Joe Strange
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Managing Editor @goal UK. Former Deputy Sports Editor @MailSport . Mainly Everton opinions/moans on here.
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Didn’t realise Sky Sports had brought FanZone commentary back.
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Fireworks at Chelsea’s hotel, a dog being carried through crowds outside, Richarlison lobbing a smoke bomb into the Gwladys, Pickford making one of the greatest saves of all time, eight minutes of injury time and a win over the European champions. Everton.
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Astonished to see so many decisions go Liverpool’s way just weeks after they kicked off over VAR.
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Danjuma going to Spurs despite completing a medical, Bielsa slating the squad, Moshiri speaking to Allardyce and Gordon off to Newcastle for less than Chelsea offered. Just another day at Everton.
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Absolutely convinced that no other club could finish 10th, having played some of the most dire football you could imagine for six months, and lose their manager to Real Madrid. Pure Everton.
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Everton win that comfortably if Michael Oliver/VAR give one of the most obvious penalties you’ll see all season. No exaggeration to say we’d already be safe if the officials could get basic decisions correct.
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The points tally doesn’t reflect it yet, but Lampard is turning Everton into a proper team. More organised, more aggressive, more quality. That was 10x better than the shambles we saw in the same fixture last season.
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Everton’s summer so far: Popular manager quits, replace him with a Liverpool legend amid supporter protests, fan in Africa turns out to be a vampire, sign three players for £1.7m, senior player arrested, Arsenal & Inter pull out of four-team pre-season tour. Not even August yet.
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Reckon there’s a decent argument that this bloke is the worst signing made by any club in the history of professional football.
Everton can confirm it has agreed with Jean-Philippe Gbamin for his contract to be cancelled with immediate effect.
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We’re going down and we deserve it. Finally got the billionaire we all wanted and he’s completely ruined the club. What an absolute mess.
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Thoroughly recommend this new series of Match of the Day. Way better than the last one.
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What a complete and utter disappointment Anthony Gordon has turned out to be. A hero of last season, given the No 10 shirt and offered a new deal, to refusing to train under his ‘idol’ in order to force a move, having barely had an impact all season. Get rid.
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It beggars belief that Everton, 19th in the table, winless in nine games and with £40m banked, are ending the window weaker than they started it. The club is a complete mess - at board level, in recruitment and on the pitch.
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Denied a blatant penalty and end up with a player sent off because the referee\VAR can’t do their job. Another joke of a decision.
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Concede three to Burnley and lose on Wednesday, clean sheet win against Manchester United three days later. This is Everton.
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Tosun coming on at the end summed up Everton’s problems under Moshiri. A mediocre player on big wages, signed for too much money by a manager who should never have been appointed in the first place. Still getting a game nearly four years on, having contributed fuck all.
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Huddersfield match-winner Hefele on his late goal against Leeds: 'That is a fucking dream'
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A walkout protest, two VAR disallowed goals, a blatant red card avoided and a comeback win with a 92nd minute worldie. Everton never do it the easy way.
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Lose at home to bottom-of-the table with the last kick of the game on Monday, draw away at the best team in the country five days later. Everton.
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Stunned to see a ridiculously close VAR call go against Everton.
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Ancelotti’s ability to change formation and tactics to fit the players he’s got available - and then drill a game-plan into them - has been so, so important this season. Earning points with his experience and flexibility. Huge win.
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Glad Benitez has gone, but why was he appointed in the first place? Why was he given control of recruitment and the medical dept? Why was he allowed to get rid of Rodriguez and Digne, and spend £30m this month? Forget the new stadium, Everton have become a shambles under Moshiri.
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Son's tackle on Gomes was a reckless act of retribution. He didn't want to hurt him, but he's not an innocent victim either. Some thoughts for
@MailSport
, four days after that tackle:
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Without the special support of the last month or so, Everton get relegated. Can’t overestimate how big an impact the fans have had on this team, particularly at Goodison. Incredible.
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Philip Nikodem Jagielka scoring winners and keeping clean sheets against Arsenal at the age of 36. All after barely kicking a ball this season. What a bloke.
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Moise Kean joins Lookman and Vlasic on the list of talented young players Everton did well to find and sign, only to mismanage and let go too early. Got to stop making the same mistakes.
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That was the nastiest I’ve seen/heard it get towards Benitez. Fans around me almost coming to blows over differing views on him. Always felt like it could (would) go this way, which is why he should never have got the job.
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A little over nine months since we landed in Croatia, went straight to a bar and watched Everton stick three past Burnley in six minutes.
Giving Townsend, Gray and Keane the joint assist for this one.
Noah Jones-Strange 💙
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Sad state of affairs when Everton are having to sell their best player and talisman, a regular for Brazil with two years left on his contract, to Tottenham (!) for potentially £25m less than he’s worth. Quite incredible the financial mess the club is in.
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Embarrassment Football Club. Bar the new stadium, Moshiri’s reign has been an unmitigated disaster. Get him out.
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And a bloke wasting time by hiding the ball up his shirt live on Sky Sports.
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Fail to sign a striker or a defender. Barkley & Niasse sales fall through. Connolly leaves. Rooney arrested. A proper Everton deadline day.
