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MarcelsGoat said:
The top 6 are miles away.

But I never think its an impossible task to catch them, I always think we are 1 utterly superb transfer window from catching them. All it takes is the right ingredients.

I dont set targets till the window closes, if the window closed tomorrow I would be very concerned, I dont think we have a squad able to break the top 6 currently, but of course the next 3 months could change that.

As for Silva, hes shown he can get the results, he just needs to string more of them together and address slumps far quicker.

I see this season for what it is, a transitional season, the manager found the players he can rely on, the players bought into the tactics and we are reaping the rewards, too little far too late, but it gives me hope for next season. We now need to get the recruitment right and who knows?

I always dream, my glass is always half full, look forward, never back.
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Fair enough, but I personally think that the days of this 'top 6' category are numbered. I don't think they are a million miles away as it is, and if Everton's recruitment team have another summer as good as last summer then we should be competing with them, and not just as a one off either. Give it a few years and there will be no 'top 6'.

I had this conversation with my mate the other day. He was saying that a player will still choose United over us any day of the week, which is true of course. But that didn't stop us from signing Richarlison and Digne, and I'm very glad United won the 50 million pound race for Fred. I hope United keep on winning the race for overpriced crap players. Their defence is woeful as well. Everton's defence is streets ahead of United's.
 

Dymak said:
Fair enough, but I personally think that the days of this 'top 6' category are numbered. I don't think they are a million miles away as it is, and if Everton's recruitment team have another summer as good as last summer then we should be competing with them, and not just as a one off either. Give it a few years and there will be no 'top 6'.

I had this conversation with my mate the other day. He was saying that a player will still choose United over us any day of the week, which is true of course. But that didn't stop us from signing Richarlison and Digne, and I'm very glad United won the 50 million pound race for Fred. I hope United keep on winning the race for overpriced crap players. Their defence is woeful as well. Everton's defence is streets ahead of United's.
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I agree, teams like us and Wolves have the right people in charge to put some pressure on the teams at the top, yes we have made some massive mistakes, but I personally think we will get it right at some point.

If you look at the top 6 :

City - Very good owners, financial doping AOTS, very good manager, as it stands streets ahead of everybody
Liverpool - Shyster owners, very good commercial income, good manager, bit of a bottler, will improve their midfield and be a force again next season, sadly
Chelsea - Roman has bailed big time, they hate their manager, club is a bit of a mess, but they still compete quite well in the market
Spurs - Suffering a little due to the whole no transfers, think the stadium might hurt them a little in the short term, not massively, very good manager, very good owner
Arsenal - Dont even know what Arsenal is these days
United - Just an utter farce of a club

Currently I think its not gonna be easy, but as I say, with the right players brought in, no reason why we cant at the very least close the gap a little, to some.
 
Dymak said:
I don't think there was a world of difference between them tbh. Koeman had us in 7th as well.

All the money going around is actually reducing the inequality in the league, and not just amongst the bottom 14 clubs either. We need to stop acting like the top 6 are on a different planet to us. Arsenal, United and Chelsea are all shadows of their former selves, and we are more than capable of spending our money better than they spend theirs, and competing with them in the league next season.

I can't understand why we would ever be setting ourselves the target of doing just as crap as the last two seasons.
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It's a good point. At the end of the day we need to do our own job well, that is fundamental of course.

I do think there is an opportunity for us to bring in the sort of players we need, who may be put off by potential lack of game time and competing in squads on paper that are bigger and better than ours, and even taking younger fringe players who are already at these clubs, Brands has said as much recently which is good to hear.

First priority is building an XI with no glaring weaknesses, and young enough to be sustained over a five year cycle, the only exception to that being selling if we receive offers too good to refuse and plough the money straight back in and maybe buy three players where we had one.

No side has 23 players of equally high quality but you have to have a core of 14-15 that will be good enough over 38 games, the rest is padding and we should do that with youth.

Brands has experience of building sides slowly so I hope he thinks that with time, we can establish ourselves as a club that will be mostly good enough to be bunched in with the top sides. The days of two or three clubs dominating are long over and that transition creates difficulties for our opponents and opportunities for us.

In the medium term and at the end of the next 2-3 years, with the correct decision making and execution, I don't think it is at all impossible to be roughly where Arsenal and Chelsea are now - largely ok (if not by their own recent standards) but still good enough to be in the top six and both capable of sustained long runs in Europe with one of them likely to win the Europa League. I can't see with prudent management and a consistent and thoughtful transfer policy why that cannot be the case.

I don't think it's as difficult to attract players as is sometimes made out - you have to be flexible enough to take advantage of good deals when they arise - Digne on paper shouldn't even be considering Everton but we got him for a ridiculously good fee and there are more like him out there.
 

roydo said:
They will, of course. Andy Jacobs has actually said he wouldnt care if they couldnt sign any new players for 2 windows; reckon it will do the club some good, long term.
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He’s possibly the most pessimistic presenter on the radio though. Highly entertaining after Chelsea have been beaten !
 
roydo said:
They will, of course. Andy Jacobs has actually said he wouldnt care if they couldnt sign any new players for 2 windows; reckon it will do the club some good, long term.
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Had a little read of a Chelsea forum the other night, see if I could find what they were saying about Zooms, most of them were quite happy about the ban, looking forward to having to use their highly rated yoots.
 

Paul Rideout said:
Can only loan out 6 players from next season
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Not sure that rule has been agreed yet?


Chelsea are confident they will not be forced into a player cull as a result of the new loan rules that will be announced next year.

The Fifa council will ratify new rules in the New Year that have prompted fears that clubs that loan out a large number of players, such as Chelsea, will be forced into a rethink. But Premier League clubs are hopeful that domestic loans and those involving club or association trained players under the age of 21 or 23 will not be affected by the rule change.

Non-domestic loans or those involving players over the age of 21 or 23 are likely to be capped at six, seven or eight, but that would not cause Chelsea huge problems.

With clubs likely to be given more than a year to fall in line with the rule change, until the 2020-21 season, Chelsea believe they could make adjustments to make sure they fulfil the new criteria without having to offload a large number of players.

Chelsea currently have 39 players out on loan, but a large number of them are club or associated-trained players aged under 23 or 21 and 20 of them are currently playing in England. The matter will be discussed in February, with Fifa aiming to have the new rules in place in March, ahead of their implementation for the start of the 2020-21 campaign.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...new-rules-capping-loan-players-will-not-mean/
 
Everton: Pickford (6), Coleman (6), Jagielka (5), Keane (7), Baines (7), Gueye (7), Schneiderlin (7), Walcott (5), Sigurdsson (6), Richarlison (8), Tosun (7).

Subs: Holgate (7), Niasse (6), Digne (n/a).

That 11 in the first game against Wolves compared to the 11 vs Burnley tells its own story
The crap he was dealt when he started compared to what he could field vs Burnley ( add Gomes and Mina to that ) tells it’s own story
 

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