Lapeno77
Player Valuation: £25m
Seeing what a rejuvenated Isco is currently doing at Betis and wondering about another lifetime in which Carlo's call to Madrid went a bit differently.
What might have been
What might have been
Mate his and Sami Khedira’s wages that we saved on are paying for the VIP suite at the new stadium.
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
I understand your stance on Dyche because of the state the club has been reduced to by the very poor way it has been run over many years by a man patently not capable of handling any football club, with Dyche I think he rescued us from almost certain relegation last season and on that basis alone I think he deserves a couple of season to show he can move the club up another level, the squad is still very light especially in defence and central midfield and he will do well to keep us up again.
cantlivewithem
Player Valuation: £950k
I fully agree. When I said it was impossible to judge whether Dyche was the right man it was aimed more at the idea of people saying he wasnt good enough because of where we are in the league and his win record etc. I dont think we can make that judgement with the way the club is at the moment. It is almost an impossible job. We need the club to be in a more stable position before we can start assessing him in that respect. We have a couple more tough seasons ahead and then I am hopeful we can start to recover. I am happy enough for him to continue in his role in that time.
The last thing we need is for another manager to come in, spend 6 months trying to figure out what they think the issues are that are preventing us from playing the style they want us to play and then starting transfer recruitment from scratch again. You can just see a new manager come in and say that the problem with Everton is that they have all these big strikers and what we need is little nimble strikers and we are back to square one again
HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £25m
There is something floating in the water alright and it’s not blood.
He would be mad to consider it considering he needs to rebuild his reputation, and we’d be mad to think he could get Brighton performances/results out this squad (that we are largely stuck with apart from transient loans each summer window).
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
No chance, the last time there was he refused due to the off field issues here and they are far far worse these days. We defo need a move coach type like him but he isn't the right guy imo.
Good teams over perform, bad teams under perform.
I really try, but I just cannot get along with the expected guff.
Fair enough. I'm not his biggest advocate. But at the end of the day these stats prove he's coached the team well enough and been let down by individual quality. How would any other manager do differently?
Tbh I’m not sure but it may be someone could find a better system for the players or bring through a few young ones. But what I do know is results will be his downfall if we don’t pick up a few wins soon. The board will be terrified of relegation.
Sorry, I was making a point about xG oblique to the thread - but yes, you're right - it does at least highlight that the team is underperforming where it ought to be, and as you say, that's down to individual players at least as much as it is the manager.
If you look at the two home games so far, we created enough chances to win the game twice over. The only criticism you can throw at the manager is "why is he picking these players then?" To which the obvious answer is "because who else is there?"
Well that’s true. The fact is we haven’t had enough goals in the team and that’s been a problem since before he took over. Hopefully Beto and Danjuma will improve things but equally we can’t seem to keep a clean sheet which is a huge issue. It’s potentially small margins for us. If someone else can coax a bit more out of this group of players then that can make all the difference.
Not saying he should be sacked now and I don’t expect he will be but he’ll be under a lot of pressure if we don’t pick up wins soon.
