Everton Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2024/25

We need to try someone/something else up front. Anybody.

He's going nowhere imo. No one to sack him anyway. Lack of a clinical striker is killing us

Says it all

Meh

In fairness we sold Richi that summer, thats where the money came for the Lampard spend.

The only positive is the stadium , which looks class, but is probably costing us 12 points.

I was never a fan of Dyche, and he did well under appalling conditions, would obviously like a more exciting appointment, but until our circumstances are resovled , ther does not seam another choice at this moment in time, As a said earlier unless Calvent Lewis regains form and confidence (and goals) I think we are down.

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Premier league just making it up ,as they go , so as to look good. Farcical. Masters will be sniggering at all 'the little clubs.', whilst keeping his Tory masters happy.

In a way we are in this together, but you also need to be careful what you wish for Forest, as of your second charge is up next week...

You have to remember Forest had 44m less than everyone else in the PL, and a squad worth pittens as a starting point.

We spent in January knowing we would need to sell by end of June to balance the books, then delayed the Jonson sale to maximise profits (funnily enough), so we were only breaking the rules for 3 months and this was supposedly discussed with PL.

Things that should worry Everton though from the Forest decision are as follows....

PL wanted to give us 8 points when the punishment for insolvency is 9. Part of Everton's mitigation and reduction to 6, and probably helped Forest.

Reports Everton's second breach is between 50m to 80m. I don't know if this is true or not? And you continued to spend in the third year, when you could tried to rebalance?

And finally,....

So Everton's appeal probably helped Forest in a way and you really want Forest punishment to be as low as possible as your back up again?

Meanwhile I might as well say Man city, Chelsea etc.........

Best of luck by the way

I don't disagree, but inflation, war etc. also impact Forest with 44m less in the budget to even start eith.

the 50-80m is coming from Forest forums, seemingly taking it from reliable Everton sources, but I really don't know TBH, it could be complete BS.

But the calculation now for Forest

-3pts for the breach

-3pts severity (highest I guess)

+2pts mitigation (Forest full co operation)

So I guess it's clear if there is some sort of breach it's -3 anyway

Mitigation I'm not sure and how a second charge will be seen?

I'm getting info from Forest Forums so take it with a grain of salt.

I think not co operating at least applies to the current 6pts, so Everton got no reduction on that. Something to do with disputing the accounts and they had to be resubmitted? But again I could be wrong.

On the second charge, maybe Everton are co operating, will get -3, severity unknown, and get 2 back on the second charge.

But if this is really the case now, teams (with rich owners) might as well completely break the rules , co-operate and take a 4Pts penalty....😁

Here is a Forest article on Forest's deduction and some differences to Everton's...

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/how-nottingham-forest-points-deduction-9174055

I expect Everton will see no more points deductions.

I agree, on 2 points, meanwhile the ownership drama drags on and on

We can't even be arsed commenting at this stage

Clocks going forward tonight.

Dyche got lucky with 'Dacoure ball' for a little while but Dacoure is back to being useless again..

There's something worryingly passive about this side right now.

I assume the plan is to somehow stay in the league for the next 2 seasons, and the new stadium , which is nice, will generate income so we can compete. Things are so bad , I think 777 cant be that bad, Moshiri reign has been dreadful apart from new stadium.

Not arguing. But that was the one season we played to his strengths and had never ending quality balls in to him from James, Digne and Sigurdsson.

But at this stage I wouldn't miss him.

Better hope Dobbin and Chermiti amount to something

There was a spell earlier in the season where Everton were creating chances but not scoring. Now we're not really even creating chances.

Everton don't do averages