20 Dec 2025 23:54:05
Is what it is tonight. We were without our 3 best outfield players, Arsenal are arguably the favourites for the league and the champions league and they could only beat us via a penalty. Not sure what JO was doing for that tbh, utter madness.
Quite obvious that we need 3-5 signings before we can compete for Europe and this season, imo, was a write off anyway. Said it before, currently the only players that are good enough for this club moving forward are Pickford, JB, Garner, KDH and Ndiaye (not including loan players) .
We desperately need a striker but I think getting 2 wide defenders in will dramatically improve this team and should be prioritised above a striker. It is notoriously difficult to find players in Jan, let alone a striker. I would try and finish as high as possible this season and it would favour us/the squad to avoid Europe and build again in the summer.
Imo the challenge on Barry is not a penalty but in todays rules it most certainly is and 100% if that was down at the other end and we were 1 up, you can be sure that it would be given to Arse.
21 Dec 2025 01:31:14
I think it's better other way round. Striker 1st then full backs.
21 Dec 2025 07:54:24
Striker (s) first I agree. Whatever the opinion on FB's (Mykolenko by the way was top of a poor list of Everton stats) , Moyes does not appear to have our concerns.
What we still don't have is a RW, Ndyie is not a RW, McNeil isn't, Dibling! who knows I saw 15 mins of him last night, not impressed, maybe he needs the 15 to warm up.
21 Dec 2025 09:31:20
Until we get the striker we need every window, summer or winter, should be spent prioritising this. We simply cannot go on with what we have. No one is expecting them to score, it’s painful.
Also I thought TB was awful last night. So much talk about giving this lad more minutes, my goodness he just walks around as if he’s shopping with his missus. He had 15 minutes of football and he couldn’t be bothered to run! Poor with the ball and lazy without it. No where near good enough.
21 Dec 2025 11:56:58
Don’t talk nonsense the lad is brought on in the last nockings when the game is gone. His confidence is on the floor right now because he is being managed poorly.
Rather than question playing McNeil who offered nothing for most of the game you target a young lad who gets the last fifteen minutes.
No mention of Alcaraz who offered nothing or Grealish who was ineffective.
No let’s just target a young lad who gets fifteen minutes. Pathetic.
21 Dec 2025 12:20:14
Agree BMD it's easier to blame a young player than actually look at what went on before he got his few minutes.
21 Dec 2025 13:03:28
Yes I mention him because he was poor. That’s a fact. The rest is opinion to which we’re both entitled to. Nothing pathetic about that. He has started too, and was brought off at half time. I’m just asking for effort, something neither confidence or age should really impact on.
As for the other players you mentioned, I agree and maybe I could have balanced the post with mentioning them too, fair enough. But I stand by what I have said.
21 Dec 2025 13:40:04
Well your wrong.
21 Dec 2025 14:16:21
Got to agree, Dibbling has shown absolutely nothing to suggest 40m was good business. Granted, his appearances have been limited and few and far between, but he hasn't looked up to the job in any of those starts. I'd give him a start against Burnley, if only to give him a bit of confidence, but the lad has to hit the ground running. It's easy to blame the manager for not playing him but there is obviously something not quite right. I mentioned it in another post a while back, maybe the lad is just struggling to adapt to life with us right now. Sometimes it takes a while for new players to adjust to new surroundings etc, Barnes being one example. We might not see the best of this lad until next season.
CA was awful for the most part yesterday. He gives the ball away too cheaply at times, passing without looking where his team mate is. DMc was a bit better in the 2nd half but the performance was still not good enough. Goes to show that our squad doesn't have the depth for when we have our first team players unavailable.