Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
He did take responsibility though by making the hard decision of subbing him back off.
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He did take responsibility though by making the hard decision of subbing him back off.
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
Link?
alvinh
Player Valuation: £6m
Is it too much to expect both?
The teams at the top of the division aren't carrying any passengers. Their strikers run themselves silly, track back, make tackles etc. The only players I think can justifiably earn themselves a pass on that front are maybe Messi or Ronaldo, because they're offering so much down the other end that their teammates will happily do extra running for them.
If there are two players of roughly comparable talent and one puts a shift in and the other doesn't, it's not worth promoting the second just because he's got slightly better attributes, because doing so is going to destroy the entire team ethic which is the only chance a club like Everton has of bridging the gap to the biggest, best financed sides.
Jayhow15
Player Valuation: £35m
alvinh
Player Valuation: £6m
There was roughly ten per cent of the actual playing time remaining and for the second half Man U had been on the front foot. If he can see something out there that he thinks he can address with what's left on the bench then he has to take action, even if there's some incidental damage to player relations.
That point could be very important to EFC come the end of the season. Team comes first, always!
tbh, he'll do well to make the bench if Siggi and Sidibe recover.
Spot on!
Sy-
Player Valuation: £8m
Yep, I've often observed that teams like City start matches with the kind of urgency we only seem to show when we've gone 1-0 down at home.
Also I'm pretty sure there's actually a sign at our training ground along the lines of "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"
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Basically says that we didn’t originally want Kean, he wasn’t on the shortlist of strikers drawn up by Brands or Silva and he only came about after we were rejected by all the others, including Mario Mandzukic from Juve, which one might infer how the Kean conversations began.
In other words, not only did we not beat off competition from every other club in the world as some would have us believe, we didn't even want him ourselves.
Undisputed_blue
Player Valuation: £8m
That's the problem, you have no idea about fitness in football. Paul Scholes said he needed a minimum of 6 games before he can perform at his optimum level. You can only get match fit by playing football - training itself isn't enough.
Also, when I played football, I would be blowing in the first 2 minutes and then after that it was okay like nothing has happened.
Looks like he was pushed at us by his agent Raola or whatever his name is. Shame but I can not see this lad succeeding here, is it us ? Or do we pick the wrong young players, Sandro and Kean were the most highly sought after, highest rated blah, blah. Not to late for Kean but I think he needs to start showing us things. Looks like Eggs was right.
bilyaletdinov_
Player Valuation: £35m
You’ve got too much time on yours hands lad.
alvinh
Player Valuation: £6m
One worrying thing about that story, if true, is that Mandzukic is nothing like Kean. Silva had been building towards a team that could deliver lots of quality crosses into the box and the strikers that were linked like Giroud or Mandzukic could've had a field day with some of the chances created in the early part of this season.
If those players wouldn't come, then that's fair enough and they have to move on. Shouldn't they still be looking at guys with the physical presence and aerial ability to do that role though?
Absolutely. I've been saying this all season. People were complaining about Silva's system not getting the best out of Kean, when the obvious criticism should have been that Kean was not suited to Silva's system. But people liked Kean and not Silva, so it got inverted.
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