Last season we were on our arse, we had no money, brought in beto as our main striker and nearly - VERY nearly went into administration. We brought in waifs and strays because we had nothing. Got docked 8 points. And he kept us easily. You absolutely have to acknowledge that, no matter your thoughts on him.
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I Said he did well to get to 48 points , but we still had a good squad 100’s and 100’s of mangers keep that squad up last season.
Can you acknowledge he’s doing a terrible job this season ?
Clarky cat
Player Valuation: £40m
I think you should compile that list yourself and post the findings
Of course I can. But the club has been rotten for years. It's always needed a reset before we can move on and thank god- we've got it.
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £60m
I think thats fair on last season. Season he came in he had long enough to sort it by the time we stayed up with 45 minutes left. We got lucky.
So good and bad.
I think he's been awful this season. Im not buying into the 0-0 at Arsenal. Its just basically 10 Burnley behind the ball, zero shots on goal and hope your keeper pulls of enough saves. 9 times out of 10 we'll concede at least 1.
He still scares the sh!t out of me that eventually he'll take you down. You cant keep surviving on less goals per game ratio. It will catch you out in the end. To have scored in 1 game out of the last 6. Dire stuff.
Just another season you're hoping we kick punch scratch enough points to stay up.
Then try and move on. Dyche is dead end stuff.
And I don't disagree on this. How long have we accepted second best? We're Everton - i just hope and pray the new era gets our pride back.
It's funny as I'm reading Moneyball (great book and the authors others are good) and very funny.
There's a bit where the accepted baseball wisdom was that you needed specialist pitchers to do the last innings. That it was some uniquely different skill. And what the Oakland Team management posited was that rather than spending huge sums of money on an expensive final pitcher, you're better allocating the money to better players earlier in the game so it's already won. And anyone just use one of your other good pitchers, and they learn anyway.
It's kind of true of that specific Doucoure argument (and I kinda like Doucoure).
I think there's a lot of "football wisdom" like that too. Essentially statements that are nonsense if you stop to investigate them just a bit.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
His critics probably wouldn’t want that.
Also im not sure how I’d show points earned for negative pounds spent when every other manager is in the millions.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Those who refuse to acknowledge player quality and transfer expenditure in football are embarrassing
Do you want him to be part of the squad rebuild when we do spend money?
You're right. Pep did a fine job winning the league last season with a -£97 mil net spend
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I’ve said countless times I don’t want him beyond the end of the season provided the ownership change happens. Now it has, he could go tomorrow for all I care now. He was always only ever the antidote to Moshiri’s sell to loan policy and PS&R trap. Now that’s gone, we don’t need the antidote.
Agreed
Voodoo Billy
Player Valuation: £6m
Same here, I'm grateful that he's kept us up thus far but if we no longer need to take the medicine we're being spoon-fed with on a match by match basis why would we continue in this vein?
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