Jack Grealish calls teammate Iliman Ndiaye “the most skillful player in the Premier League”

Definitely about Ndiaye -- plenty of clubs are looking at him now and I've repeatedly said we should be offering him a new contract.

He's playing for peanuts compared to a lot of players in our squad and for me he's the standout player this season.

He is a standout class player and will be for many years to come. If we want to be up there challenging, we must keep the likes of Ndiaye along with our other top players, there is no other way.

I'm not even sure exactly what Dewsbury-Hall was attempting to say.

Will he beat the Lukaku fee? Maybe…

Pacey and versatile forward, I'd be interested in him at the right price.

'Yeah, yeah, yeah. No matter where he is. He's just in and out, whereas Doku, like, you know, might need a bit of space for his, like, pace and stuff.

[Erm, 'assessment' Anjishnu].

Yeah, but see, Cole... Cole's like... In terms of pure skill, like, you ain't gonna see Cole doing skills like anywhere, so I'm feeling that.

Looks like JG and KDH have become honourary scousers, 'like'.

Other teams put out nimble Ndiaye type players but we went with Southall and Sharp who weren't exactly built for small indoor football and I remember we did quite poorly.

I don't think that we ever won it and might not even have made it to a final.

Looks like Crystal Palace is his likely destination.

But no further elaboration provided. Instead, Dewsbury-Hall chimes in... but Kieran, I agree, what was he trying to say?

I suppose I could listen to the podcast... or just sit here and stick pins in my eyes.

No wonder so few footballers become decent pundits.

So many threads with a number of responses you could count on the fingers of one hand, or, if lucky, the fingers on Sean Kearns's three hands. And so much repetition. Three recent threads on player X, another three more player Y, and one more on topic Z.

That was a little bit snide because, if I'm being honest, I don't even notice the gambling advertisements, but it's sad to see what ToffeeWeb has become.

It's become rare to witness a sensible debate anymore, whereas repetitive, and pointless (unless it's just about being argumentative and trying to score points) threads, have become ten a penny.

It's sad, I could see the way it was going the other day, on the thread where Connor has decided to throw his hand in, but looking at things objectively, I suppose it's just a sign of the times.

I used to read The Guardian, something you have said you do yourself, but I've come to the conclusion that it is often reporting on personal agendas rather than the truth.

“Life has become more about being right, and less about having an open mind and trying to learn from other people with a different perspective -- IMO”

Being a parent, the biggest thing I wish for my children is happiness, but not far behind is hoping that they have an open mind. This actually isn't easy nowadays because having certain views can actually make you come across as being racist, just like having certain views about our manager automatically makes you a hater in the eyes of some people.

Maybe it's just me but there really doesn't seem to be much middle ground around at the minute.

Most on that channel would struggle to find a job in other media outlets.

"Let's pretend it isn't happening or it's not real" doesn't wash with everyone though.

Seriously, I knew Trump had won the American election after reading certain news outlets, especially The Guardian and watching ITV News.

I didn't know for certain he had won but I did go to bed thinking "It looks like Trump is gonna be back in the White House when I wake up tomorrow". I had that feeling because I felt that the only balanced reporting I witnessed was by the BBC who seemed to be the only ones reporting on facts rather than a personal agenda.

We need a good old Marxist channel.

Try to find some rewarding interactions, even if from the snarky side, and keep showing up. It could make a turnaround and regenerate some decent action.

I will refrain from the news thing. That has polarized to the point of polemics posing as information.

I try to stick to my tried and trusted Guardian and NY Times with all their foibles. I don't have a conspiracy theory about the BBC. Not much choice over here: NPR, CNN, and a nutty right wing shock-jock can be diverting.

Stop trying to wind me up. I wouldn't know Tic bleedin Toc or Instagram from the old stop press in the Echo but I know a bullshitter and a phoney just by watching them speak on TV.

For instance. I truly wouldn't vote for Farage if I was offered £10,000 or more, yet speaking to people, they would — they think he is bleedin wonderful.

And that orange-haired xxxxTrump — there are saner people in lunatic asylums than him but millions love him in that lunatic asylum called America where you live.

Come home, lad, Crosby isn't Paradise but it's safer!

Farage is dangerous and lacks judgment. He understands fuck all about immigration which he thinks he understands. Nor can I stand that twat who sits next to him in the House of Commons on his left who looks like a John Collier's window dummy.

Watch this space, mate, I think that things are starting to turn over here. There are some optimistic signs. Ah, after 25 years, I miss Crosby and me mate more and more. We'll give it perhaps four or five years and pack things up. Most of all, I want my season ticket back.

