Everton Banter Archive May 04 2013

04 May 2013 19:00:25
Who would the rest of you if we had the money sign

Cheikhou Kouyat� or leroy fer
Wilfred bony or van ginkel
Dries mertens or kevin strootman
Negredo or cardozo
Atsu or tom ince

If only we had the money

Fer, Bony, Strootman, Negredo & Atsu. RW

Fer, van ginkel, mertens, negredo, ince.

would all be very good additions.
van ginkel is my favourite of the bunch, can really work the midfield and has a great creative influence.

04 May 2013 18:39:30
Already starting to receive the banter from the Kopites! And how there the better team? they really do live in the past! like an old man with a war story! well tell me this kopites Everton constantly box above there weight on a small budget! where as liverpool constantly under perform on a massive budget! It doesn't take a mastermind to work out who's the better team! They are so deluded!

Nice answer Dogs.
Degsypulford

04 May 2013 15:06:25
imagine if moyes had 35 million to spend every summer pk blue

Imagine. hey let's just imagine we have Messi playing next season. Imagine will change nothing. why not pray for takeover all the help it will do

He still would not win anything Moyes is a serial loser and you know it.

Thats not fair on moyes at all, a serial loser I don't think so, we are constantly punching above our weight in financial terms and if we had any of the money that united, city, spurs, chelsea, arsenal and lpool have then we would be far from loosers, infact we would be pushing top 2/3 every season

I honestly think Moyes is a very special manager. He has rebuilt our team 3 times so far in his time. Each time we have improved and I only know of two other managers in the Premiership that have managed this feat. Namely Sir Alex and Arsen Wenger. Out of these two, Wenger has not won a trophy for 8 years (even with all the extra cash and ability to sign many players including our very own captain. Arteta). Moyes has been very shrewd buying cheap and selling expensive. Each season we have been banging on Europes door. To prove my point I will give examples of clubs who have rebuilt squads and then suffered: Wolves (just relegated to League 1)
QPR
Blackburn
Bolton
Birmingham
Leeds
Portsmouth
etc
Degsypulford

04 May 2013 12:48:35
Very interesting article in the financial times about Moyes's methods and his obsessive attention to detail, stats about the opposition and how he prepares meticulously for every opponent. It lays to rest the notion that he is tactically inept.

So that his how he has managed to win all them trophies then. It all makes sense now. Damn you Financial Times for giving away his secrets.

Mike

Actually Mike, I do this fascinating, insightful article a disservice with my amateurish, inaccurate and generalised desription of it.
I don't know if you've read it, or not, but I'd hardly call its contents a 'secret'.
It points to the painstaking lengths that Moyes goes to to get a team/squad punching well above its weight and competing where, in all candour, we really have no right to be, given the financial constraints he operates within.

You gone quiet mike

I wouldn't say he is tactically inept, however I do think that he seems to 'bottle it' when it matters most. All the planning in the world, all the meticulous planning, all the attention to detail hasn't helped him achieve what I think we all want, and that is a trophy. He has us 'punching above our weight' and I give him credit for that.

Mike

Tactical nous is all about not only 'seeing' the threats and weaknesses of the the opposition but being able to ring the changes ' in team selection and substitutions when necessary, to give the team the best chance of success.
There have been quite a few instances this season when DM and his assistants have missed the obvious one example, at Spurs when leading 2-1 late on, the main threat was coming from Walker and should have been neutralised by the introduction of Oviedo, on the left to man mark, instead of Naismith floating on the right. As a result Walker lays on the equaliser in the last 5 minutes.

Yes, that one (Spurs) was glaringly obvious to most, I saw it and was screaming for Oviedo on but on the whole, the majority of the time, he gets things pretty much spot on.
I'm not trying to defend the bloke nor do I agree with his philosophy of stopping the other teams playing, as his main priority but he doesn't have the team or squad of players to go all out attack and try to outscore the opposition.
He does the best with the squad he has available and I think he's done a great job with the tools he's given.
Of course he has his faults and makes mistakes like everyone else and doesn't seem to learn from them.
All things considered, with the financial situation of the club etc, there's no-one I'd rather have in charge than David Moyes.

04 May 2013 10:09:17
Chelsea have cooled their interest in Fellaini, he doesn't have the options he had before January. Some interest from Russia, expect him to stay and his dad to start shouting his mouth off in September!

04 May 2013 08:04:10
Let's get behind our blues his weekend, on tele, in pubs and at Anfield, let's get behind OUR team, let's cheer them to victory, let's be Proud, let's believe, let's be EVERTON! COYB

Every Evertonian world wide will be roaring the blues on to victory tomorrow, win lose or draw i'm still very proud of our lads being still up there with 3 games to go, Stef the blue {Ed025's Note - so am i stef, we would all have took this position at the start of the season, we all want better, but for me it has been a great season..

Spot on ed25 it has being a great season. Stef the blue

Agree with you Ed. Great season playing the best football for years. End to end and a bit jangly on the nerves at times, but you can't fault a single player for effort. It's great to be blue and all those negative "fans" saying, let's get rid of. and get rid of.
I have to say I don't know which team you have been watching, but mine has done me proud.
Degsypulford {Ed025's Note - im with you mate..

04 May 2013 05:32:04
I know it sounds crazy BUT. we could have de gea on to give competition or manchester utd could pay 25+degea thoughts? PK BLUE

What?

Your right. It does sound crazy.

Read this 3 times, still makes no sense

Give us a clue PK Blue. Is it a bird, is it a plane, or is it. ? Is it meant to be cryptic?

Oh sorry I meant felli PK BLUE

04 May 2013 01:30:47
Everton could be looking to get ibrahim afellay either on loan or on the cheap in summer. If we had the money the reds have wasted on players, we would be well in the top four! COYB

If we had the money the red's have wasted we'd be winning the league mate.

BitterBlue {Ed025's Note - i agree bitter..

04 May 2013 16:13:51
If u guys aren't bitter, why is it always about us? Chelsea have thrown millions more than LFC into high profile transfers and still don't win the league consistently!

Expenditure in millions in the past decade:-
1. Chelsea 673
2. Man City 572
3. Liverpool 414
4. Manchester United 352
5. Tottenham 350
6. Arsenal 214
7. Aston Villa 201
8. Sunderland 187
9. Newcastle 174
10. Everton 129
11. West Ham 123
12. Wigan 110
13. Fulham 107
Seems the RS have spent more than 3 times what we have and yet they're still below us. Imagine where DM could have got us with that spending.

04 May 2013 20:55:10
The last response with transfer stats should be a post in its own right to shut the persons on here up who slag moyes off. Look where we are in comparison to all those clubs who have spent ridiculous money. About 3 wins off we are. So those who moan about Moyes and his tactics should do one and have some appreciation {Ed025's Note - im with you on that mate..