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Where to start? Such an interesting and lively thread.

Actually, it’s easy.

That was one of the best posts I have read on here for ages Darrel (4).

Conversely, does anyone else roll their eyes – or something worse – when reading sanctimonious codswallop from Mr. Bentley (44) and the like, telling us to ‘cheer up’ and erm ‘chill’? This is hardly helped when the same Mr. Bentley reassures us that ‘transfer activity … always happens later in the window’, when in fact there is no sacred reason why wheeling and dealing cannot happen earlier, even in a World Cup year.

Phillip Warrington (10): Moyes is not the one who missed chance after chance and made mistake after mistake which led to most goals scored against us.

This is perhaps one of the most trite and shallow ‘defences’ of the manager. Yes, needless to say, players miss chances and make mistakes. But to tweak your words if I may PW, Moyes ‘made mistake after mistake’ in picking the same players in the same position game after game after game. To wit, his absolute dereliction of duty over the last seven games of the season in his inexplicable rigidity over selection, setting up, and substitutions. Moyes, Mr. Warrington, cost us a place in Europe, not your easy and convenient swerve to players.

Erm, Mr. Connolly (35): this last season was not ‘a big improvement for us relative to the last few seasons’. Let me remind you. We spent around 160 million on players in the 2025 summer window. In 2025-2026 we finished in the same position as in 2024-2025 – 13th – with one more point, five more goals scored and six more goals conceded. ‘Big improvement’ right?

In 2023-2024 – taking away the deduction – we would have ended up in 12th with seven less goals scored and one more goal conceded than in the last season, and one – one – point less. ‘Big improvement’ right?

Mike, I have NEVER accused or inferred you have ever been a Trump supporter – far from it, but they exist in the hundreds of thousands muppet millions in your country.

Your “ten-year” claim of rebuffing me is bizarre. When your wife was trapped in Wuhan for months due to Covid I was explicitly and repeatedly supportive of you both on TW. I’ve also been explicitly supportive of you re Jewry on TW, for years.

You have chosen to extol Friedkin to every TW reader, always.

All I’m seeking from you is a credible explanation as to what hard evidence, rather than mere hope, underpins your opinion?

Trump fans, unlike you, would just avoid such a question because answering it would expose their blind stupidity in supporting him, so what information underpins your support for Friedkin please?

All the best.

Annika, Carlo coming to Everton was a very $pecific $et of circum$tances enabled by the financial contribution of the not-yet-$anctioned U$manov to make the offer irre$i$table. (I tru$t I’m not being too $ubtle here.) If I recall correctly, Carlo’s magic number was £14 million a year.

I’m just assuming Glasner’s perspective here, but we’re a project just launched 19 months ago, with a newly-cemented management team and still a deeply imperfect squad to work with. Milan has a very recent history of success and several of the world’s top 100 players, and they’re a hell of a lot closer to making the Champions League than we are.

And besides, involved ownership is not always attractive to a manager — quite the contrary, if you ask Mou, Conte, Tuchel and Nuno among many others. Glasner himself has had publicly antagonistic relationships with management at Wolfsburg and Eintracht.

Folks, if you’re ever curious as to why I have never acknowledged Don Alexander in 10 years, that post is a perfect example.

As if “with respect” were anything but a sarcastic overture to a snotty, sneering comment that includes a poorly veiled accusation that I’m a Trump supporter, he actually expects a reply.

Not likely.

Michael, what is the connection between Neco Williams and Everton? Genuine question.