Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
Maybe, Bainesy, but the slightly alarming thing for you and I and other blues, is that without him (let's say a serious injury) we could struggle, and find ourselves heading down the table, rather than up.
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Maybe, Bainesy, but the slightly alarming thing for you and I and other blues, is that without him (let's say a serious injury) we could struggle, and find ourselves heading down the table, rather than up.
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
We would struggle massively to replace Rom. We'd probably have to do what Liverpool and Spurs did with the Bale/Suarez money by trying to improve the squad as a whole and hope for the best as there's little chance of us attracting a similar standard player unless we finish in the top 4.
...to be fair, I think the Gibson deal was done during transition to Moshiri. I'm more optimistic but I think there's a realisation that even if Moshiri is the real deal, progress is going to be slow and largely reliant on the appointed manager.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
Your correct on Gibson actually..
And the progress is clearly going to be slow, especially if we sell Rom.. Having already sold Stones.
My problem with all this goings on, is that I'm really close to not being arsed anymore.
If anything but a dock side stadium is announced, that will be it for me.
Seathestars
Player Valuation: £60m
Sometimes I wonder if we've become the Lakaku show rather than Everton FC.
Great player and all that but everyone is replaceable, might not be a bad thing if he leaves, obviously we need a top replacement.
Great player and all that but everyone is replaceable, might not be a bad thing if he leaves, obviously we need a top replacement.
....amazing how a win or two lifts the malaise, just like a heavy defeat makes us all seem down. I look at last season and think we are in better shape, not a lot better but better. At least we aren't rudderless. We are top half and picking up enough points (hopefully) to see us through 20 points by Christmas and give us breathing space.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
I know a few wins helps mate, the ground thing has been bugging me big style for months though.
A good cup draw, a decent Derby performance.. Christ.. And we're sound like..
...Eggs on Toast, not literally of course.
Jreverton1
Player Valuation: £15m
Did anyone actually make a bid for Lukaku last season?
As someone once advised a man in a hike......stop digging
The more you labour this point the deeper the hole you are digging
Angelgabriel
Player Valuation: £750k
Or you could just, you know, not take stuff on a forum quite so seriously? I was making a flippant remark about how far we'd fallen, not criticising your post.
Now that you've poked me with a big stick though, I'll happily point out that I think you're chatting absolute wham & are using the most simplistic logic imaginable to try to make your point.
Your assertion that Liverpool winning the league had nothing to do with them, and actually was entirely our doing, is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever had the good fortune to read. You can't isolate one stat from the other, the league is a competition between teams, so each team's performance has a direct effect on the league as a whole. If their form in the previous 12 games had been even close to that shown in their last 12, we would never have been in the title race. Hell, there wouldn't have been a title race, they'd have won it by February. When a team wins 11 and draws 1 of their last 12 games they will invariably win the league. If Liverpool had gone on a run like that in 85 or 87 we probably wouldn't have won the league then either.
You're blaming Lineker because it's the easy thing to do. His signing was the only obvious difference between the squads in those years so you're putting 2 & 2 together and getting 5. Despite it being pointed out that other players in the team scored plenty of goals that season, you've somehow managed to mangle the logic to such an extent that the teams failure to score many goals during a 10 game run is laid entirely at the feet of one man. You've also made the common but rather basic mistake of believing that a team's performance is measurable only against their own performance in other years, and not factoring in the varying quality of opposition. . It's a bit like suggesting the team that finished 4th with Kilbane, Watson, Bent et al was better than the teams finishing 5th with Arteta, Pienaar, Baines, Yakubu and then Barkley, Coleman and Lukaku
I think some people are guilty of doing the same with Lukaku. Rather than focussing on how reliant we are on him for goals and moaning that he doesn't hold the ball up well enough as if it's his fault, I prefer to think that if we actually signed some better players and played to Lukaku's strengths more, he could be the man to fire us to glory. It's a hell of a lot easier to win stuff with a 20+ goal a season striker in your side than it is without one.
So.......in order to make the facts fit your spurious argument, you are expunging the last two games of that season.
A 3-1 victory over Hammers and a 6-1 defeat of Saints.
lol
We won seven of our last twelve games and drew three.
That is 24 points out of 36.
As you have been told.....we did nowt or little wrong on the run in.
It was down to the RS winning eleven games and drawing one in the twelve games after they lost to us.
A truly phenomenal finish to the season.
If they had had a normal, or merely a great finish, we would have won the title comfortably because despite that they only beat us by two points
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
As someone once advised a man in a hike......stop digging
The more you labour this point the deeper the hole you are digging
Don't think so. All of what I have posted is correct. You're just being argumentative...
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