2017/18 Ross Barkley

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Talking to my mate in Liverpool a couple of hours ago about tickets for the EL and my 6 PL games
He and his dad are season ticket holders but his day is touching 80 and only goes to 6/7 games a year.
Anyhow the ROSS situation came up and he reckons the ROSS situation and McCarthy have messed up our transfer plans.
We all expected ROSS to go for approx 35 m maybe more and McCarthy for 20/25 m
That could have been 60 m to spend on a striker and a CB/LB
By ROSS and McCarthy not going early as we expected that's blown a hole in the clubs transfer kitty.
If Spurs had really wanted ROSS they would have bid a decent fee early in the window , because let's be honest the dogs in the street know he was tapped up.
I wonder how ROSS feels knowing Spurs only rate him enough to take him as a bargain bucket buy to sit on the bench inbetween Jansen and Sissoko


nah, if that was the case we wouldn't have been chasing giroud for two months at a fee of around £25m.
 

And as I said in the last sentence I find it hard to understand the apathy of fervent football fans towards the English national team.
From what I've read it's the lower league fans who go to the England games
Some fans put their clubs first. Sime out their country first. Its a matter of choice which everyone is entitled to. Accept it. Most scousers, whether they are blue or red, put club first. Most Irish, by my experience, don't. Are you Irish by the way. If so, nothing wrong in putting country first if thats your pteference. Just dont expect us to be the same.
 
Was looking at Chelseas squad the other day, the lack of HG players they have is amazing, instantly made me think that Ross will end up there.

Bad move IMO, Spurs would have been the much better move for him, at least at Spurs you have some decent lads for him to hang with, Chelsea strike me as a bunch of utter bells.
Small squad full stop. 3 HG players so looking at mac squad of 20 at the moment
 
Some fans put their clubs first. Sime out their country first. Its a matter of choice which everyone is entitled to. Accept it. Most scousers, whether they are blue or red, put club first. Most Irish, by my experience, don't. Are you Irish by the way. If so, nothing wrong in putting country first if thats your pteference. Just dont expect us to be the same.

I love when we have players in the national team but, at the same time always feel like they have to be that much better than the media darlings, to be selected.
The U-20 world cup was a big 2 fingered salute to the end of those type of team selections?
 

I love when we have players in the national team but, at the same time always feel like they have to be that much better than the media darlings, to be selected.
The U-20 world cup was a big 2 fingered salute to the end of those type of team selections?
I watch National teams, including England, when one of our lads is playing, and always want them to do well. And am proud when they do. You can double that feelung for the younger lads. Seven in the U21 squad. Love it.
 
And as I said in the last sentence I find it hard to understand the apathy of fervent football fans towards the English national team.
From what I've read it's the lower league fans who go to the England games
The modern English footballer in the prem, is the epoch of ladz banter bellendry. There is only so much that can be tolerated- 2-3 that play for your club, and usually are well behaved locally, or the 22 of them in the 3Lionz vindaloo brigade.
 
I love when we have players in the national team but, at the same time always feel like they have to be that much better than the media darlings, to be selected.
The U-20 world cup was a big 2 fingered salute to the end of those type of team selections?
And I watched every game of this. A team, not a collection of haircuts and cars.
 
Koeman's comments today on Ross seem more positive than ever before. It was always he'll go/leave. Now it's if he stays he's welcome as he is a good player. Might be to get a better price but I hope it means there is a chance he stays as in my mind he is absolutely our best player at present. The door it seems has been opened by ronald.
 

Can see him being kept on for this season at least, he's not going to be on the radar of the clubs that he thinks want him and the clubs that do want him won't be able to meet out valuation or match his footballing ambitions. I know we don't ever get the full picture of why a player leaves a club until they release an autobiography about 20 years after the events but it does seem very daft to want to leave Everton at this moment in time. He'll get plenty of game time if he doesn't act like a bell and pull his socks up because there's no more free riding under Koeman plus he'll be able to work with Rooney who is probably the best currently playing type of player that Barkley should model his game on: a deep lying forward/advanced midfielder.

