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9 minutes ago, barryj said:
What’s Moshiri done other than been a bit naive with his own money? He’s invested in the team, helped get a new stadium project underway and changed the commercial aspect. Get a grip.
Appointed the wrong people. Regardless of who was giving him the advice, he is culpable for listening to it.
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15 hours ago, c1982 said:
Beyond Kenny, I don’t know who you could be thinking of?
https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/19-20/squad.php
What that list does highlight is just how much player turnover there has been, which although necessary I'd also destabilising. We got nowhere near rebuilding the squad the way we needed to in the summer, which is why we're still seeing Schneiderlin starting and a woeful Sigurdsson sulking. It's a really shit situation. But we have to make the best of what we have. And for me that means a new manager who will inspire and give a few young hungry players a chance, rather than just expecting chronically underperforming players to come good.
Because let's face it, we all accepted the likes of Williams and Bolasie were busted flushes. Why would we expect any kind of turn around from players like Schneiderlin and Sigurdsson?
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Schneiderlin gets it more than most because he has been consistently poor and ineffective for longer than anyone else in the team. Sigurdsson wouldn't be far behind imo. I don't give a fuck about injuries. If you keep playing out of form, limited, disinterested players, whatever it is with them, you will not win many football matches. That's a key reason why we are where we are. We can change the manager, but until we're bold about changing the playing staff too, we're going nowhere.
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2 minutes ago, c1982 said:
After a series of successful loans rather than playing in the u23 league. It seems Brands is wise to this with the Hornby and Kenny loans as 2 recent examples.
We've got loads out on loan. I reckon we should be pulling a few back to play for us coz there are players turning out for us right now who just aren't worthy of pulling on the blue shirt and we are in shit because of it.
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56 minutes ago, StevO said:
Worlds apart! Under 23s football and the premier league as a huge step up, love the idea but it just isn’t happening. If three of those lads become first team regulars it would be a minor miracle.
Then let's just keep playing underperforming, overpaid, under motivated, rank average 'seniors' who at this rate could drag us into serious relegation trouble.
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35 minutes ago, c1982 said:
Just look how they’ve done in the cup comp vs League 1 and 2 opposition whilst winning these leagues. Massive step-up to even lower league football. We are in the minority who keeps our ‘best’ youngsters to play regularly in the u23 league. Look how Chelsea are now reaping the benefits of using the loan market (and players playing at a higher level) rather than taking the u23 league so seriously.
Chelsea's best young players are playing in the PL!
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1 hour ago, StevO said:
If we didn’t field limited footballers we wouldn’t have anyone on the pitch at the moment.
Our U23s have been good enough to win back to back PL2 titles, they can't be that limited. I'd rather be fielding players who have the potential to improve than 'senior pros' who you know will contribute next to nothing positive.
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2 hours ago, Finn balor said:
I’ve looked on websites and one in particular believes morishi is getting bad advice continually off agents. If brands is the guru he needs to get rid of the shite and bring in young hungry players that want to achieve something. We are looking at a clear out again.
As a successful lawyer and businessman he should be able to recognise when someone is taking him for a ride for their own ends. My own feeling is Brands hasn't been ruthless enough. And our summer transfer work is looking like a complete embarrassment yet again.
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15 minutes ago, Bailey said:
I didn't think he was that bad today but he is never going to look good when we have control of the possession and he is expected to contribute to the build up play. he is a very limited footballer and his first instinct is always safety. I have absolutely no idea what he was thinking for the goal though, and you just cant be doing that at this level given his job is to track those type of runs into the box. Its a basic job and he needs to be dropped if he thinks that its acceptable.
Bailey you sum up the massive contradiction of everyone who tries to defend him. He wasn't that bad - apart from being a very limited footballer who fucked up for a goal
He constantly lets runners go. And we shouldn't be fielding limited footballers!
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1 minute ago, Bailey said:
Schneiderlin played more or less alongside Davies today. There wasn't much in it at all. I agree with you about the problems with Sigurdsson and the general use of a number 10 but Iwobi played a similar way against West Ham and no-one complained about his positioning then. We controlled the middle of the pitch from a defensive point of view, we just didnt play through it from an attacking point of view.
The problem with Sigurdsson is the quality of his movement in those packed defences. In my opinion his presence crowds the striker and instead of creating space, he reduces it and then you are relying on City level of intricate build up play to break through which with our lot just isn't going to happen. Sometimes with Cenk and DCL their best link up play is when they take a poor first touch.
It's a formula that didn't work under Koeman and doesn't work now. I agree with you on Sigurdsson's movement. I'd say Schneiderlin offers the same problem in a different area of the field. He just isn't dynamic enough or clever enough and gets found out time and time again.
