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Id take a couple of their players to be honest, but theyre probably not the ones theyre putting up for sale. Lee, Cahill if he wasnt so stupidly expensive (if you believe the papers)... Other than that there are some decent players but none i think would get into the team.

 

As for Wham - Parker wouldve been my 1st choice. Otherwise theres only really Diamanti there, looked promising earlier on in the season.

That might make it hard for EvertonToffees to vote for the right Cahill in the MOTM polls.

I've a better suggestion and I think ET will go along with it...just make Cahill the perpetual MOM.

It's not ONLY because he's American. I've watched him for quite a while and he has the ability to be quite a good player. much better than Bullard or Cairney for me.

yeah i wasn't having a go or anything, and i agree our mid is good when fit

 

but for example van persie isn't a midfielder probably diaby there. swp doesn't start nor does vieira. bily doesn't usually start when peopel are fit. sidwell doesn't start. zhirkov is only playing with cole out injured an although he's a good player if chelsea have a 5 man mid it's allabout malouda on the left. there's more chance of lucas playing than babel, generally. bentley has only played with lennon out, palacios is the man you need in there.

I stand corrected. I don't get to see enough non-Everton matches to know too terribly much about the other squads. Nice to get a more informed view.

Friends they are, but they are also Kopites.

can anyone else imagine how ridiculous it would have been to finish 4th after taking 15 pts from our first 14 games? I'd have been screaming the roof off, also treating everyone of my RS friends to a Chang!

don't know a thing about the kid, but his name sounds like he's more suited to hosting a bad game show than playing football.

point taken. I really tried to make the lineups for the other squads as accurate as I could...I did a bit of sniffing around other fan forums and looked at their line-ups for the bigger matches. I feel the lineups were accurate-ish. But the point remains, our mid-field is boss.

Altidore from Hull. He is big and physical with a touch for goal. Not a single one else.

Mike for that beautiful avatar. Can't watch that loop enough times!

Yeah it's rubbish on City's part, but then who was I to expect anything else?

That's why I was so excited to have Donovan...it gave me a MOTM choice alternate to Howard!

City have put in a request to the Premier League to allow an "emergency" keeper loan as Given has been ruled out for the remainder.

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Too bad for them they've loaned out their #2 and their #3 is out injured. Would seem they should just use their #4...but I don't reckon the Sheik would be terribly happy about that.

Don't care either way. Could be useful backup at some point.

I quite like that second formation there. Bily/Cahill could probably be interchangeable. Would be nice to give Cahill more rest after the WC (not that he'll have to play more than 3 matches in SA) and give Bily a solid preseason. I imagine he'll come good next year, as long as he puts on 3-4kg worth of strength and cleans up his last touch.

I think the question we need to ask to answer this question is would he make the England squad were he English? If the answer is yes, then we ought to hold out for a fee upwards of 18mil. Otherwise I think it reasonable to accept offers above 12mil.

Personally, I'd rather keep him the duration of his contract. If we make Champions League next year, there is no way he'll leave, unless Barcelona or Madrid come knocking (which they won't). He ought to be smart enough to see that the squad we have now will, with most fit, be pushing for silverware next year and, should Moyes be granted a bit of a purse for the summer and make a few ace signings, there's no reason that won't continue for years to come. He must also be able to see what happened with Joleon, who hasn't done fuck-all since he left for money to a club with "bigger ambitions." I can't imagine wanting to leave a potentially great squad for a 30k/week pay raise (what more can a man buy with more excess money?)

boring game so far.

the fuck?

would be a poke in the eye if we went in for him.

Put Coleman in Neville's spot and Donovan for Bily and that's a hell of a team.

I do agree that the forcing each team to 5 mids is a bit unfair, especially as City, Chelsea and Man U rarely play. I suppose it would have been better stated as these are who I see as the 5 best mids from each team and not necessarily a line-up. Clearly, if we had strikers the quality of Adebayor and Tevez, I'd have used 4 mids and not 5, but I can't think of the last time DM started a match with 2 recognized strikers.

When all fully fit here are the midfield line ups (from best I can tell) for the top 8 clubs. (assuming a 4-5-1)

Everton: Bilyaletdinov, Cahill, Arteta, Fellaini, Pienaar

Arsenal: Arshavin, v. Persie, Nasri, Fabregas, Walcott

Chelsea: Malouda, Essien, Lampard, Mikel , Zhirkov

Spurs: Lennon, Bentley, Huddlestone, Kranjcar, Modric

Red Shite: Babel, Gerrard, Kuyt, Aquilani, Benayoun

Man U: Valencia, Scholes, Giggs, Fletcher, Nani

Villa: Petrov, Milner, Downing, Sidwell, Young

City: Johnson, Barry, Bellamy, Viera, SWP

Can't see our midfield being outplayed by a single on of those line-ups, except for perhaps Chelsea and Spurs. Clearly every team on this list has its day, but on most days I can't see us being bossed about in the middle of the park. So I guess the real question for next season is how to seal up our back line. Here's to some beautiful football next year!

well if we don't decide to go i for him, i can think of one London club that could use a couple more right backs this summer. :gay:

penultimate game at goodison would suggest to me its the penultimate game AT goodison...seems pretty clear to me

So Kirkby is back on?

He's just found his stride in LA in the last 2.5 years. Might try and bring him on a loan in January similar to Lando this year.