Isaiah

From open play certainly, but as you said, until he takes penalities it isn't happening. Vardy's already got about a 10 goal head start on him (4 of Vardy's 5 league goals this season have come from penalties).

If any of our B team (which now I think of as the likes of Bernie, Siggy, Iwobi, Walcott, Davies, Kean, Delph) give a shit about ever playing in the first 11 again then this is exactly the game they need to impress in. Premier League opposition who've just had a big win. I really want us to win this match but I'd gamble on the side that won the last round, with 3 A-listers ready to be subbed on if we need it. There's zero sense keeping those players around on their insane wages if we're not going to trust them in a game like this. If they've any professional pride they'll rise to the occasion.

This was my option 2: "He thinks scoring against Salford and Fleetwood in the early rounds of the EFL is nothing major to celebrate" And this was your theory on why he doesn't celebrate: "Maybe he just sees scoring goals as what he should do against these teams so doesn’t make a lot of it" Pretty much the exact same thing I wrote. Relax mate, it was just an attempt to begin a discussion, take this weird chip off your shoulder.

I'm not looking for any "issue" (my option 2 is pretty much what you just wrote), I'm just interested in thoughts on the subject.

Any thoughts on why this guy is such a misery guts when he scores? I see 3 main possibilities. 1) He's going for the misplaced "this shit is too easy for me" Balotelli shtick. 2) He thinks scoring against Salford and Fleetwood in the early rounds of the EFL is nothing major to celebrate. 3) he doesn't want to be here. His sullen demeanour really stands out on the pitch because, Salford and Fleetwood or not, a win is a win and the rest of the team look delighted to be rolling on. He should too.

2 5-2s in a row. Nice.

Then tell the lady that number 7 just played a pass to number 4 but he sadly fired over. We'll discuss the details once the game is finished.

Tell your friend it's the match thread in which Jordan Pickford is playing and has created 2 of the biggest talking points for Everton fans.

Same here. I gave him MOTM at Tottenham, because I think he's the reason we won that game. He isn't "shite". He has huge strengths. You don't get consistently picked as England's keeper during a time of relatively high competition if you're shit. But he is undoubtedly error prone. His weakness seems to be his concentration.

Far and away the best value-for-money signing of the Koeman era (not that there's much competition, given he spent over 120 million on Sigurdsson, Klaassen, Bolasie and Schneiderlin).

Thank God these players are no longer the basis of our midfield.

Richarlison, Allan, Doucoure and Coleman are also on the bench.

How many Salford City defenders imagined they might be marking James Rodriguez a month ago?

Gave it to Pickford because of the psychological aspect to his performance. There was a lot of pressure on him to do well in this game and he rose to the occasion. But really, half the team are worthy of MOTM.

And to add to how shoddily researched it is, he includes Gylfi Sigurdsson in the list of players we bought off "elite clubs". We bought him off Swansea, where he'd been for 3 years already.

I'm not convinced Colombians are waiting with baited breath to see if James Rodriguez has secured his move from Real Madrid to Everton. My guess is the hold up is contractual stuff. From a marketing perspective, Rodriguez is a different level to (for example) Allan, and there'll be tonnes of tiny details in his contract to thrash out.

True. I should have singled out Bolassie.

We've been spoiled recently by the dazzling football genius of Theo Walcott, Yannick Bolassie, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Alex Iwobi. James Rodriguez would be just one more superstar in a team full of legends.

Would be good competition for Bolassie and Iwobi.

From the main English-language Inter forum (these quotes are about Conte):

Sign Fred from United and Malcom from Zenit to go with Alan and Bernard, we'll have our own crown green bowls team.

Opinion of a Watford fan from another forum: "Im a Watford ST holder, so have watched most if not all their games this season. I don't recall seeing Doucoure play in any of them. I assumed it was his twin brother because he has been nothing short of woeful and completely inept in every game this season. Complete chalk and cheese to seasons prior to this. He decided a long time ago he wanted to leave and his performances have echoed that. At times he looked like he was trying, but his head dropped easily and he honestly showed no technical ability last season.Keeping Sarr, Capoue and Deulofeo would be a good window for Watford" Hopefully a move to us will motivate him to get back to his best under Carlo.

I'm sceptical of that article. In the middle of an economic crisis, a French club have struck up a "gentleman's agreement" with an Italian club and are therefore not open to offers from vastly richer Premier League clubs? I seriously doubt that's how this stuff works.

This thread has made me randomly remember how hot Alicia Silverstone was in Clueless.

I'd like Gueye back but every single 'article' by that PrinceRupertsTower kid follows the same blueprint; he has only one source for any of his "transfer news" pieces, they range in credibility from a tiny provincial news site to some random guy on Twitter, and he makes it all sound more credible by burying it in a thousand poorly-written words of the player's history. Because if he just said: "Here's a link to someone with no credentials pulling a rumour out of his arse" he wouldn't be taken seriously, but couching the same thing in the appearance of 'journalism' gives it weight apparently. tl:dr - Gueye isn't coming back.