2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[davek]

You were desperate for us to get rid of James, calling him all sorts. You were demob happy when he left at a time when you knew we couldn't replace him. After all that, you can't have not having James available as a reason for poor form.

Get shut of him and use any saving on wages to get a RB in, that was my argument. Of course that was expecting this idiot DoF to have a player in place ready to come in.

Silly me.

 

[Bluestar]

Or, he's past it.

Or the squad is hopeless.

 

[davek]

The injury problems were similar last year. Clutching a bit there Dave I loved hamez but he loved his PlayStation more. Sigurdsson isn't missed.

In a 4 month poeriod from last season...ANY 4 month period....show me where the injury list (and sustained injury list at that) came close to now....

 

[davek]

I stand corrected, apparently Brentford is an expected loss by the pro-Everton crew.

Fixed.

 

[kenada_blue]

We are Burnley.

Don't know when the narrative changed from our no fear flowing attack against a Pep Man City away from home.

 

[PhilRegan]

In a 4 month poeriod from last season...ANY 4 month period....show me where the injury list (and sustained injury list at that) came close to now....

Mate we didn't have any fullbacks or cm for about 4 months.

 

[Nymzee]

Fixed.

Why are you expecting to lose to Brentford with a few injuries? Are there any sides in the league you think we could take points off right now?

 

[davek]

Mate we didn't have any fullbacks or cm for about 4 months.

Nope.

 

[Infernus]

It must be absolutely incredible to be an Everton player. For multiple years these perpetual losers and gutless idiots have put in zero effort and seen to the sacking of multiple managers now. On certain parts of the continent their cars would be on fire by now. But at Everton they always have the manager to hide behind, safe in the knowledge that most fans ire will be directed that way. But yeah, fat, sack etc great stuff. Bring the next guy in, who will also receive no effort at all from these wasters.

 

[AndyC]

I’m calling you a plank it’s quite simple

Wind yer neck in and knock it off with the insults !!!

 

[davek]

Why are you expecting to lose to Brentford with a few injuries? Are there any sides in the league you think we could take points off right now?

We'd struggle with Norwich and Newcastle.

We need players back in and we need to get to January for reinforcements.,

Until either or both happen I have VERY limited expectations.

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

No one wrote off Watford though. We are all angry that happened, we should have won even with the players we had out there. But the cupboard is bare. We hadn't even a gomes to throw on. Sometimes you need to step back and look at why a team is struggling away from the heat of the moment and then you get the answers. We did get a reaction against a team that is better than us with a new manager bounce, without Conte we may have won that game.

There are a few things that need to happen, we need to build back up the depth that we once had but that came at a FFP cost - so it needs to be done sensibly leaving us with a bench that might make an impact and at worse not leave us several steps down from the player being subbed.

We need all our best players on the pitch at the same time, you can probably swap Townsend for a Gordon, Keane for Godfrey but our team must include:

Richarlison
DCL
Gray
Doucoure
Allan
Mina
Pickford (due to our replacement looking like he can't handle it)
Coleman (due to having no replacement)
Digne (although he is trying to remove himself from the list I expect he will do better when the aforementioned are on the side)

If when this happens and we still go a period of games without beating teams we should beat and improved performances against the teams we shouldn't then hell I might even start calling for him to be sacked too. Now is just ridiculous, like I say I wrote off three games in a list of 15 fixtures. Not every game is a write off

Mainly agree, pretty sensible and I’m not calling for him to be sacked. There’s no point. If you’ve written off the next three games that’ll be no wins in 9 and one win in 11. That’s almost a third of the season without a win, he shouldn’t be given a free pass, I can question his set up and not want him sacked.

 

[zukai12_]

Shows you how bad Bruce must be that Newcastle fans Pine for the days of Benitez

 

[Papa Shango]

In a 4 month poeriod from last season...ANY 4 month period....show me where the injury list (and sustained injury list at that) came close to now....

Nobody who you disagree with about this cares about that though.

You are expecting people to care about it because you care about it.

It's not going to happen.

Some people just don't want him. That will not change.

 

[windymiller]

I dont expect it, no. I'd like to think we can get a draw.

If you think that's small time, have a word with the board and that DoF they employed. They've handed a squad full of duds and crocks to this manager.

The board are terrible, I've been saying so for ages. Benitez is rubbish, though, and you now have a small time attitude. Moshiri has broken you, you're his prag now.