Where's the pace going to come from???

[davek]

We need to carbon date our players before signing. Typical sloppiness from Moshiri this.

Ha ha ha.

 

[DannyAmo95]

I can't recall Everton known as a pacy team. Lukaku is quick for his size. Barkley is not pacy at all. We have lost these two suddenly people moan for the sake of it.

Who's moaning

 

[hktoffee]

The lad said he cant recall us being a team with pace...that's a short memory when in the last few seasons we had Barkley, Lukaku, Mirallas spearheading an attack with Baines/Oviedo and Coleman bombing on too.

That team would utterly ruin this one now.

You are deluded. Barkley pacy? Baines/Oviedo pacy what the hack. Last few season yeah right. You can't help to bring that up.

 

[hktoffee]

Right, so the only player we have lost there is Oviedo and Barkley, neither are pacy players, as I thought, null and void point.

Thanks.

Dave thinks Dowell and Kenny are ready too.

 

[chicoazul]

Mirallas, Lookman, Calvert Lewin, Ramirez and Bolasie don't have pace up top?

 

[hktoffee]

Who's moaning

Not me some others. I won't want Everton to fail that's for sure.

 

[Jamiednm]

Yes we do need physical speed but im more worried about the speed at which we move the ball around.

I thought that was the gig Koeman was going for - more technical, quick thinking play rather than all out kick and run. A brains trust, if you will. I thought that's what signings like Klassen are all about.

 

[devogue]

He has a hive of angry bees for feet. The Spanish Andy Johnson.

|Unlike Lukaku he actually goes after his touches instead of giving up on them. Also was his passing that bad?

 

[chicoazul]

|Unlike Lukaku he actually goes after his touches instead of giving up on them. Also was his passing that bad?

It was the worst first touch I've ever seen on an Everton player.

 

[PeregrineT]

We have DCL

 

[Agent Blue]

The fact that he's 24 but looks like a 45 year old inmate at Her Majesty's pleasure has me worried. We'll come to sell him and we'll find out he's about 50.

Apparently his birth certificate is locked in the safe in Bills office along with Yakubu's

 

[DanB90]

We just need players who run proper dead fast and we'll win the lot.

 

[sharkey1001]

We've lost Barkley and Lukaku and Oviedo....the remaining Baines and Mirallas need a walking frame to get round these days and Coleman isn't coming back the same player unfortunately.

Face it, this Dutch lad is intent on having 8 CMs on the pitch and none of them can run successfully for a bus.

Which underlines my point about the feller generally speaking: he can't blend a team. And in particular he cant build an attack that functions. He seems to have a lot of ideas about paying for them and bringing them in but when he gets them he's clueless about where it all fits.

Early days yes, but we look an utter shambles.

Slow, pondering centre-midfielders are to Koeman, what wingers were to Martinez.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Pace isn't the concern it's speed playing the ball and off the ball movement. DCL made a big difference when he came on by getting on the last mans shoulder and stretching the defence. Before that it was a combination of everybody trying to play "in the hole" or occasionally drift wide. If you're gonna play 3 at the back then the wingbacks need to get forward and the midfield and forwards need to give them options. Baines did it a few times but the options for him were lacking and he ended up going sideways or backwards as he's not quick enough to go past players these days.

Not sure how Klassen, Rooney and Sigurdsson are gonna fit in the same 11. Getting just Rooney and Klassen in seems to upset the balance of the team right now. Early days though and there are the occasional glimpses that if it gels it might just be boss. Seems to be a lot of falling over as well?

 

[devogue]

It was the worst first touch I've ever seen on an Everton player.

lol not quite Lukakus bouncy castle feet but tbh it was quite poor.