On the face of it I could agree with you -ie the inexperience factor. But there's a whole different level of ball game being played here by the Pozzo family who own Watford. I don't necessarily agree with it but I can see the commercial attractiveness of it for the owners and players. If you don't already know The Pozzo family also own Udinese and Granada. Their business model has been to get all 3 teams in the top flight of Italy, Spain and England by legitimately loaning players between their clubs and then cancelling / restarting contracts at will so that players resale values are maximised according to the market their playing style is most likely to be commercially most valuable. With Watford now in the Premiership they've achieved that. The thing is most of watford's players already have either serie A and/or la liga experience as a result of them being loaned between the 3 clubs in the past 3 seasons. 2 of the players also have premier league experience. Most of them have also been plucked from obscure leagues to join the Pozzo experiment because with serie A, LA liga and premier league on their CV they become more valuable personally (in terms of attractiveness to bigger clubs) and also to the wider Pozzo project. As I say, I don't agree with it but it is clever in a way and every one of those 10 players they've 'signed' knows that they have 38 games to impress and win a contract either to move to a bigger club or stay in the premier league. They'll be right up for it this season and I reckon will surprise a lot of people.
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On the face of it I could agree with you -ie the inexperience factor. But there's a whole different level of ball game being played here by the Pozzo family who own Watford. I don't necessarily agree with it but I can see the commercial attractiveness of it for the owners and players. If you don't already know The Pozzo family also own Udinese and Granada. Their business model has been to get all 3 teams in the top flight of Italy, Spain and England by legitimately loaning players between their clubs and then cancelling / restarting contracts at will so that players resale values are maximised according to the market their playing style is most likely to be commercially most valuable. With Watford now in the Premiership they've achieved that. The thing is most of watford's players already have either serie A and/or la liga experience as a result of them being loaned between the 3 clubs in the past 3 seasons. 2 of the players also have premier league experience. Most of them have also been plucked from obscure leagues to join the Pozzo experiment because with serie A, LA liga and premier league on their CV they become more valuable personally (in terms of attractiveness to bigger clubs) and also to the wider Pozzo project. As I say, I don't agree with it but it is clever in a way and every one of those 10 players they've 'signed' knows that they have 38 games to impress and win a contract either to move to a bigger club or stay in the premier league. They'll be right up for it this season and I reckon will surprise a lot of people.
Hellerad
j'accuse!
West Hamstrung
I'm going to count their transfer window as our own.
Conor looked good.
The sad fact is that this squad is the same/better than the squad last year, and we still need 2/3 players to play fewer games in fewer competitions with lower expectations than before.
alpha1
Player Valuation: £8m
Our kids are decent but just need experience. Particularly like the look of Browning, Galloway and Dowell.
We play the ball about too much, a more direct Everton is a better Everton. Let Coleman and Baines loose!
Kone is woeful, he needs selling and replacing.
We need more players - Martinez has recently said 3 and that is the minimal in my eyes.
Ferguson is an icon.
Rooney needs to return to us.
Our fans are wonderful.
We play the ball about too much, a more direct Everton is a better Everton. Let Coleman and Baines loose!
Kone is woeful, he needs selling and replacing.
We need more players - Martinez has recently said 3 and that is the minimal in my eyes.
Ferguson is an icon.
Rooney needs to return to us.
Our fans are wonderful.
This would sort out Mikey's transfer desires also
Our fans at times including myself are never happy but once Saturday comes we can have operation moan more! Lol
applecrumble
Player Valuation: £10m
Stop swearing
SSDS
same **** different season
same **** different season
Don't know if you all saw the site owners' post about a rule crackdown?
I'd read it folks. It's stickied, then I'd stop placing your own asterisks, and stop swearing.
marty mcfly
Player Valuation: £40m
Bloody hell. Now I'm worried about Watford too. Why do we have to be the first to play them.
marty mcfly
Player Valuation: £40m
It's going to set him back months. We probably won't see the best of him now until October.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
evertonUSA
Player Valuation: £225k
have you watched Naismith at all since he's been at Everton?
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
Yes and hes always been crap other than slotting a couple of times and running around alot
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Naisy amazes me...I watch him play and I am absolutely dumbfounded.
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