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Ronald Koeman discussion

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bicycleheader said:
indeed Toff, but I can only go on what I see before me in his Everton team.

Anyways it wasnt a criticism of him. Like I said he is what he is. I just didnt agree with @banno on the sugestion that Koeman has to be cautious and the big games away from home should have turned out how they did because we have spent less and have less quality in our squad.

He chooses the approach, which is fine...but like many fans would hope we are braver next season in these games whether its felt we are lacking quality wise or not.

sorry @banno your post was in the middle of the post you quoted from me and too difficult to sort out on the phone to reply
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True.

I have to say, I think he actually learned his lessons from the Spurs game - where he went too negative from the outset.

Against Liverpool he did try to be brave, but it backfired.

Yesterday was actually the ideal set-up and worked perfectly until United got lucky (which in the end, they did - even though we rode our luck as well). We had to frustrate them and it was more a case of being wasteful up front (even though the chances weren't gilt-edged) than slack in defence etc.

My point being, I think if we'd have had the four key players that have been injured available, we'd have seen different tacts. He was in a sense restricted by that, though the injuries aren't an excuse and they won't be used as such, they have definitely not helped!

Hopefully Schneiderlin is back come Saturday and we can start seeing some of the sexy togger we were playing a few weeks back.
 
blueblue said:
I regard this as a very solid satisfactory first season.
We will probably finish seventh, which is about right. We have been unlucky with long term injuries this season missing Coleman, Besic, Bolasie, Funes Mori and James McCarthy for large portions of the season has scuppered any chance od doing better.

The manager has had a chance to assess his squad and the bloodbath of the January transfer window shows that he thought the squad was sadly lacking.

The silver ling in the injury cloud is that youngsters have seen first team action and now the management have a better idea of who can contribute next season. To see Davies, Holgate, Calvert-Lewin, Lookman, Pennington and maybe more getting first team experience in a top seven team is remarkable.

But, now it all boils down to the summer :
Who can we keep ?
Who do we buy ?
How much is available to spend?
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A good summary. For a guy that doesn't give youngstars a chance we haven't half seen a lot of young players involved.

I think he's almost using the end of the season as in part a trial exercise to see who stays next season. I know most Evertonians want us to sell about 14 and sign 16 every summer but we can't do that! Giving lads like DCL, Holgate, Pennington game time to assess of they could be part of the squad in the Europa League next season could be an astute move.
 
Koeman is human like us and sometimes make bad decisions,but especially last night,i don't think he did something wrong with the subs.Jags and Ashley are not the tallest CB in the world of football.When you have Ibrahimovich and Fellaini as an opponents ,you can expect lot of crosses in the later stages of the game from open play and set pieces.You should add height to your team and "sacrifice" someone. Pennington and DCL were the best options to solve this problem at that situation.He has a plan but unfortunately didn't worked.
 
catcherintherye said:
A good summary. For a guy that doesn't give youngstars a chance we haven't half seen a lot of young players involved.

I think he's almost using the end of the season as in part a trial exercise to see who stays next season. I know most Evertonians want us to sell about 14 and sign 16 every summer but we can't do that! Giving lads like DCL, Holgate, Pennington game time to assess of they could be part of the squad in the Europa League next season could be an astute move.
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Lookman, Pennington, DCL and Holgate are all getting games and around the first team.

Do you think he will put Williams, Walsh, Dowell or any others to tantalize us?
 

Zatara said:
Lookman, Pennington, DCL and Holgate are all getting games and around the first team.

Do you think he will put Williams, Walsh, Dowell or any others to tantalize us?
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We have seven games to go and we already had a paper thin squad before the injuries to Funes Mori, Coleman and the recurrence of the McCarthy injury.
It is as good a time to get a chance as they will ever get.
 
Sheeds is right, Koeman did cost us points at our last two games. An inexperienced team in a derby and becoming too defensive at Old Trafford, DCL coming on was something I disagreed with because he isn't ready for big away games yet and does not have much of an impact. Keeping Mirallas on was best for the team and yea, Sheeds is right, why doesn't he start more often? He's on our better players
 

We should have won against United.It was a brave performance but im a bit annoyed that Koeman subbed off Mirallas and went a bit negative with the tactics.It handed the initiative back to United when i think if we kept going as we were.We could have scored a second goal and put the game beyond them.But i was pleased to see us bounce back from yet another crappy day at Anfield with a brave performance at Old Trafford and we we were unlucky not to get the win.
 
4 centre midfielders against Spurs,
5-2-1-2 against the RS
Taking Mirallas off and putting DCL on were glaring errors against Manure
Giving Cleverley several chances

5 big mistakes this season but other than that I am more than satisfied with Koeman. If he can learn from these even better. At least he is trying to tactically outsmart the big teams. Hopefully it all clicks with more quality.
 

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