Football The 2017/2018 Season Thread

[Scouse]

Ashley wants us sold before Christmas too! Christmas has come early

Rafa to Everton then, unless he gets a bumper xmas transfer window kitty...

 

[Billargh]

Rafa to Everton then, unless he gets a bumper xmas transfer window kitty...

Stop reading SSN so much man, he's linked to a different club every bloody week. Mainstream media hate the North East clubs being in anything but a crisis.

 

[Raven]

Great news for England if Kane goes to Madrid.

 

[Embattle]

Craig Shakespeare: Leicester City sack manager four months after appointment - Heading for the drop if they aren't careful, sacking managers all over the place.

 

[Moriath]

Cant wait to see liverpool lose to maribor later

 

[Scouse]

WTF, Spartak spank Sevilla 5-1?

And unlucky @Moriath

 

[Moriath]

WTF, Spartak spank Sevilla 5-1?

And unlucky @Moriath

Dammit i had hope for thirty seconds. Lol. Nah about time they had a good european night been a while.

 

[caLLous]

All 5 English teams in the Champions League are currently top of their respective groups.

 

[Raven]

Craig Shakespeare: Leicester City sack manager four months after appointment - Heading for the drop if they aren't careful, sacking managers all over the place.

Leicester, Blackburn 2.0. Win the prem then disappear back into the lower leagues.

A managerial merry go round is the last thing they want right now.

Although I imagine they read about Big Sam making some murmurings about wanting back in to management.

 

[Job]

All 5 English teams in the Champions League are currently top of their respective groups.

And last year there were more players from Israel and Belarus in the teams than English.

 

[Raven]

Source?

Voices?

Written on the wall at the local public toilet?

Not that it would matter anyway. Thanks to a useless FA and a youth system that is equally useless, English footballers are, on the whole, shit.

 

[Scouse]

And last year there were more players from Israel and Belarus in the teams than English.

WTF? Link...

 

[Job]

English players less represented in 2015/16 Champions League than those from Israel and Belarus

 

[Raven]

But you quite clearly implied that you were talking about English teams, seeing as you quoted someone talking about English teams...

 

[Scouse]

Yep. Clearly and indisputably talking about English teams.

But that's just "words" for @Job. He doesn't like them. I also think "meaning" and "correctness" are also just fashion and standing on convention to him.

 

[Job]

I didnt claim it was English teams..I referred to an article on the championship teams as a whole...and it shows how poor our home grown talent is when Israel and Belarus is making a better showing.

 

[Raven]

No you didn't. He quite clearly said that all 5 English teams were top of their group, to which you replied that they had more Israelis and Belarusians in than English. The words are there is green and white. If you had meant to say there were more Israelis and Belarusians in the champions league as a whole, then you would have said that.

Your English ability is abysmal, you are struggling to communicate. There are Israelis and Belarusians with better English skills than you.

 

[Gwadien]

Also - Belorussian & Israeli teams are lower quality than English teams, so they're more likely to have local players.

 

[Scouse]

I didnt claim it was English teams..

Absolutely you did. Clearly. 100%. No other way of interpreting the combination of words and context at all. Zero. Just 9 posts up.

 

[Gwadien]

LOL

Leicester fans genuinely still believe they can be a top 6 side.

 

[Gray]

Koeman really needs to go. So sad how much we have backtracked with his "improvements". I don't even think we were this negative under Martinez.

Throw some top dollar at someone like Ancelloti, if he would like a challenge i'm sure he would love coming to Everton. Just means another transition period - But I think really it's not down to personal ability, I think he has just lost the dressing room. He has shafted the likes of Barkley and Niasse and even Mirallas, so maybe there is more going on behind the scenes...

 

[Himse]

Everton main problem is absolutely 0 pace. Calvert Lewin is still a prospect & just about the only pace in the team.

You look at Lyon and they have Depay, Traore out wide to provide pace & width, Everton don't have that at all IMO. He bought too many attacking mids in the window.

 

[caLLous]

Lookman looks class. He's still very very raw but they definitely brightened up when he came on. They've still got Bolasie to come back from injury, and Coleman, and Barkley. None of them will be back in time to save Koeman, though. I'd be surprised if he's still in charge at the weekend, he just doesn't look like he has a clue how to correct this poor run. We know Ancelotti was in England because he was at Stamford Bridge last night so maybe there's something going on behind the scenes (or maybe he just wanted to go and watch his old club ofc).

 

[Gray]

He has bought quite excessively, Siggurdson while a good purchase was not worth the money dallied around, but I think Koeman put his foot in it by putting a mark up so high on Barkley. Klassen has been unproven and he seems like he is not performing at all, even in Europe even though he was in the Ajax team previously in the finals. Sandro hasn't been brilliant either but for only £5m at least it isn't a significant loss.
We need Coleman back, hopefully he is the same player he was pre-break, Ashley Williams needs to go but Koeman is too blind to it all. We haven't replaced Lukaku which is criminal, we had the whole of the pre-season to get someone in and we failed direly and the buck has to stop with Koeman.

 

[Himse]

Ancelotti will be back at AC Milan next season I think.

 

[CorNokZ]

Fucking euro league. I have no motivation to watch the matches, players couldn't care less, starts at 9 in the evening, match was called off for 20 minutes because of fog and it ended 1-1

Our third draw in a row. Just end it already. And by 'it', I mean my miserable life

 

[Moriath]

Fucking euro league. I have no motivation to watch the matches, players couldn't care less, starts at 9 in the evening, match was called off for 20 minutes because of fog and it ended 1-1

Our third draw in a row. Just end it already. And by 'it', I mean my miserable life

Where do i send the flowers?

 

[caLLous]

West Ham are shiiiiiiiiit.

 

[Embattle]

They certainly are in the shit, everything about them stinks at the moment.

 

[Raven]

Glad they fiddled that nice stadium. Well worth it.