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• You\'ve tried that line before Stephen - \"In Moyes we trust?\"rnrnWho the f*** has ever uttered those lines apart from you? rnrnIf you want to start up an appreciation club for Moyes, then enroll your dog so you are not on your own.rnrn...
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• The feedback or criticism of the TFG recruitment team is, and will be, based on outcomes. Their knowledge and competence will be demonstrated by results, not their CV. It is the same in any business when executives and senior managers are hired - the recruitment team have been in role for several months now and need to make progress on their targets. The January transfer window saw zero progress so pressure is on. Projections of potential recruitment spend under SCR range from 125-150 million based on commercial revenue; the headspace is there to sign players to fill positions where we have clear squad weaknesses - a right-back, central midfielder, winger and striker. Big 5 weeks for the recruitment team to deliver. No wait and see, time will tell, just be patient, it's a journey, small steps, consolidation, stability or happily dissatisfied. Did I miss any?...
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• What happened to IN MOYES WE TRUST and UTFT . remember he came back and saved us when we were on goal difference above the relegation zone 11th January LAST YEAR.You so called Everton supporters are so fickle its embarrassing....
  Stephen Campbell in Stoke City vs Everton - Match preview and team news
• Appreciate the thoughtful reply Jonathan.rnrn\'But one of the alternatives to what we have now is 3-4 players in whom we’ve overpaid for and aren’t good enough to get us where we want to be in 2-3 years\'rnrnDidn\'t we just put together an expensively assembled crack recruitment team precisely to stop this from happening? It\'s the recruiters who recruit not us. If Cox and co. are anywhere near as good as some say this should not happen again. rnrn\'What annoys me about all the hate being directed at TFG and our recruitment team is that there is no evidence that they don’t care and/or don’t know what they’re doing\'.rnrnErm, I for one have no \'hate\' at all for the \'recruitment team\', unless this is \'hate\': With a few weeks to go until the big kick-off we have yet to have a single scrap of evidence that this expensively assembled crack recruitment team is on top of things\".rnrnNot a single drop of hate there. Nor from just a...
  Paul Griffiths in Stoke City vs Everton - Match preview and team news
• Or, Paul... Rohl looked at a very crowded midfield situation where he is unlikely to be first choice... and brought up the idea to the manager himself. ...
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• Paul (10), you can be sick and tired all you want at the “be-patient” crowd, of which I am one. But one of the alternatives to what we have now is 3-4 players in whom we’ve overpaid for and aren’t good enough to get us where we want to be in 2-3 years. Every one of us could list the 10-20 players we brought in the past decade who didn’t cut it for one reason or another and whom we should never have brought in in the first place.rnrnWhat annoys me about all the hate being directed at TFG and our recruitment team is that there is no evidence that they don’t care and/or don’t know what they’re doing. Maybe both of those things are true, but last summer was not good evidence of that being the case, other than that I’m of the mind that Barry was not a good buy and Dibling an overpay. But recall we desperately needed a striker and winger, and there’s still a small chance Barry at his age comes good and a decent chance that Dibling does. But more to the point is that w...
  Jonathan Oppenheimer in Stoke City vs Everton - Match preview and team news