Ronald Koeman discussion

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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.
 
sharkey1001 said:
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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Cleverley only had 4 starts, like.
 
ianefc said:
It's great that 10 months in I'm still buzzing that he is our manager.
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didnt you have a severe dip during that horrible run where you were seriously doubting him?

i can't get excited about him, and think he will maintain the current level and not much more....apart from a couple of great runs that will have us dreaming and looking up. I hope I'm wrong because I want that feeling from 3 seasons ago back again. Watch us go out and feel we can take on and beat anybody, excited for every game.

i understand relief and gratitude that we have recovered from where we were, and pretty quickly, but I honestly don't see a coach to have anybody 'buzzing'.
 

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