What's missing for Everton this season? Osman?! OSMAN?!

[Chang Elephant]

GO OSMAN !

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

Good read, that.

 

[Eggs]

.....not surprised but very good analysis.

 

[strummer]

Predictable responses on here but I agree with this up to a point.i cba reading the statistics but 2 players who are perfectly suited to bobby's style of play are osman and pienaar. It's just a shame they're not 5 year's younger

 

[ijjysmith]

When @Brownie posts, people pay attention.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

When @Brownie posts, people pay attention.

2 reasons for that.

1. He knows his stuff.

2. We're all scared of him.

 

[Robocop]

Put him on the front page due to the effort and time he put into it.

I didn't actually read it myself.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Was a lot of writing that, I just looked at the pictures. My fume went through the roof seeing his smug little face, my dog Nyarko now needs to go to the vets due to me getting a bit rough with one of my new Christmas slippers on him.

 

[osat]

I was thinking exactly the same thing when I came out of the Stoke game. there was nobody taking up clever positions or playing the ball into space, two things Ossie excels at.

 

[steken1]

We need someone to do what Osman and Pienaar do with the ball around the opposition box. We also need someone who can do it better than either of those two.

Good Post.

 

[davek]

When @Brownie posts, people pay attention.

Toxteth Blue, kenada_blue and Brownies discussions on all things tactical are sadly missed. They had the roundtable going on here way before the embarrassing RAWK version of it ever saw the light of day.

I even learned stuff off them. And that's saying something.

 

[Joey66]

Osman who is in his twilight years can and is the only EFC player who can split a defence with one pass -promblem he has 30 minutes in him as a player off the bench etc!

 

[harry]

Osman, naismith and pienaar are the only three players we have who always find space and make themselves available for a pass, the rest are static.

 

[Muggins]

Brownie, I've been on here nearly 6 years and that's got to be your longest post ever.

It was worth the wait. Cracking stuff.

Like it or not, if Osman had been playing against Stoke, he'd of been in the centre of the pitch trying to make things happen. He'd of probably given the ball away a few times, and no doubt made a couple of errors. But he would have created SOMETHING when none of the others could.

I haven't seen Goodison so frustrated for a long time. Actually it was probably the last time we lost to Stoke. We were terrible that day. Someone on here even started THE Ross Barkley thread after the game.

Funny old world.

 

[Number_25]

Osman is proper leightweight on the ball, but he does make the right moves off it - more than any of our current midfielders can say.