BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Talking out your hoop on this point, Ancelotti has had plenty of criticism even from people who back him when justified, like with last night
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
- Status
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
Allan - a crock; Gomes - a failure at Barcelona, drummed out and humiliated to the extent that he questioned his mental health; Iwobi - a failure at a declining Arsenal: Davies - the less said the better.
One of those four players has not been fit. Two of the other big money signings were disastrous acquisitions by a director of football who really hasn't covered himself in glory. Both were objected to be plenty on here. People need to accept: our midfield is just not good enough and our recruitment has, at times, been scandalous. The Iwobi transfer in particular is, arguably, the worst bit of business since Davy Klaassen.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Allan is an odd one because he does seem to take a long time to get back to fitness. He started the season so well, got injured, then was poor for a run of games but came back to top form in the Leeds home game when he was the best player in our team by a mile, kept it going for a few games before then breaking down again against Leicester at Christmas. Now he seems to be taking a long time to come back again. If we can have the player we had in the first few games of the season and Leeds then great but the injured version isn’t particularly useful.
We probably needed Allan and James to be fully fit most of the season to have any chance this year but unfortunately it’s just been knock after knock for both of them to the point that I’m not sure either of them has been fully fit since that first international break.
Just checking. Has he been sacked yet?
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
McGeady, Alcaraz and Niasse we used to have them.
Allan was out for 2 months, he’s been back for 1 month. If he isn’t fully fit by now then he clearly has an underlying fitness issue and so was a very questionable signing.
I’m not being funny but ‘if we have better players than everyone else then we’ll win more’ isn’t really a great argument. The manager has to work with what he’s got and get performances out of them. I simply cannot accept that our squad is so poor that we haven’t been able to outshoot a single opponent for 18 games and get completely overrun in midfield by people like kalvin Phillips, Harrison Reed and josh brownhill.
ForeverEverton
Player Valuation: £50m
The U23s wouldnt do half as bad as some of these frauds....
I dont know why in a transition season, about our 30th one of them in a row, keep the players you know are good enough and in fill with the promising U23s/U18s. They just can not be any worse......
I dont know why in a transition season, about our 30th one of them in a row, keep the players you know are good enough and in fill with the promising U23s/U18s. They just can not be any worse......
We have won one league game by a +2 goal margin all season, against 10 man West Brom. Liverpool, Leicester and Brighton are the only teams we’ve beaten by more than one goal. It’s why our goal difference is the worst in the top half by a country mile.
I'd even throw Onyango in the midfield to provide more energy and desire. We're far too predictable in there and slow to move the ball. We bought two centre mids in the Summer and probably need about 2 this Summer again.
there's some damp pish stained mattresses around today
Well if we were 16th then this thread wouldn’t exist because he probably wouldn’t still be in a job.
Bluepablo
Player Valuation: £950k
Come back next week after we’ve beaten City!
Really incredible that we are too given how shoddy we've been this season. Extra perspective that we could be 8th going into the international break.
My concern is the performances which have not been good enough. Currently only Burnley, Palace, West Brom and Sheff Utd have had less shots per game than us - we're far too negative.
The very worrying thing for me is that the players still look like they’re being sent out there with the tactical instructions “you’re better at football than them, just beat them”. Well it’s been firmly established at this point that we’re not.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
I’m pleased with have him as our manager, like the majority of our fans, I would guess. And I get his hands have been tied a bit with injuries lately.
But he does come out a lot of the time, with the same message after every home defeat. People aren’t learning, including him.
forget the Man City game, but it will be interesting to see what he does v palace. Because if he goes back to 4CB’s and tries to nick a 1-0 it will tell you he doesn’t trust the midfield/attacking midfielders to create or control games. And that goes for Richarlison & DCL as well who have been very inconsistent.
But he does come out a lot of the time, with the same message after every home defeat. People aren’t learning, including him.
forget the Man City game, but it will be interesting to see what he does v palace. Because if he goes back to 4CB’s and tries to nick a 1-0 it will tell you he doesn’t trust the midfield/attacking midfielders to create or control games. And that goes for Richarlison & DCL as well who have been very inconsistent.
- Status