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Everton as Fulham and Wolves will stay up.Which team that has spent big will fail miserably this season?
Everton as Fulham and Wolves will stay up.Which team that has spent big will fail miserably this season?
Almost, Sigurdsson is their CAM while Bernard is fighting for Walcott's place in the team (but is backup atm).Is this likely to be Everton's most realistic lineup -
Tusan
Richarl Bernard Walcott/Lookman
Gueye Gomes
Digne Mina Keane Coleman
Pickford
Not a clue on Bernard but assume he's a central/wide attacking mid?
Nothing about that team screams top 6 challenge to me (famous last words)
Think Southampton will stay up. Will be interesting to see how Burnley cope with European football and think one of last seasons promoted teams will struggle.Paddy Power are offering City to win the league, Arsenal top 4 and Southampton to go down at 75/1! Seems pretty good odds all things considered.
1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Utd/Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Utd/Chelsea
6. Sp**s
Unsure who is going to struggle out of Chelsea and Utd
We have plenty of firepower and more solid in midfield which in turn will help our defence. We are in for the top 4 fight 100%Cant see us breaking the top four this season, its too soon for Emery and the side.
6th place for me, possibly 5th, but with a steady improvement overall. Its going to be a rough start though.
If supported enough by the board, with quality signings we will be a force to be reckoned with by the end of next season. Emery needs time.
Problem is we sat on our hands haggling for the sake of a few million each time. Fast forward 3 years and they seem like a bargain, also Wenger was to loyal to some of his players.I'm not really sure what to think. Well I am. It's downbeat.
I'm thinking from when Wenger signed his last deal to now the footballing landscape has changed drastically. Two seasons outside Europe's premier competition. Sp**s finishing ahead of us twice. Transfers breaching the 100m mark, 70m becoming the new 20m. Fulham spending over 100m, Everton with all their cash, in general West Ham, Wolves and a host of others snapping up players on big fees. I'm not necessarily concerned about the size of the fees themselves but ultimately the fact it makes the market more difficult for us, as a club not able to offer the top anymore. A resurgent Liverpool spending big and on quality as well.
It's hard to see with all that and more thrown in how we change the game. Have we left it to late? 2016 we spent a fortune yet under the radar went Dembele, we didn't go for Kante who now seems cheap and could have picked up Van Dijk. I know that's old ground. But have we by delaying what inevitably was going to happen made the job to big? That to catch up requires much more than what we have given? And have we missed the boat on a lot of the players that could be in now making the difference as opposed to being with other clubs making life for us more difficult?
The optimist says we've still quality. And that they needed a change to refresh them. We didn't sustain what we did for so long by being average or worse poor and quality endures. There is hope. But we need a lot to right for us.
That's not even the problem. It's just something that happened. We may still have missed out on those targets. But it's just the freshness that was perhaps needed then to change things to stay ahead of the curve that happened.Problem is we sat on our hands haggling for the sake of a few million each time. Fast forward 3 years and they seem like a bargain, also Wenger was to loyal to some of his players.
The current structure should have been in place 5 years ago. Too many problems have accumulated to the point where we are now. We are playing catch up it will take 3 years to get where we need too. So i agree with you Emery will need time and i think he will get it bar a disaster.That's not even the problem. It's just something that happened. We may still have missed out on those targets. But it's just the freshness that was perhaps needed then to change things to stay ahead of the curve that happened.
West Ham have a former league winning manager and a new stadium. Sp**s have a new stadium. Liverpool have significantly increased the size of their stadium. The weaker clubs are richer at the very least. There are a lot of young hungry managers in the league employing modern methods. And then in general the money has exploded again.
I hope we give Emery the time he needs. And in the long term the backing. I still feel we've added smartly in the window but it's the overall change. A system that's been in place top to bottom for 20 plus years. There is so much to get right internally that the external factors make the time scales to get things in house sorted much shorter. Which isn't just I feel realistic.
We have plenty of firepower and more solid in midfield which in turn will help our defence. We are in for the top 4 fight 100%