Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Sounds to me like you are about ready to make a takeover bid for our club, heck we need your ideas.
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Sounds to me like you are about ready to make a takeover bid for our club, heck we need your ideas.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
You are missing the point, he will be a free agent in the summer and open to offers. Say Everton offer him 50k per week and Norwich offer him 65k per week which is going to plump for?
Personally as I said in my post I would prefer Roberto to look for someone younger with perhaps a couple of years playing in the PL, not an aging stop gap.
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MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
He'll plump for Everton. Quote me on this. Like Martinez says, we need a good blend of youth and experience.
...we did ok with Reid and Bracewell as two ball winning midfielders.
roydo
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Eggs mate, you are one of only a few on here that I actually take notice of re players, systems, that sort of stuff.
That team also had the likes of Sharp, Gray, Lineker, Sheedy and Steven.
We don't have those riches and we're struggling for goals despite dominating possession in games. We need to find another way of being a bit more productive in front of goal.
...Roydo, its just that some lads on here aren't old enough to have watched some of these lads play. McCarthy does at times remind me of Bracewell, that run and pass setting up a Lukaku goal a few games ago shows he has another dimension to his game.
bilyaletdinov_
Player Valuation: £35m
we need Barkley sitting deep, threading balls through to the strikers and running at defenders himself in my opinion
......agree, but the point is that we can have a winning side with 2 relatively defensive central midfielders. To be fair the likes of Pienaar, Baines, Mirallas, Coleman and Barkley are creative type and he has brought in McGeady, but you are right that doesn't always translate to chances/goals.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
If that choice were presented to him, I genuinely believe he would take about 5 seconds to choose Everton.
Not after he has picked up his city loyalty bonus he wont.
mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
[Poor language removed] me, that was nearly 30 years ago! Somehow I suspect the game, and how to win, has changed somewhat in intervening years.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
That team would be running away with this league mate, thinking it wouldnt shows your too young to have seen it
efcfanwirral
Player Valuation: £25m
Well if we get a younger central midfielder when Barry is perfectly capable of doing a good job there then we have to sacrifice either a striker (we own one, and on evidence we've seen he's not very good) or a creative attacking player (we have two, and an ageing pienaar) as we can't afford much.
So the answer to us not scoring, is to concede more goals? The solid foundation of Barry and McCarthy isn't to blame, it's the fact we've got people like osman and Naismith in front of them. The issue is in the front 4 and that's where the money needs to be spent. If we don't sign Barry we need to replace him, which will cost, meaning one less striker or no attacking creative midfielder
As mentioned by littleralphy I can't work out if Barry has been told to push further more or he has just been a bit gash recently.
From the day we signed him until Christmas he didnt put a foot wrong, looked immense in every game I saw. Against the ****e and spurs he looked more like Neville, his passing which is usually crisp was woeful
From the day we signed him until Christmas he didnt put a foot wrong, looked immense in every game I saw. Against the ****e and spurs he looked more like Neville, his passing which is usually crisp was woeful
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