Barnsley vs Everton

Koeman has to sit Stones down and convince him that his future is with us , we would be crazy to sell him even for 50M !

Which, with Jags injured, leaves us with only Mori as a fit senior CB. Thank goodness he's no longer going to the olympics!

Have a good look at Holgate and Galloway today as currently one of them they might be starting vs Spurs.

I'm sure we will buy a CB before the window shuts. A real beast please. Van Dijk or Koulibaly will do.

I hope the Koulibaly speculation has some substance.

I hope none of you are lawyers, or ever get called for jury service.

Looks like Stones, will go to City, but I'm not sure if it's the best move for the kid, now we have Koeman.

Don't get me wrong, Guardiola's teams work so hard, it can generally protect centre halfs, but with a no nonsense defender now in charge of England, I think Stones needs to start learning the ugly side of defending, if he's to even become an England regular now.

As for Stones, I believe there is a cover-up somewhere, the mind of the lad is in Manchester.

I have observed that we hardly play 6 or 7 quality opponents, nor involved in competitions during pre-seasons and it always affect our early good off when season begins.

Could it be that we are not a top class team nor having quality players or is it managers lack of vision or what ?

http://premier-league-lives.net/clubs/Everton/

Are we happy just to accept that and be grateful it's working in our favour? Is anyone who's slagged Lukaku off willing to accept that actually it's just a normal part of football that some players will do it? Is anyone going to say they don't want Koulibaly because of his comments?

I'm interested to see which way the cognitive dissonance is going to fall in this one.

I didn't know that Koulibaly had been mouthing off like our own Lukaku. However if what you are saying about Koulibaly is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, I will say this - if Koulibaly has the same attitude as Lukaku I wouldn't want him anywhere near Everton.

I acknowledge it is part of football these days that some players will mouth off about wanting away from their club but as a fan I don't have to accept it - I just don't like it.

I had to look up what cognitive dissonance means and now that I know, I can see where your coming from and have to admit I had been suffering from it up until recently. However, as I have stated on other threads, much as admire him, if Stones really wants out he can go also.

In the end, we came to a 'not guilty' verdict on the basis that the evidence was presented in a very sloppy manner although most of thought 'he did it'!

What a way to pass a week !

http://eftm.com.au/2016/07/how-to-watch-stream-the-english-premier-league-in-australia-our-complete-guide-29815

Well my guess is he was just thick and the jury were just much smarter.

"In the end, we came to a 'not guilty' verdict on the basis that the evidence was presented in a very sloppy manner"

Evidence presented in a sloppy manner eh?

Tut!

I think we all know how frustrating that can be.

No Niasse today, I've read he's agreed a loan with Galatasaray? Hope it's true and Koeman pushes for a new striker.

Anyone know what's up with Barry? Not in today's squad.

Robles
Davies, Holgate, Galloway, Baines
Besic, Gibson
Lennon, Dowell, Deulofeu
Mirallas

I felt like Kevin Mirallas.

My mate was on jury service once, a lad was up for a robbery, one of the other jury servers said after less than an hour studying the evidence "come on, he's obviously guilty and I'm dying for a bevy".That convinced most of the others to carry on judging the case and they eventually found the lad not guilty.