The Antony to Man United transfer scuppered that deal
Just like the Luis Diaz deal was scuppered by James refusing to agree to a loan deal
Everton that
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Just like the Luis Diaz deal was scuppered by James refusing to agree to a loan deal
Everton that
There's not really much point arguing about Howe. He's doing a great job and would probably have been a good choice here. But what he does at Newcastle isn't relevant to us and certainly isn't an argument for us to make another sacking.
We need to hold our nerve this year and accept there will be bad results, and probably far more than I will ever be happy with. What we cannot allow however is such timid and lethargic performances at home like Saturday. If we don't start improving our home form, then Lampard will eventually run out of time, even though I do think he is the right manager at the right time.
Saturday is a chance to relieve the pressure, but I doubt our players can cope with the pressure. I have very low expectations because it's a game these players find ways to lose.
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Absolutely. We're a completely different set of circumstances.
Newcastle had a side who fought relegation battles before, brought in a manager with a point to prove, gave him money.
We were dead with no funds with a fragile team.
It'll be up and down but there's enough solidity to stay out of relegation.
BurghToffee
Player Valuation: £500k
I am old but sure we were unbeaten in 6 until NP got injured, ok that includes draws but was still unbeaten run
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
Whys there this rhetoric that we had 30m to spend on a forward? We are paying all our summer deals in drips.
Mcneil cost of 4m up front. It's pointless saying we could have combined his and Maupays fees and bought a 30m striker because the selling club has to accept staggered payments because we didn't have 30m to spend up front. It's what made the cornet deal fall through.
We maybe scraped 30m up front in the summer for all our signings, let alone for 1 striker.
Mcneil cost of 4m up front. It's pointless saying we could have combined his and Maupays fees and bought a 30m striker because the selling club has to accept staggered payments because we didn't have 30m to spend up front. It's what made the cornet deal fall through.
We maybe scraped 30m up front in the summer for all our signings, let alone for 1 striker.
The fact we had limited money, and had to sell first isn't the point. The point is that the two attacking players we did sign are not good enough to play for a club of our standing. The money could have been far better spent on better players who actually carry a goal threat. Unless we sign proper goalscorers then we continue on our spiral towards eventual relegation.
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Could've sold Gordon and upped the initial installment on a better player maybe
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
There is that. There is always talk of his ability and potential, surely at his age it should have shown more by now and consistently.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
I agree, we need better. I don't think maupay was ever signed to be playing as much as he has had to though. He was a back up forward. Unfortunately DCL isn't cutting it and the wingers aren't providing and are pretty dreadful. Gordon has been a massive flop after all the hype. Im hoping that FFP should start to be a bit better for us and we can go out in January and actually start to spend a bit more money again to fix it.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Being done with Everton and stopping supporting them are not the same thing.
Also yeah I don’t really like Eddie Howe, I stand by the comment I made, he bends over every single time for the kopites and he’s probably readying a 50 million pound bid for Curtis Jones as we speak.
He’s had a few good months at Newcastle but it all went sour for him at Bournemouth by the end and he was rubbish at Burnley.
The Newcastle squad was never that bad a squad quality wise and they’ve added very good players. He’d have to be completely hopeless to fail there when the owners have bought you a watertight ready made back 5, added one of Brazil’s best midfielders, and you’ve got an array of 30 million pound striking options to pick from.
He’s doing better than i thought he would at the moment but I still don’t think he’d be good for Everton. Some of this lot can’t pass a ball accurately over five yards. Implementing a passing style is very different when you have Guimaraes running it than when you have Gueye, carthorse Doucoure and Seamus Coleman trampolining it off their shins.
Yes 6 unbeaten, but that wasn't a winning run. Even using that as the example, it took us 5 games to get 7 points, so by the time we made up the 6 point gap you were talking about, it's quite likely that the teams above would have picked up more points than us and so the gap would actually have grown. The point I'm making is that although people keep talking about the last couple of games as if they can be isolated as an uncharacteristic bad patch that we're bound to come out of, our relegation level form has been ongoing for more than 18 months now. Lampard isn't to blame for where we find ourselves as a club, but he's the one tasked with improving things, and it's time for him to start showing he can do it.I am old but sure we were unbeaten in 6 until NP got injured, ok that includes draws but was still unbeaten run
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Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £60m
What's concerning the most is he has an experienced backroom team behind him and none of them are finding solutions at the moment. You can moan about players all you want but 5/6 of these are Lampard/Thelwell buys. We do need to stick by a manager but it's hard to deny that I thought we might see a little bit more by now, even if it was just a basic team shape.
Are really going to say he 'lost' 10 squad players, as if the likes of Gomes, Tosun and Gbamin going was a major hardship?
I would be very surprised if Maupay agreed to come here expecting to play less than he has. He's played 102 league games in 3 years at Brighton, starting most of them. I can't imagine that he came here thinking he was just going to get the odd run out off the bench once a month.
Lampard needs to up his game, most shots against, least shots for, least goals, not going to win many games playing that way
The football football is dire and we don't look to have a plan B.
He can't live on last season keeping us up for ever needs to prove he is the man for the job.
The football football is dire and we don't look to have a plan B.
He can't live on last season keeping us up for ever needs to prove he is the man for the job.
steven
Player Valuation: £35m
It's the cut-throat business of football - 2 games ago we were cruising against Palace, playing some lovely football and everyone is happy, we then followed that with a decent point to a tough Fulham side. One poor performance against Leicester changes everything and feels like Bournemouth is a big game for him.
Everything is so congested in the bottom half atm - one or two defeats can leave you tumbling down the table pretty quickly.
My main issue is that our underlying stats aren't the best and eventually these things will catch up with you. Hopefully we can beat Bournemouth and gives us a bit of breathing space before coming back and hopefully strengthening the squad again.
Everything is so congested in the bottom half atm - one or two defeats can leave you tumbling down the table pretty quickly.
My main issue is that our underlying stats aren't the best and eventually these things will catch up with you. Hopefully we can beat Bournemouth and gives us a bit of breathing space before coming back and hopefully strengthening the squad again.
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