We had our three top scorers out. Plus half a midfield. I’m just surprised that we took you to penalties.
Fat Sam’s last striker purchase was £25m on Cenk ****ing Tosun.... Higuain is class, he gets into great positions and he’ll score goals, it’s what he does.
I think Fat Sam gets unfair criticism when you consider his career as a whole. Every manager has made ****e purchases. Fergie signed Djemba-Djemba-Djemba-Djemba, Bellion and Bebe.
Having listened to the bloke weekly at Goodison, Fat Sam is a master of bigging up, Fat Sam. He likes to paint a picture of himself as some sort of tactical genius, when the reality is that he works on a premise of simple pragmatism. Keep a clean sheet and see what happens. He’s a budget Davie Moyes. He served up some of the worst football I’ve ever seen.
His Bolton team were good. He worked a minor miracle there. Never been relegated. Not a top PL manager, not good enough for Everton, but a good one and there are a lot of chancers and charlatans who’ve been a lot worse than him.
The reality of your paper thin squad has been exposed with the injuries to Ali & Kane and the absence of Son. You can never simply replace those players with like for likes, but you only have to look at your bench now to see how stretched that squad is.
