Everton's search for their dream striker

It's very detailed, the graphics and tables tell a compelling and pretty horrible story of abject failure... with a few 'almost' exceptions.

At the present time, we are getting a few from those other departments, and basically naff-all from those paid (handsomely) to produce them.

I was in tears last night, after yet another defeat for the RS, but they were of unbridled joy, laughter and pure schadenfreude. Long may it continue!

That's official.

Two things that scream out.

1. Why?

2. Managers have consistently failed to play to what little strength those strikers had (Ancelotti being the exception).

Going back to when I first saw Everton with Joe Royle, there was always a foil. Plus fast tricky wingers, who could put it on a sixpence. Tough midfielders.

When Everton failed to recover post-Heysel, we dropped to a lone attacker with no support. Hoofing it to them expecting them to win it, win their own flick-on, beat the opposition and score. A failure which has been on wash spin repeat for 4 decades.

After selling to a picnic man who got rid of us pronto to the biggest crook who was never arrested, the shit-show was sealed.

Our scouting system has always failed. But it's not just that. Scouts bring forward players. The owner, board, chairman or DoF are the ones who say Yay or Nay.

When you choose Ramirez over Haaland because you are in the pocket of the agent, that sums it all up. But it's historic. The prolific strikers we snubbed in favour of someone awful reads like a who's who of Beatles rejection.

Playing lone striker is Moyes's way. Generally with no support and not playing to their strength. He admits it.

I don't consider all of the summer signings successful: 3 keepers, a left-back not good enough, a striker that non-league would baulk at, and an 18-year-old with vast potential but has so far choked with the little time he's had.

I don't believe we will sign a striker. Moyes is looking for a centre-back as a priority, by all accounts.

Even if we did get one half-decent end-of-career front-man, Moyes would not care to support the guy in a tactical manner.

The huge bonus we have is the attraction factor of Grealish and, to a lesser degree, Ndiaye. Plus the awesome stadium.

All in all, it's a conundrum.

I have no illusions that Niasse was a quality striker, but he was a trier, much better than the donkeys we recruited over the years.

And the shitshow at the management level since Moshiri took over meant that Everton ruined many young strikers' careers:- Mose Kean, Chermiti, Onyekuru, etc. Let us hope that we don't let Barry go that way.

He will need patience and a gradual adjustment to the league. If we do that, there is a chance that he will score goals for us probably next season.

In the meantime, Beto should have been the striker to shoulder most of the scoring burden, but unfortunately for us and him, it is not working out for him. Maybe best to cut our losses on Beto, sell him and get in an experienced striker like Gabriel Jesus or Ivan Toney, even if it is for the short term.

This season's going faster than I thought!

Lukaku had Barkley and Deulofeu. In his best season, Calvert-Lewin has Rodriguez and Sigurdsson.

We have full-backs that don't have quality, we have wingers that don't cross the ball, so we play narrow. In this system, we need Dewsbury-Hall to get close to the Number 10 and Ndiaye to be our top goalscorer again as the others don't score enough. I would play Ndiaye as a striker and get Alcaraz and Dibling more involved.

On paper, this team has better technical footballers than last season but probably less goals as Doucoure has gone and Alcaraz isn't rated to start games. Moyes has to get the team creating more chances.

Dennis, don't doubt yourself: Niasse was awful.

Yakubu too comes to mind; he was pretty good. It's tricky because we've always been hard up for cash and then, when we got some, seemed to spend most of it on indifferent midfielders.

Hopefully, Barry can come good, or the scouts can do a better job in this regard than they have done for some time.

He scored 7 goals in 55 appearances.

Everton are the worst in Premier League history.
That's official.

We are still in the top flight and have been through quite a bit of change and, at the risk of getting Don involved, we had a man in charge who loved his train set. We did however buy some new lawnmowers.

Alcaraz got 4 goals in 18 appearances for the worst side in the league when he first arrived in the country and cant get a game unless it's out wide where he's useless.

Beto's Xg is only 3.15. People are talking like he should be on 10 plus goals already this season. Take away his great chance against Palace and he's feeding on scraps with how we set up and play.

Virtually all of them!