Blue Roo
Player Valuation: £15m
Not sure a style of play is the primacy and something to build around.A manager is important.
An organized and agreed upon focus for the club’s academy AND first team is more important. We need a style of play to build from. I don’t care if it’s as simple as defend and counter so long as we do it well and develop and buy players suited for it.
That's the type of thing that requires Man City sort of money and or a Barca Cruyff type legacy.
If Everton are going to develop a style of play it's going to have to come organically.
The best thing is to get in a top quality manager who can shape a style of play based on the squad of players he's got. Style shouldn't be imposed.
A Carlo type rather than a contemporary coach graduate like Southgate.
The biggest disappointment for me with Dyche is he was actually getting a good turn out of the team based on the players.
It may not have been a great style, or he'd fashioned a silk purse, but Everton were difficult to beat, a far cry from the unholy trinity of sig, schneid and gomes.
While treading mud, this season seemed obvious, keep going with the same thing and upgrade players in key positions.
But Dyche seems to have dropped the ball on his own project, his way to get the best out of the team from player available.
The no.10 has been baffling and a case in point. An improvement here given everything else equal, would surely have seen more opportunities capitalised on and overall better attacking play, compared to last season.
Ie continue to keep it tight and hard to beat (Doucs is underrated at this), do the same thing like, just upgrade the possession/attacking.
Imo Tim seems ideally suited, especially as Ndiaye is excelling out wide.
McNeill - wtf.
I'm questioning whether Dyche should go or be given the chance to sort it.
A new coach coming in and opening play up without new signings (esp R and L back) could be a disaster. Or same with a top coach used to better quality. Mourinho would relegate this team.