toffeepie1878
Player Valuation: £8m
Bear with me......
Not everyone’s favourite player, or team but Man City are undoubtedly the best team in the land with a work rate that shames other sides.
Now back to Sterling, I remember watching this guy, I think a few years ago and he was in his own corner flag, like a terrier and won the ball back against someone who was probably twice his height and weight.
This is exactly what I want to talk about - some fight and battling qualities. Sterling is a bit over 5 foot and looks like your gran could know him over but his opta stats I am pretty sure would embarrass 80-90% of Everton players.
I am not going to spend my time actually checking the opta stats but for assists, shots at goal are probably part of the package of a 60-million-point elite player but then there are dribbles, interceptions, tackles, work rate and aggression and other bits that any decent player getting 100 grand a week should be able to muster up training at some world class facilities like FF.
Right? well clearly not. I think its fundamentally what is wrong with Everton - there are some peaks where players do exceptionally but more often than not, they retreat back into that shell of mundane and so and so with performances than flatter to deceive - year after year – the same old, no real consistency.
I am sure Sterling has some dog’s dinner of games where he is thinking of his next tattoo, exotic holiday or next half million sports car but unlike Everton players its few and far between and over the course of seasons his statistics are very well rated and not just him but pretty much all the City players - Its the work ethic that is drilled into them.
Finch Farm is amazing, I was lucky to be there - really, it’s a facility that is among the best in the land so players have no excuse and its why I am rightly annoyed with all the dead wood content to sit out contracts getting over 100 grand a week for their 'efforts'
Everton need at least 6 players IMO to be competitive, the backbone of the squad is three but more players are needed ASAP - if the below players are still in contract in the summer PAY THEM OFF and let them go.
Gbamin - no he won’t ever play, let’s not kid ourselves
Coleman - a great servant but we need a new wing back - our main attacking outlet of late seems to be Digne which says it all really
Delph - say no more
Sigs - ditto, you need to put more blood sweat and tears into the shirt than swing in a few crosses la
Bernard - rubbish
Iwobi - ……..
To anyone who says I am a bit harsh, I have every right to be harsh this is Everton – up until the 80s or so one of the most successful clubs in the country but now without a single trophy since 1995 and now Leicester with no disrespect look to be a far better side despite winningly hardly nothing compared to Everton.
So, yes, I have every right to be annoyed as well as Moshiri himself I should imagine with his 400 or 500 Million outlay since he put his pockets into the team.
So, let’s talk about Sterling.
