orly
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The Everton squad is a weird and extraordinary spectrum of ability at the moment, that's for certain. If Cleverly comes in he is firmly with the Wool Alumni
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Antolin Alcaraz
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The Everton squad is a weird and extraordinary spectrum of ability at the moment, that's for certain. If Cleverly comes in he is firmly with the Wool Alumni
Eric Djemba-Djemba
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big bobs beard
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Alcaraz against Kiev reminded me of the scene from the Shawshank Redemption where Brooks the librarian had just been released and was mumbling to himself as he nearly got ran over that the world was moving too fast - he hadn't a clue what was going on around him - like Brooks being institutionalise, and couldn't cope in the real world, Alcaraz can only function in the treatment room!!
big bobs beard
Player Valuation: £8m
Alcaraz against Kiev reminded me of the scene from the Shawshank Redemption where Brooks the librarian had just been released and was mumbling to himself as he nearly got ran over that the world was moving too fast - he hadn't a clue what was going on around him - like Brooks being institutionalise, and couldn't cope in the real world, Alcaraz can only function in the treatment room!!
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I was asking who's worse than Alcaraz and someone said Per Koldrup. I was too young back then, how bad was him?
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2 assists!
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Only played 2 games - had an absolute shocker in one of them mind.
Smudge1985
Player Valuation: £950k
Bear in mind the alternative to him at Wigan was the Calamity Caldwells...no wonder he looked boss...
orly
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nah he was injured all the time and absence made the heart grow fonder there.... he built up a legend by not playing
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Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Villa 4-0 wasn't it?I always remember seeing him going out on the pitch at half time and one of the training staff would be throwing the ball in the air for him to headlollollol
Indeed. It reminded me of the bit in My Left Foot when Daniel Day-Lewis was on screen.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Think if Cleverly comes in it will be known as a full set,God help us.
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Evertonians were angered that John Stones was not recalled to the starting line-up after recovering from a virus but Martinez says it would have been a “risk” to throw him back in at the deep end.
“Antolin has the experience of playing in Europe before and John is a young man and sometimes we need to give him the right game to compete for his place,” Martinez said.
“We are now looking back at the game and it is very easy to say ‘this should have been done’ but you need to allow football to make the decisions.
“Antolin and Phil had created a very strong partnership in the previous two games and after keeping a clean sheet against Newcastle there is no need to dislodge that.
“Second, since he had the virus John has not played any football so it would be a major, major risk to throw him into a game of that intensity with the last experience he had away from home in Europe when he got sent off.
“It was important to have continuity in the back four that kept a clean sheet on Sunday and that is the reason.”
Martinez added: “Antolin had to deal with too many actions that we, as a team, didn’t stop well enough on Thursday night.
“I don’t think defensively he had a poor game, I think as a team we put our defence and keeper under immense pressure because our defensive performance as a team wasn’t up to standard.”
Stones, 21, learnt of his omission from the England senior squad in the build-up to the Europa League game in Kiev.
The £3m signing has, instead, been included in the under-21s party for their games with Czech Republic and Germany later this month.
“I had a chat with John,” Martinez said.
“John is a very mature boy and knows he needs to concentrate on Everton and performing for Everton will give him success for England. I have no concerns over that. It is allowing John to have an introduction to games that allow him to have a more of a control of the situation rather than going into a knockout phase which is something he has never experienced before.
"Antolin has had that in his career. He has played in the World Cup, the Europa League and has played in many situations like that and his experience is valuable.
“It is very unfair to highlight him when it was a very poor defensive performance as a team.”
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Yes, the defense was a disgrace yesterday, as was the majority of the team.. but Alcaraz was by far the worst of the lot.
I'm just baffled.
“Antolin has the experience of playing in Europe before and John is a young man and sometimes we need to give him the right game to compete for his place,” Martinez said.
“We are now looking back at the game and it is very easy to say ‘this should have been done’ but you need to allow football to make the decisions.
“Antolin and Phil had created a very strong partnership in the previous two games and after keeping a clean sheet against Newcastle there is no need to dislodge that.
“Second, since he had the virus John has not played any football so it would be a major, major risk to throw him into a game of that intensity with the last experience he had away from home in Europe when he got sent off.
“It was important to have continuity in the back four that kept a clean sheet on Sunday and that is the reason.”
Martinez added: “Antolin had to deal with too many actions that we, as a team, didn’t stop well enough on Thursday night.
“I don’t think defensively he had a poor game, I think as a team we put our defence and keeper under immense pressure because our defensive performance as a team wasn’t up to standard.”
Stones, 21, learnt of his omission from the England senior squad in the build-up to the Europa League game in Kiev.
The £3m signing has, instead, been included in the under-21s party for their games with Czech Republic and Germany later this month.
“I had a chat with John,” Martinez said.
“John is a very mature boy and knows he needs to concentrate on Everton and performing for Everton will give him success for England. I have no concerns over that. It is allowing John to have an introduction to games that allow him to have a more of a control of the situation rather than going into a knockout phase which is something he has never experienced before.
"Antolin has had that in his career. He has played in the World Cup, the Europa League and has played in many situations like that and his experience is valuable.
“It is very unfair to highlight him when it was a very poor defensive performance as a team.”
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Yes, the defense was a disgrace yesterday, as was the majority of the team.. but Alcaraz was by far the worst of the lot.
I'm just baffled.
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