I’m not so sure about spending it right.It’s like a soap opera we have players who look like they have never been introduced to a football and they keep starting when they clearly are no good.Attitude try the young ones at least give them a chance.
There are a few issues to why our players are like that though. 1) They haven't had one manager long enough to establish a core message of Everton play like x that becomes ingrained. It's a hodgepodge of numerous voices. 2) Players don't have to take the flak and can just hide and reappear after a new man has been appointed. We have had times when our form has been excellent but we lose one or two and their incentive to try and attain something goes and they fall back on 'well I'm getting my 100k a week so I'm okay' attitude. 3) We are in the worst period I have ever known for injuries. I've never witnessed the spine been torn away for that number of games under a new manager. Of course that is going to affect confidence and make it difficult to get results which in turn spins that vicious cycle on and on. 4) Because we overspent on crap we've had to course correct sharply and where at one stage we could have at least called upon Vlasic, Lookman, Sigurdsson (obviously for different reasons but he still is an option not available), Walcott, Kean, James and so on, we now have limited choices and that make it more difficult to pick up points. I hope this has been deliberately done to enable us a decent budget to have 22 really good players instead of a scattergun collection that aren't able to play together and/or don't cover the key positions if the first choice is out. If so I can understand why we have taken that risk to get back to ground level as quickly as possible to enable us to not have to compromise.
Young players can only supplement, you can see with our hopefuls that have gone backwards as the pressure is too much to take. We don't play well enough to let them find their feet and the exuberance and carefree attitude they are supposed to add dwindles and dies before they can establish themselves. Only when we fix the core issues can we start to develop youth again.
The first few games or so we had a high xG for and a low against so we were going in the right direction. The pace we added in Gray and Townsend were working and while you couldn't say it was pure, brilliant football it was getting results. Let's not get carried away with doom and gloom until we see what it's like again with those players back. Whenever a hands on manager comes in and implements change it isn't going to take time, players make mistakes, snap back to old ways under pressure. Our support need to understand that and by and large have done in the past but because who our current manager is they want to use this period to try and force him out for their short term gain, instead of thinking of what is best for the club longer term. Someone is going to have to clear house here and only an established manager is going to get that time and be able to withstand the pressure. Someone like Potter wouldn't have a hope in hell, so to get to the point where we can get a progressive like him again the foundation needs to be put in place.
