Shogun

1,2 Everton's coming for you. 3,4 Probably not... will be tough for Chelsea this, City and Liverpool have both lost there and Everton and Arsenal could only manage draws. Still expecting Chelsea to squeeze through though.

Walker has been poor all season. Parker is out of position all the time, we'd need to play two in that area if he was to play. Jagielka is better than Cahill.

Hart Johnson Jagielka Cahill Baines Walcott Carrick Wilshere ? Young Rooney Out with the old I say. That's not to say the old isn't good enough, we just need to move on.

Don't know how you can say that after we've just beat an established European side 8-0. I don't see who can challenge us now, before the weekend I said Finland but they couldn't even beat Spain so they've got no chance.

Sadly we don't get that in this country.

Baines is better an Cole. *Awaits onslaught*

go for it lol

Do you think McLeish will succeed at the Bridge next season?

Whatever happened to Assier Del Horno?

some of you with obsessions over man united are embarrassing.

Don't believe anything those money grabbing skanks try to sell. Fellaini wouldn't speak a word of English at that time.

Because he was being man marked by Phil Jones who totally nullified Bale a couple of weeks ago too.

They were, I posted the full story a page back in a daily mail article with the full story. Seriously, some people believe anything the papers say. Notice how they missed the part where he says there's no release clause too.

You won't have seen this because sky sports only run Fellaini stories about him leaving. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2275457/Marouane-Fellaini-released-clause-denied.html#axzz2KKahCeRN "If I do end up leaving, it would be up to the club to decide on the price. I have all sorts of clauses in my contract, but there is no fixed fee for releasing me"

I've not been on much this month but noticed Stingray's name a fair bit which can only be a good thing (unless its Kojo, it's usually a bad thing when I notice some of his posts )

net spend means more than spend.

What Jolly Ollie said.

He is old enough to order a pint, probably the problem...

Yeah you screwed that up.

Don't talk about things you don't know.I posted this is the Rafa out thread but I suppose it's better here... The only argument against Moyes being a top manager is for a club like Everton he should have won a trophy, yet most people don't realise just how shit we were when he took over and the following proves that. He took over at the near on end of the 2001-02 season and here are the finishes we had not long before that. 96/97 - 15th 97/98 - 17th 98/99 - 14th 99/00 - 13th 00/01 - 16th 01/02 - 15th Considering in his first season, first XI was: ------------------------------Richard Wright----------------------------- Tony Hibbert------David Weir---------Alan Stubbs----David Unsworth Thomas Gravesen----Li Tie----------Lee Carsley-----Gary Naismith--- ---------------Thomasz Radzinski-------Kevin Campbell---------------- That team was somehow guided to 7th place in Moyes' first proper season, you look at that team and let's be honest it is a relegation team which was reflected the next season when we finished 17th in 03-04 Then we finished 4th in the 04-05 season when we were one of the favourites for relegation and had sold Rooney to Manchester United. Now, lets be honest here that's an absolutely amazing thing to do after finishing 17th and selling your best player for £27m and only spending £8m to cover it in transfers. I don't think many managers could have done that. After crashing out of the champions league qualifiers to a very tough draw against Villareal we finished 11th the following year. After that we had succession of top six finishes for 4 years before finishing 8th, 7th and 7th which brings us up to now. Consider that when David Moyes took over, we'd only finished in the top ten once since the premier league began. In 10 years on a shoe string budget (5.6m net spend since he arrived) he has 8 top 8 finishes under his belt. David Moyes has transformed Everton into an competitive side in my opinion. Sometimes in cups you need luck, had we beat Fiorentina on penalties in 07 we'd have faced PSV in the quarter finals of the Uefa Cup in the 07-08 season and who knows what could have happened from there considering we had already beat the eventual winners. We could have won the FA Cup in 09 but just came short. You look at the team I posted at the top and if I told you at the time that Everton would be competing for Europe regularly in ten years time with a net spend of around £5m in the next ten years then I'm pretty sure all of us would be amazed. I think all that is worth a lot more than a few cup wins. What do you think Birmingham City would have preferred, the league cup or the above? However, I really can't see Moyes going to Chelsea, one thing he often eludes to is that he has a perfect relationship with Bill Kenwright, our chairman. I don't think he believes that Roman could offer the same thing. As for the style of football, the better players he has, the better the football. we've played some great stuff this season.

The only argument against Moyes being a top manager is for a club like Everton he should have won a trophy, yet most people don't realise just how shit we were when he took over and the following proves that. He took over at the near on end of the 2001-02 season and here are the finishes we had not long before that. 96/97 - 15th 97/98 - 17th 98/99 - 14th 99/00 - 13th 00/01 - 16th 01/02 - 15th Considering in his first season, first XI was: ------------------------------Richard Wright----------------------------- Tony Hibbert------David Weir---------Alan Stubbs----David Unsworth Thomas Gravesen----Li Tie----------Lee Carsley-----Gary Naismith--- ---------------Thomasz Radzinski-------Kevin Campbell---------------- That team was somehow guided to 7th place in Moyes' first proper season, you look at that team and let's be honest it is a relegation team which was reflected the next season when we finished 17th in 03-04 Then we finished 4th in the 04-05 season when we were one of the favourites for relegation and had sold Rooney to Manchester United. Now, lets be honest here that's an absolutely amazing thing to do after finishing 17th and selling your best player for £27m and only spending £8m to cover it in transfers. I don't think many managers could have done that. After crashing out of the champions league qualifiers to a very tough draw against Villareal we finished 11th the following year. After that we had succession of top six finishes for 4 years before finishing 8th, 7th and 7th which brings us up to now. Consider that when David Moyes took over, we'd only finished in the top ten once since the premier league began. In 10 years on a shoe string budget (5.6m net spend since he arrived) he has 8 top 8 finishes under his belt. David Moyes has transformed Everton into an competitive side in my opinion. Sometimes in cups you need luck, had we beat Fiorentina on penalties in 07 we'd have faced PSV in the quarter finals of the Uefa Cup in the 07-08 season and who knows what could have happened from there considering we had already beat the eventual winners. We could have won the FA Cup in 09 but just came short. You look at the team I posted at the top and if I told you at the time that Everton would be competing for Europe regularly in ten years time with a net spend of around £5m in the next ten years then I'm pretty sure all of us would be amazed. I think all that is worth a lot more than a few cup wins. What do you think Birmingham City would have preferred, the league cup or the above? However, I really can't see Moyes going to Chelsea, one thing he often eludes to is that he has a perfect relationship with Bill Kenwright, our chairman. I don't think he believes that Roman could offer the same thing.

Can't see you getting through here lads, on e bright side though at least the fat Spanish waiter will be one step closer to leaving.

Surreal story with Marouane here from a kopite (but don't let that put you off) http://marouaneandmebyfeeneyone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/ding-dong.html?m=1

He said he's signing a five year contract when he turns 18 too.

He's a quiet guy who just loves playing football. doesn't seem money orientated, He's married with two kids (I think the oldest is about nine). I think he's put his family first in life, realises he has a dream 'job' and loves where he is. There's nothing wrong with that.