We’ve got recruitment totally wrong since Mosh and his money came in. Under Moyes every penny counted so no stone was left unturned when signing players. Ironically it was when Moyes tried signing someone maybe above his station that it didn’t normally workout. Shandy from Inter or Drenthe from Real Madrid. But it was always about building a team, not great individuals but a team. We have it the wrong way round these days. We have some great players, some promising talent but we don’t look like a team. On Saturday we looked like we’d never played together before. We have one of the best one touch finish strikers in the league, one of, if not the best headerer of the ball and we don’t play to his strengths.That’s unacceptable. Team’s have us beat just by being organised and working hard these days. Watkins was good but lets be honest, he didn’t do much more than put pressure on our CB’s and run the channels and the scary thing is that’s all he needed to do. None of those players complimented each other on Saturday and yes, James out was a massive blow and we’re missing Doucoure… he sort of binds the whole midfield together and lord knows we’ve been cursed with Injuries this season but why are we so heavily reliant on 2-3 key players making everything tick? Because recruitment has been criminal the last 5 years. How have we spend 400 million or whatever it is to have such an inflated squad but no team??
Under Mosh we have just spent the money assuming that was enough. No real though about the dynamic of the squad, a style of play although the constant changes in manger haven’t helped. We’re in that weird place where we can’t attract the top TOP talent because we aren’t good enough and for some reason we no longer look at the lower leagues talent pool because we think we’re above it maybe?? What that leaves us with is us trying to poach the best of the rest (getting in a bidding war with ourselves for Gylfi or throwing 55million at Zaha because… reasons) or we end up with players from the so called big 6 who are either not good enough and that’s why they’re available (step forward Mr Iwobi) or older players who see us as a decent payday (Step forward Mr Walcott).
Carlo changes things slightly, he can attract better players but they come with caveats too. Let’s not kid ourselves, James wouldn't be here if his legs weren’t made of Jenga!
Maybe Godfrey is a sign of change or maybe it was just blind luck but we can’t keep repeating the mistakes of the past hoping that suddenly it all works.
Transfer rumours the last week have consisted of Max Aarons and Toney – two young promising lower league talents & Aguaro, Bale and Countinho who have a combined age of over 60 and an injury recorded that would make Gbamin blush. It’s all paper talk but it shows the problems with Everton right now. No obvious plan.
That’s my morning rant out of the way.