Recent content by Roboc7

Watkins is not going to happen, 28 years old, Villa would want a huge fee and would he even want to give up playing in Champions League. I can’t see us spending more than 33-40 on a striker if Toney could be bought for that or less it is quite tempting even with the baggage. At 28 with only...

45m is about the limit of what we should pay but Everton are not going to sell him for that. What we have to be prepared to do is move on to other targets. If we start paying 70m or more for him or 60-70m for Onana it is just repeating same mistake of spending huge sums without drastically...

It’s a shame how it all worked out but souls have gone a long time ago. At least all his wages will finally be off the books and if they are anything close to the 250k that is often reported that will largely fund a replacement like Sesko.

There’s no way he’s getting all that kind of support and immunity, no manager would. If he stays on he’ll lose vast majority of his influence in regards to recruitment, it will be night and day in comparison to working with Murtough. He’ll also be on the verge of the sack, INEOS have shown at...

There isn’t a stand out candidate but the current manager doesn’t stand out either and he is as good as sacked. I don’t buy Southgate rumours, I’d say Potter is a possibility though. I do wonder if Luis Enrique would be interested but could be too much compensation. I do think McKenna will be...

If we do finish 8th or 9th it would probably be a better reflection of our performances. If we can win the two games against Sheff Utd and Burnley we should maybe just cling non to 7th but it’s a big if. I still can’t get my head round fact only Luton have faced more shots than us this season...

He’s not a 60-70m player which is what Everton would want. These are type of signings we need to avoid, not necessarily a bad player just not good enough for the fee, surely you can find cheaper options.

Branthwaite is better than he’s showing tonight but I wouldn’t be paying anything like 60-70m for him and Everton won’t sell for less. Onana would be massively overpriced as well, surely you can find someone similar for significantly cheaper in Ligue 1.

I think he is a good player but when you weigh up the injuries, the 50m odd fee and the huge investment required in midfield and at centre back I would give signing him a miss this summer. Would take a punt on Bardghji instead and give Amad some more opportunities.

We’ve got a few years of transition ahead of us with or without ETH, there is no quick fix, he pretty much has to start from scratch all over again next season but with the added pressure of being a poor run of results from the sack and possibly without full support of all of the players. It...

Because it doesn’t work, that’s why he should change it. This is the point though he looks bad either way, if he wants to keep allowing teams shots or he can’t stop it neither scenario does him any favours. It’s a fair point about the back 4 but again if you’ve got a weakened back 4 and your...

I think it’s pretty obvious why we are a mess, every team walks through us and has 20 plus shots a game, it’s by design and he is unwilling and/or unable to do anything about it. There is no balance to the argument when people have convinced themselves this was all he could do and can’t...

He’s done such a bad job this season and resorted to awful tactics that do not work and aren’t giving him anything sustainable to build on. There is a lot of mitigation this season but he has made the team into such a mess that the focus has rightly now shifted to him. INEOS were probably...

Said it before even Woodward wouldn’t have signed off on this transfer, when it went through with Arnold and Murtough in charge they let everyone know they were completely out of their depth. As soon as you signed him you had to start thinking about replacing him, but we never had the money or...

ETH doesn’t offer any stability though, he’s already at a stage where everyone assumes he is going to get sacked and probably be in an even worse situation by the time the season finishes. If he is kept on they’ll be huge pressure to sack him from the first game, potential signings will know...