It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Yeah can't win em all bound to lose a few over the season, sounds like Liverpool's same old problems i.e. Can't defend, hope they keep it up as we come to play there this Sat.

Come back Roberto all is forgiven. £150 million spent on shite! Taxi for Koeman. Criminal not replacing Lukaku (put your house on him scoring a hat trick at Old Trafford on Sunday.) The result and performance in Italy was beyond shocking! 2,500 Evertonians who travelled should get a refund. Got Sky but not BT so at least I had the consolation of getting pissed in the pub instead of suffering at home. Koeman next Barcelona manager my arse :0)

Burnley might be prepared to take your young centre half back for a fiver CC if that helps 😃

£2.50 would be expensive Stan :0) Thank God Williams wasn't playing would have been six. Any other club and Koeman would be history.

Arsenal losing at home to the bottom team in Bunder.... every cloud :0)

They weren't at home Chris - not as judged by the relative support in the ground !

I see you now think the same of Williams as I do Chris :-)

Told you he was crap.

Merthyr Tydfil beat Atalanta in the old Cup Winners Cup ... says it all

Aye Dil, the worry is he was saving Williams for Old Trafford :0(

25/1 for Koeman to be the next PL manager to be sacked.

My reaction to these sort of cataclysmic events is to take my dogs for a walk and pretend it didn't happen.
Arsenal came back well last night. I'm not convinced about Theo Walcott though. Always promised so much but never quite there. Perhaps too cool for Arsenal's good.

Chris , ask Liverpool if you can borrow Woodburn. He's wasted in the reserves. Last time I saw a 17 year old as good as him was Aaron Ramsey plying for Cardiff.

Well CC they don't seem very "Keane" on their new signing judging by this article do they http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/michael-keane-having-doubts-football-13628723

He's not alone Stan, it appears Koeman cannot (as yet and the jury is out if he ever will) motivate the players to play to his system whatever that system may be. Appears to be baffling both players and supporters. Rooney was playing left back on Thursday night FFS. Not looking forward to Sunday :0)

Palace to get something at City next week!!!!

Out the bottom three thanks to Man U and of course Everton.

Leakypool 1 Burnley 1. Took the lead then let them back in, must stop letting these lower teams off the hook 🤣

Where's CC, hasn't topped himself has he 😀

Some improvement today Stan, substitutions baffling apart from Rooney who was clearly knackered. Williams? words fail me. Going to take time to build confidence and for the players to gel as a team. Hard to see where the goals are going to come from. Lets see how they fare against Sunderland, Bournemouth and Burnley. Bolasie, McCarthy and Barkley when fit to play couldn't do any worse than the new signings. Defence an ageing shambles at the moment. Severely depressed but not suicidal yet :0)

The Clock is Ticking
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The dust has yet to settle on one of the least representative scorelines I’ve seen in my 39 years of watching Everton. The 4-0 reverse away at Old Trafford was particularly harsh on the Blues, who showed much of the endeavour that was missing from the embarrassing defeat to Atalanta in the Europa League, but 12 goals conceded and none scored in the last four fixtures is a damning statistic and places a huge question mark over our summer spending spree.

Much of the criticism aimed at Ronald Koeman over the past few weeks has centred on his perceived negativity and intransigence in terms of sticking with the same slow possession-based football that fails to yield any real attacking threat and is a throwback to the Martinezesque style of a few seasons ago, but without the odd gung-ho attacking foray. Many fans have also questioned the team’s lack of identity, with no real system being evident in any of the games played by the Blues this season.

As positively as the Summer transfer window started, it’s end – and particularly the failure by the club to secure the services of a striker who can serve as the team’s attacking focal point – was hugely sobering and promises to derail what was hoped to be the real start of the Blues’ resurgence as a footballing force. In the eyes of many fans, this was simply ’the same old Everton’, hamstrung by their own off-the-field-failings.


As good a prospect as he may be, Dominic Calvert-Lewin is a long way from being the finished article and placing the burden of Everton’s attacking threat on his 20-year-old shoulders is both unfair and unrealistic. Evertonians the world over knew that the classless Lukaku wanted away in January, so the Board’s failure to secure the signature of something that resembled a replacement is bordering on corporate negligence. There were clearly transfer targets, so the Managerial staff can be cut some slack, but the ongoing failure of Koeman and his team to make the best of what they have, or even get close to working out their preferred starting eleven, is worrying and has left no shortage of fans calling for the Manager’s head.

The lack of pace that is so evident from the Manager’s preferred line-ups (we do have ‘some’ pace available – Kenny, Lookman, Lennon and Vlasic) suggests his preferred style is a keep-ball short passing game and one that he feels doesn’t force him into the market for pacey footballers – a pre-requisite for all but the most technically gifted Premier League players. A suggestion that is borne out by an insistence on shoehorning three or four Number 10s into his starting eleven.

Gana and Schneiderlin can seemingly do no wrong, the latter looking nothing like the player who did so well in the latter part of last season and the former, neat, tidy and hard-working. Together forming a central defensive midfield partnership that has got nowhere near achieving its aim of making the Blues more solid at the back – but each game they start together as the beating heart of the team.

Of the new players, Gylfi Sigurdsson has been ineffective, Davy Klaassen looks too slow and lightweight, Sandro Ramirez tries but has little chance in a system that doesn’t suit his game, and Michael Keane has been enveloped by the mediocrity he plays alongside. Wayne Rooney works hard but certainly isn’t the player he once was and that guaranteed start he gets may soon be a thing of the past as Koeman searches for his best eleven. That leaves Cuco Martina. He’s no Tony Thomas, but his biggest problem is that he’s not Seamus Coleman, so, in the eyes of some, he can’t win.

Four consecutive home games, against Sunderland, Bournemouth, Limassol and Burnley beckon and each of these is eminently winnable. Talk of ‘must wins’ after five Premier League games seems ridiculous, but that is quickly becoming the state of Everton’s season and a loss of more than one of those games would send the Twitterati into meltdown and brighten the spotlight that is shining ever brighter on our Manager.

One thing is certain: this is Koeman’s team and he’ll live or die by results. I’m with those that are happy to give him more time to correct the mess we’re in. By most measures, we’re arguably a worse team than the one that finished last season, but there are at least 140 million reasons why we shouldn’t be. The Manager is now almost halfway through a three-year contract and that three-year plan is as big a work in progress as it’s ever been. Over to you, Ronald.

The clock is ticking.


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James Stewart
1 Posted 17/09/2017 at 22:08:50 The fact that many are trying desperately to grasp at positives from a 4 nil defeat just shows how low we have sunk. The clock has ticked, fallen over and smashed into a thousand tiny pieces as far as I am concerned.
Koeman has turned us into a laughing stock. We are decrepit at the back and pedestrian in attack, not to mention without leftback cover or a left winger full stop. I care very little whether it's Koeman, Walsh, Moshiri, Kenwright or the tea lady in charge of recruitment, bottom line is they fucked up big time.

The apathy around many blues makes me physically sick. Sure we may pick up some wins in the next few games but so what. Are we really paying Koeman 6m p/year to beat the likes of Sunderland? Koeman was brought in to get us top 4 and he has failed miserably. We are further away than under Martinez despite spending heavily which is something I never thought I would say.

Enough is enough. Give Unsworth til Christmas and lets get some pride back at the club.

Don't hold back James. Say it as it is

Good to here your still with us CC, things can only get better.

Pic. below made me smile.