Right now this club is a shambles

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Joey66 said:
Why blow 24 million on Klassen if the idea was to eventually sign the Sig?
No out and out goalscorer we never had any funds left on deadline day end of!
A scramble to sell any surplus players KM went up for sale at dinner time on the last day!
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Klassen and Sigurdsson were seen as upgrade on Davies and Barkley. Davies due to his age, and the well documented complaints about Barkley not being able to track back, defend, then go up the other end and create and score.

Klassen was pure Dutch blinkers from his homeland thinking he was this box to box clever footballer who would arrive late in the box and get goals.

Sigurdsson was his big deal signing believed to be better in all areas than Barkley based on work rate and output. When you break it down, he runs about and crosses a ball.
 
Leaving the issue of the board aside for the moment. The responsibility for this latest shambles has to be placed at the feet of Koeman. To a certain extent the players did let him down last night, conceding so soon after leveling, while the ferocity of Goodison was starting to intensify.

Ultimately though, he has picked and instructed those players. Who knows at this stage if he actually purchased them. If he did I'd be very reluctant to sanction any more purchases in January under his guidance. Considering the criminal neglect in failing to sign, a proven striker, another center back plus a left back. (The lad Cuco last night, it's astonishing that he is an Everton player really). Walsh also must take some blame for the summer fiasco here.

Back to the shambles currently though. Working with what we have, he is just failing to get the best out of the players available. Bereft of confidence, disorganized, bewildered. They simply look like worse players than they actually are and considering that last night was a must win game. That is unacceptable.

Compounding this, Koemans overall tactics, formations, starting line ups, man management are so error prone and baffling. It's Rubik's cube management. And honestly I don't think we have time for him to solve it. For me he has to go.
 
MorgsGoat said:
A Striker would have pushed the whole team up the pitch, given us a focal point and allowed him to build a team around it.

I said when the window closed that the lack of striker would hurt us and its proven so.
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It would have. But improve us massively? Not a chance. There's problems all over the field.

The lack of defensive organization, movement, pace, actual football is where this whole argument of a striker would fix everything doesn't wash with me.
 
bluestevon said:
Did we though, far as i see Koeman plays a formation with two defensive mids (so no number 8) and without a number 10...
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We played 4-3-3 at the end of last season.

Morgan holding and Gana and Davies as 8s.

ijjysmith said:
I'm glad it's not just me who spotted this. He's nothing like a 10 is he?! Didn't even play there for Ajax the few times I saw them.
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People keep saying hes a 10 and it honestly makes me cry.

kenada_blue said:
It would have. But improve us massively? Not a chance. There's problems all over the field.

The lack of defensive organization, movement, pace, actual football is where this whole argument of a striker would fix everything doesn't wash with me.
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He also said we needed another CB, but hey ho.
 
davek said:
  • Worst team in a generation
  • Worst football in a generation
  • Worst manager in a generation
  • Our best player hounded out to the margins of the club
  • Good young players going backwards in their development
  • Players embarrassing the club on the pitch in front of the whole of the continent
  • Biggest transfer war-chest in the club's history flushed down the toilet
  • Ineffective leadership off the pitch from the club chairman, CEO and owner
  • Stadium situation looking less than green for go
We've stepped back in a time machine and this is the late 90s again.
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The axe is truly sharpened and ready to wield the big negative swing down upon all our digital grids. ;) great site lads!
 
MorgsGoat said:
Its laughable that people think us spending time on Iceland meant we couldnt do other deals, for the 3rd window on the run somebody has dropped the ball, its not Dave, he was all over the place nailing those deals, its not Koeman, he was on the golf course, which leaves The chairman and the DoF and anybody else involved in getting deals done.

If somebody needs to lose their job, it simply must be the person whos job it is to get the right players in, we are starting a 20 year old Striker who has scored 3 goals in his whole career, thats not Koemans fault.
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A whole summer transfer window is long enough to get a half decent striker in, aand Koeman had months to push for one, in the end we were trying to get one out of our league they didn't want to come here. We should have played hard ball with Lukaku and either insisted on more money or a player in return like martial or even Rashford , which they probably wouldn't have done but then they would have had to forget about Lukaku, we are to soft and showing it now by not getting Koeman gone. It's totally down to Koeman he should have pushed hard for what he wanted and not waited for the last couple of weeks to try and get it.
 
MorgsGoat said:
I mean by all means sack the utter Dutch clown, I never wanted him anyway, but thinking that sacking him makes everything ok is just burying your head, this squad is broken and only a transfer window, in which somebody actually does their job, makes things better.
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No but sacking him is the start to hopefully a slow but successful new chapter at Everton.
 
davek said:
  • Worst team in a generation
  • Worst football in a generation
  • Worst manager in a generation
  • Our best player hounded out to the margins of the club
  • Good young players going backwards in their development
  • Players embarrassing the club on the pitch in front of the whole of the continent
  • Biggest transfer war-chest in the club's history flushed down the toilet
  • Ineffective leadership off the pitch from the club chairman, CEO and owner
  • Stadium situation looking less than green for go
We've stepped back in a time machine and this is the late 90s again.
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Well said. I’ve also noticed that the same fans who hounded out Barkley and insisted we would spread the goals about while happily waving off Lukaku are exactly the same fans who are most critical of you @davek.

I am a fan of your humble tolerance of these so called Evertonians. Their toxicity is a factor in these points above.
 
The big issue for me is even if we sack RK the next guy in has to deal with the same squad inbalance and lack of an out and out goal scorer. We can't magic up a CF, LB or CF and manage to lose at least one No 10.

We are stuck with what we have however RK's attitude and over all demeanour is poor, he looked like a hobo last night and he certainly doesn't inspire much when you look at him.

I think if we don't win a few in October he will be gone..
 
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