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Lampard got it wrong not starting Dele or Rondon and should’ve brought on Onana rather than Davies, but no need to panic. Squad is stronger, the team look more organised and results will improve (when we’ve got a decent striker on the pitch).
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Amadou Onana. Accept any sort of decent bid for him and move on. Never seen an Everton player with so many great attributes hide like he does. Should be dominating midfield but you wouldn’t even know he was on the pitch.
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Massive, massive win. Pickford and Godfrey outstanding, Mykolenko’s best performance, Keane, Delph and Allan solid, Iwobi and Richarlison lively throughout. Lampard got it spot on.
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It’s almost as if relegation-threatened Newcastle lost their two best players to injury after running themselves into the ground for 90 minutes and didn’t fancy playing again 72 hours later…
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Hope I’m wrong, but I think there’s a decent chance Everton get relegated if Pereira gets the job. Very little about him, his experience and recent career that suggests he’s the right man.
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Lost 7-1 on aggregate to Bournemouth already this season, won five games at Goodison in a year and don’t have a decent striker, right-back or left-back fit. Taking absolutely nothing for granted on Sunday.
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Abysmal from Everton yet again. Not surprised Ancelotti chucked a bid in for Hojbjerg midway through the second half. Only so much of that non-existent midfield you can watch.
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Decent turnout for the protest but how are 25,000+ watching that game, seeing where this club is heading and deciding not to stick around? Baffling.
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This Pereira interview is mad. Seemingly on the brink of being appointed last night, now on live TV talking about his interviews and the Goodison graffiti. Not sure how he gets the job after this.
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Juventus statement confirms Kean cost just £25.1m up front, with £2.3m in add-ons. An incredible piece of business from Marcel Brands and Everton if he goes on to fulfil his potential.
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Not very often you can come away from watching Everton - especially away from home - and say they were excellent. Five-nil wouldn’t have flattered us there. Proper performance.
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Where do you start with that? Five at the back at home against a team who have won once since September, the manager putting his issue with Digne over the good of the team, and players so far off the pace despite the break. New year, same old Everton.
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One of the worst refereeing displays I’ve ever witnessed today. Atkinson had no control of the game and only sent off Son because he saw Gomes’ leg was broken. VAR an absolute farce again, too. Ruining the game.
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Dyche not an easy manager to fall for like Martinez or Ancelotti, but he really does look a great fit for where Everton are right now. Turned us into a far more competitive side actually capable of winning. Hard to fault him recently.
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As much as Zaha would improve our starting XI, the main reason I want him to join Everton is because not a single Palace fan thinks he will.
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Hearing it's a 10-point deduction for Everton, which will immediately be appealed.
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VAR and Chris Kavanagh killed Everton’s chances of winning the tie tonight, cost Dyche his main striker for two big games in a relegation battle and helped add a replay to the schedule of a thin squad who need a rest. Great job, lads.
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Josh Maja - the player Fulham signed when Josh King turned them down - scoring twice to win the game is just so, so Everton. Only surprise was that he didn’t get a hat-trick.
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Benitez had it tough in the summer window and with injuries since, but there’s no excuses now. So many bad/baffling decisions, the defence is as bad as it’s ever been and the Digne situation is ridiculous. Moshiri in too deep with him to act, though.
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Recalling Simms stinks of panic from Everton. Rather have him as an option than Rondon, but bringing him back suggests there’s little or nothing lined up for January. Could hurt his development, too.
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Pitch invasion on the opening day. Class.
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Not very often you leave an Everton away end, after a defeat, just as proud as if you’d won 3-0. Players put in a proper shift there and deserved at least a point, possibly more. Just not our day.
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Tonight felt like that goal at Anfield last season. You’re in such disbelief that you can’t quite comprehend what you’ve just seen. Then, after a couple of seconds, you remember it’s Everton and it all makes perfect sense.
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Everton could’ve made this Gnonto situation a lot easier - and cheaper - by scouting him at Zurich and paying a few million quid for him a year ago, rather than £25m+ this summer. Recruitment department still playing catch-up.
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Alexander-Arnold could two-foot Mike Dean and still not get a second yellow.
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Baffled by Everton’s transfer business as usual. Pay a decent fee for Chermiti but don’t even deem him ready for a place on the bench. Lose two games, score zero goals and then agree a fee for Che Adams. Too little, too late.
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Iwobi’s goal should’ve spurred the players on, but instead they’ve sat back, lost confidence and made bad decision after bad decision. Big team talk needed from Lampard here.
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Scary how much we rely on Digne at both ends. Richarlison was crying out for Iwobi to overlap and he was nowhere to be seen. Can’t do anything about the injuries but some odd choices from Ancelotti today.
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That’s what happens when you’re on top, but have a striker with no goals in 17 appearances leading the line. Almost as if Everton should’ve signed a competent forward in January.
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Everton have deserved to lose plenty of games this season, but that certainly wasn’t one of them. Incredible spirit, effort and fight, especially after going down to 10. Three points would’ve been fair.
