Oh thank God that won't happen
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I wonder whose turn it is pick up a season ending injury in December.
Everton's aim should always be to compete for Europe.
You point out the £1.5m spend this summer. That's fine.
But let's look at the team that started on Saturday
Pickford - £25m
Godfrey - £20m
Keane - £25m
Mina - £27m
Digne - £18m
Allan - £20m
Doucoure - £20m
Townsend - Free
Gray - £1.5m
Iwobi - £34m
Rondon - Free
So yes, the spend this summer was low. But that team, with 3 key players injured, still has a combined cost (in fees) of £190.5m. An average of £17.3m per player.
Gray, everything's going far too well for that lad so far
It could very easily go the too, but I tend to look on the “half empty” side these days…fingers repeatedly burnt and all that!
What they cost 2-3 years ago has absolutely no relevance though to how good they actually are now.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
They finished 12th and 10th. That's a bat shid crazy recruitment issue. Not a barometer off how good we are.
Benitez himself has only 1.7. Has done excellent recruitment. But to expect to get a team that finished 12th and 10th no matter how ridiculous our owner was to spend that on them to get them up the table on 1.7 will be a massive achievement.
Earwigjoe
Player Valuation: £10m
Moyes back?
Did he hurt it?
Mina, Digne, Pickford - they're 3 of our best players.
Godfrey was our young player of the year last season. Allan and Doucoure have been exceptional this season by and large and were both pretty good for large chunks of last year.
People are acting like we're made up of Championship cast offs. Have we wasted a lot of money? Absolutely. Should we still challenge for Europe based on what we have spent? Absolutely.
We're one of 9 teams who could finish anywhere from 5th to 13th IMO.
I mean Digne, Pickford, Keane and Mina were all here before 2019
We got 59 points last season. That shouldn't be a 10th-placed finish but it was. We should have finished a lot higher.
I would be delighted if we matched last season's points total because I think this year that gets you top six.
I'm not expecting it or saying it'll be a failure if we don't get that tally, btw. End of the day if we finish 8th it's an improvement. But people were unhappy last season with 10th - rightly - because we should never, ever have finished that low. We were fighting for CL until about April, so does that just show Carlo actually was really overachieving for a long spell?
You're getting yourself tied up trying to make excuses for Benitez for something that hasn't happened yet.
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
We are indeed. But the mid-point of that range is 9th. That won't be good enough for Europe - which is about right, to be fair, because neither are we.
h8kurdt
Player Valuation: £1m
It'll never, ever, ever get less sickening seeing that price tag next to Iwobi.
That's not to say we can't challenge. With our current squad, we would have to get very fortunate with injuries though, so like I said I'm not going to be furious if we don't challenge for those places.
But Everton as a club should aways expect to be challenging.
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