well written
@catcherintherye, i hope he gets no response back from our fans when he returns tbh. Not that we should care what others think, but i think most will laugh at us if he has 40,000 boo's every touch when he returns to goodison, when he's left us for the biggest club in england. The same way i didn't understand the booing of fellaini, i suppose possibly that was down to the transfer request when people didn't truly understand why he did that. We applauded him just a few months back when he didn't sign that contract because he said he wanted more ambition from the club. So he's now moved to a more ambitious club, so we can't really change our opinion. We're of course not going to applaud him upon his return, nor should we, so just a mute response on his return will do me. He hasn't behaved brilliantly recently towards the club, but i think his excitement and the next chapter, i'll just see what he has to say about us when it's official, before i start lambasting him.
Anyway, i'm excited about what we can do without him. As good as he was at scoring a wonder goal against the big boys, like city and chelsea in the last two years ... like you say, he was also one of the main reasons we weren't competitive away at the bigger teams. But his sale in transfer fee is the equivalent of 3 £30m players, if all bonuses are met. Our club has played an utter blinder here, especially as it meant getting rooney back on a free at half the wage, as well.
We've now bought captains and players with wining mentality and in this day and age, i believe that's more important than talent. Rom didn't give us that, he's 23 and not won anything bar a single belgian league title and this showed in that dreadful semi final performance of his. We're not deluded enough to think his goals can be replaced solely, i don't understand the argument from fans of other clubs. If we separate it out and look at our strikers as a whole
lukaku 26, valencia 3, calvert-lewin 1, kone 0, niasse 0 = 30
We're bringing in giroud, rooney and sandro and who knows, maybe another. Will those three get more than 30 goals between themselves, possibly? If they don't what did we have from midfield?
barkley 6, mirallas 4, bolasie 1, lookman 1, deulofeu 0, lennon 0 =12
are we going to replace those measly 12 goals from midfield this season from the likes of klaassen and siggurdson as well as those above still at the club? Yeah, certainly. When you combine the overall contribution of goals from our new set of attackers for the coming season, it will equate to more than what we got last season, which is the main aim, without trying to negate how many we concede (another area we're seemingly going to improve a lot on as well).
