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Koeman: "Barkley looking for a new challenge"

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davek said:
Stamped his feet VERY loudly after last summer and it seemed to have an effect. I think he needs reining in, but the problem is we have a weak officer corp at the club and an owner who looks at the money being spent as just cash derived from player sales and shrugs and leaves him to it.

For me you need some quality control there that only a proper DoF (not a glorified scout who is a yes man) can exert.
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Fully agree on your last comment in bold.

But all managers worth their salt will stamp their feet when they need to. And from what Moshiri has said since it (buying players) is what he too hoped for. Seems the old Darby and Joan negotiating team let everyone down last Summer. But that doesn't translate into Koeman being given free reign on spending. He has been very vocal in the past weeks again about the Board needing to make financial calls and close deals. He sets his targets and the 'management', assuming they agree with him, then need to play their part, which includes deciding on how much to pay.

You've bashed the board enough on here about overspending on players, and now you're bashing Koeman for the same...
 
Blue_Berry said:
Fully agree on your last comment in bold.

But all managers worth their salt will stamp their feet when they need to. And from what Moshiri has said since it (buying players) is what he too hoped for. Seems the old Darby and Joan negotiating team let everyone down last Summer. But that doesn't translate into Koeman being given free reign on spending. He has been very vocal in the past weeks again about the Board needing to make financial calls and close deals. He sets his targets and the 'management', assuming they agree with him, then need to play their part, which includes deciding on how much to pay.

You've bashed the board enough on here about overspending on players, and now you're bashing Koeman for the same...
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It's not the level of spending, it's the mad prices paid which, imo, have denied us the chance to get at least two more players in for positions which I doubt will be dealt with now: LB and CB.

We could have had tens of millions to spend on those two positions if we'd have fought our corner in negotiations better. Everton have been praised for getting business done early, but it was too hasty by far. Paying out £50M for Sigurdsson will compound that.
 
davek said:
It's not the level of spending, it's the mad prices paid which, imo, have denied us the chance to get at least two more players in for positions which I doubt will be dealt with now: LB and CB.

We could have had tens of millions to spend on those two positions if we'd have fought our corner in negotiations better. Everton have been praised for getting business done early, but it was too hasty by far. Paying out £50M for Sigurdsson will compound that.
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davek said:
Of course they'll perform better - and there will be additions yet. But Everton's failure to provide a Plan B (again) is plain to see. And no matter how long the season goes on for the lack of pace (which you need from all over the team) just isn't there in sufficient numbers.

I said it before about Koeman: I have no faith in him building a team...especially an attacking unit within that team.
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I'm confused. You're crying out for a better attack except you'd rather us not get a goal scoring midfielder but instead get a LB and CB? Sound
 

davek said:
How could that happen? A club like Spurs looking to save on cash at a time when they have a stadium to pay for would walk away from a full priced Barkley...and so would other clubs at the top. At a £20M-£30M price tag there isn't a top side in the country who wouldn't be interested.

You and I dont know anything of the contract negotiations. All we can do is speculate whether the club were offering anything serious to Barkley to get him to stay. IMO they were made aware he was not in the manager's plans and they have gone along with it to this point where they could even lose him for nothing now.
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So it's acceptable for Spurs to try and save money when they are planning to move stadiums ? But mosh needs to be having 100m net spend when he's also planning a new stadium?
 
Tel001 said:
So it's acceptable for Spurs to try and save money when they are planning to move stadiums ? But mosh needs to be having 100m net spend when he's also planning a new stadium?
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Spurs have a real stadium almost complete mate. Everton dont even have drawings.
 
davek said:
This manager stated that he'd improved dramatically last season. If he can say that then maybe you can see it too?
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You can't critisize RK traetment of ross and then also say that he improved him as a player .. lol you do make me laugh
 
davek said:
That should never happen. With lesser talent who wont make such a dent into club finances it might be forgivable. But this lad is family silver and my suspicion is that there was no attempt by the manager to keep Barkley beyond the end of this season and therefore the club didn't act earlier and forcefully enough to tie him down. Basically the club officers and board have been weak. Now the club lose out on at least £20M-£30M in fees on Barkley....and could get nothing still if Barkley sees out this contract here.

Gross irresponsibility.
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Do you not read other posts,timber head.His reasons for leaving are not related to football or Everton in any way.Stop using him as a stick to beat the manager and the club.
 

Same people still in here arguing the same stuff over ross. Go home n get a change of clothes and a shower. Very sad all the same
 

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