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ToffeeM4n
Player Valuation: £750k
How tf 50 points is a successful season. Does that mean Carlo didn't fail? Because he did.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
Oh to the contrary, as pointed out above it was our better players and Carlo still kept us competitive, I don’t hold much hope for our prospects under paelladyce
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Ancelotti didn't have DCL and Richarlison missing 6 weeks together and DCL will end up being out about 8-12 weeks in total.
I think we'll get more than 50 points but at this stage 10th would be an achievement with the injuries.
You can afford an injury to a Digne or Keane or Coleman but not Doucoure/DCL/Richarlison they are literally our 3 most important players.
It shows you we had the third most players out injured for the 4th longest amount of time.
Dom missed 5 games. Richarlison missed 5. Mina missed 7. Digne was out for 9. Coleman missed 8. Allan missed 13. Doucoure missed 9. Pickford missed 5.
A lot of those were at the same time and led to us having to play Iwobi as a wing back.
Benitez is not the only manager to ever have an injury crisis affect his team selection.
It was never an acceptable excuse for Carlo so I don't see why it should be for him.
ToffeeM4n
Player Valuation: £750k
I agree about the injures, but it's unacceptable to consider any Everton fc manager job as successful after a 50 points season. Never.
Also, he could've kept Kean and James and now we wouldn't be forced to watch Rondon and Iwobi
These two were missing for chunks of last season. As was Allan.
Don't take it as me saying injuries aren't derailing this season. They most definitely are. But it was also a significant factor for Ancelotti.
Broader point goes back to our patchy to awful recruitment strategy over a number of years / regimes. Hideous squad depth. Don't care who the manager is (Benitez, Ancelotti, Merlin the Wizard), they'd probably struggle.
We finished 10th and lost a dead rubber against already relegated Sheffield United.
Something really went badly wrong last season. You could blame some of the safety first dire performances on injuries, but the tail end when people were back should have seen an upturn. Carlo's regime / set up / inability to motivate, some bad eggs in the squad (James poss. Or maybe some of the squad resenting him) / poor mentality... I'm really not sure (defo speculating here). It's been heavily debated before either way.
Be interesting to see if similar happens under Benitez, a lot of squad core is the same.
Mad to suggest that we were anything approaching competitive in the last leg of the season, we’d given up entirely and looked like we were trying to actively avoid Europe altogether. By far the worst football I’ve ever witnessed as an Everton supporter.
Egil Olsen
Player Valuation: £8m
Should have gone for Kjetil Knutsen. BG crushes Mourinho's Roma with semi-professional players. Then we would have offensive entertaining football, become league champions, and everyone would have been happy.
It was pathetic to be frank. I've seen quite a few gutless Everton displays in my time, but it was a consistent run of weak displays at the end. Mid season it was a fair assessment as we were scrapping out wins. But, the tail end was desperate.
Egil Olsen
Player Valuation: £8m
He will make us a well organized team that ends up somewhere between 9 - 12 place. Happy days!
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