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This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

This competition , or more so the clubs and some fans attitude towards it pisses me off every season
If you listen to Marcel, Marco and the players they are all saying we need European football, and as this is by far the easiest route to achieving that goal , why the flying fuck would you not want us to go all out to try and win it?
Maybe it’s because I’m an older Evertonian who watched football way before the Premier League/ Sky era but I really don’t understand why anybody would want to finish top 6 ahead of winning a trophy, especially as this is the clubs longest run in its history without one
 
 

That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s another game to go to, another day out, another trip to Wembley. 
If we get to Europa, it’s a chance for a trip away with the lads or my dad to watch the blues. 
I’d love nothing more than a trophy, that’s what the game is about, and making memories while you’re there. 
We might never make the top four, so enjoy the ride trying to get there.
Picking up any trophy helps the club grow, and enjoying playing European football is a good thing regardless of which tier for me. 

When you haven't won anything since 1995 I don't think you can have the privilege of calling any trophy "Mickey Mouse". I get what you are saying don't get me wrong but as someone who was 2 years of age the last time we lifted something I'll take whatever I can get. A Carabao Cup would be fantastic and let's not forget that going all the way guarantees the Europa League, albeit from the qualifying rounds. 

Note to self. Don’t get drawn in the club don’t want to win a trophy 

Ok so it’s reduced the net spend even further, by the time the widow shuts we may well be in the black 

Ok so it’s reduced the net spend even further, by the time the widow shuts we may well be in the black 

Another €13.5M in the coffers today then

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/marco-silva-must-now-deliver-his-side-of-the-bargain-with-everton-f0kp3ws65
 
The burden will fall on Moise Kean to sharpen what has been, for rather too long, a blunt Everton attack and there is now responsibility on Yerry Mina to stay fit and provide leadership at centre half.
André Gomes has to step up, Jean-Philippe Gbamin and Alex Iwobi must make an impact, Richarlison needs more consistency and Lucas Digne to maintain the standards set last season.
Yet arguably the spotlight shines brightest on the manager, Marco Silva.
As Everton prepare to begin their season away to Crystal Palace tomorrow, where the welcome will be frostier than normal given their forlorn pursuit of Wilfried Zaha this week, the challenge of upsetting the natural order and breaking into the Premier League’s top six resumes.
This will be the fourth season in which Silva has been in English football, starting with his arrival at Hull City in January 2017, and two and a half years on a definitive opinion on the Portuguese manager is still to be formed.
A strong finish to last season when he motivated a team with nothing to play for — an aggressive approach in and out of possession was evident — was an impressive response to the dismal stretch between December and the end of February, which brought only four Premier League wins. Two of those were against relegated Huddersfield Town and Cardiff City.
Silva coached like the manager of Everton should and how they ended is the template for how they must now begin: the man in the dugout showing his skills, with an uncluttered calendar offering time on the training pitch to smooth down the rough edges in his blueprint and bed in new faces.
         
Between now and the December 4 visit to Anfield for the fixture which sparked their mid-term collapse last season, Everton have 14 league games in which they will face only three of the teams who finished above them in eighth last season — Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
There is a real chance to muster momentum. So much depends on Silva.
At his press conference this morning, Silva referred to the mess spawned by the flawed thinking of his predecessors, Ronald Koeman and Sam Allardyce, and the errors of the former director of football, Steve Walsh, when summarising the summer as “18 players have left, we signed seven and, if you look at the money coming in and the money out, we spent £28 million”.
Everton’s strategy had been to try to balance the books after the expensive splurges of 2017 and 2018, but it is difficult to get a true sense of whether that overview has remained intact by accident or design. Probably a mix of both.
The owner Farhad Moshiri’s ambition is such that Everton were willing to spend £60 million on Zaha (£25 million more than they paid for Arsenal’s Iwobi) but balked at Palace’s £80-100 million price tag for a winger who will turn 27 in November and who scored ten goals in his most productive season.
They would have signed Kurt Zouma permanently had Chelsea offered any encouragement after the success of the defender’s loan spell. He would have cost a minimum of £40 million.
Under different circumstances — the search for a winger and a centre back continued after £50 million had been laid down for Kean and Gbamin — Everton’s net spend may not have been trumpeted quite so loudly. Where the £36.7 million failed bid for Watford’s Abdoulaye Doucouré fits in with everything . . . answers on a postcard, please.
There remains a lopsided look to Everton’s squad with offensive players outweighing those of a defensive mindset (midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin will not be allowed to leave as a consequence), and the failure to bring in another centre half left Silva acknowledging it is “not the best scenario for me as a coach”.
To be fair to Silva, he did not proceed to rant about this and will know his discomfort is more palatable than the club panicking and lavishing millions for Manchester United’s Marcos Rojo, a player they did not really want.
Silva is ensconced at Everton because the spend, spend, spend mentality which preceded him did not work out and management cannot be solely about dumping the old and ushering in the new every 12 months.
It is about overseeing the development of players, too, and there is no member of Everton’s squad who cannot improve; whether that is contributing more assists and goals or to the overall team structure to ensure this is a team that is uncomfortable, unnerving to play against.
“You have to manage the situation in the best way,” Silva said of having just Michael Keane, Mina and Mason Holgate as his centre-back options.
“We have never had doubts about Yerry Mina [signed from Barcelona for £27 million last summer but who started only ten league games]. When he was fit he was fantastic, he is adapted now and in better shape.
“It is a fantastic chance for him to show the quality that he has. If you ask me whether I would like more competition then yes, but I am here to manage the players I have.”
The loss of Zouma and Idrissa Gueye to Paris Saint-Germain strips Everton of arguably their two most influential performers in the second half of 2018-19, although Silva said he thought, overall, the squad was “deeper than last season”.
The transformation in Everton’s squad is far from complete but it is in a better place. Now Silva must coax and nurture and guide them into a better position. Top six is the target.

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