posted Jul 10, 2009

everton are without a doubt, the biggest team in liverpool.

i think you need to drop a midfielder and play 2 strikers up front. you have the personnel!

saha is the fox in the box
yak is a great target man who can also finish.
jo is your finisher with pace and running.

just play 442! as a top 4/5 candidates, you need to start attacking more, and maybe deploy the negative, defensive tactics you love against bigger teams like man yoo and chelsea.

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posted Jul 10, 2009

The principle of loan deals should be reviewed. Jo was on loan last season and Moyes admitted he couldn't afford to buy him permanently.
Now he could go on loan again for a full season. Why?
If he's not good enough for Man C he should be sold rather than go to a club who has no intention of buying him.
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Teams can pay an initial fee and also pay wages. That is why selling clubs agree to loans.

Man City surely got some kind of fee last season, and they must have received some monies from Everton for this season's loan.

With Jo being on a long term deal. Man City will be hoping he gets on form and attracts interest from clubs willing to pay £10m + on him. If that happens, then Man City would have recuperated much of what they paid in summer 08. Jo sitting on the bench for 2 whole seasons would see his value drop dramatically.

That is why this deal has been agreed.

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posted Jul 10, 2009

Last season, we loaned Jo out to Everton in January. His good performances lead to Everton climbing up the table and out of City's reach!

I just can't help but question the wisdom of loaning out an international striker to one of the teams who we are looking to overtake this season!?

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posted Jul 10, 2009

hes a very good player but memeber is he clinical a nuf i saw him a few times and he missed alot of sitters to be honest good player tho

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posted Jul 10, 2009

I would have thought selling Lescott makes perfect sense.He was responsible for more errors than anyone else last year, he doesnt possess the skill or talent that he thinks he does,he is a liability at times and more than not his mistakes give goals to the opposition.In short , an overrated waste of space.How on earth Capello doesnt see through him is a mystery-must be a spelling mistake in his selection.Jo on the other hand is far more needed at Everton.As is,Jo will simply be scoring the goals that make up for the oppositions ones that Lescott's ineptitude creates.

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posted Jul 10, 2009

Add the fat Icelander Eidur Gudjohnsen and you will have a great duo at Everton! comon D.M. you can do it!

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posted Jul 11, 2009

Well done to everton i think Jo could bag 10-15 goals this year. 44 goals in 77 games at CSKA playing alongside Vagner Love every week means he was probably worth the £18m price tag, don't think Man City gave him a chance to settle. In a few years think he could be a 20+ goal a season man. And please DM keep lescott.

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posted Jul 11, 2009

I welcome the loan signing of Jo but I am concerned that we just have to give him back next season. I know we're strapped for cash, but question the wisdom of not building for the future. That said, I still cling to the hope that one of Anichebe, Baxter or Vaughan come good, and we do have the Yak.

Hopefully the Naughton deal can be finalised. He's exactly the sort of player from which Moyes will extract full value.

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posted Jul 12, 2009

comment by shaibal (U9630320)

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>everton was a big club once by virtue of winning the old first division in the mid eighties and possessing a 40k plus capacity stadium. however, that does not cut any mustard in today's world. there are plenty of teams in that category.

Who else, other than Everton and Liverpool, won multiple league titles in the 1980's and have crowds their size? Name me some of these "Plenty of teams".

>what moyes has done is remarkable. everton has punched above his weight season after season,

How many times does a team have to do this before it stops being "punching above their weight"?

>however, this is ALL down to the manager being able to handle lesser known players or failures elsewhere.

That's what good managers do, isn't it? That's what makes good teams, isn't it?

the manager has struggled with the big players

Who?

and it is a known fact that strikers come to everton and stop being the 20 goal man. the likes of tony cottee, james beatie have seen that graveyeard.

It's not a fact. If you want to go back as far as Tony Cottee as an example I might as well use Gary "40 goals 1985-6" Lineker as an example, and Yakubu has bagged 20 in a season for us recently.

Talking out of your neck, son. Sorry.

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posted Jul 13, 2009

The only way in which we "punch above our weight" is with respect to transfer signings. We tend to spend less than the sides around us (i.e. Arsenal, Villa, Chelsea and Liverpool) and yet still manage the consistently achieve European football.

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