Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Football is a two way game but some fans seem to always assume that you can turn the attacking taps on easily whilst maintaining the defensive ones.
Can you imagine the carnage on here if Liverpool came to Goodison and won 6-3, having been 5-1 up, after Chelsea had battered us 4-2 at home, Ipswich beat us at home, especially after the investment they’ve had in that team. No amount of ‘yeah but the attacking is exciting’ would save him. It simply wouldn’t be tolerated.
What people want is a team that maintains our defensive solidity but also scores more at the other end. We all want that but it ain’t happening with this squad of players, we’d need far better attacking options to balance that equation.
For comparison Pickford is England’s undisputed number 1. Branthwaite is likely to be in the squad under Tuchel and almost certainly in the team at some point. Mykolenko plays for Ukraine national team, Idrissa Gueye played for PSG.
What does the equivalent attacking talent look like? Undisputed number 1 striker for England? Kane, up and coming attacking player likely to be in the England team with a price tag of 70 mill? Palmer, Gibbs White maybe? Attacking player good enough to have played regularly for PSG? Ukrainian wide attacking player?
For our attack to have that comparable quality we would be looking at absolutely top players. Instead we have Calvert Lewin (barely an international probably won’t be again), McNeil and Harrison (probably never internationals), Lindstrom (hasn’t scored in 60 games), Ndiaye (Sheffield United Marseille Everton)
It’s absolutely no wonder in my mind that Everton managers build their game plan around the defensive players in the team.
Until we provide managers with better attacking player, every future manager is either going to do the same, or die on the postecoglou sword of being outgunned by any decent team they play.
