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• The issues facing Everton as discussed endlessly this summer...rnrn- Stand-off over signing a right back.rn- Selection of Tarkowski as captain.rn- Preference for Tarkowski and Keane over O\'Brien at centre- back.rn- Lack of playing minutes for young players in the regular season.rn- Lack of squad rotation due to over-reliance on older players.rn- Failure to properly utilise substitutions to impact games.rnrnThere seems to be a single golden thread that runs through all of them? Can\'t quite figure it out right now, but sure it will come to me eventually....
  Steve Brown in Selling Jake O'Brien would be a step in the wrong direction for Everton
• Eric (57), I’d still say there is a difference between a manager notionally having absolute and complete control over incoming transfers and what people are actually accusing DM of, which is weirdly sometimes choosing to be the pre-eminent figure when limiting spending on a target (which gives him ‘de facto’ control when the club itself is happy to pay more).rnrnApparently, this odd behaviour by the manager is widely accepted as fact: ‘The \"Moyes Filter\" Moyes has a well-documented history of walking away from deals if he believes the asking price or agent fees do not represent exact \"value\". If the club’s board is willing to pay £30 million for a target, but Moyes rigidly values the player at £20 million, his refusal to sign off effectively kills the deal.Tactical Incompatibility vs. Price: A perfect current example of this is the club\'s pursuit of right-back Daniel Muñoz, where terms are agreed and the £20 million fee is not a problem for ...
  Si Cooper in What we learned: Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace
• What's the saying believe half of what you see and nothing you hear! If it is true though, I think O'Brien must have said he wants to leave....
  Raymond Fox in Selling Jake O'Brien would be a step in the wrong direction for Everton
• Forgot to add when I went into town then got a bus to Old Swan, a load of Muslins got on with me and by the time we got to the end of Kensington the bus was swarming with them, good job the bus told me we were going to Huyton I was thinking it was going to Mecca! The world is certainly changing — too fast for me to be honest....
  Dave Abrahams in Premier League — Matchweek 1
• Tony (100) I was in Tesco - London Road yesterday, and a bleedin’ robot was brushing up, nobody in sight was serving, so I asked the robot was anyone serving, it just swerved round me and carried on sweeping up, eventually the security fella came in from having a smoke and told me to stand by the counter and someone will come out and serve you— thank f*** it wasn’t another robot, mind you that will come, God help the shoplifters when they put the robots on security they don’t miss a bleedin’ trick....
  Dave Abrahams in Premier League — Matchweek 1
• It would be good, or should I say, more a blessing in disguise if Tarks got a red or something to give JOB some game time. So much can go on in the next 7 days, we just don’t need this extra headache! 🤕...
  Steve Jones in Selling Jake O'Brien would be a step in the wrong direction for Everton