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Surprised it took this long honestly. Ancelotti brought him to Madrid and Bayern so he clearly fancies/fancied him. https://www.eyefootball.com/news/43298/Everton-swoop-James-Rodriguez.html

You mean with the exception of leaving Maddison absolutely wide open to score the first?

Jon Moss. Fuck.

Fingers crossed on Ancelotti. Brands has moved mountains so far but there's still so much to be done. GK: Pickford, Lossl, JVirginia DEF: Holgate, Keane, Digne, Mina, Coleman, Kenny MID: Delph, Gylfi, Morgan, Andre, Gbamin, Davies W: Richarlison, Walcott, Iwobi, Bernard ST: DCL, Tosun, Kean Out of contract: Stek, Baines, Sidibe (loan end), Cuco, Garbutt, Niasse Dead wood: Bolasie, Sandro, Besic Youth likely to be gone: Pennington, Connolly, Beni, Dowell, Broadhead, Bowler, Hornby If we could get $95m from Keane($20m), Gylfi ($20m), Morgan ($15m), Tosun ($15m), Bolasie ($10m), Sandro ($5m), Besic ($5m), and combined youth ($5m) that would set us up to spend $150-200m on the spine. CB, CM, ST. Plug gap at backup LB with a similar Sidibe type deal.

Everton 2 - 2 Arsenal Siggy

Ok haven't hopped in on this yet but i'll bite. I'm lost as to how people think Duncan was looking to embarrass Moise and/or looking to prove a point. Duncan is the (caretaker) manager of Everton Football Club. Everton were playing a match at Old Trafford. Duncan's only job, his only job, is to figure out how to achieve the best possible result. In the 70' Duncan thought replacing Bernard for Kean gave Everton a better chance at achieving the best possible result - perhaps he thought Kean could give them a better chance of scoring the winner, which I think we'd all agree with. In the '89 he faced a similar situation however he must have been looking to protect the draw. The decision is simple. The attacking players on the pitch were Kean Iwobi DCL and Richarlison. Iwobi DCL and Richarlison are all better players defensively than Kean and certainly have a higher work rate. Duncan made the only decision a manager should be making in that situation. How can we as a team, club, collective achieve the best result.

Arteta to Arsenal: https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/4014833/sources-mikel-arteta-set-to-be-named-arsenal-manager-in-coming-days Heavily linked: Ancelotti, Moyes Reportedly out: Poch, Rafa, kovac, marcelino, Gallardo, v pereira, Howe, Emery, Arteta Quiet: Dyche, Wilder, Ten Hag, Jardim, Postecoglou, van Bommel

Pickford Sidibe Holgate Keane Baines Iwobi Siggy Davies Bernard Kean Richarlison Mina has a niggle and worry about risking him for the festive fixtures. Home cup game seems great time for Duncan and Kean to make a statement after what happened Sunday. DCL deserves/needs a rest after the shift he put in.

Dunc doesn't strike me as someone to 'overthink' it. The system worked against Chelsea so he needs to find two like for like replacements for Schneiderlin and Walcott. Davies and Bernard it is. All the doubts make the bench. Pickford Sidibe Holgate Keane Digne Bernard Davies Gylfi Iwobi DCL Richarlison Bench: Stek Baines Mina Coleman Delph Kean Tosun

This about right? Heavily linked: Ancelotti, Emery, moyes Reportedly out: Poch, Rafa, kovac, marcelino, Gallardo, v pereira Quiet: Arteta, Howe, Dyche, Wilder, Ten Hag, Jardim

Utd 1 - 1 Everton Richarlison

Agree completely. Dunc should have as long as it takes to get the best candidate - or the results are back to unbearable. Moyes and others who are ‘relegation-savers’ will be there whenever we need them why rush to appoint one of them. Let’s see what Dunc’s got and hopefully in January one of our top targets agrees to manage and he and Brands can get a player or two in during January window.

Lossl who cares human with pulse Mina Digne Walcott Shiterlin Davies Bernard Richarlison DCL Fuck this. We don’t have a second CB and I have to put my two least favorite players (Walcott and Schneiderlin) in the team. Even relegation is better than the Allardyce days but damn right now is close.

Liverpool 0 - 1 Everton Mina

On a team with a multitude of issues to me the biggest one remains CB. We’re a nothing team until we find our rock to pair with Mina. Holgate was dreadful yesterday and Keane just doesn’t have it.

Leicester 2 - 3 Everton DCL

Can we just leave him in the dressing room? Someone else will have to sort that out when the match starts. Hopefully Sir Alex is in the stands.

The last minute of this is fantastic analysis. Jamie Carragher knows more about the club than the board. Which isn’t helping any of us feel better. We need a fighter.

Absolutely! At some point we need to look in the mirror and ask much more difficult questions than who should our manager be. Martinez is a good manager. Koeman is a good manager. I'm still saying Silva is a good manager. They all should have been successful here. We have failed as a club and we're using the stadium as some sort of golden nugget. Think you're disappointed now? Wait until we watch this shite on the banks of the Mersey. At the end of the day who are we...what is our identity? What do we want our identity to be? Does the answer to either of those questions mesh with our ambitions? Identity and ambition are two separate things.

I'm dumb as rocks so heart is all i've got - Arteta/Cahill would be a dream come true.

Brilliant post. No doubt we are where we are because we don't have anyone on form as a 9 or 10 this year. You won't win a lot of games without those two positions contributing to the team.

Been on the Howe bandwagon longer than most, and like Arteta also. Also don't hate the Moyes idea but only until the end of the season (especially if it means Tim Cahill on the coaching staff). Just think it's exceptionally difficult for a club like ours to get a qualified manager midseason. All that being said I'm going to completely contradict myself - made up my mind last night - we should be going full bore for Nuno Espirito Santo.

Agreed on having the ball but Davies isn't the guy I want as last man back for Norwich counters. Hate to say it but that's Schneiderlin's (ONLY) strength. Morgan for Iwobi, like the rest. No way they should be risked this close to the festive fixtures. Give them 7 more days to get it together before 9 games in 31 days.

Couldn't find the old Gueye thread so just leaving this here. Caught some live bits of them beating Lille and was curious what sort of impact he's had at PSG. Here's what it looks like: PSG competitive games before today: 17 with a record of 14-0-3 Gueye started 11. Didn't appear in other 6. Record in 11 he started: 10-0-1 with 9 clean sheets (including the first 8 games he started) Record in 6 he didn't: 4-0-2 with 3 clean sheets. Miss watching him his work rate and ability to break up play.

Agreed. Always felt in situations like his the best time for a ‘second chance’ is right away. Get him out there and see how motivated he is.