Everton Banter

29 Nov 2020 12:16:28
Burnley, Chelsea, Leicester then Arsenal next, and in amongst that Man U in the cup.
Lose to Burnley and it will be a very bleak Christmas this year. Because the way we are playing I cannot see us picking up a result from the rest of those games.
Especially if team selection is based on who you hit on the dartboard.
My personal view is that the management have a opportunity now to play some of the younger players and start developing them for next season. Let's face it we are going nowhere with this lot.
Let's start investing in young players, not twenty eight, thirty year olds who have had their day.
Give Gordon, Branthwaite, Nkounkou, Kenny etc their chance, and if the manager is that bloody good then he will get the best out of them.

29 Nov 2020 11:20:41
Hi Ed025,
I've not posted in a while but I'm getting a bit concerned about the fans who seem to be already turning on Carlo! Ok, things are a bit rocky but it's very early days yet. To use an analogy for someone our age, Ed, in my opinion, it's like having pulled Julia Roberts, then thinking of binning her 'cos you think you're in with a chance with Margot Robbie! Dream on!

{Ed025's Note - i know what you mean tezza but to be fair carlo has made some strange tactical and selection choices, we dont know what goes on behind the scenes and in training of course but some of his decisions are at the least baffling, the omission of gordon, plying iwobi at fullback, sigurdsson captaining the side and a lot of square pegs in round holes, dont get me wrong im delighted that carlo is at our club and his pulling power for us getting class players to sign is brilliant, it has been suggested that he is passing the baton to his son davide and that he is taking more of a back seat role and there is certainly some evidence of that, carlo and dunc are very subdued on the touchline and davide seems to be the vocal one, but how true that is only time will tell mate, after our great start it does seem to be the case that the wheels are coming off a bit and i can see why some of the faithful are concerned, but lets hope with the january window on the horizon that we can strengthen and move forward..

29 Nov 2020 09:38:12
As much as it pains me to say it at this moment in time we are flat track bullies. We will probably best Burnley with a bit of s struggle and then under perform in our next few games after that against better opposition. I know Carlo is still building the side but round pegs in round holes should be the minimum we should expect he seems frightened to trust the younger players in the squad and that is a huge concern for me the young french left back must be thrown into the fray and allow him to make his mistakes and learn from them I don't really see him doing any worse than the out of position players are doing after all if there's were not special-ist positions then we could just put midfielders all across the back line we brought Carlo in to stick by the courage of his convictions and gave him money to get a squad of players in all we as is that he utilities that squad depth correctly and see where it takes is him the club and the fans might just get a pleasant surprise if he does rant over 😅.

29 Nov 2020 08:52:57
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29 Nov 2020 07:39:06
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29 Nov 2020 06:02:19
There's something wrong in the camp. It looks like the younger players are being frozen out.
Why wasn't Nkounku playing yesterday? He's got the energy to do the wing back role which would have freed Iwobi to see if he could repeat the lasts weeks performance on the right. I'm not a big fan of Kenny but if he can't get in at right wing back in front of Tom Davies then he's got to be looking at leaving soon
Which brings is to Gordon - why can't he get into the match day squad when Siggy, Bernard, Gomez and Tosun are all included. Again - we are going to lose him if it carries on like this.
Does anyone know what is going on?

29 Nov 2020 09:44:15
I totally agree mate just posted something along similar lines.

29 Nov 2020 00:11:22
Another thing if digne us iut for 2 or 3 months why wouldn't you bring in niels. I mean are we just going to take a punt on anyone but him playing left back for the next umpteen games, maybe draw straws for it.

28 Nov 2020 22:34:55
Courtesy of Transfermarkt, we’ve ranked the 20 current Premier League clubs by their net spend over the past five years.

1. Man City – £601.98m
2. Man Utd – £484.88m
3. Arsenal – £267.88m
4. Everton – £225.42m
5. Brighton – £214.86m
6. Wolves – £205.22m
7. West Ham – £187.49m
8. Bournemouth – £176.95m
9. Aston Villa – £166.65m
10. Watford – £125.69m
11. Leicester City – £124.83m
12. Newcastle – £122.91m
13. Chelsea – £115.57m
14. Liverpool – £107.58m
15. Tottenham – £106.62m
16. Crystal Palace – £75.69m
17. Burnley – £59.4m
18. Sheffield United – £56.71m
19. Southampton – £22.32m
20. Norwich City – £25.42m profit.

29 Nov 2020 08:54:53
This honeymoon is over, I personally would like to see proof that there is progress because giving excuses and ''we need patience'' purely on the grounds of a brilliant 'CV' doesn't work for me .

Progress as in . 1 'forward or onward movement towards a destination.

2 '
development towards an improved or more advanced condition'