Everton Banter Archive January 09 2020

09 Jan 2020 10:44:59
This is what my brother sent me. it's the Mirror I know, but i states players current wages at Everton in light of fans anger

I know the money isn't ours, I know footballers earn a bucket load but some of these wages are laughable, especially as it impacts ability to bring in new players with the FFP rules.

09 Jan 2020 11:27:01
Should be able to knock a third off that without even affecting our quality and workrate.

09 Jan 2020 13:38:49
In lots of ways now I hope we don’t sign anyone in this window, agents will be trying to get their failures a big fat wage deal at Everton, even the loan deals are a ripoff, unless we can off load and bring in at the same time, but then the signings in January never really hit the ground running and never sure if they will fit in, could be just another waste of the club’s money.

09 Jan 2020 20:16:52
I wouldn’t necessarily agree. In 2016 we signed Naisse, Tarashaj, and some bloke called Matty Foulds for a combined 20 million - honestly!

09 Jan 2020 10:31:13
I am puzzled by Kieran Dowell. He's a player of obvious technical ability who seems to play in patches on loan but ultimately that loan goes wrong. Does he need some sort of help from a sports psychologist?

09 Jan 2020 11:24:13
He just seems to lack energy. Guy is a very good player, and I thought he would be at the heart of our midfield. Would probably be better suited to playing I need Italy.

09 Jan 2020 11:29:46
Well he's learned from the best hasn't he.

10 Jan 2020 10:23:54
He was good last year at forest (dropped off abit sure the manager changed) he's a player in which the right loan wasnt found this season and had huge amounts of pressure on him to fill the gap left by mason mount at derby, a player he is nowhere near the same level of, was never the right move and should have gone to someone like wigan in the first place.

09 Jan 2020 09:29:07
I know a lot of you think I bang on too much over introducing and promoting our own youth, home grown players, sorry it's a bit annoying to some but that's the way I see it.
Everton have just made public the wages, weekly and yearly figures for the first team squad. Sigurdsson 100k Walcott 100k Mina 120k and many more in the 70k+ I know it's the norm now to pay huge amounts to get the best talent but I think not enough is done at Everton to ensure that we get a constant flow of young talent coming through.
Maybe we need to invest more money into the 2nd team coaching staff, we need our local home grown youngsters in the first team squad. then maybe we will not need 20 x 70k+ so called super stars players that haven't really got their heart and soul in Everton.
6 super stars, yes, of really high quality on wages what ever it takes could be way forward this will be a lot cheaper than 20 + giving just normal performances; this way our youngsters will look up to and learn from these true professionals and above all save the club millions and what's needed even more than ever is to create a better atmosphere and feeling in the club.
Something has to change at Everton we seem to have a deep rooted problem at the club but that's for the owners to sort out especially Brands
It looks highly likely now that we will need to bring in new players, in this window, hopefully to get us safe for the next season but surely we all know that going out now recruiting in January increasing the wage bill is not ideal for the club but sadly without doubt it is needed.
Because of the current first team situation its probably not the ideal time to introduce a few of our most promising youngsters, frustrating situation.
I just hope the policy of recruiting our youngsters into the first team squad will change for the next and future seasons.

{Ed002's Note - This is Brand's job. Don't start looking for more staff.}

09 Jan 2020 10:18:33
The money players is paid is crazy and that in itself causes issues, I don’t think we’ve recruited wisely as most fans on here have already said. We’ve brought in players on ridiculous wages who are happy to go through the motions to pick up their millions.

I’m sure it’s the same in most professions If somebody is getting paid more than someone and doing a poor job but getting away with it it doesn't encourage the one on a smaller wage doing more. This then breeds contempt and I think that’s what we’re currently seeing on the pitch, when your top earners can’t be bothered why do the ones on less want to bust a gut?

We need to get players who want to play for the shirt and see the money as an added bonus, I have no idea about recruitment but when clubs are touting players about it suggests there may already be issues with the player.

We need to be looking at recruiting players with character and those who want to improve themselves and would jump at the opportunity to play for our club, not these mercenaries we’ve been recently purchasing who have clearly come for the wage.

Not sure how we do this but in any normal job you’d interview the person to judge their suitability for the job, Gauge their character, their reason for wanting to join and what they can bring to the role. Is this the same in football?

09 Jan 2020 11:23:24
I don't think that focusing on wages is the way forward.

10 Jan 2020 10:26:27
i'd like to see brands have a couple of staff purely working on our loans out side of thing, i know obviously we have people keeping tracks on our loan deals, but too often enough now our players either aren't getting out on loan (even though they're good enough to be out on loan) o rare going to the wrong place and stagnating, its not about just shipping them out to random teams, the options need to be seriously looked at as a home for your future talent and a place that he could really grow, not just shipped off blindly because the club enquiring have said 'he'll play'

09 Jan 2020 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 8th January 2019