Shukes

I have to admit that maybe i have misjudged this guy. He looks like an energetic box to box player, just the type of player i love. Watched plenty of vids on him and he looks the part. I really did and still want him to come. But then looking at other comments and the fact theres not exactly a queue, and we have already pulled out of this one once. Then maybe there is a reason for this.

i dont think he actually weants to go., I think like a lot of us that Bainsey is interested to see how RM does this season. We will only sell him if the club speak with him after a proper offer and say they are happy to let him go, otherwise he will be here at the start of the season.

has anyone heard anything on this move yet? Seems to have gone real quiet after his supposed medical. wish we could just get it done and move onto our next target.

I think one of Fellis strengths is holding the ball up. I also think that for his size he puts 90% of the prems midfielders to shame agility wise. The amount of times we have watched him take a ball down turn away from someone and play the ball makes him ideal for a holding midfielder. hen theres his break up play. He is excellent at stealing the ball of someones toes due to his agility.

We need another striker that can score goals. We are desperately short there with no real young player coming through, Maybe McCaleny, not sure. Midfield we need another central figure. Ossie is getting on now and gets tired after a run of games. We have barkley coming through but i would love to see another strong energetic midfielder come in. Gibbo can do a job but is only a 6-7 of 10 player. I think Oviedo, kennedy, Mirallas and even Coleman can do a job out wide. Defence is lacking. I really am worried about our defence. all we need is one big injury and we dont have the cover in the middle. Heits needs to either step up or be replaced. I have reservations about Duffy but really want to be proved wrong. Goalkeeper, yes we need a bench warmer. So for me the following; Kone. Alcaraz. Fer, still would love this guy. Goalkeeper = no idea.

I dont even need to look up a link of total games to goals do it...lets be honest!

They are getting better quality players? havent saw those bids yet. they are bidding on unproven talent yes, and paying double for it. That sounds like a beter business deal? Sorry but just because these teams are spending more money des not mean they are better signings. And you will have to excuse me for being old fashioned and all but im a FOOTBALL fan, not an Alan Sugar fan, I dont give a shit about how much sell on potential a player has. i would rather see us buy a player that can fire us into Europe next season. Which incidently makes cash too. Look a new manager comes into a team and do one of two things: 1 = Shake the whole team up, sell players and buy players and cock everything up. 2 = Work with what he has and add what he thinks will improve on the current set-up without rocking the boat too much. I am going with 2.

thanks i needed that haha!

May as well sell him, hes almost past it according to the Kone thread. Get the cash while we can, he will be worth 3m next year

Kone is just the type of player we need, a SWASHBUCKLING goalscorer!

5 Million for Kone. Just been watching a few good old you tube clips on him. 5 Million is well worth a player of his age and quality. We really writing a 29/30 year old off? well thats half our team written of with him. Goal records? he has a better record than any of our strikers. Seriously guys i think we need a reality check. 5M for Kone should buy us 10 to 15 golas at least. 50+ for Cavanni should buy at least 50 goals then. Has anyone got any candiadtes up front that we should be spending 5M on? And whats with all this cash we have to spend? i must have missed smething, because last i saw were still broke. Yes we have extra money from TV deals, but all that has done is make us more secure, it doesnt mean we have 20m to spare to spend on a single player. How much did we spend on Jela? How many do we expect Anichebe to score next season? Can McAleny make the grade this season? Will Felli even be here? Oh ye i forgot we have Naismith dont we! Come on we are spending 5M on a 29 year old forward who has scored goals in some top leagues. Why do you all want us to become a breeding ground for the top teams? why can we only risk money on players that we could make money on ( possibly ). With our current squad we would struggle to hit the top eight next year. we are about to spend a small ammount on a striker that hit double figure for a team that got relegated. How much bigger is an open goal compared to a goal with a keeper in the nets? the only difference is your under more pressure to score. How much weaker are prem teams when playing for a relegation team? the only difference is its harder for you to make chances.

you gotta stop that now haha i have work to do!

thats true but they failed to realise one important thing. We already have a defense, one thats not going to forget how to defend overnight. Really Martinez must be excited to be able to come into a team that has a solid defense already. I honestly think this is the right guy for us. We needed a manager that will go for the jugular, and he plays attacking football. I would also like to risk the wrath of a few here by saying....ahem cough!...Moyes was not the finished article until he came to us. Maybe BK had a big influence in how Davey boy progressed, and maybe he can bring RM along a bit too. I am hoping that we have made an appointment along the same lines as we did with DM. A manager that we are looking to stick with and build upon.

ok youve started me now haha!

there were still many of us though that recognised the fact that although he did put in swashbuckling performances, he was still not good enough to dislodge our two favoured centres. I do admit i did enjoy seeing him go into tackles with his heart on his sleeve, but todays footballer needs more than that and i am afraid Heits just hasnt got it. We need to get away from this World cup finalist mentality, damn it wasnt even Materatzi a world cup winner!. The thing with heitinger is that its not just he is off form, he didnt even seem to put the effort in. jela was also off form, but anyone watching him would tell you it was not for lack of trying. If we could get some cash for him then lets get it while we can. And seriously guys. A centre back is a major concern for us, we have two decent ones and a reserve player as back up.

