Good job it had Sassy on the back. Withat manbun it could have been DCLAnyone who thinks that having James here hasn’t given new exposure to the Club must be blind.
BTW, while I did buy an official shirt I didn’t buy a James shirt but spent even more money to personalize it because regardless of James I’m now a Blue
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Bluebonic
Player Valuation: £35m
Has anybody considered the possibility that Benitez will use him where pace isnt going to be as effective? Playing teams that park the bus, requires clever footballers more than it does quick ones. It maybe that he will be used as and when his skillset makes it sensible to use him?
Yep, he'd have to agree. Just like he and his reps had to agree to take a wage cut to play for Porto, though it seems even if they had (which he has no obligation to do just like Bolasie, Delph, Gomes etc don't/didn't), it wouldn't have mattered as Porto's chairman moved the goalposts and wanted £68m for Diaz.
If we end up paying James to play for someone else right now, when we can't bring in a replacement until January, then it's utter stupidity. Hopefully it doesn't happen.
That should absolutely be the case but some Evertonians have a weird nack of thinking we must only play one way.
Also, the club are still seemingly open to moving him on even if we can't replace him, thanks to the wonderful financial mess we've got ourselves into.
He means all the antics he was doing during the summer promoting the Florida Cup when the Club was trying to make the most of his image
What is he doing on social media? Why is he playing basketball?
He should be getting his head down and WORKING
He means all the antics he was doing during the summer promoting the Florida Cup when the Club was trying to make the most of his image
Really looks like someone who - according to the latest club (and Benitez-camp) briefed articles, is 'desperate to leave' doesn't it
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Footballers are the employees of the club. I dont think there's too much room for mutuality. He's been well remunerated for the work he's done here. He knows how clubs work and that a change of manager can mean a change of style, so what was required before now isn't.
Happens all the time. He was let down by Ancelotti if he was let down by anybody.
And as for the club leaking reports to journalists to the press about wages: that's a bit of a stretch. They cant be doing that - they'd destroy any trust with their own players about confidentiality. Greg O'Keeffe has mentioned that he'd heard the suggestion it was north of £200K pw "when you factor everything in". It's a bit of a leap to believe anyone in a position of authority has divulged any such information, more likely to have been another player or a club employee lower down the food chain.
Football clubs are like huge sewing circles, with lots of petty rivalries and jealousies.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
I don't think that will have been the case, mate.
Was thinking the same, if he cannot get thru 38 games (plus cups) then start him in the games where the opposition parks the bus primarily at home. Take him off at 70mins if in front and switch to counter attack setup when the opposition is forced to open up. In other games he can come on when we are chasing the game, fresh legs and hopefully find that pass that is needed. I don't think he will fit into the mangers game plan as a regular starter and the manager shouldn't setup the team for him either, Benitez needs full commitment for his style which I don't think James is able to play to.
They have been briefing it for two months Dave.
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy. It's very, very easy to tell when it's a brief from one source, because all of the writers say the same thing. It happens all of the time and is perfectly normal. Just like how last year they were saying the wages were 'in line with Everton's other high earners' (i.e. £100-120k)
Honestly mate, I can stress to you on this, it's a club brief. Just like the Diaz thing (which was a really weird club brief but I guess they wanted to make it clear that they were actively in the market and that Diaz 'wanted to come' - i.e. no blame could be attached here, it all hangs on James and Porto)
The club brief will probably be as simple as a whatsapp from a press officer, btw. Liverpool's press officer strictly operates over text (to shock nobody, he's a complete weirdo), United's press officers just give out information like it's running out of fashion sometimes!
A lot of it is off the record but that's how club control the stem of information.
What's worried (for lack of a better term here, I'm not biting my nails over it) about some articles in the last week are the ones that have gone to journalists who have a connection with a certain new member of our coaching staff who suddenly have a real insight into Everton and have also written the said articles in a tone that was rather sycophantic.
Now, I have nothing wrong with RB also using the press, but I think it's something we need to be wary of. The Joyce article, for example, was pretty one-sided.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
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