I have nothing to do tomorrow now lol
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Probably sign VVD let him have a taste of a big club seeing as him and Ron are best buds
That's what I was thinking, that was going to be my job for the week
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Tbh, I'm not sure if Koeman had landed Kone that it would have meant Jagielka leaving. More likely he had Mori lined up for the off.
On future windows: expect nothing. That's the only way of approaching this club in transfer windows. I don't buy into this new regime, personally, I'd advise others to err on the side of caution.
I know you've had a rough day but now you're just being silly!
Still bitter that we bent you boys over in the summer? Let's hope Koeman doesn't want Van Dijk in January as we all know the outcome of that don't we when the big boys come calling for one of your assets.
Any sensible blue knows this is a transition year moving away from the shambles of the Martinez regime, we have a new stadium and big funds to look forward too, being honest why come on here to gloat when you literally have nothing to look forward to than losing whatever players have a decent season?
Why?? For taking players from.a smaller club?? Don't be down, enjoy your cup final win
You lot said the same over Koeman. I honestly don't get why your fans are so arrogant when you bend over as soon as another club sniffs around your players/manager. Your clubs like that mouthy skinny kid in school who acts tough but gets slapped down constantly.
moyes cardy
Player Valuation: £6m
I stood by RM until it became clear he had lost the entire squad and would have took us down this year . Seems to me we look back with romantically while forgetting the obvious decline. If anything it's the moyes final year were the opportunity to push forward consistently was lost.
What a brilliant post. You'll never sign players of van Dijk's calibre again, he will become bigger than your club.
You've all been conned by the words of Moshiri. Everyone on here was predicting a top 5 finish during the Summer and now you're all aware it's just a transition year! Of course I'm here to gloat, you'd have had me think you were the eighth wonder of the world a few months ago. Interested to see what's gone wrong though if a more level-headed Evertonian would like to fill me in?
Why did you end up with about 3 signings and then miss out on a further two absolutely dreadful players as well? Not a bit worried about giving these "big funds" to a manager who is proving incompetent in the transfer market?
I'm under no illusion that we'll lose Virgil van Dijk. It's just embarrassing that you think a team like you can get him.
Tilling
Player Valuation: £6m
Aware that this isn't a majorly popular opinion on this forum, but I think Bolasie has been an excellent signing. The 'point' of him playing is mainly for two reasons. The first is that he's actually a pretty good winger, capable of absolutely ghosting past even the most experienced defenders thanks to his unpredictability. You might then say that him beating fullbacks on the regular doesn't matter if he can't whip a cross in, and although I'm happy to accept that premise, I'm not happy to accept the idea that EVERY ball he puts into the box is awful, in fact I'd even go as far to say that he creates at the very least a clear goal scoring opportunity a game, at which point it falls to Lukaku/Barkley to actually net the chance. You can look at the Barkley chance today when Bolasie whipped it in; fantastic delivery of the ball but ultimately zero aerial presence from Barkley and his header went miles wide.
The second reason is Bolasie's physicality. It doesn't take any sort of footballing genius to notice that we're particularly adept on the counter thanks to both the pace we've got out wide and the fact that the sight of Rom legging it towards you full pelt would make the Pyramids wobble. Bolasie though offers something else than just pure pace tho, notably how he does something that none of our other wingers do; he knocks the ball into space (indeed this is probably why Martinez was keen on Andriy Jargmelenko). Not only is this playing to his strengths (cos he's rapid) but it also eases the pressure on what quite frankly has been a diabolical defence so far this season, because we can transition so quickly from defence to attack by hitting it hard towards Bolasie. It's not exactly supremely cultured football, but it's where a lot of our goals seem to be coming from.
What that previous sentence reveals though is the real problem with the team at the moment; most of our goals are coming on the counter as we're still having the problem thats plagued us for about 2 or 3 seasons now in that we have zero creativity going forward. This wouldn't be a problem if wingers weren't wildly inconsistent but literally every winger in the world is, and as a result our 'Plan B' of going through the middle hardly ever works (because no one actually knows how to play a throughball in this team). The fact that our fullbacks aren't nearly as effective as they used to be (seemingly because they've turned a bit awful) further compounds this problem, because when our wingers can't get by a defender, they don't have the support from the fullbacks that we've grown accustomed to pretty much since 2008.
How do we solve that problem, I don't hear you ask because I'm typing this on a MerseyRail train and this has worryingly turned into a bit more of an essay than I had originally planned. Well, I've got no clue, because I've not done training qualifications to earn six figures as a football manager. That said though, there's some good old fashioned football cliches that I am happy to rely on for the basis of my ultimately quite unimaginative solution. No, not 'if you don't buy a ticket you don't win the raffle' because that ultimately says absolutely nothing about the statistical improbability of your favourite football player scoring from 40 yards even if you want to try your hardest to defend the stupid divvy, but more 'the game is won in midfield.' This kind of seems paradoxical given that we have three boss midfielders in Barry, Gueye and Barkley, and make no mistake, Barkley is a boss midfielder regardless of whether you can still picture the arl fella sat three rows behind you sarcastically saying he'll buy a Barkley shirt if he scores this freekick (yeah it hit the wall but how does slagging him off endlessly help ya tosspot, like josh sims or whatever the southampton dan gosling is called, he's one of our own). Sorry, lot of pent up emotion there, you weren't there man, you weren't there.
But yeah so we've got three boss midfielders, but ultimately I reckon they don't really mesh together quite well, which I'm concluding purely on the fact that if we were winning the midfield battle we'd have won more than one of our last eight games, which is a sobering statistic indeed. That would make sense though, wouldn't it? For however utterly utterly lost we will be when he leaves, Gueye is ultimately just as much a defensive midfielder as Barry is, and playing two defensive midfielders hasn't been working for the best part of a year now, and though I loathe to go full Zatara and invoke the Unsworthageddon (that game we won 3-0 against a relegated team), we did look fantastic and much more fluid with only one proper defensive midfielder in that team, even if that was mostly down to Martinez being banished from the training ground like a modern day Shankly. Heard he's found work as a Princess Leia style hologram though, so good on the latter. I think we need someone of the ilk of Tadic/Silva/Arteta to dictate the play in the middle of the park really. Whether that's by dropping Barry (because we will have to eventually, he isnt getting any younger and Moshiris millions cant bypass FA regulations regarding bionic limbs), moving Barkley deep and getting someone else in, or maybe by swapping Barry with Davies, or maybe even just by changing the formation so we have a proper three in midfield is up to Koeman to decide frankly.
Have I really just spent all that time rambling on about this to basically conclude 'play the young lads, dutch moyes'? You bet your sweet cheeks I have mate, that's MerseyRail for you. To sum it up, Bolasie is sound but Mirallas has been rendered irrepairable by Martinez, Deulofeu isn't being given enough time to cement his place and Lennon isn't the answer either. This means our attack is hugely lopsided, which is made worse by the fact that Baines and Coleman have gone to pot recently, so now all teams have to do is make sure Bolasie doesn't get space and hope that Barkley has a bad game (which lets be honest has been the case recently) to totally nullify our attack. I propose we either need a more dynamic midfield, Barkley to step up at number 10 like the proverbial diamond we claim he is, or one of our right wingers needs to actually come good.
Where's Aidan McGeady when you need him?
Oh, and Jagielka's been crap, get him dropped
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
Because we're crap mate.
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