Pittsburgh Footy
Player Valuation: £35m
I cannot imagine anyone looking at our current midfield and coming to the conclusion, yep, Rom's the problem
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World class striker that he undoubtedly is, I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that for the betterment of the club as a whole, we'd probably be better cashing in for huge dollar. That's a sad indictment of how far we have fallen and the disgraceful running of the club that we are in such a mess we need to sell our best player to sort out a disinterested, arrogant, overrated and downright diabolical squad.
I think the same thing that happened to Stones last season is happening to Rom this one.
He had been assured he can move on next summer after giving us "one more season".
Stones started last season well then his peformances tailed off as he started looking disinterested.
To me, this being repeated with Rom.
And it all goes to show holding on to unhappy players is not conducive to a good atmosphere at a football club.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
I don't think it's as complicated as the maths suggest.Why would that even matter if we are scoring more goals over a season with the "out and out goal scorer" banging them in for fun?
If someone told us before a season started that we were going to score either 87 goals or 76 goals, I am willing to bet dollars to donuts not one single person would prefer we scored the latter figure.
Also, you did see the "best of the midfield players" in the Lineker season.....you just didn't see them score as often as we had three top class strikers banging in 59....yes 59....goals between them.
Links, Sharpie and Inchy put the finishing touches to the excellent work Stevens, Reid, Bracewell and Sheedy (bless the day we had those four boys in midfield) were doing behind them.
Those four midfielders were absolutely brilliant that season.
I wish they had have had "assist" stats in those days.....God knows how many Sheedy alone would have notched up
And Tricky Trevor scored nine goals as well as setting the strikers up
No matter what way you look at it, a team is better off with a 30 goal striker leading the line than it is without one.
The trick is getting other players to share the load......and we had that in abundance in 1985/86.
We palpably do not have it now
No matter the level, it's an absolute nightmare when the ball doesn't stick up top. He's a good goalscorer, but he does nothing to help the team move up the pitch, and him adding between 10 and 18 league goals a season isn't enough to compensate for that (hence the league positions).
Mickey
Player Valuation: £35m
People pass him the ball mate but he, more often than not, miss controls it and we lose posession. That's why we do so much side to side crab ball, we cannot play the ball into Roms feet because he cannot control a football and it's effecting our ability to carve out chances imo.
Or, we play a load of crab ball because we have three players in the squad who actually look to play the ball to Rom in a decent position where he can get in on goal.
Other than that it is usually either Barry or one of the full-backs pinging/lofting a 20 yard pass to him when he's up against two markers and we don't have any other players around the play (this should be Barkley's job but he's got the positional sense of a turd) to win the second ball.
Mickey
Player Valuation: £35m
He can't control a football I don't know what getting players around him will do unless we want to try and pick up the loose ball when it bounces of his shins. I can see the logic in playing two up top so we have someone who can hold up the ball and bring players into play, which a striker should be able to do at a bare minimum.
He can control a ball.
He's just crap with his back to goal.
We don't play to his strengths, so when he's got his back to goal and there's two defenders on him (which there is) we should either look for a different option or there should be players around him to pick up the scraps - that's what 'pressing' is, that's what good teams do... the players back each other up.
Barkley is the prime example as he's the most advanced midfielder.
He should be in a 5 yard radius of Rom in those situations, and on his toes ready to pounce on a loose ball.
No striker can hold the ball up against 2/3 defenders if they don't have support.
There is a certain young Spaniard certainly knows how to find him with both crosses and clever through passes.
Alas he was frozen out by Bobby and is too much of a Cavalier for Ronnie's Roundheads
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
have you not watched stones this season? he's been awful, making just as many mistakes now than he was @ us, maybe he's just not actually that good of a defender
This is at the heart of our current malaise.
Every time we have a player bearing down on the penalty box there are very few options for him in the actual kill zone.
Rom is always outnumbered at least two or three to one.
And we never seem to have more than two men in the box apart from our normally woefully wasted set pieces.
Two things.
No, I have not watched much of Stones though I did see him gift a goal to Saints.
Secondly, it is inconceivable that he is making " just as many mistakes" now as he was with us because City do not come under attack the way we do ergo the opportunity for him to make mistakes are greatly curtailed.
In that respect City was the perfect move for him.
But.....I have no doubt that happen they were to come under sustained pressure he would indeed make as many mistakes there as he did here.
Because you have nailed it buddy......he is incredibly overrated as a centre back and we did extremely well to get the money we did for him
abelard
Player Valuation: £35m
There is a certain young Spaniard certainly knows how to find him with both crosses and clever through passes.
Alas he was frozen out by Bobby and is too much of a Cavalier for Ronnie's Roundheads
Robles?
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