At least we're putting up a decent scrap in the cricket, 153-3. Great to watch this time of night with good wine.

“For instance. I truly wouldn't vote for Farage if I was offered £10,000 or more.”

I'm very relieved to hear that. I sincerely hope the rest of the populace take a look over the pond and see what populist shite looks like and results in.

Meanwhile… Hey! Look over there - a boat full of immigrants coming to steal our jobs!

Should be a 12.00 rule on our new site for twaddle.

Now a study published last month in the US says: “By 2025, the Brexit process had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, investment by 12% to 18%, employment by 3% to 4%, and productivity by 3% to 4%.”

What benefits has Brexit given us that offset that huge economic cost? Certainly not control of our own borders as net migration spiked to record levels in the period 2015 to 2025.

Anyway, back to the football. 1-0 to Everton.

The EU is an unelected governance that siezed power and made up its own rules. Forced a so-called parliament on the people without any say nor putting it to a vote.

It makes laws that come from itself and cannot be challanged. A president you cannot elect! A mass of international political parties none of whom appear on your ballot paper. A corrupt regime that has never balanced the books.

Billions of taxpayers' money missing without recourse. A court system so diversified that there is no common ground except for their own laws. Laws which de nationalise countries' identities and over-power entire legal systems.

No border control. No right to keep out criminals nor unwanted EU migrants. No sanctions against countries allowing non-EU citizens to cross their lands to gain access to other countries' lax benefit systems and weak deportation enforcement.

An ECHR hell bent on protecting the individual of illegal status no matter what. Criminal offences soaring in nations unable to protect their borders, especially murder, rape, trafficking, fraud and other serious offences.

Having to divert billions a year to keep those illegal migrants in accomodation and 'basic' status, health and education etc. Money taken from areas of society where it is most needed. Oh, there is so much more.

The original sell was a common market for trading without bureaucracy. Europe outside of trade has nothing in common.

Business has suffered to a degree, true. But not so significantly it justifies a political grab, that is not a democracy and has no name to cover actually what it is.

I live in Spain. I have come here legally. I went through the financial and regulatory process to become a permenant resident, meeting minimum income demands and property ownership. I worked hard to get to that status. I contribute financially. I pay into their Social Security (€300 a month.) I pay tax etc.

I am not rich. I voted for Brexit. I won't ever agree to a state which has never been requested then elected by its populous. If the EU had been put to every country and it received an overall majority vote, with pre announced legislative rules, laws and terms of governance, then I would have no objection even if I had voted against it.

Nuff said. No more politics

Your post is so accurate.

Frightening times ahead.

The whole things was a psy op. We were all at each others throats for 5 years solid. Divide and rule. If we had honest politicians it might have led to good things but it was drowned at birth.

It ended on one day, and the next the Covid psy op began. Covid ended 3 years later, and the next day, Ukraine began, flags aready. It's been non stop now for ten years.

Having said that, staying in the cartel, why would you do that? This week, the unelected Ursula elected to pass €90B of European taxpayers' money to Ukraine. That money will disappear, and nobody will know where, like all the rest.

Now Jean Claude in Paris might not be best pleased about that, but he has no say. It's not about democracy, it's about the coming totalitarianism. It's so big, it's unchallengeable.

Humans have been at each others throats for millenia. That's the way the evil bastards like it. Divide and conquer. Keep the peasants down. Have them fighting amongst themselves. Still working. The history books will tell you this. The banks rule everything.

Any how. A merry Xmas and a safe New Year to you all. Stay safe.

Not on it yet but will be soon! Up the fucking Toffees!

That was a Right fuckup there.

Our democracy is highly flawed but it's the best of a bad job.
Big business is getting bigger and bigger and that can only be bad for so-called civilisation. Too much power in too few hands is bad news.

Most of our immigration has come from the Commonwealth countries, I think I'm right in saying, not the EU.

It says a lot about a person who votes for their country to leave the EU. Then pisses off to live in another EU country.

Best keep your own thoughts to yourself.

Britain has, I think, 2 European Commissioners on the European Commission, the same as other EU countries. Again, where's the bloody democracy in all this?

Britain sends MEPs to the European Parliament to vote on issues, the number of MEPs based on our population size, like other countries. Bloody democracy. It's all so unfair.

I think I read that Britain voted for 90% of the EU directives when we were in the EU, and Britain actually drafted many of those directives. Why didn't we get more of a say?

And we remain full members of the EU?

I'm off for a walk down Boundary. We're playing the title favourites so Hopefully somebody will mention Everton