Everton Transfer Thread 2016

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Johann Cruyff's musings on the winter transfer window

http://cruyff.com/asp/eng/newsarticle.asp?refId=653881

Johan Cruyff
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'Everyone freaks out again'

01 feb 2016

'I wanted to talk about tactics, but because of all the hassle with the transfer deadline, I will postpone it to next week', Johan Cruyff writes in his weekly column in Dutch newspaper 'De Telegraaf'.

"Looking at previous years, I can barely remember purchases in the winter actually changing things. They are almost always purchases out of panic, rarely if ever working out."

"Sometimes I am thinking it would be good for Dutch football if the clubs would not have any money to spend, forcing them to have a good academy."

"Especially in these periods it is striking how much panic arises in a serious industry. Not just in Netherlands, but everywhere. In that respect, the rule to have a maximum of three or five overseas players in your team was not so bad. It forces a team to delve even more into a transfer, because a bad buy limits the options even more."
 

summerisle said:
Johann Cruyff's musings on the winter transfer window

http://cruyff.com/asp/eng/newsarticle.asp?refId=653881

Johan Cruyff
Johan_Cruyff_ProShots.jpg

'Everyone freaks out again'

01 feb 2016

'I wanted to talk about tactics, but because of all the hassle with the transfer deadline, I will postpone it to next week', Johan Cruyff writes in his weekly column in Dutch newspaper 'De Telegraaf'.

"Looking at previous years, I can barely remember purchases in the winter actually changing things. They are almost always purchases out of panic, rarely if ever working out."

"Sometimes I am thinking it would be good for Dutch football if the clubs would not have any money to spend, forcing them to have a good academy."

"Especially in these periods it is striking how much panic arises in a serious industry. Not just in Netherlands, but everywhere. In that respect, the rule to have a maximum of three or five overseas players in your team was not so bad. It forces a team to delve even more into a transfer, because a bad buy limits the options even more."
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He is basically right though
 

Tel001 said:
How am I making these assessments? He played in Martinez first season when our defence was good... Hence we had a good season... Since then the defence has been getting worse... He has cost us goals and played us into trouble since then... Yet has never been dropped and doesn't seem to be learning that he needs to read danger quickly... Not jump into sliding tackles in the last minute and his positional play is poor.... Now... This means one of a few things to me. 1 he isn't being punished and told not to do these things and therefore continues this 2 he isn't being coached how better to improve these areas or 3 Martinez is actually telling him " your doing everything right so don't change anything" either way you look at it... He is a big part of our shambolic defence that includes 3 of David Moyes back 4 ( and they were solid) I love watching him play.. But he needs to improve his weak areas ... And he has not improved on them in the last 18 months
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You realize we have 3 senior cbs and until recently it's just been him and Funes Mori? Not really possible to drop him but as you've seen he has been pushed out wide by jags return and dropped/rested yesterday. Again you've made stuff up and deliberately limited options to suit your opinion.
 

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