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2021/22 James Rodriguez

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BlueToff said:
The club are still trying to offload him even though we can’t get a replacement in until January

If that doesn’t explain that it’s not just James wanting to leave that’s in play here then I don’t know what else does

The club need the scrutiny here, not the player
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How can they offload him at the momen, Toff?

What with the window being closed and all.
 

d34noj said:
Did that at Madrid calling him out for his lies, and Benitez is holding onto it like the arrogant kopite he is.
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Was it not the case that JR was not considered to be in good enough shape to play matches yet, which JR publicly disagreed with. Later now he was allowed to play, Rafael was very critical of JR's efforts, and was benched again because Rafael thought there were other players who were in far better physical shape.

Zidane also had the same problem with JR, and the same was reported under Kovac in Bayern Munich. Most recently, he was left out of Colombia's squad because he was in poor physical condition. Something JR himself thought was completely wrong.

There is an obvious pattern here. It is quite strange how some supporters fail to see this. All professional clubs pay extremely close attention to the physical condition of their players, and they test pretty much everything that can be tested, and nothing is left to chance. All matches are analyzed in the smallest detail.

So it's not like Rafael, Zidane, Kovac and the Colombian national team coach just feel that JR is not in good enough shape, or that he is not running enough, or does not have good enough effort on the field. They have some objective criteria that they follow.

If managers lower the standard for some, in terms of their physical level, then others will also lower the standard. It is destructive in a performance culture.

(And I do not care if he has low body fat)
 

BlueToff said:
Well now they’re briefing that they’re going to try to get him to Portugal, Russia or Turkey

top of the club is a disgrace mate and fans keep letting them get away with this tripe. Already there’s people trying to justify not signing a right-back because ‘our full-backs don’t attack now anyway’

watch out for a stadium announcement or a charity thing soon enough
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I wonder if that's a response to Mina posting that picture yesterday with his chums smiling.

The only way a club in those leagues take him is if we subsidised 75%+ of his wages, which makes an absolute mockery of our financial situation.

Hope James comes out and says I want to play for Everton and am prepared to fight to get back in the team. I want to play in front of a full house at Goodison. Really put pressure on the club.
 
Tubey said:
It's not about freezing Rodriguez out. If he's here, of course he'll be involved in the squad, Benitez will use him.

The reason the ideal scenario was that he left was that his importance to Everton under Benitez didn't justify the wage. Benitez clearly sees him as a luxury player at a time when those wages would be best used elsewhere.

If he's fit to play and/or can be arsed playing, he'll be in match day squads til January. But he - rightly - won't be relied on, and will probably barely ever start a game. He's a supremely talented footballer who both occasionally can't be arsed playing football and has a body that won't let him play football consistently. It's understandable some managers won't want to accommodate those downsides.
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Big defender of James in here but wouldn't argue with any of that.
 

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