sidford
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Someone's dad is taking the divorce well
Can we take a moment to laugh heartily at Everton?
- Thread starter King of Otters
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Someone's dad is taking the divorce well
Westmorlandspur
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I like them cos we normally beat them
And when they play each other, I have a real issue!But Arsenal aren't Liverpool either
Danny1
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Yeah I think it’s the year that Everton finally go down.
They have spent terribly over the years, take this season, they have spent the entire Onana money on:
O’Brien - a guy released by Palace a year and has had 1 half decent season in Ligue 1 - £20m.
Ndiaye - a forward who was semi decent in the Championship and complete rubbish in Ligue 1 - £20m.
Iroegbunam - a 21 year old kid who hasn’t played much football at all - £10m.
Last season was £25m on Beto (bang average) and Chermiti for £20m (bang average).
That’s it, that’s who they have bought in. If you add that they have lost Onana, most likely going to lose Branthwaite, lost Richarlison, lost Gordon, lost Kean, lost Godfrey and lost Iwobi in the same time period it really shows how badly the club has built it’s squad.
You look at that squad and just shake your head at the sheer lack of any talent. Keane, Tarkowski, McNeil, Maupay, Young, DCL and Gueye being their most experienced PL level players, that’s some sorry sorry reading.
Id be surprised to see any of those listed get a move back to the premier league if they go down.
They have spent terribly over the years, take this season, they have spent the entire Onana money on:
O’Brien - a guy released by Palace a year and has had 1 half decent season in Ligue 1 - £20m.
Ndiaye - a forward who was semi decent in the Championship and complete rubbish in Ligue 1 - £20m.
Iroegbunam - a 21 year old kid who hasn’t played much football at all - £10m.
Last season was £25m on Beto (bang average) and Chermiti for £20m (bang average).
That’s it, that’s who they have bought in. If you add that they have lost Onana, most likely going to lose Branthwaite, lost Richarlison, lost Gordon, lost Kean, lost Godfrey and lost Iwobi in the same time period it really shows how badly the club has built it’s squad.
You look at that squad and just shake your head at the sheer lack of any talent. Keane, Tarkowski, McNeil, Maupay, Young, DCL and Gueye being their most experienced PL level players, that’s some sorry sorry reading.
Id be surprised to see any of those listed get a move back to the premier league if they go down.
coysjod
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DCL will have takers willing to gamble on him finding form. The others, yeah not so sure, probably on wages that promoted sides won’t pay.
Monkey boy
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DCL is in the final year of his contract and to be honest regardless of his injury record (which is terrible) apart from a brief purple patch under Ancelloti he is about as average a striker that you can find. There are far better youth prospects out there that even lower table clubs should be steering well clear of him.
Tucker
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Any club would have to be mental to give him a contract. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
DJS
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That’s some seriously deep stuff there dude…
Frozen_Waffles
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From what I can work out his job now is to come on in games and kick people.
floydiohead
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It's an absolute shambles, the way things have gone up there. Makes me wonder about the application of the 'fit and proper' test.
Marty
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It was all going fine before Usmanov was forced to pull out because of his ties with Putin after the invasion of Ukraine.
Maybe not fine in a sporting sense but they weren't financially up shit creek before what was for them a black swan event.
It's a dilemma that has yet to be solved at all. What can the authorities do about an ownership group who were decent enough custodians at time of purchase but for whom things go south long after the purchase is a fact?
Gassin's finest
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0-0 against Doncaster at half time...
wakefieldyid
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I guess that's the reason that the authorities introduced the PSR rules and the plans for an official regulator?
TC18
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Christ did it realise he was still going. I think one of my first posts on a spurs forum (think it’s shut down now..) was that I wanted us to sign him when he was a youngster at villa, I still lived at home and was reading ceefax in the morning with my coco pops.. he has to be in his 40s!
Edit: he’s 39! How bad must their youth be if they have resorted to him!
TC18
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Was it fine? I may well be miss remembering, but I thought they wasted a lot of money around the Anchelotti period and the owner was reining it back in, seemed like the invasion was a good excuse for him. Although like I say, I may be completely miss remembering it.
mightyspur
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tommo84
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Maupay is such a weird little knobhead. It’s like he acts a prick looking to wind up everyone because then he can tell himself he made an impact and can claim that’s why nobody likes him, when often his own team’s fans already dislike him simply because he’s shit.