20 Sep 2025 19:44:29
Positive aspects of the performance.
But I'll wait a while before writing off Barry. Exact same thing happened with Pickford and Garner. Not great fair few games and immediately the super blues started saying "well clearly they aren't good enough ?". If we wrote players off after 1-2 starts, our team would consist of Ndiaye and Grealish with no one else.
People saying Vardy or DCL. I'll just assume you haven't watched football since 2022. Waiting for the "oh let's bring Aguero out of retirement" or "why not offer Origi a contract? " Shouts from people who just don't watch football outside of Everton once a week.
20 Sep 2025 22:01:01
Wait as long as you want Swan the fact is neither Beto or Barry are up to it. Now Barry might improve, but until he does he should be no where near the first team. As for Beto, well he’s just poor.
Moyes seriously needs to reconsider his tactics and this insistence on playing a big lump as our main striker. We play better football with the ball on the floor.
20 Sep 2025 22:10:39
Swan117. Beto zero confidence, his ball control is awful. Barry can't jump, backs out of challenges, what is all that about. Who scouts these guys?
21 Sep 2025 02:41:42
This “fact” was again said about Pickford and Garner. We have no choice but to wait until January, Barry is better at holding the ball than Beto and brings people into play better. He’s also 22.
21 Sep 2025 04:17:51
Who does he bring into play? Have you seen him head a ball? Jump for a ball? tackle?
21 Sep 2025 06:36:58
Guys neither are good enough right now. But they are all we have. To be fair to Barry he has had less minutes to develop than Beto but it’s not too exciting now is it.
We’ll all be hoping for a striker in January. It’s an absolute travesty that we can’t offer better quality up front given the talent coming from midfield and out wide but it was always going to be hard getting everyone in one window.
{Ed025's Note - yeah Ace still a work in progress and it is what it is i suppose..
21 Sep 2025 11:05:24
Like the throw away 'I suppose'. I supposed the boss was bringing me coffee in bed this mornjng. ???.
21 Sep 2025 14:03:43
Yes I’ve watched him, he played well against Brighton, came on yesterday and was actually able to keep the ball unlike Beto.
“Have you seen him tackle? ”
It goes back to the Lukaku/ Jelavic thing again. I’m not bothered about how he tackles. Moyes said he wasn’t ready right away but had no choice to throw him in, Villarreal fans said he has potential but is still raw.
He comes in and is a bit raw and our fans act all surprised.
James Garner’s first 10 games for us were shocking and people said he was a league 2 player. If it was up to half of our fans, we wouldn’t have signed KDH, Grealish (who has been shocking for the last 2 seasons at City) etc.
I remember saying we needed to resign Gueye and literally every reply was people saying “that’s stupid, he’s finished” and “we can do far better, like Barkley”.