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The Holy Grail of the "next level" is probably already upon us, or at least we're moving towards it, but most of you are too wrapped up in your own miserable preconceived prejudices, you won't open your eyes to realise it.
The Club still isn't perfect, but which one is? The Trust still need a genuine revamp and refresh to communicate effectively to both Board and fans. The friendly game ticket prices is an example of this. But the overall picture is one of a Club getting back on track and improving. Nothing too much to shout about in isolation as the only was was up after the disaster of the last 2 years or so.
But nevertheless we're getting our act together. Off the pitch and since January, on it.
Commercially we will see the benefits, we have professionals involved, true business people with contacts who will increase revenue. Better sponsorships and business partners to be tapped into. The profile of SCFC is on the rise, more professional media interaction, website, Twitter, Facebook, more games being streamed, all on the up.
The football aspect will now follow. The U-23's had a tremendously successful season and our Academy and training facilities are now state of the art. This will only help everything we are trying to achieve.
Anyone one of us that has supported this Club back in the day, when we stop and think about things, will struggle to believe it's all actually been a true story.
We are 7 years - SEVEN YEARS - in the EPL and it's time now to quit the childish quips about "the Yanks" ; "the sell-outs" etc. What we've achieved, led by the old Board and now the new is nothing short of a miracle, it's phenomenal!! I have spent enough time voicing an angry opinion about the goings on of all concerned, but all said and done, they've done us proud.
The football squad we will take into the Premier League from now is arguably the best since we've been here.
Goalkeeper - as solid as we could hope for and Fab is Swansea's no. 1 without a shadow of a doubt. The way we accumulate GK's should mean at least one of them will be good enough to step in if he's ever injured ;-)
Defence - Been a revelation under Clement as we now defend as a team with responsibility for this aspect on every player. Naughts comes in for ridiculous stick but for me he's completely dependable. Everyone loves to scapegoat and bully somebody. Naughts gets too much of this. Cover at full back would've been great but it didn't happen and he won't let us down - same as he didn't last season. Fede and Maws have now formed a strong partnership and have enjoyed playing alongside each other for some time and are growing very strong. I love Olsson, he's as competitive as they come, the sheer determination in everything he does is infectious. We've also got ball players right along the back and we can now adapt perfectly well to a 3-5-2 with Bartley and VdH able to step in when needed. Rangel is an able deputy and Clucas can cover the left. We are solid at the back.
Midfield - We will be very strong and competitive in midfield this season. The signing of Sanches is truly unbelievable and exciting and the options we now have in this area are plentiful - off the bench too. I'm sure Clement and the Board would've loved to add another wider player but we won't be held ransom and pay massively over the odds - that's not good business. Carroll has been outstanding since coming in, Clucas has fitted in with ease and technically just what we need, these 2 will keep the ball flowing freely and accurately all around the park, with Carroll more than adept at set pieces and corners. Fer, Ki and Mesa all have genuine claims of fighting for a first XI slot and Ayew can play deeper or wide to provide options. Leon's still about as are Routs, Narsingh and Dyer so we're not having to rely on the old guard like we did last season, and these boys will still have something to offer as the season goes on, I'm sure of that. Southampton have made Europe on squads similar to ours and we can genuinely aim to look a lot higher up the league than we could this time last season, as far as up as that remains to be seen, but why not.
Up front - Bony, Tammy and Ayew is our strongest front line since the EPL without a shadow of doubt. Bony, in my opinion, is the missing piece in the jigsaw, he has the exact qualities we've been crying out for and Llorente could simply not provide. I think the 3 can play together in a 4-3-3 with Bony in the middle and Tammy and Ayew either side. It won't be Tammy's preferred option, same as it isn't for Rashford, bit it's a genuine alternative option for us.
Options are good and options we now have in abundance.
Manager - Clement has been inch perfect since he's come in and all the options mentioned above, he makes them a reality. His coaching is second to none and the team is able to adapt to any of his demands. He'll also get us playing more football this season and our style of play will be unrecognisable from the sheer tedium of last year.
Next level? We're getting there if not arrived already, so let's see it for what it is, embrace the changes and enjoy what's going to be a bloody good season of football with some outstanding talent on show.
