Reasons for optimism...

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If , if we stay up then it is a good opportunity for a proper reset... The question remains over our funding tho...
 

I hate this club more than i do Liverpool right now so i suppose its only upwards from here.


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I'd happily jettison the whole team apart from Gordon. He isn't a brilliant player but just think how much his game has been stunted by playing alongside a team of cowards up until this point. Give him decent team mates and he could flourish as a decent Prem player. Otherwise if I were him I'd look to get away from Goodison as soon as possible. Could really do with seeing the back of at least Gomes and Keane at the very least this summer, but I'm not sure that will happen. More likely to be Richy, CL and Mina that move on. If we get good money for them I have no problem with that. Just want to see the club finally stop buying players who haven't performed for their team in years as we have become a laughing stock over this. The money wasted is criminal and we just can;t stop bringing them in. Latest being Dele Alli. Fingers crossed we get mentally strong hungry players from the lower leagues who will see this as the next step up in their careers not a nice early retirement. I hope we stay up and feel we should stick with the manager but this is Everton and anything is possible.
 
How does the 40 mill for our benchplayer dele weigh into that ffp? Other than that i agree. It cant get any worse than this.
 

Any optimism has been completely sucked out of me be an owner and board who would struggle running the beano successfully and a team of players (if you can call them that) that i hate more than i have any other team since the premier league began. I have zero faith that these shameless losers can avoid being relegated, they definitely cannot be relied upon for anything whatsoever, well apart from being crap, uninterested and letting everyone down indefinitely.

Only chance we have got of the club being saved is Lampard and if he can learn from what he has seen in his first 6 weeks and somehow squeeze about 10 points out of the shameful bunch of misfits he is in charge of and i am not optimistic about that either, just hope and desperation.
 
GrandOldTeam said:
The majority of the fanbase predicted this would be a season to endure, another - and as much as I dislike the phrase - transitional season.

Years of piss poor management by a failing board has left us with a unbalanced, and to be blunt - an unlikeable Everton team. A team that looked to down tools on even Carlo Ancelotti with form falling off a cliff the second half of last season.

Ancelotti bailing and Moshiri/board going for Benitez always dictated this to be a season of angst. The perfect man for a team of cowards to hide behind.

As bad as this season has been, I there are some valid reasons for optimism.

This season we've let go of wasters or big earners like Bolasie, Walcott, Bernard, Kean, Digne, Rodriguez,

This summer we lose more wasters or big earners with Tosun, Sigurdsson, Kenny, Delph out of contract.

You don't need to be a football finance bore to realise just how important losing that deadweight is, as FFP resets for us.

10th, or 17th. Sure, there's prize money, pride and not to mention blood pressure, but in reality - both mean little in terms of setting us up for next season.

This years relegation scrap has forced attention towards our disaster of a boardroom and although some changes have been token, and others just human shields (Sharpy...) I think more pressure will rightly be put on them once we're safe... a failing setup leading this so-called strategic review won't wash.

There's still a lot of talent in this team for us to build around, or sell as part of a rebuild... Pickford, Godfrey, Patterson, Gordon, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.

Bramley-Moore Dock is a massive positive.

Lampard will be under no illusion going into the summer on who need the bums rush.

Moshiri, I think, will back the club with money again this summer.

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Agree with all of this until the last line. I'm not convinced there will be much money to spend, unless we make a couple of sizeable sales. Although, I hope we do make sales to be honest. because we need to.

We also still need to get safe. There's still a long way to go on that.
 
blu87554 said:
How does the 40 mill for our benchplayer dele weigh into that ffp? Other than that i agree. It cant get any worse than this.
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We wont pay anywhere near that. He isn't even going to hit the 20 apps this season, let alone us winning anything or him meeting any goals/assists targets etc. Unlikely to meet any of the requirements next season I would expect either.
 

The elephant in the room here is relegation. I still don't think it has registered with a lot of blues, but, relegation is very much a possibility now, in fact, there's a case for saying that, if we lose to Burnley, it's a probability. If we go down Lampard will go, according to an article this morning Everton have a clause in Lampard's contract to allow them to get rid with no compensation at the end of the season should we be relegated.

If that were to happen, we would have the Iranian madman appointing yet another manager who,undoubtedly,would want to see the players in action before deciding which of them he wanted to keep. I hope we manage to stay up and that we allow Lampard to raise some money on sales and start to build a young energetic team.
 
If the changes for next season (whatever league we may be in) comprise of a clean sweep of playing staff, owners and board..... I'll be optimistic.

Not until then....
 
GrandOldTeam said:
We've not paid that for him.

Even if we win the champions league, world cup and Serie A over the next few years for that 40 mill, his fee won't show up this financial year.
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I would guess all of that potential fee is appearance based and not based around us winning things, however you’re right, we haven’t paid that fee and it’s highly unlikely we will ever pay anything for him as he’ll probably be moved swiftly on in the summer.
 

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