Not overly excited but at the same time i think he has more to offer than a lot of you seem to see. He bullied us! He isnt that old and were not gonna get much for 5m are we. If we can grab him for 5m i think he will be a good addition to our team. He can score goals. He is strong and can hold the ball up and bring our midfield into play.

from what i can gather he isnt even back yet. Isnt he back towards the end of the week? if so lets give him five mins to get his feet into his office and then lets see him start to work. Were all worrying about average players that we have been linked to moving to other clubs....we just need to wait and see. Dont forget he hasnt even spoken to the players yet. other than an introdcution, with many players saying they have not met with him at all.

Theres a few competitions going on at the moment. The Brazil/Spain was the senior sides playing out the confederations cup. The report was just how i saw it, thats all. I watched young Everton players go to a tournament and a few of those players did themselevs justice. A few others didnt. Garbutts short performance showed us how important Bainsey is to us. Barkely showed us that we have a ready made replacment for Ossie, and that losing Felli wouldnt be that huge of a disaster. Stones could step into the team in the next twelve months and i could see why he is tipped to become a centre half, though a ball playing centre half. As for the England team itself i would only ecpect three or four players from this set-up to ever procede to senior status. But that is normal. People put to much pressure on our youngsters and make them out to be the senior side of the future. Thats not true, they are just the most progressed u20s at the moment. I remember watching a program about Messi and how they just let him play football and never tried to coach other skills into him, like tackling for instance. They just let him practise what he was good at and he perfected it. We try too much to train our players to be good at everything, only thing is the end up being masters of nothing.

Surely none of you actually believe this do you? please say you dont haha!

Good point, he maybe more useful in the middle. I always thought he had a nice fast crisp pass, but he was way to slow for a position on the side of the pitch. But in the middle what could he really add? He isnt an energetic ankle biter, He isnt a tough tackler, we havent saw much of his shooting, havent saw much of his creativiy. I just wander if the prem is too much for him. Though i wouldnt mind seeing him back and him having a go at it.

I watched all three matches and i wouldnt say it was a poor showing, we just lacked firepower. We should have beat Iraq after leading 2.0 for most of the match and played really well. Chile were a very good passing side but we still had the chances to beat them too. And anyone who watched the match last night must be asking how we didnt win that one. We created ten good chances to score, its just seven of them went to Kane. His last miss was the type he will have nightmares over for years, it was worse than Rosenthals! If we just had a striker who can hit the target playing we would have won comfortably. But overall our play up until the final shot was good, even the final ball to set up the chances was good. Barkley looked dangerous everytime he recieved the ball in the last third. He put chances on a plate for Kane. His turning on the ball and the way he accelerates IS world class! Stones looks like he is also going to be a top player. Confident on the ball, great crosses, good pace and not scared to run at opponents. Very impressed with him. Garbutt, didnt impress too much to be honest. his defending was ok but he made Hibbert look a great passer of the ball. Too many times he put in a long put up the line into the corner for no-one. But he only played the last match so didnt get much of a chance. Long was energetic but didnt hold the ball well. When he had chance to shoot he put in a real effort. But again not enough time to get into it. Lundstram was dissapointing for me. I have gone on about this kid and was really looking forward to him bossing the midfield, but he was played out wide and struggled to make an impact. Dier ( yes i know hes not ours ) looked a good solid player without doing anything particulary great, though he did hit the bar with a sweet free-kick. Overall as an Everton fan i think we had chance to get a good look at some of our coming stars. Barkley will be a first team player by the end of this season. Jon Stones could also step-up this season.

strange match. We have had all the chances and they score the two real chances they have lol.

Kane is a donkey....how can you miss that kinda chance? that is a ronnie rosenthal miss.

looks like that may be it. Usual England. Decent perforamance but not the killer instinct. sounds a bit like us haha. At least a red got skinned for the goal.

ye great technique. We need to get long on now to run at the tired legs.