What is the problem with this team?

[JJK]

Everything basically. Harder to list what they’re good at.

 

[Joey66]

Our club is split into 2 groups

Bill's luvvies: Baines, Jags and Mirallas. These are part of the boys club, already being lined up for lifetime roles when they retire.

Koeman's chumps: Stek, Bolasie, Schneiderlin, Sandro and Keane. Massively overpaid and not even arsed as they've already hit the jackpot.

Until they're all gone, we won't improve.

You forgot CuCu.......

 

[Joey66]

We have yet to replace Lukaku, and Ross - Sig looks one paced strikers inept Bernie Wright mold.........

 

[deipnosophist]

It's got no spine, both literally and figuratively. Any project is only as good as its foundations.

Absolutely nailed it

 

[irishtony1878]

Haven't bothered my arse to read all the pages but has anyone added the fans into the mix of what's wrong?
We haven't kicked off the season yet but you can already hear and feel the bile and acid heading the way of Silva and the players.
I'm not for one minute suggesting that they don't deserve abuse but we don't help them settle and relax with the ball when we are hurling abuse before they even kick off.

 

[Badge1878]

There ain’t any simple to this - ability, desire, comfort zone, style of play. We ain’t a team in the sense of having a collective objective who pull together and have pride in the shirt and name of Everton Football Club. They ain’t fans who have the same emotional attachment to our colours.

Let’s face it, we now have a squad acquired by five different managers, each promised different things and each with different styles of play and approaches to the game. From the remnants of the Moyes era, that underdog/hard to beat/Goodison bear pit approach when top earners may have touched £50k per week, to Martinez and his play from the back, dont practice set plays or worry about tracking back if it’s not your job, to Moonhead and his something that I never really got to be honest other than his excuses, to that stain on our name who personally won every game under his tenure and wasn’t responsible for any loss to our new man.

We have players on huge variances of weekly wage, for the too old school from Moyes’ tenure they’ll reckon most of the new nothings don’t deserve it, they are probably right. For Martinez’s crew, it wasn’t supposed to be like this and most have gone anyway, for Moonheads mob, the dough is great and if it don’t work out, they have an agent telling them to stick it out as nobody else will pay the same wedge and for Silva....him and Brands will have to create a team from this.

We have young lads trying to break into a squad that is as fractured and dysfunctional as exists in the Premier League. On the back of this, we are trying to move ground, have an owner who has promised a lot but overseen little in terms of progress. So far, the lad in the hot seat has carried the can for our under performance on the pitch but I sense this is changing. Step up or get out seems the message....and it’s going to be uncomfortable for many sorting this out. Especially for the fans who I reckon care far more than many of those who represent our club.

 

[deipnosophist]

That Capt Jags , a man with acute loser mentality, is STILL club captain, tells everything you need to know about dysfunctionality at EFC. Blue Bill’s BS ‘family club’ mentality only adds to the cuckoo’s nest nature of the place.

 

[billyblue80]

Where do you start?

 

[Goat]

You forgot CuCu.......

If you made a list with everything wrong in this team Martina would be near the bottom.

 

[Verbal Kint]

Silva and Brands need time to clean up the mess created by Martinez, Koeman and to a very small degree Allardyce. Oh and Steve Walsh the fraud has set us back 5 years.

Squad is old, Slow and overpaid.

Said at the start of season I'd only care if we kept Pickford and Coleman.

Opinion has only been reinforced

Patience needed AGAIN

 

[Azza]

The question should be, what is right about this team?

 

[elTurco]

The squad needs a massive overhaul, not one but two central defenders are needed.

We also desperately need a top class striker, one that would easily convince us to put Tosun to the bench.

central defender and a striker is what we need urgently, unfortunately we need much more than that to be a european spot contender.

 

[Hantakun]

Does the club have a sports psychologist? Serious question.

Get Wendy Rhoades onboard.

 

[Nymzee]

Think it’s the boots.

 

[Tak]

Specifically on the inability to create chances: For a number of seasons this was a one man attack. If Lukaku was on song the goals came and games were won. But as a team, we were never a solid, well rounded unit. Always a gaping crack or two showing in the starting XI on match day.

Last summer was the big opportunity to build a stronger collective side, but as we all know Koeman and Walsh lacked any semblance of a plan both on the pitch and in the transfer market. What we did have was Rooney who in stages of the season made a passable impression of a talismanic goalscorer.

Now we have a manager who seems to have a clue about engineering a decent attack and manage a group of players, while also enjoying the buying power of the Moshiri era that enables not only identifying the need for a left winger but hiring the right guy to fill the spot. But so far in preseason it seems a bit like the players are still subconsciously looking for that signal from the main man to look for a penetrating move.

Bit of a cliche but I think the main thing we´re missing attacking-wise is belief in the collective strength of the team. That, and fitness levels that have looked suspect for a long time. Problem is we are utterly clueless at the back which makes it much harder to patiently build the feel good factor and find a new attacking identity.

Agree, great post