buzz

Why is so hard to drop Darlow? Same shit we had to put up with last year even when Dubravka was fit

Lovely bloke.

OGS anywhere but 20th is mad.

10. Think it's at the same stage of effective certainty as Sheff Utd last season. We look worse though, more on a par with Derby 07/08

We're not gonna win a game all season are we

Who would've thought playing Clark would have negative consequences

holy shit

He's a proven PL player who'd make an immediate impact. Would be a perfect signing, exactly what we need if we're going to stay up.

Would say they're about the same

Mostly 4-4-2. Played 3-4-3 during his last season a fair bit.

I think he probably would. He wasn't exactly inundated with better offers.

I bet Howe would love Shelvey

Howe would surely agree to stay if we go down and in fairness would probably make a good manager for a successful first attempt at promotion. But personally would much rather just take a chance on Favre or Fonseca for the here and now

Balague sounds very definite about it. Wasn't he considered a reliable source with his connections to Spain when Rafa was here?

Another goal conceded because of zonal marking isn't exactly going to help Rafa's relationship with Everton fans

3-0 Brighton, 22% possession for us.

IMO Jones wants balance in the back three. Krafth is supposed to be playing an Azpilicueta type role as a right back converted into a right sided defender () and Clark plays on the other side because he's left footed. Of course both Krafth and Clark are utterly shit so that's where the tactics fail.

Nuno was never going to work out at Spurs. Such a daft move all round.

Maybe no managers have actually been contacted yet. Not until the DOF comes in?

Fred-McTominay isn't much better than Hayden-Longstaff

0-5 if it's the same back five.

I'd be fairly confident of us beating Norwich but that's it. Not great.

we're so bad

Fuucking hell. I had a feeling Jones was behind the Krafth as a RCB thing that was tried last season. He wants natural right/left footers on either side of the back three I think, ideally converted full backs. But Krafth is so bad, you can't play him under any circumstances