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Was getting ready to celebrate only to read the VVD bit and consider anything this ITK writes as not being worth the bytes it occupies. I swear I have never seen a more deluded fan base than Everton's, it's some bizarre mix of scouse bluster and megalomania with the sort of bitterness than can only be created by falling from being one of the countries' elite clubs to an also-ran firmly in the shadow of their far more illustrious neighbours who carry their cities' name and whose stand they can see from their crumbling wreck of a stadium. Utter weirdos who don't seem to have any notion of reality. Them flooding the mongboard to tell us how huge and wonderful they are is genuinely one of the funniest thing I have ever seen on here.

If we let Pellegrino end up at Palace, Les damn well better get Tuchel.

***damn it, came out wrong*** True, but since I am unfamiliar with this journo and whatever repertoire of bulls**t he may usually come up with for clickbait purposes, standard practice among his english counterparts, I will jump the gun and choose to believe what he says because he is saying something I like. Welcome Tommy!! ***that's better***

True, but since I am unfamiliar with this journo and whatever repertoire of bulls**t he may usually come up with for clickbait purposes as is standard among his fellow journos in the uk, I will jump the gun and choose to believe what he says because he is saying something I like. Welcome Tommy!!

No it's not.

Pellegrino: "Ya hablaré de mi futuro en la próxima semana. Si es posible el mismo lunes. La decisión sobre mi futuro ya está tomada" "I will talk about my future next week. Possibly even on monday. The decision about my future has been taken"

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I don't think it suggests anything either way. Can't see him being sacked until we have his replacement already secured, maybe even with both announcements being made at the same time like Adkins/Poch. This is a situation where Puel will be replaced by someone the club considers to be an upgrade, should such a person be available. What we won't do is sack first and only figure out who comes in later.

We tell him he has 5 years left and that is the end of it. What is he going to do about it? Throw his toys out of the pram which would only result in him ending up at Stoke in 5 years time? Dortmund and Bilbao do this all the time, so why should we be any different? These aren't common workers and shouldn't be treated as such. By leaving, they not only weaken us but will be used against us, why should we give two fu**s about making more money when we are already making them millionaires or winning trophies when we are competing in those same competitions, thus weakening our chances of winning them ourselves? These aren't hard up nurses of firefighters ffs, grow a backbone and stop "not begrudging them going". Anyone who demands to leave to a rival becomes an enemy.

Why not? The fans rightly don't get a say in this so if he hasn't fallen out with the squad as some claim and there isn't anyone clearly better available he stays. It has been a fairly mediocre season but not so bad that makes a sacking inevitable. If he goes it will have been like with Adkins, not really anything he has done but there is just someone else better out there.

Not even the top clubs have CM that score a lot of goals. Hamsik and Nainggolan are the only ones to have got into double figures with 11. Highest scoring midfielders for saints, spurs, chelsea, atletico, bayern and barcelona: Ward-Prowse - 4 Wanyama - 4 Fàbregas - 5 Casemiro - 4 Koke/Saúl - 4 Thiago/Kimmich - 6 Rakitic - 8 For the top clubs it is the 3 most attacking starting players and the first choice attacking backup that score the vast majority of their goals. Ours simply don't score enough and that is where we should be looking at to get more goals, not midfield. Tadic with his pathetic 2 goals from open play in 3107 minutes, Long, Rodriguez, Redmond and Boufal, our poor goalscoring is almost entirely their fault.

*before, not after obviously. Fits all the criteria: Age: 45 Nationality: Argentinian Position as player: Centre Back Played for national team: Yes First name Mauricio: Yes Surname: Italian origin beginning with P and ending with O Impressed with average La Liga team in blue and white stripes: Yes Out of contract after the cup final this coming weekend against Barcelona. Apparently it is either him or Berizzo for the Sevilla job, I suggest they get one and we get the other. Sadly he spent 2 years as Benítez assistant at Liverpool and 6 months as a player there so we will probably have no need for David Salas.

Really? 1 minute after I was about to suggest the same? Get out of my head!

