Match Thread Stade Rennais vs Everton (A) 5.30pm, Saturday 28th July

[Deleted member 48881]

Crying out for:

A bruiser of a centre-half
A ball mover in midfield
Walcott/Lookman to replace Sandro

Yup

 

[uknightbreed]

not saying they were all brilliant … but richarlison coleman baines jags Sandro and gana all looked like they wanted to perform well, even if some didn't do that good. vlasic and besic have shown flashes in other matches too.

the rest need to shape up or ship out.

 

[Dr O]

We’re still winning this pre-season 24-8 on aggregate what are you worrying about?

I see Blackburn lost to Accrington Stanley today

Everton should stop drinking milk....

 

[Blue Jk]

Crying out for:

A bruiser of a centre-half
A ball mover in midfield
Walcott/Lookman to replace Sandro

Two centre halves and this would be bang on.

 

[mightymoyes]

Just the sort of guy we should be signing!

No it isn't

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

They’ve bought a right back and a centre back.

Yeah, but their big money has all been spent on the attacking players. Their defense has been ponderous - in fact they still seem Reliant on Noble, even after signing all these players.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

No it isn't

Mawson is a cracking player

 

[daza_1973]

So after Martinez, Koeman and Allardyce were you expecting Silva to have world beaters within 7 weeks?

If the conspiracy theorists are to be believed - Marco has had since the end of January to get his masterplan together in his head at least.

 

[mightymoyes]

Mawson is a cracking player

He's not, average. Having saying that average is way above what we have playing for us at the minute

 

[Blue Jk]

Mawson is a cracking player

Have we learned nothing from Keane? We need a mobile centre half not one that’s used to sitting back and defending their own box for 90 mins.

 

[Tubey]

Crying out for:

A bruiser of a centre-half
A ball mover in midfield
Walcott/Lookman to replace Sandro

The bold is arguably the main one.

We've never replaced Barkley. People still don't understand what he brought to the team either, which is laughable, but Sigurdsson most certainly hasn't replaced it.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

Mawson is a cracking player

For the championship maybe.

 

[TheBigIguana]

At least Richarlison is legitimately ace. We can score some goals with him Walcott and Gylfi doing their thing. I believe in Tosun but he will only go where the creative players take him

 

[kiss the crest]

I was so looking forward to this game all day, what a let down

 

[streeky]

Its easy to say that its pre season and players aren't up to speed fitness wise yet. However, what disturbs me is that a lot of them don't seem to have the ability to weight a pass, find a team mate accurately, or at worst, even control the ball - clearly, the pre-requisites/basics. Its disgraceful the amount of wasted passes/crosses/corners we make... all half arsed efforts reflecting a lot of the players themselves. We are three men short at the moment with this defence. Jagielka and Baines are past it now pace wise through age and Keane just isn't very good, a journeyman at best.. The midfield scarcely has a forward pass in it so God knows what the answer is there if, indeed, weve even got one. Perhaps the changed line up for Valencia may be a significant improvement pace wise.... though it would be nice to have seen a settled line up sooner instead of a week before the season starts. As always with us, its the hope that kills you....oh yeah, apart from the soul destroying thought that even Williams is still getting game time.

Makes you wonder why we have 4/5 men ahead of the ball when you acurately point this out. Do you think it could leave us short if they break???