Niapper
Player Valuation: £8m
Why is Goodison so quiet ?
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Why is Goodison so quiet ?
Personally I lay the blame for that sort of thing 100% at the feet of Rooney. Lots of better players than Schneiderlein have found it night on impossible to perform alongside Wayne. Both at United and at international level.
Gladystweet
Player Valuation: £50m
A nights sleep hasn't helped at all.
Be gone with you square head checked pants
Be gone with you square head checked pants
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
TIME 2 GO KOE
Of course mate I'm not saying he isn't to blame either but all he's doing is dropping deep trying to dictate and start up something that the midfielders are incapable of doing. But when hes stepping on a players toes that plager should have thr balls to say "sod off Wayne this is my space"
The manager needs to tell him to stick up top because that's causing issues all over the top of the pitch as well. 1st half Gylfi was stuck on the left for a period then Davies was and there was a moment when neither of them closed down a player becsuse they weren't sure if it was their man becsause it's turned to a free for all up top of moving wherever you like which blatantly isn't working
Koeman won't be here next season. I'd even bet he's gone before the final game. I think he's the type to walk...
In second half we had at least a little movement. And shock horror, Schneiderlin started hitting better passes forward. He needs a runner. He is a good player. Rooney destroys whatever semblance of a system we are trying to play
He couldn't play any worse than the first half so any pass finding a blue shirt would have made him look like bloody Pirlo
I wonder if the question marks over Koeman's future at Everton are causing Barkley to have a good think about his own.
No width and no runners. Find me a midfielder who's not iniesta, Kroos etc who will thrive in that sort if system.
Should never have signed Rooney, end of.
With him being the big name + big wage player, Koeman will probably not be given much choice but to have him on the teamsheet each week - apparently not having him there against Sunderland caused problems (If media idiots are to be believed)
If anything, it's Koeman that needs to man up, and tell Rooney to either keep up front, or get dropped (And stand up to the board if there is pressure from them). Instead we seem to choosing the squad around Rooney, and it's not working
With him being the big name + big wage player, Koeman will probably not be given much choice but to have him on the teamsheet each week - apparently not having him there against Sunderland caused problems (If media idiots are to be believed)
If anything, it's Koeman that needs to man up, and tell Rooney to either keep up front, or get dropped (And stand up to the board if there is pressure from them). Instead we seem to choosing the squad around Rooney, and it's not working
..they are very revealing stats. The Gueye/Schneiderlin has to come under scrutiny for not working, particularly when they have possession. Saying that, I do think the underlying issue is team selection and formation. There is inevitably no out ball centrally or perhaps more significantly by way of width.
Often the only pass is to a full back. Last night the times Kenny had the ball and looked up the line but had nobody to pass to so turned back inside and gave it to his CB. Central midfielders pass to full backs, full backs pass to Centre Backs. The cycle continues. Gueye's distribution is often poor, he tends to knock his forward passes into players with their backs to goal and go for a one-two. Very rarely puts a player in because we don't have midfielders/forwards exploiting the space behind the back four.
It's a mess.
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