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Never wanted Benitez - and the issues at Everton go way beyond him - but no idea how he watched that and made one sub. Hands tied by injuries and finances, but also no doubt that he should be getting more out of what he’s got. Wednesday could get ugly.
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Tricky situation with Gordon. Everton need money and £40m+ is more than fair, but Lampard can’t lose another key attacker, especially a local lad who has the potential to be special. Would need to be a mad, Cucurella-level offer for me.
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Hardly a secret now, but expect Everton to officially announce a new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock at 1pm today. Huge moment for the club.
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Got his head screwed on. Nice show of loyalty to Derby, but also says a lot about the mess Everton are in right now.
"Everton approached my agent and asked me to interview for the job. Turned down. I believe I will be a PL manager and am ready for that 100%. But I have a job at Derby, which is important to me." - Wayne Rooney
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He’s got plenty of competition, but Morgan Schneiderlin has to go down as one of the biggest wastes of money in Everton history. £24m fee and £100k+ a week for maybe 15-20 good performances. Cheers, Ronald.
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Just a classic game at Anfield. Everton player booked twice for his only two fouls. Liverpool avoid an obvious red card. A penalty, albeit the correct decision. Michael Keane being Michael Keane. All so predictable.
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If that ends up being Everton’s last ever FA Cup game at Goodison, it’s a pretty fitting summary of the club’s attempts to win a trophy for the past 30 years. Just not good enough.
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No doubt that Moshiri spent recklessly for years and relied too much on his mate Usmanov, but a 10-point deduction is just baffling when you read the details of the case and consider how Everton had been working with the Premier League. Make it make sense.
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Three positives from that: 1) Three-match ban for Williams. 2) One game closer to Allardyce being binned off. 3) Tosun getting a start and scoring his first goal.
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Don’t get to Goodison quite as much as I used to after becoming a dad, but today I was there my old man, on his 63rd birthday, as he spotted a picture of himself with his grandson in the programme before Everton won. That’s what it’s all about 💙
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First time I’ve seen Jarrad Branthwaite in the flesh this season. Serious potential, there. Great on the ball, strong in the air and in the tackle, never looks flustered. Bit of John Stones about him. Going to be some player.
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Cannot get my head around Ross Barkley turning down a lucrative contract at his newly ambitious boyhood club. Madness. Sell him and move on.
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Difficult to get too excited about Townsend, but he’s experienced, cheap, has worked with Benitez, can use both feet and is a proper winger, rather than someone who can just do a job there. Wouldn’t surprise me if he ends up a much better signing than those who cost £20m+.
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Half a billion pounds to have 23 per cent possession. Incredible, really.
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Benitez would be an underwhelming, divisive appointment at a time when Everton fans - and the team - need energising. Moshiri should do everyone a favour and steer clear. Bit of opinion for
@MailSport
:
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Sacking the manager feels pointless at this stage. As much as I didn’t want him - and it was horrible having him in the dugout tonight - he’s been dealt a terrible hand with transfers and injuries. Back to square one (yet again) if he goes.
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Just a reminder that Steve Walsh spent £30m on Michael Keane rather than £17m on Harry Maguire 🙃
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Walked out after the fifth goal. Never left an Everton game early but that was a fucking shambles. As bad as anything under Martinez.
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Everything I’ve read about 777 Partners makes me think Farhad Moshiri is a better option as owner - and he’s been a complete disaster. What a mess Everton have become.
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Increasingly hard to care about the manager and many of these players. Used to the disappointment, but it just doesn’t feel like Everton anymore. Majority of last 18 months has been nothing short of pathetic.
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Big shout out to whoever put the Liverpool score - completely on its own - on repeat on the big screens after Niasse's goal.
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Just watched Koeman's presser. Says all the right things about Lukaku and Everton's ambitions. Great to have a manager who talks sense.
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Digne’s form has been up and down, but when he was on it - in the right system, under a manager who knew how to use him - he was one of our best, most creative players. A big loss and another worrying decision by Benitez and those above him.
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Former Everton target Mohammed Kudus making his first Premier League start today. Feel like we’ve seen this one before…
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Don't mind Lukaku talking about trophies, but it'd have been nice if he'd turned up at Wembley and helped give us the chance of winning one.
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Sean Dyche beating the league leaders 1-0 at a rocking Goodison in his first game in charge, thanks to a James Tarkowski header from a corner, is just perfect. Get in.
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Four to six weeks out for Calvert-Lewin. Everton heading for serious trouble again this season with no credible back-up option. Not enough goals in the team and Dom’s injury issues becoming a real worry.
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Embarrassing that Dyche continues to pick Keane over Mina (and Coady), just because he did a job for him at Burnley a few years ago. Complete liability.
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That being said, we coped terribly with 10 men. Couldn’t keep the ball and never really looked in the game despite going back in front. Not sure how Allan didn’t get on the pitch to try and tighten things up.
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You’ll never walk alone... unless you have an absolute ‘mare in a Champions League final.
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That looked like prime Dycheball before the own goal. Only 20% possession but twice as many shots on target as Brighton. Really unfortunate way to concede, but plenty of positives.
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£22million for a player of Gomes' quality in the current market is incredible business. The most talented all-round midfielder we've had in a long time.
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