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• Darren(#195)&Rob(#196); Perhaps you are overlooking the fact that our owners also have a company in their group that provides statistics on player performance which might see pressure on the new owner appointed management team aka the Transfer Committee. Do TFG also have entertainment interests which might reinforce that now popular expression, "Show me the money". Mind you, given one of their other interests, Cannes FC have taken an Everton junior on loan and another, Roma, loaned and then sold an English striker to a Turkish club who immediately onsold him to an EPL side for a 7M profit makes me wonder if anybody oversees the groups entire sporting enterprises or if there is a pecking order. Now, where have we seen this type of management before, the Boys Pen? ...
  Alan J Thompson in A penalty gift turns into a two goal defensive nightmare with O'Brien seeing red
• Kieran @ 11, I thought his bringing up relegation after beating Fulham was old-school Moyes dumbing down expectations. He learn’t it from the Master during his last tenure. ...
  Steve Brown in Everton have only got themselves to blame, says David Moyes
• Neil @ 180, so overall you are not happy where we are, see the performances as pedestrian but suggest we don’t anything about it? The list I posted is not a “long list of Who Who of football managers” - whatever that means. It is list of managers who will definitely be available for hire this summer. Not dream managers, not fantasy football managers, people who will consider a job offer if one is presented. I am guessing the inference in your post is that we shouldn’t assume any of the managers listed could do better than Moyes. I have heard that argument before a number of times in relation to this particular manager over the period of years. But given the list includes managers who have won World Cups, Champions Leagues, League titles, domestic cups I am guessing there might a hidden gem among them who can match Moysey’s maangerial stature. ...
  Steve Brown in A penalty gift turns into a two goal defensive nightmare with O'Brien seeing red
• I tend to agree with Shaun at (21), although I think the very best strikers innately assume that desperate last millisecond block may transpire and so are no looking to direct the ball back towards the post it has come from. How precise can xG be? It might look at the pace on the ball, the angle it comes from and the height it arrives at but it surely can’t take into account all (or any) of how quickly the ball is spinning and in what direction, the pace which the attacker is moving at their angle of approach (both of which will affect how balanced their reaction to meet the ball could be). Then there is whether they are mid-stride or right or left foot down when they first see and react to the goalie’s parry of the initial shot. I reckon you should take that 0.72 with a massive pinch of salt....
  Si Cooper in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!
• “….if their best chances ref gives”…. wtf? “… if the ref gives…” is what I thought I typed....
  Si Cooper in David Moyes accepts Jake O’Brien's red card
• Mike(#40); You mean like selling one to Juventus?...
  Alan J Thompson in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!