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What did he do? Tried to get into the referees dressing room at half time I think

I think we'd still fail to break teams down, hence why I'm still banging on about this "fantasy" land team, but it's painfully obvious we create very little, have a weak CM, and a weak back 4 (as a collective). I think a passing midfielder in there would help us massively. Rather than passing it slowly between our centre halves and midfielders we could get the ball up to Mitrovic, Perez, Sissoko and Wijnaldum quicker and giving them more of a chance to do something without being surrounded by the opposition players when they receive it. My fantasy comment about your post wasn't meant as an insult by the way

It's actually not that easy at all. Not many of the best passing midfielders are that mobile or strong. I know we obviously won't be signing one of the best passers in the World but it's still hard to find such a player

Same feelings, the CM has to be able to cover ground and tackle though. Passing nice after that. Think the passing is more important. Our two best passers of the ball are probably our two centre halves Nah, I'm with Ian on this one, I think Colback's not a bad passer as it happens, just he can't run or tackle very well. I would really love to have two box to box midfielders in the centre of midfield. Think James McCarthy sitting behind Wijnaldum. McCarthy cost Everton £15m at the time, a price we weren't prepared to pay, but you could add £10m to that now. He's a good passer as in he keeps the ball but we need somebody with a range of passing to create from deep desperately

Same feelings, the CM has to be able to cover ground and tackle though. Passing nice after that. Think the passing is more important. Our two best passers of the ball are probably our two centre halves

A passing midfielder and a centre half would be my first purchases. Don't think we'd be too bad then. Obviously left back as well but to a certain extent you can get away with a bad left back

Maybe but no offence but that's kind of fairytale stuff that is never going to happen. That's 5 really good players we'd have to add and that's without even getting someone instead of Colo

I can't say I remember him doing much at all. A nothing player. Nah he always tried to get into the box and missed a fair few chances iirc. Actually the one thing I liked about him was his drive to get into the box

I reckon he gets his turn when the King has finished with them. The MAC system, move in after completion

Going to be difficult for Garde to improve results for Aston Villa especially coming into a new country but they have some decent players going forward like Gil and Grealish who could win them points

Absolute rubbish. The best football they played was easily when Robben was at his best and then after that it was under Hiddink. You and Ancelotti man. Nah, Ronaldo is spot on. Ancelotti's Chelsea absolutely obliterated the league, scoring 103 goals and battering teams left right and centre. Compare that to Mourinho's first two seasons where they scored 72 and 73. We're talking about when they played their best football. For me it was when they first got Robben and then under Hiddink. It's not a defence of Mourinho either, his teams are absolutely awful to watch, but imo they were best to watch during those two periods. Robben was great to watch which is true but overall Ancelotti's team was way more entertaining

Well he wasn't

Mitrovic shouldered him first didn't he?

He transformed them from Ranieri to Champions man, he has had a boat load of money to spend, but he has won them titles and cups. Remember Chelsea before Abramovic were basically similar to WHU, in terms of size and history. They came second and got to a Champions League semi final in Ranieri's last season, then Mourinho got to add Robben, Cech and Drogba to that side. Some "transformation"

Nice pass by Clasie in the build up

They aren't clearly staying in this division at all and I don't think Allardyce has improved them much at all

We probably would have won without the sending off but its still awful that we couldn't score against these in the first half

there's worse players played in finals I was taking the piss out of Mole like

Lukaku will clearly never play in the Champions League

Shit movement from shit Lukaku for those two goals

I don't think its even up for debate that they have better players than us They have a better manager. And also better players Would those players who performs well for them do the same under a manager below Martinez? He has pretty much brought up all of those players who are hyped now. Of course they are talented and all, but still think a lot of it is because of Martinez and his positive attacking football. But this is pretty obvious, if you got a manager who gives you belief the players perform. Who do you rate the most in the Everton squad? And which one of them you reckon are like top PL class? Barkley, Lukaku, Coleman are all very good Premier League players at the moment. Their midfield of Barry and McCarthy is also well ahead of ours And that defender Stones. Well I think Lukaku, Barkley, Coleman and Stones. Those are a level ahead. But Martinez has a lot to do with that in my opinion. I mean it's not like they are 2-3 levels ahead of Perez, Mitrovic and Wijnaldum etc. My point is that the team it self is not THAT much better, but the manager is levels above ours, now. Lukaku is a lot better than Mitrovic like. We should be doing better obviously but Everton are still a good bit ahead of us in terms of ability IMO

I don't think its even up for debate that they have better players than us They have a better manager. And also better players Would those players who performs well for them do the same under a manager below Martinez? He has pretty much brought up all of those players who are hyped now. Of course they are talented and all, but still think a lot of it is because of Martinez and his positive attacking football. But this is pretty obvious, if you got a manager who gives you belief the players perform. Who do you rate the most in the Everton squad? And which one of them you reckon are like top PL class? Barkley, Lukaku, Coleman are all very good Premier League players at the moment. Their midfield of Barry and McCarthy is also well ahead of ours

Said that at the time he left Chelsea, his movement off the ball is horrendous for a elite striker and the response was always " he's only 20 years old ". Aye because he was in fact only 20 years old and is now only 22 years old. Plenty of time to improve on his already very good footballing ability You keep saying that and burying your head in the sand, when he hasn't improved what he's weak at in those two years and he likely never will. Age has nothing to do with it, it's just a crutch for people like you to cling onto. Eventually you will see that i'm right and why he will never play for a top club whose in the CL every year. That's honestly the first time I can ever remember commenting on Lukaku's potential. Drogba was playing in Ligue 2 and not pulling up any trees when he was 22

Has FM lied to me? He can play CM, can't he? Don't think so, maybe in a 3 but not in a 2

I don't think its even up for debate that they have better players than us They have a better manager. And also better players