2020/21 James Rodriguez

[trueblue84]

While Ancelotti is here he will be here.

Ancelotti is leaving as well?

 

[everton fan number one]

They can't afford him even if there was anything to this made up rumour.

it's just the Spanish Press doing their wonky half-assed made-up Echo-like thing.

They make stuff up all the time. Like Delli Alli is moving to Real Madrid etc. It's nonsense.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I've known all along he'll be off in the summer. As soon as we did a half-arsed recruitment job last summer it was clear to me we wouldn't have anywhere near the squad needed to get Europe, and James won't stick around at some crap 10th place side, which is what we'll prove to be end of the season. Signed for free, sold for free.

Weird take this...

 

[Bullens Rd]

Weird take this...

Not really. Not at all. Weird is thinking he would want to stay at a club no better than a Leeds or Burnley.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Not really. Not at all. Weird is thinking he would want to stay at a club no better than a Leeds or Burnley.

He surely would've known our situation prior to signing?? just like most other players would before they sign a few years of their career away to a particular club...

 

[PhilRegan]

Looks like we won't be seeing him at goodison then in the flesh

 

[anton66]

I’m sure We’ll be just as crap without him as we are with him.

 

[barneygumble]

I've known all along he'll be off in the summer. As soon as we did a half-arsed recruitment job last summer it was clear to me we wouldn't have anywhere near the squad needed to get Europe, and James won't stick around at some crap 10th place side, which is what we'll prove to be end of the season. Signed for free, sold for free.

Sound like a right nark you.

What were you expecting? Ancelotti and Brands to wave their wand, use unlimited funds, and sign a whole new team? Give it a rest. Every player we've signed has been a huge upgrade (including James), and that's momentum to grow. We're already a significantly better team, and we'll continue to improve.

James will not leave.

 

[Carloblues]

Can't see it being anything other than bullshit.

Tell you what though I honestly wouldn't blame him, we are a boring horrible team that cannot string two passes at home together against relegation fodder.

 

[Terrarian]

He's never played in a team that commits so many unforced errors, it's a huge problem in why we can't get up the pitch. These players get paid very well and I've seen conference teams knock it about better.

 

[maccavennie]

He has to start on Saturday, and on the right.

With Allan hopefully back, play a flat three of him, Davies and Docuoure in midfield, with Allan or Davies on the right side of it to get across and double up with Holgate, covering the space left by James, and also giving Doucoure the freedom to push on and join the attack.

100% has to be this. People saying he doesn't do enough.......yet we watch Gylfi getting picked match after match after match lobbing in 5/10 performances.

Tell me, who would we trust to turn a game on its head and win us the match with a piece of brilliance, James or Gylfi?

We have to let him do his thing up top, create chances, take risks with through balls, make opponent's commit to marking him leaving space for others.

Davies deserves to start in a 3 so put him Doucoure and Allan together, James on the right, Richarlison on the left, DCL up top and let us make the opposition worry about us instead of us constantly looking like we've set up because we are worried about them.

 

[Bob Latchford]

Can't see it being anything other than bullshit.

Tell you what though I honestly wouldn't blame him, we are a boring horrible team that cannot string two passes at home together against relegation fodder.

apart from that though.....

some side.....

 

[sageyefc]

We don’t deserve such talent

 

[Bullens Rd]

He surely would've known our situation prior to signing?? just like most other players would before they sign a few years of their career away to a particular club...

Sound like a right nark you.

What were you expecting? Ancelotti and Brands to wave their wand, use unlimited funds, and sign a whole new team? Give it a rest. Every player we've signed has been a huge upgrade (including James), and that's momentum to grow. We're already a significantly better team, and we'll continue to improve.

James will not leave.

It's comments like this that puzzle me.

We're talking about James Rodriguez here, arguably the biggest name to ever come out of Colombia apart from Pablo Escobar, Shakira and Carlos Valderrama.

A man in the - at least age-wise - prime of his career and who likely has one more move left in him before clubs will no longer be interested due to the prejudice that comes when signing players over 30, and especially those with extensive injury records.

We signed him for free, and as most people know, when you sign players for free, and especially in such strange circumstances as we did with James where everybody in world football assumed we'd paid 20m for him, there come with it certain conditions. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that one of those is a get-out clause that can kick in at the end of each season.

Sure, he loves working with Carlo, Sure he's earning a big wage, but not bigger than he could get elsewhere. You think he values working with Carlo when his reputation is being tainted by playing outside of the eyes of the world's media at bang average Everton?

When we finish mid-table he'll be associated with being a big part of that. He was our marquee signing and he couldn't help us finish in Europe. That's not going to make him more attractive to his next potential club.

Maybe you bought into the romance of the story and think he's a forever Evertonian now, but I can assure you he's not.

 

[coollino]

Hang on, he is now leaving? It's like a soap in this thread.