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2020/21 Carlo Ancelotti

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DCL is better than Yakubu. Digne is in the ballpark with Baines. The CBs can hang with Jags and Yobo. We aren't that devoid of talent.

No. The current ones, are massively inferior to what Jagielka was. Perhaps only Godfrey could go on to match his level in time. Keane is utterly terrible and Mina and Holgate are average.
 
Imagine a manager who can count on Ballack, Ibrahimovic, Ronaldo, Terry etc saying he's one of the best in the world and they would follow him anywhere, to losing a dressing room that contains Bernard, Davies, Sigurdsson, Richarlison and Holgate.

Some of the players know the gig is up for them. They’ve seen three managers fired and now have their lip out that they’re next out the door rather than Carlo.
 
Watching Utd and look how high up they play with quick one touch passing in the attacking zones. And they’ve got Fred and McTominay in midfield who wouldn’t get into our eleven.

Sure Carlo isn’t to blame for all results but he could at least attempt to set up with some attacking intent.
 
Watching Utd and look how high up they play with quick one touch passing in the attacking zones. And they’ve got Fred and McTominay in midfield who wouldn’t get into our eleven.

Sure Carlo isn’t to blame for all results but he could at least attempt to set up with some attacking intent.
Pogba cost the same amount as our entire midfield and entire forward line.

For context.
 
Pogba cost the same amount as our entire midfield and entire forward line.

For context.
I agree they’ve got better players. But don’t behave like we didn’t spend money last summer.

Carlo gets let off the hook far too easily when anyone even dare criticise him.
 


  • “It is in the head of the players,” “As a manager you can help the team and select the team, but when the whistle goes you are not the one who plays the ball back. “It’s about giving the players options, but we are scared to play forward. Sometimes there are not enough options for the forwards, but in that case play the ball into the channels instead of the goalkeeper. “We know the fans like us to go forward, not back, back, back. Then it is difficult to create chances."

Ronald Koeman, September 2016,
 
No. The current ones, are massively inferior to what Jagielka was. Perhaps only Godfrey could go on to match his level in time. Keane is utterly terrible and Mina and Holgate are average.
Pienaar was not without his weaknesses, and it was first and foremost the relationship between him and Baines that was fantastic. He also came to Everton from an unsuccessful stay in Dortmund. By the way, Baines was first and foremost an offensive back, and had clear weaknesses defensively. But Lescott and Distin compensated for these weaknesses.

Jagielka and Distin were very good, although they had their weaknesses, but Keane, Mina, and Godfrey are nowhere near their level. But what first and foremost characterized us was that we were a hard-working collective, and where the whole was more than the sum of its parts. It usually hurt to meet us, and we pressed, tackled and dueled with a completely different intensity than we do today. One can say a lot about Hibbert, maybe not much positive when it comes to football skills, but when he put on the kit he always gave everything, and did the basics properly.
 

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