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Everton Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

Absolute nonsense.

Two league season scenarios…

Scenario 1 - 38 nil/nil draws.
Scenario 2 - 38 games where you win every game 6-5.

Which scenario gives you the league title with a positive GD, and which could put you into a relegation battle?

Strikers win you everything. It’s why we’re in the position we’re in now.
The best defense usually win the league every season
 
Nobody even knows this is SAF quote.
Yeah but what does he know, in comparison to the football visionary that is
Absolute nonsense.

Two league season scenarios…

Scenario 1 - 38 nil/nil draws.
Scenario 2 - 38 games where you win every game 6-5.

Which scenario gives you the league title with a positive GD, and which could put you into a relegation battle?

Strikers win you everything. It’s why we’re in the position we’re in now.
 
You don’t win games without scoring goals. You can win games whilst also conceding goals.

This is demonstrably correct.

Strikers win you everything.
 
This has me thinking....... Has anyone won the league (let's say Premier league so recent memory for most) without having a striker that has scored 20+ goals in that season?
United scored 68 in their 2008/2009 League winning season.

Ronaldo scored 18 (obvs he wasn't a forward though)
Rooney scored 12.
 

Football is about putting the ball in the net more than the opposition. It’s not either or between defence and attack. Everton have stayed in the league with decent defences and poor strikers whilst other teams have gone down with good attacks and bad defences. It doesn’t really make a difference, both teams are near the bottom as they’re unbalanced. Martinez had us heading that way with a top striker but wide open at the back.

That’s why the manager who throws everything forward with overlapping CBs fullbacks, 3 strikers is as bad as the manager who won’t let a player leave their penalty area if both are equally ineffective at winning games. The game is about balance, City and Arsenal have piled millions in transfers into getting multiple CBs along their backline. There’s not an attacking fullback to be seen anymore in those two teams and they play the ‘best’ football in the league. Real Madrid won a load of CLs recently playing on the counter attack and defending deep.

There’s no right way to play football, it’s whichever method wins the most. Man City don’t play the same football today they did in 17/18 when they first won the league it’s completely unrecognisable form it.

We need to keep our defensive solidity from last season and increase the attacking output. It doesn’t have to be either or.
 
Any chance you could explain what exactly is incorrect about my post. It’s factually correct, is it not?
So you think that direct quote from the best manager in the modern era in the English domestic league is wrong.

I'll go with Ferguson's opinion over yours.

but to be pedantic...

you could win 1-0 every game, with an own goal from the opposition. This scenario is as likely as your 6-5 scenario
 

You don’t win games without scoring goals. You can win games whilst also conceding goals.

This is demonstrably correct.

Strikers win you everything.

Not if the midfielders and defenders score the goals...

This is mad. City just won the league two years ago without even playing a striker.

Strikers aren't the only ones who score goals.

Defenders aren't the only ones who defend.
 
Not if the midfielders and defenders score the goals...

This is mad. City just won the league two years ago without even playing a striker.

Strikers aren't the only ones who score goals.

Defenders aren't the only ones who defend.
Well that's true but City have genuine creativity in their team
 
Not if the midfielders and defenders score the goals...

This is mad. City just won the league two years ago without even playing a striker.

Strikers aren't the only ones who score goals.

Defenders aren't the only ones who defend.
Nobody in our team scores goals
 

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