I think we would have still recognised his footballing ability and commitment to winning as a positive factor though, even if he played for a rival. I don’t see anything positive about Richarlison, but I’ve barely watched him.
Average football fans are probably the majority though?
There are a few people who rise ‘above’ the partisan nature of club support and see the game as a beautiful thing…
But they cannot experience the passion.
I loved Suarez, wild fucker but our wild fucker.
And of course Ronaldo would have been a Liverpool hero.
Thats natural, I cannot see the hypocrisy in supporting your own…
I would like richarlison if he wasnt playing at everton. But he would be 5th at best considering the likes of mo,mane,bobby,jota there.
Would be interesting to check the minutes per goal between him and origi.
Like i said , he wouldn’t be valued over 30m now with his contract running down and Everton’s lack of bargaining power. And to think he got an offer of 85m a couple of seasons back.
Surely they’ve found out by now that begovic even positions himself better in training. The only reason prickford is being played right now is because of his transfer fee and salary.
You’d have to be an idiotically bad keeper like kepa and the replacement to be world class in mendy for the reverse to happen.
Begovic was looking ropey at Bournemouth to be fair
Ironically their young keeper is quite good.
I think the opposite. Off the pitch and outside the 90mins of a match, Suarez is apparently a nice lad.
There is something about crossing that white line that turns him into the Tasmanian Devil. I think a lot of it maybe comes down to the role football played in his formative years, as an escape from the abject poverty of his childhood.
Part of it the influence of South American football where there is a culture of not just winning but doing so in a manner to annoy your opponents.
He’d be a psychologist’s dream subject. If you know anything about his childhood - being sent out on to the streets to beg and living in abject poverty, his girlfriend being taken to Europe - so much of his approach to football seems to be wrapped up as some sort of personal survival.
back to everton
they are shit
…and we smashed them
He may be a bluenose but Speedo Mick is a hero. 2000 miles in a pair of Everton budgie smugglers…
He’s a fucking weirdo…
But fair play to him, he does a fucking great job raising money for charity
So Gray finally got to 5 goals in a top flight season…
Sacked tomorrow or one last chance for Rafa vs Chelsea.
One of my best mates is a die-hard Liverpool fan and probably the most sensible, level-headed person I know. However, Liverpool playing Everton is about the only time I’ve seen him lose his mind and show some semblance of fear - he absolutely dreads those games because he always expects them to try and injure as many Liverpool players as possible.
Nowadays, it seems that they aren’t like that only against Liverpool. There’s something deeply rotten in that club, I can’t put my finger on it. That culture of thuggishness and chip-on-the-shoulder, they are firmly rooted in it and they show no signs of parting ways with it. Their treatment of Rafa - while partially understandable because of his Liverpool past - is nothing short of disgraceful. He’s inherited a squad that a manager like Ancelotti couldn’t improve in the long term and couldn’t cut out those primitive instincts. There are times I wish they got relegated, honestly. The league would be a safer and nicer place without Duncan Ferguson rallying their players.
I also blame Rafa for not thinking through decisions like this one. Every club he goes to suddenly tightens/ties the purse strings and leaves him without resource to shape the team the way he would like but he must have been crazy to think that he could change the minds of Everton fans. If he doesn’t pull through this (and I think the won’t), that has to be it for him in Premier League, maybe even at the top level.
But you did …
“The league would be a safer and nicer place without Duncan Ferguson rallying their players.”
Yeah, Ferguson personifies one of their main problems imo.
To be fair to Rafa, I think he probably has thought this through. His phone probably isn’t ringing with other offers, so he probably felt that he had nothing to lose by taking this job.
That is wonderfully bonkers