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2 hours ago, KaKa said:

Rafa will not like or trust Pickford as he is way too erratic and will eventually drop him and that is going to be another stick to beat him with by the media.

It's baffling that he barely puts a foot wrong for England but is all over the place at times for Everton.

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https://theathletic.com/news/newcastle-agree-fee-with-arsenal-to-sign-joe-willock-subject-to-personal-terms/2Ys86vE9lQve

 

Sean Longstaff’s Newcastle future will now come into question, with Rafa Benitez, his former manager who is now at Everton, monitoring his situation. Matty Longstaff, too, is likely to depart on loan.

 

The Times also linked Sean with a move, the swap for Tom Daives I think has been put somewhere as well 

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Rafa probably will get more out of him but Sean's been largely shit since his injury in March '19. Given that was over 2 years ago now I've became more and more convinced that the good run of form he had from January to that March was a purple patch. If we can get a decent price for him I'd think about cashing in tbh.

 

Would keep Matty but Bruce's management of him has been absolutely rancid.

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They're both rough diamonds but the point is we had two homegrown, ready-made Premier League CMs that cost us nowt, but we'll be giving up on them in favour of dropping 20mill on someone else's homegrown, ready-made Premier League CM, who's just so happened to have a bit of tuition.

 

Purple patch might be right in Sean's case but he was still excellent. There's undoubtedly a useful player in there imo. 

 

There's no good reason why we can't have three excellent young CMs in the squad as opposed to one, is the jist of it. 

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The sheer and utter dearth of decent coaching (certainly since Jones arrived) is absolutely fucking criminal.

 

We've basically got one guy now who's expected to get a tune from about 30-odd players.

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I honestly don’t see anything in him that suggests he could push on and become a useful top-half prem player imo . 
 

He lacks physicality, speed and the ball-carrying ability etc. to excel in a midfield 2. Those deficiencies aren’t coachable. He’s also pretty poor in a attacking sense, so doesn’t inspire much confidence in a 3 either.

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1 minute ago, mrmojorisin75 said:

 

But that means Rafa would have failed and I don't want that.

 

Rafa has won titles and champions league, if he fails he has that on his CV still. If Everton fail they can still continue being the small time cunts that they are.

 

Yes as you can probably tell I highly dislike that club. Probably doesn't help that my ex's Dad was an Evertonian and a racist at that, ha.

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3 hours ago, Lazarus said:

It won't take them long to realise that theyve got an absolute gem of a manager.

 

 

Only way he'll win that bunch of scouse makems over is by winning every game....with style.

 

As divided a fanbase as we have, most could see that there was a plan, and each game was approached with the intent of getting a win somehow even if it involved sitting back. We could appreciate the multiple titles and trophies over his career....all they see is his words 'Everton is a small club'. 

 

Yes sometimes we played absolutely dire stuff under him, but there was always a sense of a plan and a way to move forward...he's basically their Bruce

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