johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £30m
Its quite obvious to me and its a combination of things. Firstly and most obviously its that we dont possess enough quality to be where the expectations are set for us to be.
I think privately the team wants to be top four, but unfortunately we dont have the creativity or determination to be a team who get to the top four. Personally I think we are really short of true creative midfielders, the likes or Arteta, Pienaar.. even Osman. We only have Barry who is more of a deep lying playmaker and really at his age he just cant perform every week.
Without this creativity a team like ours will only get in the top four through sheer determination and playing to the maximum every week, however these players arent capable of this and dont seem to have the correct mentality or professionalism or work rate to do this. I could easily see us beating Man Utd this week but then following that up with a loss at Watford. I think that because of the expectations of players and their realisation it wont happen we are subsequently seeing sloppiness and half hearted performances.
For the first time in my following Everton which has been 20 years I have pretty much scrapped this season in my head and accepted we will finish mid table. between 7th-12th. We wont do any better than that and it will be a difficult season to watch.
Depending on signings in January we may push for a bit higher but this is another problem for me. Koeman tried to sign Sissoko and he has signed Bolasie. I'm concerned about how he sees these players improving our team. Are either really upgrades on Deulofeu or Mirallas? I personally feel we should be signing players who are more consistent as consistency is required for top four.
I think privately the team wants to be top four, but unfortunately we dont have the creativity or determination to be a team who get to the top four. Personally I think we are really short of true creative midfielders, the likes or Arteta, Pienaar.. even Osman. We only have Barry who is more of a deep lying playmaker and really at his age he just cant perform every week.
Without this creativity a team like ours will only get in the top four through sheer determination and playing to the maximum every week, however these players arent capable of this and dont seem to have the correct mentality or professionalism or work rate to do this. I could easily see us beating Man Utd this week but then following that up with a loss at Watford. I think that because of the expectations of players and their realisation it wont happen we are subsequently seeing sloppiness and half hearted performances.
For the first time in my following Everton which has been 20 years I have pretty much scrapped this season in my head and accepted we will finish mid table. between 7th-12th. We wont do any better than that and it will be a difficult season to watch.
Depending on signings in January we may push for a bit higher but this is another problem for me. Koeman tried to sign Sissoko and he has signed Bolasie. I'm concerned about how he sees these players improving our team. Are either really upgrades on Deulofeu or Mirallas? I personally feel we should be signing players who are more consistent as consistency is required for top four.