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I am the resurrection and i am the light. I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as i’d like
In fairness Chris. it was months ago you called me a beaut first, and that was the most polite of terms you used. In regards to the Paypal thing I have trialled a VPN which seems to have cured the original problem , so that one is on the back burner. For the moment at least ...
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination" - Mark Twain
Exactly, and Mesa could really help here. He's been ticking us over nicely in midfield and getting us up to speed and gets dropped out of sight for no reason whatsoever.
I'd like to string Clement up for this.
People go on about the Siggy money but we've got £11m of that outcasted.
* BOX OFFICE POST ABOVE* TM
I am the resurrection and i am the light. I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as i’d like
A back four, with Mesa patrolling in front of them keeping the ball moving as part of a midfield trio with Abraham and Ayew (or Dyer) playing off Wilf. It's not what we had back in 2013, but it's a start and should be a lot more palatable than we've got now.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 04:37 - Dec 4 with 3175 views
I said it at the time, Siggy to us was worth more than £50m even. I knew we wouldn't properly replace him, and we didn't. Hopefully that'll be rectified in January, but I strongly doubt it will.
As for him just being a set piece merchant, just more little res bbullsshitt as always:
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 06:02 - Dec 4 with 3150 views
Is that the sum total of his first 4 months at Everton then?. Three goals? As much as the Res has "miscalculated" over this ill advised and conceived thread I don't think his views over Siggurdsson were ever far off the money. It's the rest of it that's come crashing down.
Each time I go to Bedd - au........................
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 17:07 - Dec 4 with 3025 views
It's not his value to any other club that concerned, it's what he and Llorente may have brought to our team this season. These two players value to us is immeasurable. We all know this is hypothetical, as those two would probably have gone in the summer anyway. However, to suggest that we have benefited more through the £60 million than we would have if both had been part of our squad this season is clearly an ill-founded argument.
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination" - Mark Twain
Despite his predictably crap start in a lopsided Everton team he still has three times as many goals as the midfielders we brought in this summer.
Most sensible posters, who don't have a weird agenda against a player who was nothing but brilliant for us, agreed that £45m was outstanding business. The only concern was our ability to source effective replacements, which has sadly proven valid.
The Res has been wrong on nearly every footballing matter as this thread proves and it's only through abusive persistence that he strung along a merry band of eejits with him. You included, Bryn.
I get it, you don't like Siggy. We've been over that many times.
The guy is class, though, and despite no pre-season and being set up in a shoddy, formation-less formation for most of the season, he has still shown more than flashes of that class.
Now we're beginning to see it regularly, just as I said before the season started. It would take time with so many new players, and I thought Everton would be smart enough to sign a target man.
Either way, I'd rather have Siggy than Clucas/Sanches, it's a no-brainer. We definitely wouldn't be bottom of the table with 8 ffukkingg goals, no doubt.
To each his own, though.
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 20:32 - Dec 8 with 2694 views
He was desperate to leave. Whether he refused to go to America and play for us, or whether that was the club protecting their windfall, he made it abundantly clear he didn’t want to be a Swansea City player this season.
After that, how well or not he does at Everton or how much he would improve our current team is pretty much irrelevant. It was simply about how much we could get for him, as it had to be.
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 20:43 - Dec 8 with 2663 views
Res intitial post looks odd now, especially looking at the comments regarding Naughton, a full back, who can't really put his foot through the ball, jump and head a ball nor put over a basic cross .Blown Way every time
Or maybe the club could have invested in a far better number 10 for half the price and we wouldn’t be discussing this. Siggy has a wand of a right boot but when’s he’s unable to get a strike away or whip a ball into the box he offers nothing.
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 21:35 - Dec 8 with 2563 views
You'd swear we dismantled a top six side the way some are hailing Siggy and Llorente's worth to our side. Fact is, we stayed up by the skin of our teeth, some would even say by luck! They both wanted out FACT! We needed a new direction FACT! We got the transfer money to take that new direction FACT! We fvckin blew it FACT! End of story, let's stop going around in circles ffs!
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Our Football Club - Better in Every Department. Welcome to the Next Level on 21:48 - Dec 8 with 2509 views
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