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Right then. Dominate the league? With who? Man City when we sell them. Schneiderlin had been a quality player, absolute sense to buy him. Martina even on a free wasn't good enough. You're right though, Koeman didn't buy any youth (Lookman, DCL, Keane, Pickford, Sandro, Klaassen, Lewis Gibson, Onyekuru, Nathangelo Markel, Vlasic, Boris Mathis)... FInal point is great. Our ambition shouldn't be to be the next Man City, it should be to become the next Southampton. Young players are great, but they are raw and many of them will not reach the full potential that fans see in them. A side needs to be balanced with a mix of steady veterans and players in their prime alongside young players who can kick on and either become stars (to stay at Everton or to be sold). They are more mistake prone and also often less able to maintain composure during a match. The best footballers use their heads and can make good decisions on the pitch whether they are 5-0 up or 5-0 down. A club that only buys 28+ year old players and doesn't have a strong academy will eventually be in trouble (Fulham), but the Premier League is too unforgiving to field a team with an average age of 23....

SInce when is Edinson Cavani in our team?

Fucking hell. I've been an Evertonian for almost 8 years now, a small number relative to most of the board, and I know to expect a twatting every time we play the Shite.

For his sake, he should leave. He's hitting the prime of his career and should be playing. But if he's willing to ride the bench, happy to keep him.

Maybe he's going to be involved at the weekend. Also, wtf is this lineup?

Great! Didn't we do this last year as well? Pretty soon the entire city of Liverpool will be blue should the red half continue to raise prices. *Edit* Nvm, looks like they axed those raises after fans walked out a few years back. Also, it'll be interesting if the PL puts greater restrictions on season ticket pricing like in Germany

Joe's 68, so I'd like to think he's recognized its time for him to slow down moreso than him being pushed out or not good enough.

Ross strikes me as quite the homebody. Not sure living in London and riding the bench at Chelsea are gonna do him well, so maybe his agent isn't doing what's best for Ross.

It would seem Van Der Meyde has better things to do than play in the Derby

It's like God genuinely hates us.

Winner take all/first past the post systems are such an affront to democracy. Oh well, you're doing better than us. We had a celebrity literally hijack a political party and use it to hold the entire western world order hostage just to get attention and boost his hotel business.

Can anyone explain why the Lib Dems can't find a better foothold in British politics? Seems like a lot of their leaders seem reasonable, though it would appear the party doesn't have one consistent economic message (most important thing to voters), but rather the economic views of the party vary across its members much moreso than Labour and the Tories. Other than that, the party doesn't seem to have too many knocks against it it would seem other than being largely gutless and being a party of technocrats and academics (The heart of the party appears to be London) The tories seem like proper soulless, greedy bastards that want to completely gut all social programs in order to marginally cut taxes for the few very richest. Corbyn seems to be channeling Kruschev rather than JFK.

I don't get how it can take so long to explain to all the lads to sit on the edge of our 18 yard box and then hoof it up to DCL if the ball comes to your feet.

Ah damn it. I knew this day was coming.

Brilliant. Only way Marco Silva can prove Sam wrong now is to come manage us.

Apollon is also eliminated, so the result has no outcome on the competition- no need to play any players that we want to feature on Sunday.

If he comes in we'll need to move Besic or McCarthy on (Ideally both).

He'd be wise to take one of the big jobs in Portugal or return to Holland. Maybe Germany or Spain, but I don't see the point in him taking over stagnating relegation fodder in the PL .

I'm going to call Sam the Victim from now on and say the video was a fake and a set up and give all credit to Allardyce and finally claim that we are going to win the league under him as a counterbalance to your anti-Allardyce ranting. We get that you don't like him and don't want him as a manager.

Yeah, that makes a ton of sense.

Those two fit the bill.

Isn't Besic injured? Also, Putting Besic on because you think Gana is a discipline threat is a bit funny. Besic likes a mistimed challenge himself.

Sounds like another club I know.

@Peter H How's the weather? Also, Roberto Martinez to cause England fans misery next summer?

Exactly. The club needs to figure out over the course of THIS MONTH who are targets are, if they are for sale and what the price is.