For all they’ve spent I’m not sure Everton have bought all that well.
Rooney is finished, he held United back the last few seasons and Everton will have to shoehorn him into the side to justify his big wages. Will pop up with the odd goal but his legs are gone.
Sigurdsson - luxury player.
Keane - ok but way overpriced because of his nationality.
Pickford is a decent keeper.
They’ve not replaced Lukaku’s goals or come even near to it.
They’ve bought shite as myself and @Nembo_Kid said at the time of buying Sigurdsson. They bought three painfully slow attacking midfielders and didn’t buy any players with pace to put around them
Terrific stuff from Sean Dyche and Burnely today winning at Goodison to move up to 6th in the table. Sensational away form - winning at Chelsea and Everton and drawing at Liverpool and at Wembley against Spurs.
@Nembo_Kid very quiet in hailing the wonderful job Sean Dyche is doing.
Man U haven’t faced a side from the by now almost perennial Top 6 yet. The 7 games they’ve played so far were against the sides placed 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 20 in the table. The accusation against Lukaku at Everton (borne out by his record) was that he was a flat track bully who scored for fun against the cannon fodder but went missing against the big guns. We’ll know soon enough if that’s still the case. Man U have Liverpool (a), Spurs (h) and Chelsea (a) in 3 of their next 4 games.
Lukaku is a great man for a tap in against the like of WBA, lets see what he is made of against the big boys, he shat the course against top 4 teams last year
Klopp still thinks he’s in Germania and he can grind teams down with relentless pressing… The EPL is the greatest league in the world and it’s alarming he hasnt figured this out yet.
In his last season in Germany, Klopp had this issue also, great pressing and midfield, no finishing up front and no shutting out at the back. He dominated sides possession wise, but the results were dreadful and the league table bore this out.