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The Clear-out

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Toffeeslam said:
Who would take them ?
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I am flabbergasted that not more people are considering this very simple question.

I get why yous are all screaming for a clear out but there’s absolutely no chance of it happening on the scale you want for multiple reasons, chief of which being:

- We can’t make the number of buys we’d need to, to replace the vast numbers leaving the squad

- The above question. If the players have been SO bad for a team like ours, who will take them that could a) afford them and b) realistically expect the player(s) to improve their team(s)?

My main moan is usually with Gomes, so let’s use him as the example: Brought in as your typical, decent player who just took a step too far up - In theory another, more expensive Arteta, Pienaar, etc. Should have offered us some midfield guile or, at worst, our money back. He has been so disastrous (and please spare me the “since the injury” nonsense - he was poo before) that there’s no chance of us getting much, if anything by way of a fee for him and lack of options means he’s still hanging around our first XI like a bad smell.

If he was a one-off you might excuse the club deciding to take the hit on a fee and binning him to save wages, but there’s comfortably 5-10 others that we’d probably have to do the same with and the club just can’t swallow that.

As much as we all want a clear out, we aren’t getting one. The guff will leave when their contracts expire and we’ll recruit (hopefully much better) over the same period.
 
Lads to be realistic this sad reflection of an Everton Squad will take quite a few years to tinker and improve. Our starting line up next year will still include a lot of the present squad which have let us all down so badly this year. I could easily write down 10 names of players that I have created a personal hatred towards......you would all know their names. With a better squad these players would be lucky to find a place on the bench and there lies the problem......they are the best of a very bad bunch so their inclusion in the squad is a given week after week whatever their form.
2021 was a disgraceful return but again it is probably not going to change much next year no matter how many prayers or how many Gods we pray to. We will find if difficult to attract the best and more worryingly we will struggle to get rid of the slops. It is going to be a very slow painful, frustrating, underwhelming period in our Everton life but that can be said of the past 25 years.
Keep sane Lads....
 

Brett Angell Delight said:
I am flabbergasted that not more people are considering this very simple question.

I get why yous are all screaming for a clear out but there’s absolutely no chance of it happening on the scale you want for multiple reasons, chief of which being:

- We can’t make the number of buys we’d need to, to replace the vast numbers leaving the squad

- The above question. If the players have been SO bad for a team like ours, who will take them that could a) afford them and b) realistically expect the player(s) to improve their team(s)?

My main moan is usually with Gomes, so let’s use him as the example: Brought in as your typical, decent player who just took a step too far up - In theory another, more expensive Arteta, Pienaar, etc. Should have offered us some midfield guile or, at worst, our money back. He has been so disastrous (and please spare me the “since the injury” nonsense - he was poo before) that there’s no chance of us getting much, if anything by way of a fee for him and lack of options means he’s still hanging around our first XI like a bad smell.

If he was a one-off you might excuse the club deciding to take the hit on a fee and binning him to save wages, but there’s comfortably 5-10 others that we’d probably have to do the same with and the club just can’t swallow that.

As much as we all want a clear out, we aren’t getting one. The guff will leave when their contracts expire and we’ll recruit (hopefully much better) over the same period.
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I have been trying to make this point as well for some time but for a few days after a poor result all you see here is knee jerk reaction... it will settle down after a few days.

There are undoubtedly some players on their way out of the club.
Those out of contract we already know.
We know that Bernard will almost certainly go as well and then we have players like Tosun(if he was fit) where we might get some fee for him alongside Kean and JJ Kenny.

I think the most interesting players are Iwobi, Gomes and Sigurdsson.

Iwobi and Gomes in recent weeks have slipped away from starting in the team and if bids were received I am sure they would be entertained. Equally, will they be happy just to sit on the bench next season which I think is certainly a likely option for them.
Sigurdsson can be useful in certain games but I think he is lost in a game with a high tempo such as yesterday as the game simply passes him by. Another player that risks being sidelined more if we can bring in some additions.

However, we do need a squad and these players will get minutes on the pitch if they decide to stay.

As weird as it seems we have a small squad of players we want to keep now and cannot just afford to offload a lot of players at a loss and then bring in more at a huge cost..... there has to be balance.

I think as well we must realise that if these players leave it will probably be because their agents find a buyer rather than Marcel Brands.
Brands will negotiate the deal from an Everton point but I don't think he is the one running around Europe trying to find buyers, that is what agents do.
 

Kurt. said:
It’s easy.... we just play all our games away next season .... guaranteed top 4 finish
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That's a massively false statistic.

No crowds are the only reason we won so many away.

When this lot plays away, and the home ground gets on their back, they fall apart.
 
No crowds are the only reason we won so many away.
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First year ever in the top flight there were more away wins than home wins. The fans coming back, even in limited numbers will surely push that back to more traditional numbers fairly quickly.
 

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