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5 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said:
He was the only one doing anything in the middle. Gylfi was too high up and had defenders marking him. Morgan too far away from the action. Tom dictated play and was intercepting and pressing. He looked like Gomes today. Morgan and gylfi don’t suit him. I’d put Beni as the holder and have Davies and Bernard the 2 acm inverted triangle ala Barca 433
But that's the madness of playing Sigurdsson and Schneiderlin in the same side. One plays too high, the other too deep. We've been conceding the middle of the park doing that for two years
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Just been on Soccerbase and had a quick count. I make it that Schneiderlin has featured in 17 wins out of 50 Prem appearances since the start of 2017/18. I'm not sure what his win ratio is but I'd put money on it being even less than one in three. I just cannot for the life understand how he is still playing for us.
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6 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said:
I think that’s the bigger issue. If he somehow lets brands decide I think we will be ok but farhad is the one that worries me.
This is what really worries me.
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12 minutes ago, Bailey said:
The one thing I have always had a problem with is that I don't really know what he is trying to achieve. There isn't a pattern of play there where I think that the results will come. Even when we had that run at the end of last season, it didn't look sustainable.
Yes he has had problems with injuries but we are playing the same way we did last season. I just don't see how he wants to score goals. Take today, why play Tosun if we are going to be playing lots of long balls into him. The fact of the matter is that today, for all of our huff and puff, Norwich who are one of the leakiest team in the league created the best chances in the game. Probably 3 or 4 big chances to our 1, if that.
I still wouldn't want us to pull the trigger if the next man in was an Allardyce type but it's clear that Silva is out of his depth and his style of football wont lead us anywhere.
For me there's a mix of him not having as much conviction in the way he supposedly wants to play as he likes to pretend he does, and being utterly clueless about which players work best in his preferred system. He seems to believe in getting the ball wide and getting balls in the box - fine, why did he drop DCL just as he was starting to score? When we have played Sigurdsson and Schneiderlin together, we might as well not have a midfield. Regardless of the Gomes injury, why go back to something that was disastrous under Koeman, nevermind his own spell in charge? Regardless of all the money spent, we're still playing the same formation, the same ineffective players as two years ago. He hasn't had the strength or the nous to come in, look at what's not working and make the right changes, even if it means upsetting some 'big' players. He simply can't carry on.
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4 minutes ago, Matt said:
Well let the melt down commence/continue...
To be fair I've been trying to be patient, this is another level of incompetent. We've lost to all three teams that came up. Two at home.
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1 minute ago, badaids said:
What’s Marco Silva getting for Christmas?
The sack. And a smaller Turkey. Actually he’ll get a massive turkey with the pay off he’ll get. And a job at somewhere like Brighton or Soton when they get rid of their manager.
Rafa in please.
Don't think it counts a ls a Xmas present in November
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1 minute ago, TallPaul1878 said:
Its gonna be Sean Dyche isn't it!!!
Sean Dyche would be bright enough not to pick fucking Morgan Schneiderlin and Cenk Tosun
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I was gobsmacked anyone on here said they were happy with a team that included Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson and Tosun. Delusional thinking a team featuring those three can compete with any team in the Prem league. Silva is clearly delusional too and massively out of his depth. Another dreadful appointment by Moshiri. His position is untenable but I have zero faith Moshiri will get it right next time. What a fucking mess.
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17 minutes ago, Cornish Steve said:
BBC reporting "fury" coming from the Goodison stands. Ominous.
The saddest thing for me right now is that I find it really difficult to write anything positive. I'm really not a negative person, quite the opposite, so I notice when I get in a slump like this. Moshiri: please do something!
I'm afraid Moshiri is a big part of the problem. Club has been a mess since he got involved.
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I have to say I really dislike this revolving captaincy bollox. Sigurdsson has been poor this season, what's the point of giving him the armband to reward that?
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17 hours ago, Btay said:
I think we need to stop lumping a striker uptop by themselves and asking why they are not scoring...
I don't think we do. A lot of the time we play a clear three up front, or at least two wingers who's job is to get up and support the CF.
I think the main problem is that we are consistently wasteful in the final third, whoever the front three are. Playing Richarlison and Walcott in a front three, you'd hope those two alone would chip in with 30 goals a season between them. Whether we're not linking from the midfield well enough, or delivery from our fullbacks isn't good enough, or the forwards we play just aren't taking their opportunities or being clever enough in their movement, I don't know. But regardless of our issues at CF, we could and should be scoring more.
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39 minutes ago, Palfy said:
Agreed neither will get us in the top 6, I believe Kean is the player we should be given the opportunity’s to, he if played correctly he could be the key to our lack of goals.
Except he's yet to score...
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There was something said in 5 Live on Saturday that "the rumour was" we'd go for an interim manager again if Silva is sacked. Personally I think that's madness, I'd rather give Silva til the end of the season.
Regardless, we've won three of our last 5 games. No manager will get sacked on the back of that.
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17 hours ago, MC11 said:
Needs to start throughout now. Players will get goals in and around him. Especially Richarlison.
Didn't Richarlison score after Tosun was taken off??
Carlo Ancelotti
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Agree. We need hunger and we need players who have as much fight as natural ability. We also need people in the dressing room who can get players passionate about playing for Everton again.