Everton Banter Archive May 11 2014

11 May 2014 23:49:45
Finished in a Europa League position in our Fantasy League, so I know how the lads feel lol
Well done Blues great season

11 May 2014 20:40:04
Congrats to Everton u-18s for reaching play off final v Man City

11 May 2014 18:06:21
Had we beaten city, our good friends across the park would now have won the premiership. I can only speak personally, but I would have taken the 3 points and walked the full length of the east lankes rd, over broken glass and deliverd them gift rapped. I REALLY could not stand another god knows how many years of smug arrogance, "supporters" with a quite unbelievable view of entitlement. So MR M. Tyler I plead guilty as charged.

I don't understand what's been so bad about our season for it to be worth losing to City? Back in the CL, two points off the title, finishing above big spending Chelsea and Mourinho - it's all smiles from our camp mate :-)

Congrats on a great season to you guys too, Martinez has proved very early on to be a top class manager and an excellent move on Everton's part. Hope to see you in the CL next season

Cheers

{Ed025's Note - nice sentiment that super, you have had a great season for me as well..

I'm with JCW - I loved those city goals despite being an everton season ticket holder - we had nothing on that game as we could not go lower than 5th and arsenal were not going to lose their last 2 games

So it's fantastic that we helped LFC lose the league - you only need to look at Gerrards manically happy face when he scores at goodison to know how much he likes sticking it to everton - so it's nice to give him some back and his mega-blooper was absolutely priceless - and will put a smile on my face every time I think of it for the rest of my life :)

I'm also with JCW and Latchfordlad. Those 3 points that Man City took from us at Goodison effectively gave them the title and prevented the red rubbish from succeeding. 5th place had already been secured and 4th was never realistic after the Palace and Southampton defeats.
I would be happy to have to do the same next season if it prevented THEM from lauding it over us at every opportunity. Job well done.

I would have rather taken the points well one to be exact against MC I personally don't like seeing us loose even if it means RS taking the title! :) a draw would have been win-win and we nearly pulled it off.

11 May 2014 15:15:48
McCarthy. goal of the season. Not the best. Just the only one. That's his tally every season. Love him really!

Still scored more than hibbert

11 May 2014 13:23:47
any links for the game?

Vip box

Cheers mate

Wiziwig

10 May 2014 23:58:12
With regards to the reported 80mil we're receiving for 5th place and, in my opinion, us needing CB, DM, AM, LM and 2 forwards, I think wages rather than fees may be the major concern.
Would love to see Barry join but he must surely be on +80k p/w, and other targets connected with us such as Mangala, Kaboul, Gomis, Matuidi, Caulker, Munain, Scott Sinclair, Milner etc must be on similar at least.
Can see Barry working something out, with Del signing for another year, Diame more than likely to sign if we bid 3mil, Bony a possible expensive gamble at around +15mil and would love see RM use his connections to get a couple more gems from abroad to spice things up, esp up top where we could potentially have no cf, with Luk and Traore likely to be leaving as well as Vellios.

My realistic wish list -
Caulker = 10mil
Parker = 500k
Barry = free
Milner = 8-12mill
Piazon = Loan
Del = loan
Batshuayi = 10-14mill
Lukaku = loan




Thoughts?

11 May 2014 03:41:28
Caulker-not a fan but been relegated so will cost a lot less than 10m, parker-he runs and runs and yep that's it, the definition of average or even below average, barry-deffo get, milner-terrible and for 8-12m? i'd rather lick lettuce for a living than pay that for again, crap, piazon-good payer but don't need him, deulofeu-deffo, batman-will cost 7m and i'd get him, lukaku-no chance of getting him on loan again and we can't get two players on loan from one team (piazon from chelsea too), there's my thoughts

Apparently if we get barry we have to give city 2.5 million as that would be his loan fee acording to a few sites

Once Barry is out of contract at the end of June then nothing needs to be paid to City

Everybody seems to be quoting Bony at 15m or 16m, surely Swansea will want 20m+ maybe closer to 25m. Would love to get Bony but at around 25m thinks he will be out of our price range. Thoughts Ed.

{Ed025's Note - im thinking £20m dero, which will be a massive chunk of our budget, any more and i think we can forget it mate..