Relegation

[neil999]

Grealish is a one in a million character. And Villa were stable financially when they went down. They had a relatively small wage budget and didn’t have to sell. Anyone who is half decent will have to go.

Yet villa got relegated on 17 points.... They were obvalot worse than us...

 

[Zatara]

We've spent £561.88m in the last six years.

Around £50mil a season you mean.

 

[kenada_blue]

I will take your word for the stats but I watched both games and Southampton were shocking and Wolves today not much better so it is not unrealistic to see an uplift in Burnley’s performance

Where's as we've not had a team play shocking against us in that respect all season. You make the opposition look bad which Burnley have done.

They look better as a collective and will now have their tails up.

 

[PhilM]

Can’t see us doing it. We would need a monumental change of form. Pretty much top four form to get the points. This team isn’t capable of putting two wins together. We are done.

Neither were Burnley with only four wins all season until the tide recently changed, and now they’re on a good run. Form can change.

 

[polish]

ha ha ha ha ha so you want to go

in the championship as an alternative?

sorry lad but no match going fan would want it

I dont think I care anymore. Football is beyond broken and there is no going back.

 

[teppic]

Imperative that Palace win tonight.

 

[nsno-chris]

Around £50mil a season you mean.

Third highest in the league though Zat, £30m more than the RS.

We’ve spent a lot of money, just very very very poorly

 

[Thomasc]

The season has been the perfect storm.

Take into account all of the long term injuries, the awful transfer business, appointing the worst possible choice of manager, it’s just gone from one disaster to another.

You can’t say it’s not self inflicted.

Moshiri and the board are a shining example of how not to run a football club.

The media despise Everton and want to see us go, as it’s a club they can write articles about, unlike Burnley, Watford or Norwich who they expected to go.

 

[Bluestar]

Football has become something I detest. FIFA, UEFA, the FA, all corrupt and awful.

The PL owners now actually resemble a collection of Bond villains. Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern monarchs and various absent billionaire owners, all overseen by corrupt governing bodies.

How has this been allowed to happen?

It’s fairly easy for me to leave it behind now. It’s grotesque.

Some sort of shell of something will be left, but it will be unrecognisable,

To be honest, i think the sole of the club died when Koeman arrived. We have nor been Everton since.

 

[Narntwinnysivven]

The top 6 sell average players for more money than we can
And we buy players over priced and over paid to attract them
We get Iwobi for the same price Liverpool get Mane, you get me?
Non top 6 teams have to pay out more to try to compete.
We aren't the first team to do it, and we won't be the last
It is why they are trying new ways to pull the ladder up further, just in case one sneaks in to the party

No, that’s terrible management. Other teams take their time to scout the players who’ll fit their requirements and apart from the 2 manc clubs, sell to fund it. Even Chelsea have had to sell to buy recently.

 

[Bluestar]

Around £50mil a season you mean.

If that is net spend then it’s huge.

 

[Narntwinnysivven]

wow

 

[Eggs]

….hopefully the ‘bedwetter accusers’ are waking up to smell the coffee.

 

[tommytowne]

I don’t follow the games anymore. I went out for a meal to avoid it.

Not just the game for me I'm afraid .
It's all engulfing, in your heart and in your soul for me.
Another day dawns, ever hopeful.

 

[arbok]

The season has been the perfect storm.

Take into account all of the long term injuries, the awful transfer business, appointing the worst possible choice of manager, it’s just gone from one disaster to another.

You can’t say it’s not self inflicted.

Moshiri and the board are a shining example of how not to run a football club.

The media despise Everton and want to see us go, as it’s a club they can write articles about, unlike Burnley, Watford or Norwich who they expected to go.

Same with Leeds though, worse injury list, worse players - but they look like they're going to get out of it.

Benetiz was the one big mistake, but even around the Watford game when it was clear to see we were in trouble, we really needed to step up and get out of it, and we wasted so many games. The liverpool game was actually the first time we looked solid defensively, and they had trouble breaking us down. That should be like that every week.