It was permanent deal, but it will be a free as he is unlikely to play enough games for us to get the agreed fee!
Yeah if he gets covid anytime soon then he’s left himself open to criticism. Plus won’t help with the rumours that he’ll be going back to Madrid in the summer
Don’t know where he goes from here. It may be early doors in his Everton career but if he can’t get into this absolute dog awful Everton team then I’d say his career in the Prem is almost certainly done. I really wouldn’t be surprised if they look to sell him/ try mutually terminating his deal regardless of whether they stay up or not. Then it’s options abroad but what half decent club will want him at the moment? He’d need to join a side where the system suits him perfectly as he’s evidently not good enough at adapting, so he basically needs a team with a playmaker and a midfield general yet most of those teams will already have a better player than Dele in his position. Very bleak outlook for him at the moment.
It’s still insane to me that Everton could get relegated. When you look at the money poured into that club, the turnover of managers and players, high wages, big name signings, brand spanking new stadium in the works….how have they ended up in a relegation scrap? I know no-one has a divine right to achieve success and you have to earn the right to win games, but Everton have a very rich history (despite their 27 year trophy drought). As it stands, there are only three English clubs who have more league titles than them and it was only 5 years ago when they were competing in Europe. It’s just crazy to me that a club of this stature could be sinking down to the Championship.
Boring club though, have been for a while. Nowadays they’re only really relevant for being Liverpool’s ankle-biting neighbours. If they do go down I think they’re royally ****ed. Don’t see a quick return. Calvert-Lewin and the diver will get snapped up, there’s probably one or two others who’d be of interest to top flight clubs too, rest of that squad is Championship standard as it is, including the manager.
' MK Dons in with a shout of promotion to the championship maybe a romantic option , but he would have to take a massive pay cut to join a side like that and that seems unlikely but that maybe preferential to being unemployed. Other than that MLS looks a likely destination to me.
I'm hoping you hire ten Hag, which isn't a good sign. Partly it's because I hope you hire anyone but Pochettino, partly because Eredivisie managers don't have a good record in the PL. Still, I would have been fairly happy if ten Hag were hired at Spurs, so I definitely have mixed feelings about him. If things go well, he'll create a strong, exciting, youth-based team. I agree his choice of assistants would be critical.
Doing his own version of a CR7 Madrid season, or a Bale 2012-13. Bet Chelsky are fervently praying to the god of 'UEFA drop the away goal rule' (without whom the QF tie would really be dead and buried) .
Naah not me Everton are pathetic and I wouldn’t look at them and call it ambition…their neighbours though…they know how to do business A lot of ENIC out fans also look at clubs who spend their money savvy and wish we had a chairman who didn’t piss it up the wall. We’ve wasted plenty money too. Our ship has only steadied very recently and the signings have been smarter recently because Mr ENIC hasnt had much to do with them. I don’t think those that want ENIC out are wanting to outspend every other club every transfer window…I don’t think that’s the definition of their issues with Levy and co.
Their "show ambition" set of potential owners is very : - small - full of highly unsavoury individuals/regimes The only comparable "decent" owners for Spurs are the Poool, and in terms of decision making they appear to have made only one key decision better : When they had a mega asset to sell (Coutinho) , they invested the return far better than Spurs did in the similar scenario (Bale)
It's a dive, but I don't know how blatant it is. He dangles two legs, not one, in order to manufacture contact, but I think it requires slow motion to see it. As critical as I am of the quality of the officials, an inherent problem with officiating football is how difficult it is to tell what's a penalty, what's a dive, and what's an accidental fall. In this case, on careful review, it looks like he's always trying to manufacture contact. I'd be in favor of officials viewing tripping in general, and tripping trailing legs in particular, with a more jaundiced eye (and, for that matter, awarding a pen for every shirt pull--they're easy to spot, and doing so consistently would eliminate them in the box). In all the other sports I know, trips are uncommon, and trailing leg trips are almost unheard of. I think that in football they're manufactured by the attacking player more often than is recognized.
