Everton

Soundly beaten 3-0 tonight and out of Europa League after four games

Shocking stuff to be out after only 4 games! Player recruitment is still the most important thing in football, and they have failed absolutely miserably at it as a club in the last year or 2. Some really bizarre stuff going on there on that front and it's left them in tatters as a squad.

I'm not sure why it's funny that I said Silva is the man to take Everton forward. Many clubs get approached about their manager while under contract. Nothing new there. From a Watford point of view, of course they wouldn't want to lose Silva. I never said any different.

To all the people who told me back in the summer that "Everton have bought really well, they can break the top 4" and then said that I was an idiot for saying "no they wont. They haven't bought well and they're Everton"....., 

Klassen was a harmless signing. Rooney seems to play more as a 10. If was signed to play as a 9, I'd understand it and think he'd do ok. Why sign Sigurdson then with Rooney at 10? Schneiderlin was a shocker of a signing. Looks like a guy with zero interest in football. Pickford will be a good signing as I think Keane will eventually be. Players leaving a club who are way past it are as important as players being signed Imo. I go back to Jagielka and Baines, no idea how they are still at Everton. Some awful decisions being made behind the scenes.

Whilst they signed some good players (Sigurdsson, Pickford) over the summer their overall recruitment really seemed to lack any cohesion. As stated above they never even attempted to sign someone to replace Lukaku who has been their outstanding player for the last three seasons or so. They have a plethora of No. 10 type players and no-one to actually stick the ball in the net. It's actually impressive how far they have regressed from last season in such a short period of time.

BrendanD88 wrote: I thought Sandro would be a great signing for them but he has done nothing of note so far and hasn't really been given a chance.

Because he's always injured

Someone once said "Football is a simple game, made unnecessarily complicated by idiots."

When Everton sold Lukaku, they were selling 25 goals a season.

They failed to replace those goals, and with just 7 goals in 10 League games this season, only the two clubs beneath them in the table have scored fewer. (Worse still, one of those two, Bournemouth, have "only" conceded 14 against Everton's 20, this latter being the second-worst in the division.)

Last season, Everton were the sixth highest scoring team in the Premier League.

Hans Moleman wrote: Klassen was a harmless signing. Rooney seems to play more as a 10. If was signed to play as a 9, I'd understand it and think he'd do ok. Why sign Sigurdson then with Rooney at 10? Schneiderlin was a shocker of a signing. Looks like a guy with zero interest in football. Pickford will be a good signing as I think Keane will eventually be. Players leaving a club who are way past it are as important as players being signed Imo. I go back to Jagielka and Baines, no idea how they are still at Everton. Some awful decisions being made behind the scenes.