Sheaf Saint

If the taters could at least just realise that Perraud is not pronounced "Peru", that would be an instant improvement.

D'ough!

That was so soft but the ref had no choice really. Idiotic from Valery.

So good o see Stu playing. We've missed him so badly.

Beautiful through ball from Tella.

Only game today that's gone to ET as well. Quite surprising.

Case in point - that Palace goal would have been rightly disallowed for offside.

Millwall taking full advantage of there being no VAR so far. Will be a miracle if this game finishes 11 v 11.

I saw this thread had been updated and immediately assumed it meant he has agreed to go on loan somewhere, which I would have been upset about. Good news indeed. There's a lot more to come from this lad, I'm sure of it.

Is there a presser for this game today? And has there been any more word from Swansea about chances of game being postponed etc.?

Lewis Dobbin is the one that sticks out from that list to me. He's good mates with my nephew and I've watched a lot of him in the Everton U23s. Huge potential there. The consensus on the GOT forum at the moment is that the senior players aren't earning their wages so surely there's nothing to lose by trying out the youngsters instead, and they would have a total meltdown if we poached another of their hot academy prospects just as he's staking a claim for a first team place. So it would be worth us putting in a cheeky bid just for that really 😂

There are undoubtedly multiple flaws and biases in the British mainstream media, and I'm not for one second going to try and argue that we have a completely free and transparent press, but Serbia is on an entirely different level... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_freedom_in_Serbia

That was an exceptional case due to the relocation of the club. When Hull tried to change their name to Hull City Tigers a few years ago, they were blocked by the league.

Somebody mentioned that Brentford have managed a £140m profit on player sales in recent years. With their emphasis on sticking with our current model of buying young talent, I imagine there are some gains to he made there from us as well.

IIRC we signed Bertrand on a permanent deal from Chelsea in the Jan window a few years ago, which none of us expected and thought was too good to be true. Stranger things have happened.

The fact that he took over a Leicester team with pretty much the same squad that had won the PL in the previous year and finished 9th with 47 points suggests otherwise.

Looks like the countries are burying the hatchet and forming a political alliance anyway... https://www.euronews.com/2021/12/22/albania-north-macedonia-and-serbia-hold-talks-at-open-balkan-summit

Hopefully he doesn't turn out to be a false Dragan, and he can channel the one power to make us invincible.

It's a little more complicated than just two governments disagreeing, but I get your point. Hopefully Broja is savvy enough to recognise that this guy is not personally responsible for the historical atrocities committed against a country in which he wasn't even born and that hating every Serbian because of it is irrational and absurd.

Digne wants out of Everton for CL football and we don't need another LB. Not happening. Alli will want more money than we would be willing to pay and if he goes anywhere this window it will be to Newcastle. Johnstone would be an upgrade on what we already have but I reckon we could find a better option.

Yeah fair point. Although, and I don't ever see this scenario actually arising, if the PL's decision to grant us a postponement on the basis of not enough senior players all hinged on whether or not Small was classed as a senior player, it would be hard for us to argue that he isn't if we've listed him in the first team on the OS. But anyway, this is veering into the realms of so unlileky that it's not worth worrying about. And as it happens, I wouldn't be bothered at all if we were forced to rely on playing Small due to other players being missing. He's a big talent and I'm quite surprised he hasn't featured already.

Erm.....

Oh FFS please just stop it. Please. Today is a (hopefully) good day and we should all be focussing on that rather than engaging in some churlish online dick fight.

For the love of God, please can we leave the pathetic squabbling out of this of all threads?