My favourite thing from the Watford forum:
I'm surprised to find that despite everything that's gone on with Everton, I still have a little bit of pity for them.
They're going to repeat exactly what they did last season, aren't they? Pish away vast amounts of money on players that can't quite cut it. Let's remind ourselves:-
£28.5 million for Keane from Burnley. We saw how much Burnley missed him. Complete flop at Everton.
£27.5 million for Klaasen from Ajax. Absolutely stank. An expensive embarrassment. Barely got a game.
£28.5 million for absurd, puff-chested, military-combed, relegation regular and world cup flapper Jordan Pickwick.
£22.5 million for lumbering neanderthal thug forward Tonk Cussem (sp?). A player for whom the term 'battering ram' is a mild understatement. His major (only) contribution to the game the last time we saw him was obliterating the skilful Deulofeu and putting him out for the rest of the season. Makes Andy Carrol look like Pele. An anti-footballer.
£Megawages for lock-up-your-granny, spud-headed, fatboy Rooney. A tragic, past-his-sell-by-date, parody of a player. Now he's gone he says he didn't want to be a dead weight on them. Too late my old sponge and custard. You already spent a season doing that.
I'm quite confident that Richarlison, if he goes, will be another addition to this sad catalogue of failure and wasted millions for them. Yes he's quite young, but so is Mbappe and it doesn't seem to affect him too much. He hasn't got the cool head in front of goal that a deadly striker has and that (for me) can't be taught, it's something that comes naturally. He's greedy and doesn't appear to see his team mates as soon as he gets within 30 yards of goal. It's a blaze for glory every single time. He's got a tendency to throw himself around at the slightest touch and gobs off way, way too much. I think the purple patch of a dozen or so games when he first came was simply because he was unknown, in the same way as Odion Ighalo was at first. There's no video of him to show to the opposition. No pattern of play for them to point out and plan against. But after a few games, when a little bank of such material is built up, the player is found out and neutralised. Some are good enough to vary things up and make things much more difficult for the defenders. Others are one dimensional and can do nothing - that was Ighalo and that is Richarlison.
Everton have flirted with relegation for a few seasons. With these hopeless over-priced signings and the damage from the malign self-interest of fork-tongued Sssilva, I reckon they might be surprise candidates to go down either this season or next. And once they do, they're sure to go the way of Sunderland and Villa....
