Ronald Koeman discussion

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DrEFC said:
If you can sprint around in 30oC, sprinting for 90 in 8oC will be easy peasy.
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Gonna trust Koeman and the coaching staff on this one, obvs, but I just can't remember a time a Prem team has come back from warm weather training mid-season and looked that much better for it.
 
It's like part of the perks that we can offer to entice new players. A year or two back it would have been to the Algarve by Ryanair!

I wanna see see them rent out the whole palm islands and have bugatti's for hire cars, show everybody who are the new Mersey billionaires ;):p
 

DrEFC said:
Moyes' teams often did, but that could be recall bias!
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On the flipside, we've been away in the last three years under Martinez and the last two we came home and were still crap! Our form also dipped in the second half of the 2013-14 season too, arguably cost us 4th.
 
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GBracey77 said:
Dave, do you honestly think its that easy to get a top playmaker?
You think kenwright gets on the blower to Real Madrid chairman...
Hiya Billy K here, that lad in the middle you got, yeh Bale thats him. Well the Mosh wants him now to play behind big Rom so if you can bung him on the next Easyjet an il send over 20 million on me online banking. Cheers laa.

Basically no Champs league clubs are gonna part with their play makers, especially in January and no top playmaker is gonna choose Everton while not in European competition, no matter how much money we offer its not enough as there already earning it currently at their champs league clubs.

So your then left with 2nd tier playmakers or unknowns.
Now, what would you say if we signed an unknown playmaker from the outer hebredyes or 2nd tier?
More than likely you'd say that there not gonna be good enough to take us to the next level etc. So Kenwright, Koeman et al can't win really at this stage on the transfer front.

Its going to be a gradual process just to catch up with those above us and we have no right whatsoever to expect the best players to sign for us at this present time.
For what its worth i think we are going down the road of signing the best academy prospects and youngsters in the hope they come good and break us through that ceiling above us. We seem to be hearing a lot about EFC trying to prise away these young players from around the country, like Hirst at Sheff Weds, the young City defender, even Lookman (who i think will be a star).

So lets stop bashing everything Everton are trying to do and just get behind the team and see how things pan out over the next 2 years. I think you will be pleasantly surprised!
Rant over. :p;)
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I thought that was what Walsh was brought in for though? He didn't get Mahrez from Madrid for £40m, he got him from Le Havre for less than half a million quid.

The bargains are out there for players of that nature. The bigger question is whether this manager favours them. I don't think he does.
 
Aar_the_Toffees said:
I can totally see Lookman pulling that off last minute at Anfield.
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Theres nothing wring with a long punt like that once or twice in a game, but we don't want to be going back to the Moyes era or the pre December Koeman offerings full of speculative downfield hoofs.

Koeman seems to have learned that he has to adapt to the qualities of these players he has now and work with the material at hand. Of course, once he's spent more money in the summer and the team largely becomes his, the possibility is that he has us mixing up the game with a lot more long balls again. The worst excesses of that will hopefully kept in check.

We know how easily a lot of our fans can be seduced by a long ball game becuse of a lack of patience, that is a danger to us in our attempts over the past few years to rekindle our old traditions of playing passing football on the deck.
 
davek said:
Theres nothing wring with a long punt like that once or twice in a game, but we don't want to be going back to the Moyes era or the pre December Koeman offerings full of speculative downfield hoofs.

Koeman seems to have learned that he has to adapt to the qualities of these players he has now and work with the material at hand. Of course, once he's spent more money in the summer and the team largely becomes his, the possibility is that he has us mixing up the game with a lot more long balls again. The worst excesses of that will hopefully kept in check.

We know how easily a lot of our fans can be seduced by a long ball game becuse of a lack of patience, that is a danger to us in our attempts over the past few years to rekindle our old traditions of playing passing football on the deck.
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