He has to play behind the striker in Benitez’ system, so don’t think he’ll get much of a look in if Richarlison is playing central.
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2021/22 James Rodriguez
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No player should be play every game though mate, it's a squad game. Evertonians really need to start getting their heads around that.
We also need to have more than one way of playing. Not necessarily a formation, but we can't play the same way against Burnley at home as we did against Brighton away.
Having James to come on if needed against Burnley to help unlock their defence would be vital. I've seen nothing from us yet this season which suggests we are a team that is comfortable in possession for long spells of time.
Which is why manufacturers pay so much money to sponsor clubs
I tagged you in a post yesterday Toff from Kirkbride whose latest article said he was on AT LEAST 200k. It moves up every day to suit their agenda.
Gang of knobheads mate.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
I just hope the manager is flexible enough to be able to incorporate him into the side, as he's not most effective out side and we seemingly don't play with a number 10 attacking midfield player. It is criminal to not use somebody of James' talent if it's available to you.
Yeah but ultimately it does kind of feed into the same thing, it's a cycle
Say Adidas pay a club £10m a season to be their manufacturer.
Then said team goes out and buys, I dunno, Haaland, for argument's sake.
Adidas will make a lot of money by selling all of those Haaland shirts. But then they would have to really up their sponsorship for the next contract, or Nike will come in and offer £25m a season to manufacture their kits.
So the club still can benefit from 'shirt sales' in a way. If a team has players that sell kits, manufacturers are going to pay more to get on board because they can make more money.
Honestly I very much respect Boyland and O'Keefe. They're good writers, but as with a lot of Athletic writers they are club-fed or from agents, and it's all after-the-fact.
The James thing now is bordering on ludicrous. his wage has shot up 3 times now in the last 3 or 4 weeks, each time when the piece in question (in whatever paper/outlet) has been trying to show just how bad he is for Everton and just how much Benitez's hands are tied and how really it's not Brands' fault at all.
TBF, this piece was quite critical in ways, but balanced. But that really did tickle me. It genuinely will be £300k a week if he's here in January and we haven't got a right-back in
True although I think also the main driver of that is growing the club brand overall. Which is mainly a result of on the pitch success - we won’t ever get the kind of sponsorship deals that the Utds of the world get unless we have some fairly sustained success.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
So you're blaming Benitez on Keane being terrified of any crowd noise?
Thats another one added to the Benny list of atrocities list which includes JFK's assassination & 9/11
Honestly I very much respect Boyland and O'Keefe. They're good writers, but as with a lot of Athletic writers they are club-fed or from agents, and it's all after-the-fact.
The James thing now is bordering on ludicrous. his wage has shot up 3 times now in the last 3 or 4 weeks, each time when the piece in question (in whatever paper/outlet) has been trying to show just how bad he is for Everton and just how much Benitez's hands are tied and how really it's not Brands' fault at all.
TBF, this piece was quite critical in ways, but balanced. But that really did tickle me. It genuinely will be £300k a week if he's here in January and we haven't got a right-back in
I've got no respect for any of them mate I'll be honest. I think they're all pathetic little shithouses either unwilling or unable to produce a critical piece of literature on a weekly basis showing how badly we are run..
Everton tell them what to write, they write it. They haven't got a brain cell between them to actually be critical of hiw Everton have been run and this summers agenda (once Benitez took over) was to ensure that Rodriguez wages went from 90k-120k pw (and globally making Everton an instantly better supported and recognisable club in America/South America) to suddenly being on close to 200k, then AT LEAST 200k to NORTH OF 200k
IF that was remotely true.....well instead of getting rid of Rodriguez, get rid of the tits running the club who sanctioned such a deal and start writing articles about that. Because at the start of the summer they were all about Brands is lowering the age, reducing the wage bill, targeting young hungry players.
Yeah that's why we got Townsend, Begovic, Longergan and Rondon in.
Every single article is mkte ludicrous than the last and make no mistake, if/when the wheels fall off fir Benitez, he'll chuck the lot of them under the bus because there's one thing Benitez has always been consistent with throughout his managerial career, he always wants more. Always wants more players so he'll be already sharpening his knives after a shambles of a window
And you know and I know if Rodriguez leaves in the next couple of weeks, we'll be paying over half his wedge and all the knobheads I've mentioned above will spin it with the 2m we'll save in wages and saying that'll be spent in January blah blah blah blah.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
You know something is great when Dave says it's bad
This was the plan
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It seems that it took just six months to make James the best-selling jersey in 2020.
The 6000% increase is in here but paywalled
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Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
I never blamed him at all. I asked you a question on whose role it is to get players performing and whose fault it was.
You blamed Keane for us not having 9 point out of 9. Last season we had 9 points out of 9 and Keane and James played.
Now you have brought another excuse about crowd noise. When my understanding is that the crowd has been behind the team other than a few boos at half time vs Southampton?
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
Spotted these stats earlier.
And this was during a season that he was carrying a calf injury.
And this was during a season that he was carrying a calf injury.
He will always create chances if he spends time on the pitch. The issue is accomodating him in a way that maintains the balance of the side. Our record in the second half of the season was actually poorer when he played. That's not necessarily his fault, but we need to be compact and avoid conceding silly goals regardless of what personel we use.
For example, Townsend did an awful lot of graft for the team on Saturday protecting Coleman and winning back possession. It's not pretty to watch but it was very effective and we won comfortably. You wouldn't be able to play that style with James, so we would need to alter the gameplan.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
We will have to wait and see. The main thing is that we have some great options, it is up to the manager to use them.
I do not believe Benitez will be stupid enough to let his ego get in the way of a winning tactical plan. I don't think he will the same team for every game due to tactics, form, injuries and suspensions.
It might actually turn out that Benitez and James are a good fit for one another at this stage in their careers.
That said, this is where Benitez ignores him, James gets off in a sulk and we get relegated. Everton that!
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