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• Steve @ 25, it is a difficult balance to navigate between Premier League SCR ranges (85% + 30% allowance) and UEFA (75%). UEFA’s penalties typically include fines, settlement agreements, or restrictions on registering new players for European squads, so clubs might be happy to follow Aston Villa in paying a €7.5 million fine immediately and accepting strict squad-size registration restrictions for their Champions League campaign. But planning for sustainable squad growth was not the season why we finished 18th in the summer net spending table and with 17 fit outfield players. That was mainly due to TFG deciding two weeks before the deadline to switch to a “sell to buy” approach to the rest of the window. Basis that, UEFA SCR rules will likely not be a concern for Everton next season. TFG’s approach to squad-building is a least consistent i.e. there is no squad building....
  Steve Brown in Tarkowski raves about Branthwaite as Spurs masterclass earns praise from skipper and Moyes
• I agree with you both Tony and Lee in the above posts.rnrnThats why I say with Everton, every summer just seems to pass without ever seeing the changes that are actually needed to drive the club forward.rnrnAs you say, what kind of professional football club leaves itself with one senior striker in this league?rnrnAnd Lee, correct again, as I said in my post, there is an apathy at our club because we just copy and paste the same style of play each season no matter who the manager is, the only one who broke that mould in a small way was Roberto Martinez.rnrnAgain this season with Everton, we probably will be very hard to beat in the main, but our attack will be rather blunt again and unless goals come from unlikely sources such as the Maitland Niles goal or Tarky cropping up here and there, most of the pressure will be on Barry and George to score goals.rnrn...
  Jim Bennings in Premier League — Matchweek 4
• Jim, perhaps the difference in atmosphere is down to the type of football played. ...
  Les Callan in Premier League — Matchweek 4
• Surely you can see that it goes a hell of a lot deeper than the medical team, Jim?rnrnI was one of the people who thought that it was best for both parties when DCL, left Everton, but if anyone outgrew anyone, it was sadly a centre forward who a lot of people didn’t rate who had actually outgrown our club, imo, simply because of the totally unprofessional standards that have slowly engulfed the club over the last forty years.rnrnA club full of nepotism, the Mersey millionaires actually had people high up within the club rejoicing when the press came up with a new embarrassing title, for plucky little Everton.rnrnWhen DCL, went through a very bad spell of injuries, possibly starting when he was asked to play up front with a broken toe (so unprofessional, but so was appointing the very divisive Benitez, with a task of trimming the wage bill) and because we never had any other centre forward, bar Richarlison, then the badly needed Dominic, was injured at a time when he was b...
  Tony Abrahams in Premier League — Matchweek 4
• Brian @ 18 You raise an interesting point. Newcastle and Villa got in over their heads and the financial constraints of SCR. This Includes a heavy wages bill given a lot of their top players were more senior. This is why the objective is building a younger side with upside on their value to sell in future years. Plus keeps the wage bill lower. It was the 75% UEFA hurdle that did it for those teams. This is what TFG through Angus had identified as building a squad that is “Sustainable” under the SCR rules so there is not a fire sale once we get into Europe....
  Steve Jones in Tarkowski raves about Branthwaite as Spurs masterclass earns praise from skipper and Moyes
• As for DCL, most of us agreed that when he left it was the right move for both parties.rnrnI thought we\'d outgrown him and he himself was stale at Everton, again it probably says much about our medical team that he goes to Leeds and stays fit, you can\'t fake injury so that\'s bollox my friend, the specialists would soon detect.rnrnWhat rankles me is not that he left us it\'s that 18 months on we are left with one bang average striker at senior level, who in truth probably isn\'t even as good as DCL.rnrnAgain, I put that on the people that matter at Everton....
  Jim Bennings in Premier League — Matchweek 4