honeybradger

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Buonanotte can play on the wing as well. He's done more to start than Ayew.

He's been good so far this season to be fair to him. Probably the only thing Everton have going for them.

Not just Twitter but on Stoke's forum they're grilling him pretty harshly.

A decent portion of stoke's fanbase seem to have written him off already, hopefully he can turn it around for them once he's got a run of games. Why we thought it was a good idea to sign a youth striker for £7mil when we had 3 senior strikers and no gametime to offer him I wont understand.

I think the Oxford manage worryingly referred to Nelson as depth when the loan was announced. Hopefully the manager gives him a proper look in.

Him and Ben Nelson.

James Justin was benched for large parts of last season and there were none of those threads. The Ricardo Pereira threads arent even necessarily related to James Justin's form, they started before we had even started playing. Most of our fans recognise that Ricardo is a special player, arguably our best. He's far better than Kristiansen and Justin at least, if we want to have the best chance to stay up he should not be on the bench. It's that simple.

The new manager bounce when Cooper is sacked is going to give us all whiplash with Ricardo coming back into the side and both Mavididi and Fatawu playing at the same time.

If it's a choice between Ricardo and Cooper then sayonara Cooper! Hopefully Top and Rudkin make the right choice.

They need to come to terms with the fact that they are relegation fodder this season as well. I dont think we will play many teams away from home this season where we will leave thinking we should have had 3 points.

I fear that it already has, we have to pay Bobby Reid and Ayew's wages for the next 3 years, no chance we are going to be able to offload them. Will Alves isn't even getting on the bench for us, his treatment under Cooper reminds me of O'Riley's under Scott Parker at Fulham. Sadly for him he didn't see the signs during pre season and wasn't smart enough to run down his contract with us like O'Riley did at Fulham.

I dont mind him but I dont see him having much about him either. Not his fault that he costed so much but I feel it's a bit premature to call him excellent and a bargain before we've even won a game with him in the side.

He's a good midfielder for the level of a newly promoted side that expects to lose every game. I'm not so sure that warrants the £20mil price tag.

Fatawu has not been honking. At his worst he's our best defensive grafter on the wing and at his best he wins us points going forwards like Spurs.

I wouldn't say Kasper, Drinkwater and De Laet were PL experienced players before they joined us. The others do show that there is value in PL castoffs though.

Alves wasnt playing in the u21s at 15 years old. He also had that ACL at 17, otherwise i think he would have broken through last season.

We're a football team, we're not going to give him gametime as a charity exercise. Jeremy Monga is one of the best talents we have produced in a long time, he's not a "school kid" he's a potential 8 figure asset that we need to be careful to hold on to. There's a good chance that giving Monga more incentive to stay with us than to move to a big 6 side will benefit us more than it does Monga.

Pathway to first team football mate, not consistent minutes. Give him some some minutes in the league cup and FA cup and assure him that he will be around the matchday squad in 3 or so seasons and he will stay.

Young players will go where there is a pathway to first team football and where they will be paid well. If we cant offer one of the best English talents of his generation that then the people responsible deserve to get slagged off.

He's good but Neuer's a tough act to follow for any keeper.

Mavididi only ever struggled against low blocks. When the opposition comes at us he usually excels.

Considering our fans were desperate to sign him for £20mil when he was at Celtic surely this isnt a bad deal at the right price.

I dont think this is correct as he was not cheap for the player that he is. If we do sell him I think we will struggle to get our money back let alone make a profit. In Italy he was considered a €5mil-€6mil player which is around half what we have paid, not very shrewd business. The buy low sell high model only works if teams with money to splash are interested in him. I dont think his ceiling is high enough for teams with enough cash to spend the £15mil+ on a centreback that's required to make a profit will go for him.

I am not sure that it is as wild as you are saying. If there was are strong arguments for signing him then I wouldn't mind hearing them. He's currently not good enough to displace Faes or Vestergaard, and they are hardly knockouts at this level either. He costed too much in a transfer window where we needed to spend our money wisely on improving our team. Especially when we had Coady and Nelson ready to play the backup role for us. All signs point too very little thought being put into this transfer by the club. Yes he might come good in a few years but so can Nelson and Nelson has the higher ceiling.