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2 minutes ago, Shukes said:

I like the look of Chermiti. Seems to have a bit of aggression about him.

Okoronlwo looked to he flying in the reserves. He looked a man in a boys team so I hope he doesn’t come back and carry on where he left off. 
Maybe he’s one for next season.

Dobbin will probably have a couple of years growing out wide. 

I’m not sure Dobbs has it but hope he comes through. 

Every home game needs to be a must win now. 
I’ve never known our home record to be this bad. 

5 minutes ago, Shukes said:

I’m not trying to say that at all mate. I think you’re trying your hardest to make something out of nothing mate. 
 

Im not going to argue anymore. Dom is hands down our best option for me. But he isn’t a natural goal scorer by any means. That shouldn’t be up for debate.

Beto is a three legged kangaroo on skates for me and offers the square root of nothing. Honestly for me that miss was absolutely terrible, but no surprise.

For me it’s time to start trusting the youngsters for a few matches and seeing what they can offer. If they offer nothing, we’re in the same boat.

 

Unfortunately we don’t have much upfront Chermiti and Okoronkwo are our only options Okoronkwo has only just come back from injury and won’t be fully fit. 

5 hours ago, Hafnia said:

Wouldn't rule Brentford out, absolutely leaking goals and Ben mee went off injured. 
 

I agree on Luton though. Need Barkley to miss a good few weeks - if he's not playing they can't transition from defence to attack. 

Regarding Barkley there was a Luton supporter on talk sport today he said Barkley is the best player he’s ever seen playing for Luton he said he didn’t realise how good he was. 

3 hours ago, RuffRob said:

Hindsight great when you see him doing well for Luton, but a signifcantly different expectation on him if he came back here. He would have divide fans massivley on day 1, we got plenty on our plate, without the noise (can't beleive I am using this!!) of what would be a contraversial signing to a big proportion of fan.  

We do appear to have missed out, but I can very muchj understand why the club avoid him as wasn't much appitite for the majority of fans based on both what he apparantly did to the club when he left and what is footballing showing had been over the past couple of years with both Villa then Nice. 

If he didn't already have Everton baggage, I am sure we would have been tempted to bring him in on a free, especially if he is only getting £30k a week on a 12 month contract. Credit to Luton for getting what is turning in to a great deal for them.

Credit to their manager who is doing a very good job I like him. 

1 hour ago, Romey 1878 said:

Jim also wants taxpayer money to pay for improvements to Old Trafford while being a billionaire that pays no tax in the UK.

What a fella.

He is a horrible prick he was one of the richest men in the uk

Regardless of what happened we missed out massively Barkley in the 10 would have gave us some goals. 
and someone who can actually play through the midfield. 
we’ve wasted millions on Beto and we’ve got no money. 
sir Jim at United is a businessman so I expect Barkley to end up there. 
Sir Jim is one horrible Bastard he had men on strike for wanting proper pay increases. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Don't remember anything like that being touted, can't find anything after a search either. 

There’s certain stuff you will not find in a search 

1 hour ago, Palfy said:

Probably is, but what can’t be denied is that he went to Chelsea to have his medical and sign his contract, he had his medical but didn’t sign the contract. 
He comes back to Goodison and his only explanation is that he wasn’t ready to sign hahaha , the he spends another 5 months on the physios table being treated and paid by us, to then sign for Chelsea in the next transfer window, for 15 million less, more money in his pocket, and closer to fitness.

And we are expected to believe by some that it was all Koeman’s fault why he left, when in fact he had a contract on the table to sign for over 6 months but refused to sign. 
Then we are told that how the deal panned out was all down to his agent, and he was oblivious to what was going on, and never had a say in proceedings again hahaha  

Fortunately his return to Goodison a few weeks ago should show to the owners and management, how the majority of fans feel about what he did, when they booed him off for shitting on them and the club, and that message should tell them don’t even think about bringing him back he’s not welcome. 

It’s not about personal vendettas it’s about trying to improve Everton and on a free he 100% improves us. 
it was Chelsea who decided not to sign him not Barkley he didn’t have a choice in the matter. 
he is better than all our midfielder’s. 
 

Just now, Palfy said:

He never let me, and if he did he would have been told to do one

I don’t understand all this bitterness towards Barkley when he left he was having problems in the city so it was good for him to get away you can’t blame a young player for trying to improve himself 

Just now, Matt said:

Or maybe we did try to get him and he couldn't face coming back? 

He let people know that he wanted to come back. 

41 minutes ago, Matt said:

Confidence doesn't explain Barkleys achillies heel though which is his footballing brain. Apparently linked with United today

 

I’m not surprised he is linked to United he will be linked to a lot of teams he has been Luton’s best player we missed the boat in the summer I blame our recruitment team we are so poor. 
and that stretches right through the club at every level the last 6 years has been criminal 

I’ve said it time and time again Godfrey for a centre back can’t head a ball I don’t know why he was central Branthwaite tarky and Onana should all have been around Dunk. 

