devilsadvocate

Weird one as nothing really happened, got tangled up with partey who fell on top of him.

Henderson gets stick but we probably win if he plays today.

What happened to us planning 2-3 yrs ahead when it comes to transfers! The midfield has been left to rot with no apparent plan in place apart from Bellingham next summer.

How bad was Bobby? Looks absolutely shot and is offering nothing what so ever and it’s looking a mistake not cashing in on him in the summer and keeping taki instead.

Actually think Henderson played ok but he his legs are going and he can’t play longer than an hour. Even Fabinho looked like he was running through treacle when he came on. Seems Fab/Hendo will be sharing the number 6 role this season which is ok but you then can’t also have Milner playing. Fair play to him he gives his absolute all but he’s just not mobile enough and he should only be coming on to see games out or maybe playing with the kids in the early cup games. Thiago/Keita/Ox probably don’t even equate to 1 player because of the amount of games they miss thought injury. Jones/Elliott (thought he played well tonight) should be being eased in alongside an established midfield but instead they’re being thrown in at the deep end. The we have 8 midfielders is terrible argument as in reality they equate to half that. If we don’t sign a midfielder only choice might be to go to 4-2-3-1 playing 2 of Fab/Hendo/Thiago /Keita in the 2 as we have a good few options for the 10 role.

Fuckin waste of space. Came on in injury time in the shield, then fell ill 2 weeks ago and still not fit to play.

Highlights how weak that we’re fine we’ve got 9 midfielders shout is. if you take out the 3 kids ( Jones, Elliot , Carvalho) and ox who’s effectively broken, we’re left with 5 players and none of them can be depended on from a fitness perspective. We’ll always be able to put a midfield 3 but it won’t be a consistent one and this is what cost us last season imo.

Chopping and changing the midfield cost us in the 1st half of last season and I fear the same will happen again. Unless Keita comes in and puts together a sustained run of games then we’ll be relying on kids or Milner.

We probably needed a new midfielder last summer, we deffo needed one this summer and we’ll need 2 by next summer.

Woeful all over the pitch today. Allison, should have saved the 1st and kicking was shite, Trent, must have conceded possession at least 10 times VVD, kept trying the diagonal 40 yarder and don’t think it came off once Matip, At fault for the 2nd with a misplaced pass which happened on a few occasions. Fab, Henderson, Thiago, all 3 were awful constantly giving the ball away. Firmino, did fuck all and shouldn’t start over Nunez again. Ref = shit cunt

If those 6 named come in and you take the obvious players off the todays bench (Adrian, bajcetic, van der berg, chambers) you would have 11 subs and therefore 2 from Gomez, Milner, Elliot, Nunez, Carvalho would have to drop out. Basically to bring in Keita/Jones you’d have to take out Elliot/ Carvalho which I wouldn’t.

8 players out, if you say Gomez, Elliot, Milner, Nunez, Carvalho are safe then there’s 4 places on the bench for the 8 currently out injured meaning 4 of those would miss out. Kelleher jota konate tsimikas would leave , Keita, Jones , ox, Ramsey unless you take one of the above out.

If they come in who are you taking out though?

Basically missing Kelleher, Jota, Konate & Tsimikas from being full strength.

Be interesting see which 4 players would miss out if everyone was fit, imo- ox jones Ramsey Keita

Been reminiscing today and nothing beats Istanbul imo, hands down our greatest night ever ! If LFC tv ever do our greatest moment no one can argue this is number 1. That Chelsea semi at Anfield, Didn’t need any bus welcomes!

Been reminiscing today and nothing beats Istanbul imo, hands down our greatest night ever ! If LFC tv ever do our greatest moment no one can argue this is number 1. That Chelsea semi at Anfield, Didn’t need any bus welcomes!

Our game v Southampton confirmed for 17th May & their game v wolves is on 11th. This means we play before them in our next 3 league games. Newcastle v Liverpool Sat 30/4 12:30 Leeds v City sat 30/4 17:30 Liverpool v Spurs Sat 7/5 19:45 City v Newcastle Sun 8/5 16:30 villa v liverpool Tue 10/5 20:00 wolves v city wed 11/5 20:15 Feel we’ll need to be ahead of them at end of that round of games (36) or we won’t catch them especially if West Ham get to the Europa league final as that would be their penultimate game (West Ham v city sun 15/5, 3 days before the final). We would then have Southampton away on the 17th 3 days after the fa cup final where they could be 4 pts ahead before we kick off our penultimate game.

Looking at the respective fixtures only places I could seem them dropping points would be : Leeds A ( night game at Elland Rd and Leeds need the points to guarantee safety) West Ham A ( provided they don’t make the Europa final, it would be their final home game) Wolves A ( would be their final home game if scheduled for w/c 16/5) Our fixtures are more difficult on paper Newcastle A 12:30 ko following a champions league semi final Spurs H fancy us to win this Villa A & Southampton A either side of an fa cup final. if it goes to the last day City win it as they did in 2014/2019.

I’m of same mindset expect them to win every game and if they don’t then hopefully we’ll capitalise. If we don’t it’s still been a great season with hopefully 1 or 2 more cups to add to the tally. Not putting myself though it like I did in 2019 hoping and praying they drop points and being depressed every time they won, it was torture. One thing I’d say is assuming their Wolves game gets scheduled for week commencing 16/5 when we should play Southampton away then our next 3 fixtures ( possibly 4 if our game that week is before theirs) would be before theirs which could give us a slight advantage.

Figures being quoted of 500m to complete the stadium which Is presumably on top of the 100m Moshiri put up for the enabling works. Mosh has committed another 145m towards it on this yrs accounts, so looks like he’ll look to finance the other 350m unless he foots the total bill himself which would take his total investment up to nearly 1.2b. That meme of I have 1.3b might not have been a joke after all. Never been any mention of the cost to flatten goodison and rebuild it as this fantastic housing/community hub as promised either.

Esk article on the latest accounts confirm that Mr Moshiri will now be up to a total of 727m invested in Everton including his initial purchase of shares/debt/equity/funding of enabling works for the new stadium. Comments that there’s no finance in place for the stadium so far and estimates a minimum of 450m will be required. Was previously suggested this would be found through private financing (not in place), contribution from LCR ( no longer happening), naming rights from USM (unlikely). Esk suggests Mosh may have to fund it himself which would take his investment to not far off 1.2B. They also have 120m in debts owed to banks & he forecasts they’ll have a similar loss in the 2022 accounts of circa 135m. Oh yeah and they might get relegated. Mad man Moshiri!

Huge game tomorrow, lose and I reckon they’ll go. The first goal will be key if they get it Goodison will get behind them but if they go behind it will be toxic and their certain to lose.

If the UK government seize his properties why would he would want to invest another penny in this country. Esk estimates stadium will cost 550m in total. Mosh putting in 100m and they got 45m from LCR(30m loan), so 400m to find. 50-100m was coming from USM and the rest was it be financed but the USM contribution is no more.

That esk article predicts their loss will be 114m for 2021 and 135m for this yr. That will mean a total loss of circa 390m over the last 3 yrs. Also reckons they need to borrow 400m to fund the stadium and it’s not yet in place.