Tom Cleverley

[Woolly Blue]

Played well today.

Yep.

Neat and tidy, always available, pressed with fresh legs and wasn't far off scoring.

Armchair critics 0 - Tom Cleverley 1

 

[orly]

Absolutely hopeless again and, not for the first time, only really appears when the team are playing well.

Another true Snivelley performance, thank goodness he didn't drop us into a draw or worse by his general hiding ineptitude

 

[ToffeeTim]

Absolutely hopeless again and, not for the first time, only really appears when the team are playing well.

Another true Snivelley performance, thank goodness he didn't drop us into a draw or worse by his general hiding ineptitude

I feel a vicious verbal dissection of his performance today is unfair and as such I have refrained.

I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me Friend.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Absolutely hopeless again and, not for the first time, only really appears when the team are playing well.

Another true Snivelley performance, thank goodness he didn't drop us into a draw or worse by his general hiding ineptitude

I truly admire your devotion to the cause, but you're wrong.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I'd've laughed if he'd scored today

 

[Woolly Blue]

I'd've laughed if he'd scored today

I'd have jumped up and down and then worried a bit about Orly's cat which would probably not have survived the moment.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I'd have jumped up and down and then worried a bit about Orly's cat which would probably not have survived the moment.

I live in hope that we win the FA Cup this season with Cleverly entering a MOTM performance

I think Orly would go into hiding

 

[paulbefc]

Good squad player when used right, as he was today.

 

[orchard]

Yep.

Neat and tidy, always available, pressed with fresh legs and wasn't far off scoring.


Armchair critics 0 - Tom Cleverley 1

-which still doesn't get him out of the relegation zone. No. Way. Near.
X

 

[Woolly Blue]

-which still doesn't get him out of the relegation zone. No. Way. Near.
X

I grant you he's nowt special, but he does a job in a team in a sport which is a team game, so I'm happy enough to see him in an Everton shirt.

He'll likely be replaced in the next year or two with either a signing or someone coming through from the academy, but he's good enough for where we are at the moment.

 

[artetas sock]

I grant you he's nowt special, but he does a job in a team in a sport which is a team game, so I'm happy enough to see him in an Everton shirt.

He'll likely be replaced in the next year or two with either a signing or someone coming through from the academy, but he's good enough for where we are at the moment.

He's not, it's just that he's all we have until future transfer windows!

 

[Woolly Blue]

He's not, it's just that he's all we have until future transfer windows!

Yes he is.

We're a top eight side, top six at best. Look around at teams who aren't realistically in the hunt for top four and you'll find plenty of squads with players like Cleverley in them ... decent, but not outstanding.

I'd love us to have a Champions League quality squad which Cleverley didn't fit into, but we havn't. We all want the best, NSNO and all that, but the reality is that not all our players are going to be game changers or MOTM week in, week out.

 

[blueblue]

I thought he played very well when he came on.

 

[artetas sock]

Yes he is.

We're a top eight side, top six at best. Look around at teams who aren't realistically in the hunt for top four and you'll find plenty of squads with players like Cleverley in them ... decent, but not outstanding.

I'd love us to have a Champions League quality squad which Cleverley didn't fit into, but we havn't. We all want the best, NSNO and all that, but the reality is that not all our players are going to be game changers or MOTM week in, week out.

Yes he is.

We're a top eight side, top six at best. Look around at teams who aren't realistically in the hunt for top four and you'll find plenty of squads with players like Cleverley in them ... decent, but not outstanding.

I'd love us to have a Champions League quality squad which Cleverley didn't fit into, but we havn't. We all want the best, NSNO and all that, but the reality is that not all our players are going to be game changers or MOTM week in, week out.

This is it in a nutshell, a bring him on when we're two nil up for fresh legs and pressing player, but he's no 'game changer' by a long way.

I'm not totally disagreeing with you but to be happy with him is where we'll digress.

 

[Home and Dry]

He did well today and it was good decision by the boss to put him in there, just what we needed. West Ham were getting too much space and time in the middle of midfield and with him just going in there, it helped Barry and Guye no end.