1 minute ago, Palfy said:

My philosophy when your opponents go down to 10 men is to stick another striker on, you don’t lose any advantage in defence or midfield yet you force them to keep their defenders to stay put.                                                         What we did was to stick another defender on which nullified our advantage of an extra man and allowed them to get more men forward, so you couldn’t tell they were the team down to 10, if anything we looked like the team who down to 10 men. 
A poor decision by Dyche and his coaching staff has cost us 2 points, of that imo there can be doubt. 

Playing the long ball all game is awful, when they went to 10 men we should have passed around them but no Pickford just carried on hoofing the ball long.

we lost possession so many times going long. 

On 18/02/2024 at 12:25, MikeO said:

I've never voted for either but would happily vote labour if it helped keep a tory out.

https://tactical.vote/

I’ve never ever voted anything but Labour but will not vote for the current leader I think he’s fake. 

4 minutes ago, Hafnia said:

777 should have been fucked off ages ago and moshiri forced to find a buyer with better credentials who may not offer him full price.

 

 

I think the premier league are deliberately dragging this out 777 should have been dismissed months ago. 
I’m worried they will accept 777 just to plunge us into more Debt in the near future if there is any doubt they should be sent packing. 

Thing is who do we vote for I will not vote for any of the 2 main party’s 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

On the Wirral the last 3 years now, from home. 

It was very stressful, a major contribution that led me to burnout and put me in hospital which had other repercussions. A decade of hard work undone because people believed Boris fucking Johnson had their best interests at heart...

So sorry for the position you are in. 
there’s a guy sits behind me he goes to Europe teaching at the moment though I think he works in wales but he has worked in Europe in the last year. 

On 10/02/2024 at 08:05, Matt said:

 

I'll give you the very short version...

I was living in Switzerland, which isn't part of the EU but had a special deal to prioritise EU citizens above non-EU citizens looking for work. For 15 years I lived and travelled around Europe for work, from when I was 23 until 37. So my entire grown up life had been established and defined by living abroad. 

Once Brexit passed, a vote I was refused to take part in along with millions of other expats, that pool of opportunity disappeared and when my final contract expired, the only place I could find work was back in the UK. So I uprooted my wife and daughter (who had only know Europe), brought them back only for the border force dickheads to try to deport my wife which has cost me around £10k so far and will cost me at least another £5k in the next several years - all that despite her being married to a British national, with a British national child and married in Britain on a British marriage licence 10 years prior (at that point). I was only 2 years of being eligible for a Swiss passport at the time too.

All based on lies which people for some reason gobbled up. That's the very short version. I went from living and working in a much more peaceful and progressive environment back to the Wirral which seems to have regressed back to the 80s. Based on lies and being refused a vote along with roughly 3m other expats.

Sounds very stressful are you working in the uk now ?

On 08/02/2024 at 07:39, Matt said:

This shit is exactly why I keep going on about it. My life was stolen because of people like this who had no idea what they were voting for but needed someone to blame. I will never accept it. 

Matt I’m keen to know how your life was stolen honestly 

2 hours ago, Palfy said:

Fair points, and I hope you are right when you say he’s not as popular over there as the press portray. My concern is as a citizen of the world, America is still the most powerful country in the world, and whether some Americans like it or not the free world relies on the USA and it’s fight for freedom, democracy and unity of like minded countries, we need you to find a leader who can embrace what America means to the free world, and shows the values of someone who understands how to use the power they’ve been given in the right way. I get you don’t have much faith in Biden and it’s disappointing that there isn’t a better option to go up against Trump, but Trump isn’t the answer for lack lustre Biden. 

I’m not into American politics but if Trump had won the last election America wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in. 

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Maupay looked lost because he couldn't adapt to the role asked of him, mostly because his skillset doesn't fit our new playstyle. He's a much better player than Beto in my opinion but when doing a job hes not best for he looked shit. Put it this way, I would've had him alongside DCL before Beto because he's more of a Naismith type player (though not a patch on him), he'd chase knock ons and be a snide if he wasn't also expected to lead the line.

True

It will be a shame if we don't go for him in the summer.

On 01/02/2024 at 00:39, Btay said:

Right. We’ve got a striker who does everything he can not to score and a centre back who can’t stop scoring (albeit the wrong end)

In fairness though, Beto seems to get a good chance every time he is on the pitch which is positive. Hopefully with more minutes he becomes a bit sharper…

If I remember right Maupay got chances and he was awful for us I don't see Beto cutting the mustard here he s a terrible footballer.

At the game today a friend of Jarrod told me Man United put a bid in of 25m last week haha as if we would accept that.