the sniderman
Player Valuation: £40m
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I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Ashamed of nothing.
Getting a semi? I suspect that's your worry and the source of your rage and frustration my strange chum.
Quick, run outside lad and brick the first coach you see. I know your team hasn’t made the semi’s this year but I’m sure a bit of coach smashing will cheer you up no end.
Blue Neon
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Keane insist they move on? More like give em a good kicking round the dressing room!
Blue Neon
Player Valuation: £2.5m
At this moment i'm sat on the fence. Was'nt sure when he first signed. Agree! have to give him some time to choose his own players. But i think THREE big summer windows to turn it round will be enough for me.
Runub
Player Valuation: £60m
It is a little like fantasy football because who knows what will happen once the window opens and what targets the club have. For what it is worth I would not want Bale anywhere near the club....I fear it would be an expensive mistake plus I just don’t like him
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £15m
If he/we arent building for the long term, but rather trying to luck out and buy instant success then it will not end well for the club, with Carlo in charge or not.
We can't afford to get caught up in the notion that Carlo wants/needs instant success as the path our club takes, if it means we spend another £200m over his remaining term and are left with an ageing squad at the end of his tenure.
Has to be long term or not at all imo.
We can't afford to get caught up in the notion that Carlo wants/needs instant success as the path our club takes, if it means we spend another £200m over his remaining term and are left with an ageing squad at the end of his tenure.
Has to be long term or not at all imo.
“It seemed the players were focused but not tonight [Saturday], they were not focused and, maybe, I need to push more on that aspect to have the players more ready when the game starts"
Carlo Ancelotti is prepared to take a tougher line with his players to erase the type of slow start that cost Everton dear against Aston Villa on Saturday.
Manager Ancelotti confessed he’d expected his side to pick up where they left off in a professional display to win at Arsenal the previous week.
The Italian was deeply frustrated, then, to suffer another home setback, which saw Everton’s top-six chances recede.
There remains time to make up ground, nonetheless, and Ancelotti is confident of having James Rodriguez back for Sunday’s visit to West Ham United.
The influential James was withdrawn from the team to face Villa as a precaution after being bothered by a calf issue in the warm-up.
Ancelotti wasn’t willing to hide behind that blow, conceding Everton fell short of his expectations at Goodison Park.
“It is difficult to say why [performance was below par], it was the same team that played with strong attitude at Arsenal,” Ancelotti told evertontv.
“The momentum was good, the training was good.
“It seemed the players were focused but not tonight [Saturday], they were not focused and, maybe, I need to push more on that aspect to have the players more ready when the game starts.
“James didn’t have a big problem but we didn’t want to take a risk.
“He could maybe do better [improve overall performance] and we had individual mistakes but it was a team mistake in this game.”
James “is going to play the next game”, confirmed Ancelotti, who had complimentary words for Jordan Pickford, following a fabulous performance from the goalkeeper, and scorer Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who reached 20 goals for the campaign.
“Jordan did his job – maybe some performances were good,” said Ancelotti.
“What was not good was the teamwork and the team performance.
“Dominic scored a goal but was not happy because we lost.
“This is the attitude we have to show, it doesn’t matter if you score a goal.
“The performance was not good and we lost an opportunity to stay in the fight [for European qualification], with more possibility.
“Now we have less possibility but, fortunately, we are still in the fight.”
That fight continues in east London at the weekend, when Everton can close the gap on fifth-placed West Ham to three points.
Tottenham Hotspur in sixth, the final Europa League qualifying spot, hold a four-point advantage over Everton but have played a game more.
Ancelotti was irked by his team missing the chance to get right on those teams’ shoulders, then, particularly as this was another opportunity passed up at Goodison.
They have two home games remaining – against Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers – and the objective is to win both, while sustaining the tremendous away form that has seen Everton win 10 games and counting on the road.
“This team was up and down,” added Ancelotti.
“We had good performances and fantastic results away.
“At home, maybe we are more comfortable and miss a little bit of concentration and a little bit of focus.
“I am frustrated because the game [against Villa] was not good, we didn’t start well, we didn’t show the attitude and spirit this kind of game needed.
“It was a vital game, an important game for us to keep fighting for Europe and we lost this opportunity.
“Fortunately for us, it is not the last opportunity, we have five more opportunities.
“But we have to show a different attitude at the beginning.
“At the beginning we conceded a lot of opportunities because we didn’t have balance, we missed easy passes and lost a lot of duels.
“Honestly, I am frustrated.”
I mean, isn't that literally his job to get the players ready?
It's not a shot saying he's failing but it seems like he's saying there players should get themselves prepared for a match when he's been here 18 months he should know that they are completely and utterly unable to do that. How does a world class manager like Carlo not see that this far in to the job?
johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £25m
David moyes simply is a better manager than carlo ancelotti in my opinion. I couldn't care less about trophies, something severely lacking by a lot of people is something called perspective. David moyes when at Everton did an unbelievable job, the kind of which hasn't been repeated by 4 or 5 managers since all with a bigger budget.
Carlo is by no means a mug and has done a very good job at most places in his career. But the perspective is that David moves at Everton on his budget was realistically competing with 14 teams to get that 5th place, the 4 above at the time were on a different planet with their budget so couldn't realistically be expected to be caught. David regularly achieved 5th and 6th places finishes. The idea that he's now doing the same at West ham is no fluke, it is further proof of his managerial ability.
The other jobs he had since leaving Everton can not be measured fairly as he simply didn't have any time to stamp his identity on those clubs.
I look at West ham now and see everything I grew up seeing watching Everton under Moyes. Their fans must be so proud of their performances and so confident that they can get a result anywhere. Everton as a comparison are the opposite. We just look terrible and one dimensional.
I will stick by Carlo for the mere fact that we have no other option at this time and it would cost too much to replace him. But I was calling for Moyes before we got Carlo and even started a thread and it got taken down. This kind of proudness from some people calling Moyes a traitor and the like is exactly the reason why we keep finding ourselves in these predicaments.
Its not all been negatives with Carlo but I dare say had we got Moyes instead we would be much much further in our progression towards the top than we are now.
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AussieToffee11
Player Valuation: £8m
I don't think he can properly judged until next season. Two summer windows to get players in that he wants and to add squad depth. If we end up finishing 8th/9th next season, then I think the criticism is valid.
I have great faith because the four key players (James, Doucoure, Allan and Godfrey) that all came in last window have improved us big time. We have just been stiff that we haven't been able to have them all play together.
Another core 4-5 players this off-season and we will be a different proposition. Trust Carlo, but judgement time for him is end of next season.
I have great faith because the four key players (James, Doucoure, Allan and Godfrey) that all came in last window have improved us big time. We have just been stiff that we haven't been able to have them all play together.
Another core 4-5 players this off-season and we will be a different proposition. Trust Carlo, but judgement time for him is end of next season.
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