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  1. Their was a time when the Scottish national side were Household names known to  most everyone.

     

    quite a few of their best have played for us! do yo uthink that the 2 team dominance in scottish football over the decades has harmed their game. i dont think i'd be bothered if the same 2 sides won everything every season! and is this limited variety becoming part of the english game today?

  2. whichever way you look at it we are rated the 9th richest club in the uk. that can't be too bad.

     

    the downside is that even rich clubs can still feel the pinch. arsenal sold viera, in part, because they didnt think they would get such a good price at a later date.

     

    huge transfer fees, agents fees, and player salaries are putting football out of business.

     

    and its a bill that the fans are always expected to foot. its reached a point where attendances will soon colllapse and so will a lottal clubs.

     

    that will be a very bad day for soccer.

  3. there s a lotta stuff here about the problems.

     

    http://football.guardian.co.uk/blueprint/0,,1563191,00.html

     

    It's a rip-off - and not just in the Prem

     

    Paul Wilson, The Observer

     

     

    Last month we predicted that empty seats and high prices would be the talking points of the new football season and, although Wayne Rooney has done his best to provide a diversion, the damning evidence was there to see in midweek. Football's empty seats even made the front page of yesterday's Financial Times

     

    While the product on the pitch is still recognisably English, and good, knockabout fun much of the time, life in the Premiership is far from fun for the dozen or so clubs who are scared to death of going down. Far too many fixtures are about survival and many are much too grim to be classed as entertainment. And money is the problem.

     

    Money is also the problem in a much more obvious sense - and not just in the Premiership - when you compare ticket prices around Europe. In the summer, Juventus signed Patrick Vieira from Arsenal and Woking signed Clint Davies, a goalkeeper, from Perth. It costs more to watch the Aussie stop the shots in a Conference game in Surrey than it does to watch the World Cup winning Frenchman at the Stadio delle Alpi. Woking £14 a seat, Juventus £13.80. Explain that.

  4. whereas we have a skeleton squad need to buy replacements quick and take most of the first half of the season gelling...

     

    makes you ponder..

     

     

    its unreasonable to expect him to put up the cash the club needs unless he can see a return at the end of the day.

     

    abramahovs are a rarity. and they are getting even less common. a club has to be mainly self financing and profitable these days. the huge costs simply make it impossible for even a millionaire to make that much difference.

     

    nowadays you need to be a billionaire.

     

    players fees and salaries are simply pricing most clubs out of the market and there is nothing BK can do about it. :mellow:

  5. He has missed a couple of close range efforts that I wouldnt call sitters by any means, but he certainly doesnt miss more than he gets

     

    Arent we all being too critical

     

    Personally, I think in the past couple of months at the very least he has been playing really well if not longer

     

     

    he has missed a lotta games and thats another bad sign, but it does make his goal scoring average better. every layoff is bad for a striker, he losed a bit of match sharpness.

     

    no-one doubts that he's a hard worker, but he's paid for scoring goals and i think we're looking for around 20 a season from a top striker.

     

    we'll have to wait and see how he finishes this season.

  6. New stadium - okay, lets for a moment at least, believe that this is possible.

    Lets believe that Peel Holdings are interested and lets believe that the council will give us the stadium...

     

    its at Switch fuccking island. Its like a car park at the best of times! and its miles out of the way for ....almost EVERYONE.

     

    Bah! Whats the fooking point!?

     

     

    from the developers pov its good business. it puts his project on the map and adds value to it. but is it a good location for Everton?

    :huh:

  7. Playing better but still undecided.

     

    His effort in the last few games has been second to none. Chasing the ball down all the time he is on the pitch.

     

    Getting there though

     

     

    he's getting better but he misses more than he gets and thats not a good sign. he puts in the effort and he's strong. the goal he got against chelsea he just seemed to walk thru defenders.

     

    but 7 goals in 18 games is distinctly average. let see his total at the end of the season.

     

    i still think andy Johnson of crystal palace would be a good buy. if palace dont get promoted this year i think he'll be available.

  8. We got £3.6M for Kroldroup.

     

    So we have lost about £1.5M on a player - Sh1t happens - Its not the first we or any other club has lost a few million on a player - who has perhaps been found to be lacking once you start working with him.

     

    I would say in general if all Moyes additions to the squad where up for sale - they would be worth more than he paid collectively. So considering the devaluation of some managers squads - I would say he has done OK in with transfers in general.

     

    He is slowly building a squad of players with the right attitude - If a player is found lacking in the right attitude, then I actually applaude him for getting rid ASAP and moving on. Even if it leaves him with a little egg on his face.

     

     

    WELL SAID ROB! THERES TOO MANY WHINGERS AND BELLYACHERS AROUND HERE THESE DAYS!

  9. moysey has the potential to be a great manager. given the very limited resources we have, he's done a great job.

     

    its generally recognised that last season we out-performed, i doubt if theres another manager in the premiership than could have done better with the squad.

     

    yes, we need another striker. but we dont need any of the strikers that were available last year, with the possible exception of one m. owen. and can u imagine him EVER coming to Everton?

     

    none of the others were serious contenders. i believe that in the coming summer transfer window there will be one or two available. andy Johnson of crystal palace would be a good signing for us.

     

    ive just seen that lpool have signed robbie fowler on a free transfer. he would have been a good signing, but again, can u see him joining Everton?

  10. You have said the board will back you in the market sometimes you have to bring in players that are only as good as the players you have at the squad.

     

     

    NO YOU DONT! thats not a good enough solution to the problem. you end up wasting a lotta money that we dont have. and you finish up with the same problem again at a future date, but with no cash to fix it because its all been spent on also rans.

     

    Everton are a big club, but were not a big money club... yet.

     

    we have had injury problems all season. its just the way it goes. we could have done without cahill getting carded last week. he's been looking good in his last few games.

     

    what about hibbert? he got a yellow card too, is he out as well?

     

    he would be a real loss. he's been rock solid in defence. not a lot gets past him.

     

    it would be nice to have carsley back as well.

     

    moysey has got to make the most of who is available and being the kind of guy he is you can be sure he will.

     

    despite the difficulties at the start of the season we are starting to move in the right direction.

     

    i would love to see a full strength side out against chelsea because they were lucky to get a point of us last time they came to Goodison.

  11. Everton are a great club. weve got a history and tradition that you cant buy no matter how much money youve got.

     

    we can beat the best out there today, and just becuase we cant buy our way into the top 3 doesnt mean were not a great club.

     

    you may as well just judge a club by its bank balance if your stupid enough to believe that what greatness is!

  12. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - for me anyway!

    We sign a Dannish international Centre Half for £5.1m - with a glittering career ahead of him. We play him twice (once as a sub) and he, as expected, struggles to get into the jist of the English game (Hyppia did the same).

     

    In sheer desparation, we sell him after 6 months for £3m (or perhaps £3.5m) to Fiorentina.

     

     

    so what. we sold jeffers to arsenal for 10 mill!!!

     

    how much did they get for h im?

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