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Tennessee Blue Mike
Player Valuation: £50m
Believe me Phil I wouldn't do that to you.
Cal your right. It's all about the balance and keeping everyone eager for play. For instance look what came out of Babel's mouth today. The Prem is so tough that you deffo need a run of games to hit top form. Moyes keeps it simple with very few changes and most of those being because of injury, suspension or National team duties.
Cal your right. It's all about the balance and keeping everyone eager for play. For instance look what came out of Babel's mouth today. The Prem is so tough that you deffo need a run of games to hit top form. Moyes keeps it simple with very few changes and most of those being because of injury, suspension or National team duties.
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Tennessee Blue Mike
Player Valuation: £50m
I'm back and it feels good. Thanks #1
May all the Everton games be on FSC for the remainder of the year.
May all the Everton games be on FSC for the remainder of the year.
TX Tiburon
Player Valuation: £5m
Given the current status of the squad and questions as to whether we have 16 available for the Spurs match, DM must have had severe second thoughts on Vogel. Getting him on free just to add depth seemed so logical. The reports on him must have been dreadful.
zero
Player Valuation: £30m
it's longer then that he was at odds with Betis since January last year not playing a game since in the process, so yeah probably is a lack of match fitness. If he was offered a chance to join us in the summer but refused to take it because of payments he hadn't recieved from Betis then its his own greedy fault.
zero
Player Valuation: £30m
ah fair enough, if thats the case then I feel sorry for the lad. You don't get to play for AC Milan without having some quality. What's more frustrating for him is he will probably be overlooked by the swiss national team because of his lack of football.
It's hard to say at this stage because we do have a lot of players unavailable for one reason or another. Cahill and Hibbert are suspended. Baines, VDM and Graveson are injured. Osman is doubtful and of course the three lads out in Ghana. Throw in Turner and the sale of McFadden and you've got an entire eleven there.
It's undisputed that the squad is stretched pretty much to its limit at the moment. The question is, what can we do about it? There seem to be two options.
Firstly you can bring in a short term stop gap, ala Vogel, to cover us during this period. The difficulty with this option is that it is both hard to find decent players willing to accept such a role, and it's also very difficult to find players able to hit the ground running in such a short space of time. It's very feasible that by the time the new boy gets his feet under the table the players are returning and he's no longer needed. Is that a sensible use of limited funds?
The second option is to buy big and get a player that will challenge the first team regardless of who comes back. The January window is notorious for seeing desperate clubs spend £5 million on a McFadden. Quality is by no means assured. Traditionally Moyes takes players on loan in January so he can have a look and make a decision in the summer. We have done just that this year again with Fernandes and he would fit the bill of a potential first teamer if he shows enough over the coming months.
So yes, we are in a difficult spot at the moment, but if anything it's a sign of our progress as a team because when we had injuries early in the season we struggled to get results but now we're grinding out wins even when the performances aren't good. If our big name players put in some performances over the next few weeks and we get out of a very difficult period still with 4th place in our sights then I think we can be pleased.
It's undisputed that the squad is stretched pretty much to its limit at the moment. The question is, what can we do about it? There seem to be two options.
Firstly you can bring in a short term stop gap, ala Vogel, to cover us during this period. The difficulty with this option is that it is both hard to find decent players willing to accept such a role, and it's also very difficult to find players able to hit the ground running in such a short space of time. It's very feasible that by the time the new boy gets his feet under the table the players are returning and he's no longer needed. Is that a sensible use of limited funds?
The second option is to buy big and get a player that will challenge the first team regardless of who comes back. The January window is notorious for seeing desperate clubs spend £5 million on a McFadden. Quality is by no means assured. Traditionally Moyes takes players on loan in January so he can have a look and make a decision in the summer. We have done just that this year again with Fernandes and he would fit the bill of a potential first teamer if he shows enough over the coming months.
So yes, we are in a difficult spot at the moment, but if anything it's a sign of our progress as a team because when we had injuries early in the season we struggled to get results but now we're grinding out wins even when the performances aren't good. If our big name players put in some performances over the next few weeks and we get out of a very difficult period still with 4th place in our sights then I think we can be pleased.
toffeeman
Player Valuation: £150k
Bruce couldn't agree more with your view on fernandes , thats why I think tonights game is such a big one. missing so many in the midfield and the points situation with the red [Poor language removed], would be nice to make the gap just that little more hopefully the lad has worked on his fitness as i thought for the first 30 mins the other night he ran his socks off and gave everything,
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