Depending on how bellish he's going to act I would consider pushing him into the striker role and see how he does up there. He's got the physicality and talent plus it lets him not have to think too hard as the much cleverer players behind him will do his thinking for him so all he has to worry about is putting the ball in the net. Depending on how the hunt for a striker goes it may be a decent option than relying on Rooney and Calvert-Lewin for the entire season considering his favoured position is already well covered.

Either way would rather he stayed but only if he's going to get his head down and actually do some work rather than throwing his toys out of the pram because an actual manager is running the show now and wants to see his players put a shift in. If he's too immature to let bygones be bygones then flog him to the highest bidder and use the money as best we can to patch other parts of the team. After all, football is a business these days and if an injury prone so called boyhood blue is running his contract down and not wanting to make use of his talent here then we shouldn't give him the chance to move elsewhere for a pittance; we wouldn't give another player who doesn't have those ties to us the chance so why Barkley?
 
Can see him being kept on for this season at least, he's not going to be on the radar of the clubs that he thinks want him and the clubs that do want him won't be able to meet out valuation or match his footballing ambitions. I know we don't ever get the full picture of why a player leaves a club until they release an autobiography about 20 years after the events but it does seem very daft to want to leave Everton at this moment in time. He'll get plenty of game time if he doesn't act like a bell and pull his socks up because there's no more free riding under Koeman plus he'll be able to work with Rooney who is probably the best currently playing type of player that Barkley should model his game on: a deep lying forward/advanced midfielder.

Depending on how bellish he's going to act I would consider pushing him into the striker role and see how he does up there. He's got the physicality and talent plus it lets him not have to think too hard as the much cleverer players behind him will do his thinking for him so all he has to worry about is putting the ball in the net. Depending on how the hunt for a striker goes it may be a decent option than relying on Rooney and Calvert-Lewin for the entire season considering his favoured position is already well covered.

Either way would rather he stayed but only if he's going to get his head down and actually do some work rather than throwing his toys out of the pram because an actual manager is running the show now and wants to see his players put a shift in. If he's too immature to let bygones be bygones then flog him to the highest bidder and use the money as best we can to patch other parts of the team. After all, football is a business these days and if an injury prone so called boyhood blue is running his contract down and not wanting to make use of his talent here then we shouldn't give him the chance to move elsewhere for a pittance; we wouldn't give another player who doesn't have those ties to us the chance so why Barkley?

Would love Ross to publish an autobiography ... full of tails of town, Vagas, Ibiza and football... lots of bright colours , written in crayon and pop up gansta bitchez everywhere..
 
Koeman's comments today on Ross seem more positive than ever before. It was always he'll go/leave. Now it's if he stays he's welcome as he is a good player. Might be to get a better price but I hope it means there is a chance he stays as in my mind he is absolutely our best player at present. The door it seems has been opened by ronald.
I still think if Ross gets healthy and plays the position Ronnie wants him to with better players, he'll have a dramatically different experience. Mix in Rooney, and I do wonder if we can't get him to change his mind.
 
Would love Ross to publish an autobiography ... full of tails of town, Vagas, Ibiza and football... lots of bright colours , written in crayon and pop up gansta bitchez everywhere..
Let's face it, it's going to be a biography with him. When it's time for him to write the book he'll turn up to the publishers with his first draft like a year 9 student who forgot to do his history homework the night before so he tries to do it on the bus thinking he's the mutt's nuts when he finishes his essay before he gets to school. Unluckily for him though his teacher is no fool because when he goes to hand it in his teacher knows what he's done since half of his words look like they were written by Michael J Fox and half of his essay is him just chatting utter tripe to get the length up enough and gives him a bollocking anyway.

Funnily enough I knew a girl who was into the wannabe WAG scene and said that Barkley was an utter bell pretending he was some sort of royalty with a whole posse of hangers on following him around like sick puppies whenever he went into town. At first I didn't know whether she was just saying that because he wasn't interested in her or whether it was actually true but from what I've read about Barkley since it matches up with what we now know so take it as you will.
 

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