Everton

[elrichio86]

The prices being quoted for Baines say more about the dearth of quality left backs rather than his quality IMO. He's good, but not great.

[Vermilion]

"don't go united bainsey lad, yer boss lad, roberto carlos eat yer heart out lad"

I was just thinking while clicking on this thread what those scallies would be saying now too.

[SimonNo7]

Sounds like Robby Martinez is getting flustered already!

But he is quite correct. It is ridiculous that the transfer window is still open now that the season has started and you only have to look at how Sky portray the transfer window to see that it is a circus. EPL is fast becoming, if not already there, our equivalent to the WWE...

...the only thing missing is the referees controlling the games...

[Leyton388]

ANDBAALLLL!!!!!!!

Ball in the chops for the mini bitter and super mum has £250 from You've Been Framed for more McDonalds.

[Tee]

Full kit ******.


He is so cute actually.

[Camble]

Full kit ******.


He is so cute actually.

Hahaha I wrote Full Kit ****** before but then got sidetracked and forgot to submit

[Chazza]

Think they had a decent window after the late flurry of activity last night.

Lukaku, Barry and McCarthy will all help them play in the style that Martinez wants and getting £27.5m for Fellaini and £6m for Anichebe is great business.

[Neil Young]

They got £6m for him?

[PTP]

yeah it put a bit of a dampner on what was a funny a transfer window

£6m for anichebe is unreal, however i think it's not as straight forward as that, sure i heard that there is quite a lot that that needs to happen for it to rise to £6m

but looking at the the squad, i'd say keeping baines was probably more important than fellaini.

yeah fellaini can be effective but apparently everton fans have been slating him for ages saying his attitude has stunk, and i seem to remember us all laughing at him not long ago for basically just walking round the pitch doing **** all in a game for them - Baines has been a good pro for them and i don't think they could have found an adequate replacment, where as with fellaini going but two centre mids and a big/good striker coming in, they covered the two areas that fellaini contributed too imo.

if they football isn't working, they can go long to lukaku if they need, and i think barry and mccarthy really make a big improvement to their central midfield.

------------------howard----------------

coleman-------distin-----jaglieka--------baines

---------------mccarthy---barry-------------

mirallas-----------barclay-------------pienaar

-------------------lukaku--------------


doesn't look too bad to me - not a great squad tho

defenders - alcaraz and heitinga
midfielders - gibson and osman
attacking mids - naismith and delofeu
forwards - kone and jelavic

other than that i don't think they have much.

similar situation to us, in that, if they can their starting XI fit and playing in as many league games as possible, then they have a chance to do well.

[dww]

They got £6m for him?

Apparently that is if all the add-ons come through. If any of them are performance related then it seems unlikely they will have to be paid.

[Chazza]

yeah it put a bit of a dampner on what was a funny a transfer window

£6m for anichebe is unreal, however i think it's not as straight forward as that, sure i heard that there is quite a lot that that needs to happen for it to rise to £6m

but looking at the the squad, i'd say keeping baines was probably more important than fellaini.

yeah fellaini can be effective but apparently everton fans have been slating him for ages saying his attitude has stunk, and i seem to remember us all laughing at him not long ago for basically just walking round the pitch doing **** all in a game for them - Baines has been a good pro for them and i don't think they could have found an adequate replacment, where as with fellaini going but two centre mids and a big/good striker coming in, they covered the two areas that fellaini contributed too imo.

if they football isn't working, they can go long to lukaku if they need, and i think barry and mccarthy really make a big improvement to their central midfield.

------------------howard----------------

coleman-------distin-----jaglieka--------baines

---------------mccarthy---barry-------------

mirallas-----------barclay-------------pienaar

-------------------lukaku--------------


doesn't look too bad to me - not a great squad tho

defenders - alcaraz and heitinga
midfielders - gibson and osman
attacking mids - naismith and delofeu
forwards - kone and jelavic

other than that i don't think they have much.

similar situation to us, in that, if they can their starting XI fit and playing in as many league games as possible, then they have a chance to do well.

You forgot Tony Hibbert

Beeb's list of players not included in your squad breakdown thingy.

Goalkeepers
1 Robles
Springthorpe

Defenders
2 Hibbert
26 Stones
29 Garbutt
34 Duffy
36 Browning
38 Pennington
40 Touray

Midfielders
8 Oviedo
30 Junior
31 Kennedy
33 Lundstram
39 Grant

Forwards
14 Naismith
19 Gueye
27 Vellios
37 Hope
41 Long

I agree not much there on paper but i don't know enough about their youngsters to say whether they are any good or not.

[PTP]

ha i missed hibbert out on purpose, however i had included naismith who is on your list

had to laugh at the names of the two young forwards at the bottom

Hope and Long - sounds like Moyes's tactics

[JohnDoe]

Everton have got a pretty decent squad. They've done well on the final day, unusually, but it translates into a good season remains to be seen.

[Chazza]

Ah I skimmed over Naismith which given what I have seen of him is pretty easy to do.

[PTP]

the barry and lukaku deals are the ones that have annoyed me - i'd take both of them at the moment - would just give us that extra depth in the squad, and experienced midfielder and a goalscorer who would offer something a bit different to sturridge and suarez and who i believe is much better than Aspas and Borini(although i know he's moved on)

i am happy more or less happy with our business - but i'd have been extremely happy if we had signed a centre mid and another forward as well