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2020/21 James Rodriguez

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kenada_blue said:
Made the difference in quality when we broke our away records in grounds we hadn't won at since Moses was a lad.

The Everton way will be replacing him with Dwight McNeil and then whinging why we don't have quality in the final 3rd.
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The through ball in the derby was great.

Thanks.

But that pass and a few goals aren't enough to gloss over the lack of effort and lack of respect he gives this club.

See yer.
 
BlueToff said:
I just think for the final year of his contract, keep him here and see what he can do. For Benitez's faults I do think he'll have a system in place but systems can't do everything and you need sprinkling of talent on top and in James we have a player of the level none of the teams around us now have - since Grealish has gone to City.

So make the most of him. As you say, this obsession with 'build a team around him' isn't needed and can't be done. But the irony is Benitez seems to be intent on using a system that none of our players are really suited to as opposed to one that both James and other players in the squad would seem naturally better fits to.

If - if - we had quality in his position that could come close to replicating his output (and he was way ahead of almost everyone bar GS who played 12 more games than him, fgs James created the 11th most 'big chances' (sitters, in simple terms) in the league last season, and played 10 games fewer than pretty much every other player on that list other than KDB and Grealish) - then I would be more lenient to the club here. But we don't have that quality, and Townsend, Gray and Iwobi have shown nothing on a consistent basis to show they have it in them.

I've run the numbers.

In 26 games in all comps, James created 54 chances. That works out at 2.38 per 90.

In comparison, Townsend created 1.58 per 90 (in 36 games), McNeil (who created 57 chances in total), was at 1.5 per 90 from 40 games. Iwobi down at 1.05 per 90 from 36 games. Gray only created 5 chances but only played 4 times in England (which is what I'm using).

James created 38 chances from open play - more than any of the others. He scored six goals, four more than any of the others and one more than the other four combined in English football last year.

His 14 big chances were four more than McNeil, seven more than Townsend, 10 more than Iwobi and 12 more than Gray.

1,039 of his 1,242 passes were successful (83.66%). He had the best dribble success rate (66.67%) by some distance - Townsend, Gray McNeil and Iwobi all in the 50-60 bracket. He played more minutes than Iwobi, but over less games.

Shooting. He had 41 shots - four more than Townsend (37), 12 more than McNeil (29) and 19 more than Iwobi (22). His shot conversion rate (i.e. getting the shot on target) was at 14.63 per cent, which for a midfielder is bloody good (in comparison all the others below 10 - Iwobi at 9.09 and we know how bad his shooting can be, and McNeil down at 6.9 and Townsend 2.7!

Basically, he's far better than any of them.
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Throw in a bit of XG and @TheBigIguana would be proud of you lol
 
windymiller said:
No real events are happening, buddy. When we make those big signings you promised us I'm sure I'll be delighted. They're still happening right? You haven't been making as many proclamations recently, so I just wanted to check.
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Was on a ban, mate, otherwise I’d have continued to highlight your meltdowns over crappy Twitter rumours
 

BNJ1878 said:
Was he surrounded by Cloggers when he went in loan to Bayern?

Did they beat a path to Real Madrid to sign him permanently?

Was he surrounded by cloggers in a 3 team league at Real Madrid? No?

They still gave him away... For free.

Once again, he's a wonderfully talented footballer, but once teams figured us out last season (Stop James) we really struggled.
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2 things.... variety of options and wages.

Real - Bale, Isco, Ronaldo,
Bayern - Robben, Muller, Costa

Then the fee (still had years on his contract at Real). Then the wages. Unless they were getting rid of one player that James would replace...why buy him if you have a squad full of talent?

It's the same with Coutinho at Bayern. Had a great season for them. They willing to spend £40-50mill plus £250k a week wages on him with the talent they already have? No.

And you've made the point just there...once teams stopped James, we stopped. Therefore...we need more quality.
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Everton are linked with him and I've said a few pages back I doubt we are in for him.
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You have made your position clear in:

Wanting Everton to sell Calvert Lewin
Wanting Everton to sell James
Wanting Everton to sell Kean
Revelling in the appointment of Benitez
Wanting Everton to buy Ings
Wanting Everton to buy Winks
Wanting Everton to buy McNeil
Wanting Everton to buy Rondon

No real effort in your posts to focus on Everton selling the likes of Delph and Iwobi

Are you sure that you are on the right forum, mate?
 
grandjoeblue said:
James is one of the best players in the squad but say Rafael builds his tactics around him for Saturday and then on Saturday morning James decides hes got a 'knock' and misses the game that wouldn't be great would it? The lad is doing everything he can to force a move and he will avoid playing.
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In your opinion
 
windymiller said:
You didn't like it as a tactic when Koeman did it, in fact you criticised fans who encouraged it. Why the change of heart Dave?
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Ha ha ha...sorry, are you comparing one manager asking a player to train away from his first team as he's not involved in his plans to another manager treating a player like he's sub-human?

FFS.
 
davek said:
The through ball in the derby was great.

Thanks.

But that pass and a few goals aren't enough to gloss over the lack of effort and lack of respect he gives this club.

See yer.
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I'd rather that every season that what's been dished out for the past 8 years.
 

Spadge Vernacular said:
You have made your position clear in:

Wanting Everton to sell Calvert Lewin
Wanting Everton to sell James
Wanting Everton to sell Kean
Revelling in the appointment of Benitez
Wanting Everton to buy Ings
Wanting Everton to buy Winks
Wanting Everton to buy McNeil
Wanting Everton to buy Rondon

No real effort in your posts to focus on Everton selling the likes of Delph and Iwobi

Are you sure that you are on the right forum, mate?
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Who's buying Iwobi and Delph fella get real.

Any knock off the kopite accusations - if you want my seat number at GP pm me and I'll happily come shake your hand and buy you a pint tomorrow if you are actually turning up to support the team.
 
COYBL25 said:
Throw in a bit of XG and @TheBigIguana would be proud of you lol
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This is how stats can be used mate, to really hammer home that when our current options really aren't that, we shouldn't be actively looking to push James out (even if he wants to go).

If we had got Bailey, or had that deal lined up for example, or were in for someone like Sabitzer who is going on the cheap and is a quality player, then fine.

But it seems our main target is a lad who plays on the left but we want to use him on the right, and we still haven't got a right-back we've needed for three years and we still don't have the ball carrying midfielder we need
(Bailey has solved that issue for Villa, like, as his ball carrying is some of the best in Europe in terms of progressions etc).

I can get nerdy with this stuff when needed :D
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Who's buying Iwobi and Delph fella get real.

Any knock off the kopite accusations - if you want my seat number at GP pm me and I'll happily come shake your hand tomorrow if you are actually turning up to support the team.
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The facts of what you post are clear.

And if you were on the wrong forum on purpose the obvious thing would be to try and make it look like you aren't ?
 

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