Summer of 2017

[Hellerad]

2017 hurts because Martinez gave us a season of hope but couldn’t carry it forward and we all thought a new manager would get it done.

Que 8 years of patchwork buying for almost as many managers, each with inconsistent tactics.

 

[GlosBlue]

Cue somebody posting the music video Summer of 69

Was desperately trying to come up with some Everton based lyrics to fit to the tune but gave up about 30 seconds in!

 

[Hellerad]

Cue somebody posting the music video Summer of 69

I got my first real striker
Bought him off a London team
Played him 'til his dad complained
Was the summer of '17

 

[matty1878]

It very much looked like all 4 of these were sticking their neck in to buy players. This should have been primarily with Walsh but all the others were shouting out names and Moshiri was just buying them. No plan in place.

We should have challenged top 4, instead it will take 10 years to recover.

so we’ve got two years left to meet that target

 

[TraffordBlue]

Given the money we had to spend I find it most annoying that Newcastle spent theirs wisely while we didn't. Isak has been outstanding for them and largely the reason behind them becoming a top 4-6 club in the last 2-3 years. If we'd have got the Lukaku replacement right, I think we'd have still been firmly in that top 8, likely battling it out for a top 6 place regularly.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Given the money we had to spend I find it most annoying that Newcastle spent theirs wisely while we didn't. Isak has been outstanding for them and largely the reason behind them becoming a top 4-6 club in the last 2-3 years. If we'd have got the Lukaku replacement right, I think we'd have still been firmly in that top 8, likely battling it out for a top 6 place regularly.

Isak £65m
gylfi £45m

It's academic.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Was desperately trying to come up with some Everton based lyrics to fit to the tune but gave up about 30 seconds in!

Same! Think I gave up before 30 seconds mind

 

[Marcus Kendall]

I got my first real striker
Bought him off a London team
Played him 'til his dad complained
Was the summer of '17

Bravo!

 

[Aberblue]

Given the money we had to spend I find it most annoying that Newcastle spent theirs wisely while we didn't. Isak has been outstanding for them and largely the reason behind them becoming a top 4-6 club in the last 2-3 years. If we'd have got the Lukaku replacement right, I think we'd have still been firmly in that top 8, likely battling it out for a top 6 place regularly.

Not replacing Lukaku was criminal. Granted, replacing him would have been difficult, seeing as he basically carried the team for four years, but that we signed the likes of Siggy, Klaassen, and Rooney, all for the same position and the first two for crazy fees simply beggars belief.

Think of the forwards we could have bought with the £70M we wasted on Siggy & Klaassen!

 

[Blue peter]

There was no single pivotal date in which our fortunes suffered. We’ve been part innocent / unlucky e.g. the European ban, finishing 4th in the same season they won the CL, and then the war effecting the financial backing, and we have had a succession of horrible owners making a succession of horror show decisions throughout.

Broken record and all that, but Kenwright is the one I blame the most, the most influential figure at the club for the best part of twenty five years during which time we won the square root of fa, whilst other clubs developed their stadia, their commercial income streams etc.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Can't imagine they played together much. Trying to recall the Lukaku, blank and blank and Gareth Barry. Deffo got Alzheimers

You are correct. Unfortunately, yer mamma never quite broke into the 1st team setup, so they never all got on the pitch together.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Cue somebody posting the music video Summer of 69

Remember that summer. Started off really well, then just got chapped lips and lock jaw.