Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
A tactical masterclass yet the end result was that Lampard steered us clear and the tactician was relegated.
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A tactical masterclass yet the end result was that Lampard steered us clear and the tactician was relegated.
Lampard got lucky last year...that win at home against Palace and that win at home against Newcastle playing with 10 players...pickford was superb for that part of the season too which helped us massively. We had also much better squad that the likes of Burnley. So what lampard has achieved last year was simply the bear minimum that you would expect from any new manager.
Thing is we got both of the new CBs for nothing - as it stands bar a loan fee for Coady.
We definitely did need a new midfield too. But we did of course need to get goals in. It was a tough ask but not as tough as they made it. They had plenty of time.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Tim.
Its a rebuild.
Coady + Tarks = Solid experienced players
McNeil + Onana + Garner = Young player to develop
Gana = Over the hill but potentially a decent rotation stopgap for 2 seasons while the kids develop
Maupay = Makes no sense
I can understand slating the bottom 2...but why the others?
He looked to be a 6 for Forest and England u21s ? More so than an 8.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
If we can sell some CBs and CMs then the funds can go on forwards and all is fine with the world.
St James
Player Valuation: £1m
Yes, in the first 117 years of the clubs history they were relegated 4 times, and then Mike Ashley bought the club and relegated them twice, thankfully rebounding back at first time of asking. The repeated recruitment of dud multi-million pound players, and an all-encompassing lack of ambition, passion and drive at the top ultimately deliver the inevitable, relegation. I'm just pleased those years are well and truly past us now.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Which is why I reckon we'll drop this season unless one of Fulham or Bournemouth go on a bad run in the second half of the season.
Last season Watford, Burnley and Norwich were clearly all worse than us.
Currently only Notts Forest and Saints are clear favs to drop and one of them has started to pick up and the other may get a new manager bounce when they appoint Hassanhuttls successor.
Wolves have too much quality to drop and a good manager (on paper) imo.
Fans need to wake up - Lampard didn't save us from relegation he put us in the bottom 3 last season and looks likely to do it again this season but this time we dont have Richarlison to bail us.
Rollo Tomassi
Player Valuation: £15m
We always roll out the red carpet for teams on a bad run. Wolves next up and it will be their new manager's first game, we all know what happens don't we?
McNeil is crap, Zat, and wasn't the type of player we needed.
Doesn't matter that he's young, he was not what we needed in a winger.
I'd also argue we didn't need to spend £9m on Garner over putting that money towards a forward, though it does help to have more midfield options of course.
Ferguson1878
Player Valuation: £35m
I thought the same when moshiri took over us
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
2 seasons ago McNeil looked good. He also seemed decent for England u21s.
Fair to assume the shackles would be off after joining us...its not happened so far but should we write him off so soon?
Garner weve got to look at next season, same with Onana...young lads. But Doucoure and Davies deals expire this summer so it makes sense to get him now.
ForeverEverton
Player Valuation: £50m
Emery making it 2 wins out of 2 at Brighton.... Who would have thought he could do better than slippy G...
My issue with our recruitment is that we finished 16th last season and lost our best attacker.
that left us with the attack that finished 16th, shorn of its best player + replaced said player with a player who had scored 0 and provided 1 assist for a relegated side that went down not because they couldn't defend, but because they couldn't score. We then, to compound it, brought in a small striker who is used to playing in possession-based sides (Brentford and Brighton) as a back up to DCL. And he had underperformed his xG in all three of his seasons with Brighton, showing he's a player who needs a lot of chances to score - and Everton don't create chances.
that left us with the attack that finished 16th, shorn of its best player + replaced said player with a player who had scored 0 and provided 1 assist for a relegated side that went down not because they couldn't defend, but because they couldn't score. We then, to compound it, brought in a small striker who is used to playing in possession-based sides (Brentford and Brighton) as a back up to DCL. And he had underperformed his xG in all three of his seasons with Brighton, showing he's a player who needs a lot of chances to score - and Everton don't create chances.
Why?
He's just not what we needed mate. I'm not writing him off. Even if he scored five goals this season it won't make him the type of player that we needed as a priority.
We needed pace, strength, athleticism and real cutting edge quality in the final third.
McNeil is very one-paced, isn't a great passer, is one-footed and doesn't really seem to have any game-changing ability. He's got a good cross on him, that's about it, though doesn't really seem to get it out of his feet.
If we'd signed the first type of player first, and then got McNeil as an added little bonus, sound, but we didn't. And we wanted MGW before we got McNeil - they aren't the same kind of player at all.
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