Everton January 2022 Transfer Thread

[MACCA75]

Funny how everyone cares about possession all of a sudden. When we played possession football everyone hated it.

Control of the ball = control of the game.
Control of the game = more points.

In modern football to have any sustainable success, your team needs to want (and be comfortable with) the ball.

 

[samsonthedog1]

June 30th, 2021: A day to be long remembered...

Jonjoe Kenny
Persona Non Grata
Fabian Delph
Cenk Tosun
Asmir Begovic
Andy Lonergan

6 leeches leaving Everton Football Club never to return, I think we should hold a celebration of some sort on the forum.

Id actually keep Longeran and try sell Virginia and promote Tyrer, he's on less than Begovic and can't be much between them in terms of quality.

 

[Encoder]

It was about 6 months ago and I can't really remember it.

FFS! I'm still living in the past...

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Funny how everyone cares about possession all of a sudden. When we played possession football everyone hated it.

Personally I go to watch Everton playing football and as far as I’m concerned to play football you actually have to have the bloomin’ ball in your possession.
If I want to watch the Alamo every week I’ll stay at home and watch John Wayne.

 

[Stephenlloyd]

Control of the ball = control of the game.
Control of the game = more points.

In modern football to have any sustainable success, your team needs to want (and be comfortable with) the ball.

@Billy Dean difference was Martinez was trying to play Man City style, with average players.
Amd his idea of possession was playing it along the back for the majority of the game, so the numbers looked good.

I said the same last year, we will struggle to compete having 30% possession. I don’t expect us to have more possession against the top teams, but we should against the bottom half sides, especially at home.

I want to see an aggressive, fast team, who play on the front foot, but adding more possession is a given

 

[windymiller]

Coutinho might do well at Villa under his mate Gerrard but he’d never have done well for us. He just wouldn’t be that bothered to go the extra mile for us.

Surely the popular and charismatic Rafael Benitez could have got a tune out of him? All the players love and respect him.

 

[Billy Dean]

Control of the ball = control of the game.
Control of the game = more points.

In modern football to have any sustainable success, your team needs to want (and be comfortable with) the ball.

Personally I go to watch Everton playing football and as far as I’m concerned to play football you actually have to have the bloomin’ ball in your possession.
If I want to watch the Alamo every week I’ll stay at home and watch John Wayne.

The very opposite of what people were posting when we did play possession football

 

[windymiller]

Rafael said in the summer before joining us that he wanted a club with a young squad that he could coach and take to the next level, he didn't want an ageing squad. He spoke about having a few players of experience who could offer that balance though.

He said he is a coach first and a manager after and that's where he's at his best on the training ground.

He also spoke a lot about homegrown players and how it's important to fill whichever team he manages with these kinds of players.

Then he signed Begovic, Lonergan, Rondon and Townsend. He's a naughty little fibber isn't he?

 

[Saint Domingo]

Surely the popular and charismatic Rafael Benitez could have got a tune out of him? All the players love and respect him.

Doubt Benitez would want Coutinho as he wouldn’t be 100% committed to working hard for this club.

 

[MACCA75]

The very opposite of what people were posting when we did play possession football

Early Roberto was the best we’ve been in years but the later games the only possession we had was in our own half with the CB’s, that wasn’t really controlling a game.

Still better than what we have now mind.

 

[JimmyK]

Funny how everyone cares about possession all of a sudden. When we played possession football everyone hated it.

Playing in a way where you're only aim seems to be to keep possession and you just pass the ball around indefinitely for no obvious reason before someone loses it because they aren't actually very good at passing isn't appealing to me and playing in a way where you seemingly don't want the ball at all and actively hoof it away every time you get it is also not very appealing to me. Luckily there are other ways to play the game which make this disingenuous dig fall flat on it's fat spanish face.

 

[Frenk]

Glad we didn’t get a cootie.

 

[boris]

Early Roberto was the best we’ve been in years but the later games the only possession we had was in our own half with the CB’s, that wasn’t really controlling a game.

Still better than what we have now mind.

It is if you're winning.

I think Roberto's idea was to get in front and then to basically defend by keeping the ball.

If everyone's comfortable on it and the opponent's can't get a kick, then they can't score.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Re Pickford and Richarlison's contracts:

We have Delph, Sigurdsson and Tosun all out of contract in the summer. They currently earn around £240k per week combined.

We can afford to extend Pickford and Richarlison by two years each, and I'd like to think that the club is already preparing the opening offers for negotiations to start in March.

If we can sell a big earner or two, like Mina, Gomes or Iwobi, then that's cash added to the balance sheet too but it's only wage space that's needed to extend existing contracts.

I think you can alternatively make the case that both of them have reputations exceeding their actual ability and both should be sold while that is still the case.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Control of the ball = control of the game.
Control of the game = more points.

In modern football to have any sustainable success, your team needs to want (and be comfortable with) the ball.

I wonder if this is true because that's how football really is or if the teams that do it are just so superior on talent that playing like that becomes possible. Conte for example has been very successful using a system that doesn't require possession. I think the Pep style or what Bayern do might just be a function of how great they are man for man. Meaning we probably shouldn't try to copy it.