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As much as I don’t think Howe would really improve us, he’s the obvious candidate alongside Lampard. At least the latter would likely be well supported in the coaching dept compared to what we have now. Personally, if we’re continuing with the mantra of only employing managers out of work, I’d go for Rudi Garcia. 50% win rate at his last 4 jobs.

We haven't kept a clean sheet in the last 15 games he's started. 8 months in to 2021 without one...

Andy Madley now the ref instead of Kevin Friend.

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Everton without 5 players who are self-isolating, including James Rodriguez. Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison fit to play.

Phillips is a right sided CB so he wouldn't be first choice pairing with Bednarek who plays on the same side.

Makes a change from them calling us tories all the time I guess.

They haven't played at Gay Meadow for about 15 years

Really says a lot about this forum that there are currently 34 more replies on this topic than the Everton preview one - our first game of the new season.

Good time to play them considering the discontent with Benitez, likely to be without Richarlison and won't have Sigurdsson (*cough*) but then again, we haven't won at Goodison in our last SEVENTEEN attempts over 90 minutes and our opening day record is horrific. Hoping to be surprised but not expecting much.

28 goals in 40 appearances last season and he had 17 more shots (134 in total) than any other player in the league. For comparison, Lambert scored 27 in 42 apps in our promotion winning season in 2011/12. Good bit of business!

The manager has been on about signing a 'number 6' for weeks so it's not related to any potential JWP sale (which won't happen). An extra body in there would ensure that Armstrong is not having to move out of his best position to cover if/when we get an injuries to JWP/Romeu/Diallo.

No Sorloth in Leipzig's squad today...

Well it sounds like he didn’t even say goodbye to his teammates, so I guess it was too much to expect for him to do it to the fans.

Did I miss his goodbye/words of thanks for the fans? Hasn’t got an ounce of class the likes of Lambert had.

What’s bizarre is why you think signing a winger who had 4 or 5 good games for Fulham last season is going to replace a £40-£50m rated central midfielder

Still find it astonishing that signing a GK isn't seen as a priority. Neither of them are good enough and it'll cost us points this season.

I remember him playing at Fratton Park with Swansea years back, scoring to help knock them out and ssshing their fans. Lovely stuff.

They've also spent circa £400m in the last 5 seasons on players.

May as well give us the title now.

One of the worst defenders I've ever seen play for us and my word there's some competition. And we thought the B team conceded lots of goals last season...

Having a shocker v QPR today. He looks awful every time I see him play - avoid.

Given Galatasaray's performance in the Champions League qualifiers last night, I can't imagine he'll be in a rush to go back out there again to play. Was like watching some of our defending from last season.

There won't be, that's why there's so much outcry about it. Labour and the Lib Dems plan to vote against the proposal as it currently stands and there will be plenty enough of the old guard Tories who do too, so it's very unlikely to pass a commons vote in it's current form and be made in to law.

Is there any indication at all that we're going to play more than the 2 games currently announced? I know with travel restricted and a long season in 20/21 there seems to be less PSFs in general but 2 matches is hardly ideal prep for the new season, especially with the risk of them being postponed (as we've seen with others recently) a real threat given the current COVID case level in the UK.