 and there can be no excuses afterwards. Judge us then, Kinnear has said. I will be doing.

I can forgive the delays if by then we've added another 4 players in the positions that the squad desperately needs.

If that happens, then I am confident that we can have a decent season.

If it does not, then very sadly it's a damning sign that our new custodians and those appointed by them, are not up to the job.

It would be absolutely tragic, and potentially irredeemable, if that scenario were to unfold.

The evidence to date would tell me to lessen my optimism. The summer has never really got going. Their efforts seem blunt and ineffectual with no clear strategy. There is a distinct lack of efficiency, sharpness, and purpose. Much like the players efforts last night and in pre- season.

You reap what you sow.

Already so much hope and optimism lost in a period of mere weeks. This is a defining fortnight for TFG.
 
It’s just more of the same. That’s what’s so dispiriting about Everton, nothing ever changes.

The football played is exactly the same no matter who the manager is (except for one season under Martinez and 7 games under Ancelotti). It’s low/mid block long ball rubbish with the hope we might get something from a turnover high up the pitch, a knockdown, or a set piece.

No matter who we bring in the team looks slow, weak, and technically poor. Every player we buy eventually devolves to this level even after a bright start.

We always have a glut of injuries, usually all in similar positions so we consistently have problems like no striker, no right back, no holding midfielder, no right winger.

We won’t win away at any of the top 6 grounds even though teams like Palace Bournemouth Brentford have no problem doing this.

We won’t win either Derby.

We won’t win a trophy.

There will be minimal away wins.

There will be absolutely minimal moments of pure joy for fans e.g last minute winner, comeback wins, direct free kicks, wonder goals.

We’ll stay close enough to bottom half trouble throughout the majority of the season playing turgid one paced football until February at which point being completely out of everything we’ll beat a few teams at home we’re supposed to beat once there’s no pressure on. If the fans are very very lucky there might be a home win v Chelsea or Spurs but barely ever Liverpool. Optimism will ramp up for the next season…..

And we’ll do the exact same again.
 

Saint Domingo said:
It’s just more of the same. That’s what’s so dispiriting about Everton, nothing ever changes.

The football played is exactly the same no matter who the manager is (except for one season under Martinez and 7 games under Ancelotti). It’s low/mid block long ball rubbish with the hope we might get something from a turnover high up the pitch, a knockdown, or a set piece.
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We don't have the players do play differently. It's better than trying to pass the ball around and getting relegated.
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
We don't have the players do play differently. It's better than trying to pass the ball around and getting relegated.
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You’d think after all the players bought under multiple different managers that that might have changed just once in that period.

Seamus Coleman is still our first choice specialist right back. Michael Keane still starts a lot of games for us. Idrissa Gueye is still our holding midfielder. This is the same position as 2017 except we’re 8 years on, and most people hated that 17/18 team as well!

We could have retired Coleman, sold Patterson and bought a right back or two this summer. We didn’t.

This would have allowed JOB to go to CB and we could have not renewed Keane and bought a young CB in. We didn’t, we extended Keane and didn’t buy a new CB.

We could have let Gana go and buy two new central midfielders. We didn’t, we extended a 35 year old for two years.

We keep actively making the same decisions because they’re easy and sentimental fans lap them up, which results in the same players taking the pitch regularly for Everton. They’re not good enough!

Keep in mind as well Everton offered contracts to Young Doucoure and DCL! Imagine if any of them had agreed!!

If we want to move on in the future, we cannot have Everton teams were Coleman Keane Tarkwoski Mykolenko Gana Garner McNeil see a lot of football during the season. The results will just stay exactly the same. Some of those players have done very well for us and I like Tarkwoski and Mykolenko but they are all backs to the wall low block plodders. We won’t play anything different whilst they make up Everton teams.
 

tsubaki said:
For all those saying that "things never change" with recruitment - things did change under Thelwell, for the better.

He should not have been let go.
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I'm amazed at the hate he got. We sold players for good fees, bought decent options for relatively cheap, we made profit on players we payed out high fees for. He worked with a pittance and turned a profit. Generally people will point to Maupay and disregard almost everything else he did.

We have left ourselves short going into the summer by not renewing his contract.
 
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We're still trying to play by the rules that punish everyone but a select few, I think they've done good business so far, we still have 2 weeks until the window shuts and we're not only the team struggling to get deals done in the confinements of those rules

Personally I'd say break the rules take the points deduction if it means we win more games it will balance out over potential games lost/drawn because we couldn't afford X player within the PSR shackles
 
Gilbert.. said:
As it stands if we get two proper fullbacks we'll be ok(if they stay fit) . What was glaring last night is if you have no natural left or right back the opposition can keep their shape. You're pulling nobody out of position. Thats how important fullbacks are today. Garner instinctively wanted to come back on his right. Not his fault. He's neither left footed or a fullback. And Ndiaye and Alcaraz. Absolute thankless task. Nobody to link with
Just ended up chasing back. And to be fair to both of them they put that thankless task in.
Its nothing short of scandalous that Everton have no natural fullbacks to choose from. I want to go and bang some heads together at Everton because im so pissed this hasnt been addressed. Almost every single Evertonian knew we needed to go buy in that area. And buy ready to hit the ground running. Not one for maybe a year or two. We had one fit fullback in mykelenko so we again knew we were one injury away from having none.
Scandalous this is happened again.
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Even Kyle Walker would have done for a season or 2 (see Ashley Young).
 

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