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Yeah that's what I mean though, Douglas may not want competition, he may want guaranteed first team football. I'm not saying that is the case mind. If we are to sign a centre back I would prefer that they were either of the highest quality (i.e Coloccini) to walk straight into our starting XI and improve us 10 fold, or they were young and willing to sit on the bench, but still able to provide decent cover or even stiff competition to Saylor and eventually take over Colo when he leaves. I don't know if Douglas falls into any of those categories as I've never seen him play. It's not like RB and ST where respectively we need a player to come straight in and improve us and a player to provide cover, at CB we have an excellent pairing already in place and acceptable cover in reserve. (I rambled a bit there but you get the idea)

That's class

Aye, it worked with us with Ben Arfa & Cisse (well Cisse to a degree as he came on after 10 minutes).

I wonder if this is the way it's being viewed. Colo, Taylor, Williamson, Perch, Good as our CB options, perhaps we think we can get by. Personally feel fullback and another attacker are more pressing needs, especially fullback. A CB would have been nice though. Williamson isn't good enough , Taylor is injury prone, Good is a kid, ok on Perch but if we are looking to qualify on CL football he should'nt be so high in the pecking order. CB should be very high on our list of priority's, it's an extremely weak position. If we miss out due to the sum of 500k it is f*cking stupid, same with if miss out on Debuchy due to the sum of 1m. Two obvious signings which would obviously improve us and two players we have tracked for a very long time and we miss out due to we don't want to pay an extra 1.5m for the both of them. It's f*cking retarded, i'm for getting deals but when the difference is so small especially when we already have had 5 million come into the club this summer we should just pay it. Especially when a club has agreed a fee for a player. Douglas would either have to sit second fiddle to Taylor or vice-versa though, meaning we may not be able guarantee him an automatic start meaning he won't want to come here? He was fucking excellent alongside Colo last year until his injury and it isn't set in stone that Douglas will perform any better. Also Williamson is good enough back-up, I don't want him starting too many games like he did last season but he's certainly good enough to slot into our defence ffs.

If he goes there we're missing out, it's as simple as that.. Not really. Yes really So we should buy EVERY player who we have shown an interest in as soon as another club has a decent price accepted? I know Pardew has mentioned Douglas but that doesn't exactly mean that he's the only centre back that we're interested in, there may be another completely off the radar, or we may be thinking about assessing what we have until January. We have no idea what the reasoning will be, but it's not always us just "missing out" because Mike is too cheap, or we are too slow.

If he goes there we're missing out, it's as simple as that.. Not really.

If we don't match the offer then hopefully it's a case of us deciding we're not interested in the player anymore as opposed to us "missing out".

They just cannot help it But yeah, how the world will laugh when you reveal "I'm flying back to Newcastle", tears will literally be streaming down their faces.

He's our manager so they're basically just making up some detestable personality for him and going with it, they seem to do that kind of thing a lot.

Proper haircut?

Aye, you deserve to be relegated if you get beat at Goodison Park like, may as well just liquidate the club.

The top 8 should be class this year, great result for Everton like, probably a bad result for us.

Why did Everton buy Steven Naismith?

Vidic being Vidic

wew

Great game this

Good ref

Surely Everton cannot keep this up all game.

Everton look good like

Vidic looked skinny as fuck there

Seriously though, I know you want to play a squad that has had some pitch time together, but you have one of (if not the) best strikers in the world, fucking play him.

Stuck a 10er RvP first goalscorer because of that line-up Sewelly put up the bastard Knew I should have waited as the same thing happened with Man U's line-up last season against us.

Aye, Marty is just generally a bit of a laughing stock, as is their team. The fact they get genuinely worked up over us for the most meager of reasons speaks volumes.

It might not be tbf, I just know that there was a lot of discussion last season about Harper not wanting to travel away because of his family or something? And Pardew mentioned that we would be rotating the 2 on the bench. I don't know who I'd prefer in any case as neither fill me with confidence.