Ronald Koeman discussion

[nsno-chris]

Koeman is absolutely effing useless, and a shameless mercenary to boot - doesn't even feel his owes us the effort of a half-hearted attempt at looking invested in Everton, our history, our tradition, our culture, our success. His tactics are hopeless, his football is horrific, his signings are idiotic at best - abject at worst.

Can someone explain to me WTF we paid £30m to get Bolasie for - to add to our other 6 incosistent peripheral wingers - any why he continues to drone on about needing to buy strikers unless we start scoring when our midfield play is atrocious, our creativity non-existent, and our desperate need for a quality CM painfully self-evident? We're being linked with Depay and Van Dyke. I hope to god they're just typical bullshit rumours because they are not at all the players we need, and the prices quoted are insane.

Loss of Hibbert, Osman, Pienaar, Naismith ripped the spirit out of the squad. Bunch of half-arsed mercenaries, without leadership or sense of team unity between them - all individuals. The football is disjointed, utterly bereft of cohesion - and that plank Koeman just takes off the steady, keep-it-simple team players who should be used to knit the play together, in favour of more wingers and strikers.

I couldn't believe when he took off Lennon, McCarthy and then Baines, FFS, against Southampton, to throw on Deulofeu, Valencia and Mirallas (who, to his credit, played half-decent). He just wiped out the midfield and the attacking composure of Baines and we just lumped it aimlessly for the last 30 mins. We did the same against Swansea - it was pathetic, abysmal, unwatchable.


We have to get rid ASAP.

Shut up you absolute spunk trumpet

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Please tell me that youre an attractive single wealthy Shemale...i think i love you

xoxoxo

Zat mate???

 

[Zatara]

4-4-2 and play fast and aggressively.

Koeman hasnt played that system to my knowledge.

 

[Khalekan]

Because its just football.

Gosh....I wish I could be as NEA to EFC as your good self, Mr. B.

It would have saved me lots of anghuish over the years

Alas I can't.....this old club means too much to me

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

The players are easily adequate enough to get results. They proved that in the first five league games. Remember all the 'best start in generations' breast beating - all done with these players.

I wouldn't suggest we dont need players in, but it's a bad craftsman that blames their tools.

It's like the players not being able to play a pressing game, even though for 70 minutes against Spurs they did it brilliantly, and did it when they were supposedly only 60% fit.

 

[Zatara]

Zat mate???

Schoolboy error there quoting me twice and only amending one...

I assume youre asking after your father?

He/she is still 'on the game' I hear...

 

[Zatara]

Shut up you absolute spunk trumpet

That's rather uncalled for.

Especially when the post was 90% dead on.

I simply cant agree that taking Baines off is ever a bad idea thesedays.

 

[PhilM]

I was speaking to a respected coach from the Manchester United setup this morning and he talked highly of Koeman's coaching methods.

From all accounts, his training methods and techniques are respected within the footballing fraternity, so he was at a loss for our current lull.

He did however make a slightly remarkable comment along the lines of - 'some of the players fear Koeman which isn't a great thing'.

 

[davek]

It's like the players not being able to play a pressing game, even though for 70 minutes against Spurs they did it brilliantly, and did it when they were supposedly only 60% fit.

At a certain point those players must have thought to themselves "why are we putting in so much effort to win the ball back when we're then having to move it the rest of the 2/3rds of the pitch or else instructed to belt it up to Rom?". It must be dispiriting.

If Koeman wants to go for a pressing game he needs to do it in good time. We cant press further up the pitch (the only place it really pays off) because of the personnel we have up there. So in the meantime play to the strengths of this first team squad and construct moves and commit bodies further up the pitch ready to counter the opposition.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I was speaking to a respected coach from the Manchester United setup this morning and he talked highly of Koeman's coaching methods.

From all accounts, his training methods and techniques are respected within the footballing fraternity, so he was at a loss for our current lull.

He did however make a slightly remarkable comment along the lines of - 'some of the players fear Koeman which isn't a great thing'.

Players who have played for him in general fearing him mate, or actual Everton players fearing him now.

 

[AndyC]

Players who have played for him in general fearing him mate, or actual Everton players fearing him now.

The latter !

 

[PhilM]

Players who have played for him in general fearing him mate, or actual Everton players fearing him now.

I took it as if he was insinuating that it is some of the current Everton players, as we were talking about the possible reasons for our poor form.

 

[nsno-chris]

That's rather uncalled for.

Especially when the post was 90% dead on.

I simply cant agree that taking Baines off is ever a bad idea thesedays.

Then it applies to you zatty boy

 

[Zatara]

Then it applies to you zatty boy

Thats the best you can do?

 

[nsno-chris]

Thats the best you can do?

I don't want to make you cry