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Am a fan of Ivan, think tactically he would be excellent as a gasperini disciple.

Honestly someone fly MLT out to Barcelona and bring Xavi to his spiritual home.

Current thinking from leaders would be. Who is available currently ? What about so and so at that club could we get him mid season ? How much would it cost to get rid of martin ? Is there a gurantee any new manager does better ? Why did we think we could do this ? Where the fuck is my money ?

Didnt see the game but heard 0 shots on target again. This is our shots on target this season, this is our fundamental problem, you can see why charlie was sold 1 shot in 9mins, far too attacking, someone needs to ask martin why we arent shooting.

Is this a pub or a a personal recommendation of where he got his done ?

I assume he's excellent at passing the ball back to the centre backs and occasionally the goalie, right and left backs.

Some nice posts dudes, always appreciate tactical discussion and the shout out to my 2nd favourite bundesliga mgr Ole Werner, reckon he will be a coach that moves in the summer at the latest.

Martin already shit posting on Everton forum

And there was me thinking scousers were the ones responsible for robberies. Armstrong after that goal means along with Jack that 2 starting spots are occupied each game. It's a win and 3pts but Jesus Christ Everton should of won.

hahahhahaha the gods are fickle today

Siri please substitute unfit to shit.

We have more wingers than god but we play Armstong and Manning as ours and couldnt cross in a church

Didnt watch the game in the end and it seems like i didnt miss much with 0-0, pity couldnt capitlise on their striker getting sent off. Guess a good point on the road for us then and great turn out by the fans

I've just realised our top scorers this season are: Archer - 4 THB - 3 Bree - 2 Amazing

I'd say 2 things about Ruud as manager at PSV: 1. He had a front 3 that season of Gakpo (left in Jan), Simmons and Madueke (left in Jan) at PSV and came 2nd to Feyenoord. 2. Peter Bosz took over after Ruud fell out over transfer budget (they didnt buy any great players with their sales) and they lost 1 game all season in the league and are currently played 10 won 10 this season.

I know most of you know this but Kompany was like Bayerns 7th/8th choice for manager after quite a few turned them down, it was a pure fluke he got that job. They wanted before him Alonso, Ragnwick, Nagelsmann,Glasner, tried to keep Tuchel when their search was going to shit and were interested in Flick, De Zerbi.

Easy win tonight for you, not even in doubt, will watch part of the game, hope its a bit better than the last one ;-)

Its my annual finally get the score right prediction time, i can feel it ;-)

I've taken the child birth approach to football this season. Pretend the last few league games didn't happen and we should win this one

Fuck it we ride. 2-0 saints Expect lallana to start here with Fernandes.

Thanks for the inspiration hahaha

Ok so getting back to tactics a little bit and its been annoying since Martin got appointed and that is 2 things, how we attack and how effectively we press. Attack: To get our positional play working we need to create space across the pitch and the first step to exploit that is to get the first reciever (mainly downes) to get the ball off the centre back etc on the half turn and drive forward from there, our reality is usually it goes to Downes/Aribo etc and there is a 75% chance its going back to the other CB or to 1 of the other defenders allowing the opposition to reset into their shape. To give you a easy comparision of how it should be done think how Lavia recieved the ball, half turned and instantly accelerated up field looking to play more vertical passes to the next line of players. We slow down our own play too much (ironically not being brave enough) therefore when the ball does go over the half way line its completley congested as the oppo have got back into shape and there is no space, hence how many times have our crosses been blocked, shots blocked its because we walk the ball up the field instead of breaking out once we evade the 1st line of press. My interim solution for this would be to make Fernandes the quarter back as he has the speed and turn to break out and definitely getting us attacking at speed to use our pace out wide. Pressing: The downside to our play is the space that can be exploited, but normally teams try to negate this by winning the ball back high up the pitch, look how city presses as soon as they loose the ball in the other half. Honestly i think this is more crap than our attack, our pressing has been bang average, the opposition easily beats it everytime and does ironically what i mention above, accelerate through our lines into our half quickly to get good chances. Usually we have to rely on someone sprinting 60yards to try and recover - yesterday suga did that to clear off the line, we need to stop these breakouts with better choesive pressing. Anyway morning rant out of the way, dont expect anything will change and trying to walk the football into the opposition box will continue, before a shot or cross is blocked and we half arsed press to retrieve it.

came to post something similar, thinks way faster than the rest near him and makes runs that the others arent seeing. Will be off to Man U at end of year if Amorin gets in

I've now convinced myself we are going for the Dennis Bergkamp approach to the premier league. Be shit until Nov then start scoring (hopefully not a hatrick of own goals tho) and winning games.