It holds far more sway over fans than players, any big name halo will quickly wear off if they don't rate him on the training ground just as someone they hadn't heard can easily win them over like Poch did. That's the point, he was just a big name player and because of that fans got excited, as a coach he was nothing, a total Nevillesque joke. And the same goes for De Boer, Bosz is far, far better it is not even close, but De Boer is the big name that will get the fans wet despite being an abysmal coach. There is no correlation whatsoever between how good someone was as a player and how good they are as a coach. MLG: "Although Southampton and Porto still have managers of their own, they are in talks with Silva’s representatives about the young Portuguese coach taking over for the 2017-18 seasons and beyond." A bit nonsensical if he isn't on our shortlist isn't it? Unless we fed Wilson false information because we don't it known that we are speaking with other coaches until we actually sack Puel. Don't think it is a good idea to feed your more trusted journos with deliberately false info. CB Fry: Finished 3rd in the Portuguese 3 horse race that is their league with Benfica but that was nothing compared to the Gary Neville, Tony Adams, Bob Bradley, levels of incompetence at Valencia. He took a club that had Cañizares, Albiol, Marchena, Albelda, Villa, Baraja, Morientes, Banega, Helguera, Mata, Joaquín and David Silva and had finished 4th the season before to the brink of relegation before getting sacked. Also got sacked 6 months into the job at champions AZ after losing almost half their league games. He rehabilitated is reputation to some extent at Feyenoord but no other half decent club would have gone near him when we did.

This Jack Pitt-Brooke bloke seems all over the place. He runs stories various clubs instead of covering a small number like the journos who have sources inside clubs do, and being contradicted almost immediately by the club's mouthpiece Wilson doesn't do much for his credibility.

What? How on earth was Koeman an exciting appointment? He was an absolute failure as a coach before joining us.

Rather get Quincy Promes for that kind of money. We need another Mané on the right side of the attack more than anything. That and another Schneiderlin in midfield like Ceballos from Betis and a new goalkeeper like Szczesny should be the top 3 priorities. CB comes fourth.

Think it's just Pamplemousse left before we get a unanimous decision on the mongboard.

Sell. One of the biggest culprits when it comes to us not being able to hit a barn door yet gets away with it to some extent and for some reason he is seen as a midfielder rather than a forward who is often playing higher up the pitch than anyone else in the team. 2 goals from open play in 3107 minutes is a pathetic return for a player in his position. And is turning 29 this year. Tadic, Long, Rodriguez and Forster should be at top of the sale list.

Tennis player hire their own coaches, I don't see why footballers shouldn't have a say in who gets to coach them. Some speculation that Messi encouraged the Argentinian FA to hire Sampaoli (done today, Berizzo probably replacing him at Sevilla) and that he is pushing for Tuchel to take over at Barcelona instead of Valverde. The players are the ones who will have to work with the guy everyday, it is only sensible that their opinions be taken into account.

The Arsenal goalkeeper that day was Alex Manninger. He's still playing. Others that played at the Dell that season and are still going: Wes Brown, Paul Robinson, Michael Carrick, Gareth Barry, John Terry and Shay Given.

Except Everton. And West Brom and Bournemouth are level on points but are not level on income.

http://www.football-italia.net/102519/cairo-surprising-hart-mistakes “He is an important goalkeeper. We probably didn’t expect so many mistakes from an England international… but he did some good things, too.”

Regardless of whether Puel should stay or go, I think it is fair to say some of the opposition to Puel is a bit over the top when looking at the bigger picture of what we have achieved this season (cup final screwed out of winning it by the ref and a certain chav faced c**t, maybe finishing 8th, Europa was a bust that is true, the fixture and injury list from hell). I wonder how much of that is to do with the fact that we have been particularly poor at home. We are 17th in the league at home but 7th away, one of the lowest scoring teams in the league at home, we were eliminated from the Europa at home against Hapoel, the 5-0 defeat to Arsenal in the FA Cup was at home . On the other hand, the high points of the season have largely been away, Wembley, Anfield and Emirates in the cup and our league form. Are the fans' perceptions skewed by the fact that what they have seen, and paid, for themselves has been turgid while most of what we have done well has been seen only by the fans that travel to away games or by watching on tv?

Uh-oh:uhoh: Then again, someone else on there said a few days ago that the buyer was going to be CITIC and not Lander, so f**k knows. But still,