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Everton Pre Season Review
And so it`s that time of the year again, where supporters are full of hope and expectation - well most of them. Everyone that is except at Goodison Park, where a mood of gloom and depression seems to have descended before a ball has even been kicked.
Why might this be -
Have we sold 2 of our best players - No
Did we finish last season badly - No
Did we struggle to avoid relegation - No.
In actual fact, we still have what was last year being described as 'our best team in decades`.
We played the 2nd half of last season as well as anyone in the Premier League and we ended up finishing 7th - which any supporter would have taken around Christmas time!
The reason for the depression appears to be solely based on our lack of transfer activity. Now I am not a defender of the EFC board, just a sporting realist - and as such I don`t expect major signings when we have no money. Add this to the fact that Yobo and Yakubu haven`t been sold means we have very little cash to play with - so I am therefore quite surprised that people are surprised when we haven`t signed anyone (yet - there is still another month of the window to go!)
Now, I am not David Moyes, but I have learnt over the last 7 years or so to back his judgement time and again - as he generally seems to know what he`s doing (there are some that will disagree but aren`t there always). So if he is of the opinion that no-one in our price range will better our squad - who are we to argue with him.
For what its worth I am still optimistic this season - with a few notable exceptions (Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City) most clubs haven`t done much this summer. Sunderland have signed a lot of players but none that I believe would have made us any better and they had to sell their main goal scorer to do so.
Personally, I am happy that we have so far held on to our top players and see this as a bigger plus than the lack of additions is a minus - it would be so easy to sell a Rodwell or Fellaini and buy 2 or 3 players, but to me it gives the wrong message about Everton FC.
We cant compete at the top transfer table and there is no point in expecting us to - what we can do is to provide a team greater than the sum of its parts that can compete at the top with the best in the country on the football pitch - and after all thats what matters.
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The Ireland international, who can play either at full-back or on the wing and impressed last season, sustained the problem in the Toffees' defeat against Spanish side Villarreal at Goodison Park on Friday. The 22-year-old will now see a specialist in
Everyone that is except at Goodison Park, where a mood of gloom and depression seems to have descended before a ball has even been kicked. In actual fact, we still have what was last year being described as 'our best team in decades`.
As the only Premier League club not to sign any players so far this summer, the murmurs of discontent emanating from some Everton fans are starting to appear
The Tottenham boss was in the crowd at Goodison Park as Rossi's fine finish from a free-kick settled the pre-season friendly against Everton in the Spanish club's favour. The ex-Manchester United youth player is rumoured to be available for £28 million
The 21-year-old moved to Goodison Park from Desportivo Das Aves last summer, but has yet to establish himself in David Moyes' first team. Moyes is keen for Silva to gain some match experience and is therefore prepared to let the youngster leave on a
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Twenty minutes still remained at Goodison when the Tottenham Hotspur manager scuttled up the stairs of the directors’ box and out into the Merseyside night.
Redknapp had been warned he would be wasting his time garnering any indicators ahead of next weekend’s big kick-off, and David Moyes will pray none were apparent as Everton ended their pre-season in worrying fashion in front of their own supporters.
Suddenly, the optimism of some decent friendly performances and results has vanished to expose the fears that have been gnawing away at Evertonians for far, far too long.
No new players. No new investment. Very few expectations. The same old story.
Small wonder Goodison had long since been subdued before the final whistle was blown on Friday night’s 1-0 defeat to Villarreal.
Despite talk of a protest inside the ground, such a demonstration didn’t – or more pertinently wasn’t allowed – to happen. Yet the unrest among the fanbase cannot be quelled simply by pulling down some banners and confiscating critical flyers.
Matters aren’t quite as bad as the naysayers maintain, but the fact is the apparent inertia of the Goodison board is sapping the hopes and enthusiasm of the support.
Redknapp stuck around long enough to see former Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi arrow home the only goal midway through the second half to give Villarreal a deserved triumph in a surprisingly tetchy friendly.
Much of the angst was sparked by a vicious 38th-minute challenge from renowned Spanish agriculturist Carlos Marchena on Seamus Coleman that saw the Irishman carried off down the tunnel en route to hospital and the Villarreal man somehow escape censure.
With Diniyar Bilyaletdinov also banned next week and Leon Osman and Mikel Arteta injured, that on Friday Victor Anichebe was tried with little success at filling the problematic left flank role underlined the lack of width in the Everton squad.
There was, however, one obvious shining light for the Goodison crowd in the form of Ross Barkley.
With no summer signings, the new faces during pre-season have been a clutch of youngsters, with the 17-year-old the most prominent.
Moyes had expected the midfielder to make a first-team breakthrough last year until his season was curtailed by a triple leg fracture last October.
Subsequently nursed back to full fitness, Barkley has grasped with both hands the opportunity to strengthen his claims in recent weeks.
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