Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

All About The Money?

Not wanting to piss on anyone's chips but why are some Everton supporters acting as if we have achieved some incredible feat by finishing above Liverpool?

They spanked us three times this past season: once at Wembley and another in the most embarrasing one-sided defeat at Anfield I have ever had the misfortune to watch.

I don't want to hear it to be honest; it makes us look like a Wigan or a Bolton. A small-time club with small-time mentality. I am still in shock over Wembley to be celebrating over such a trivial matter as this.

For years now I have argued on here that the football we have played under Moyes has been diabolical... only to be met with "We need money to get players in to play the football. Without loads of cash, it's impossible to play any other way; DM's hands are tied."

You see, you can't play proper joined-up footy unless you spend billions on players, they say.

Well since the January window there has been an amazing transformation in the way we play (except v Liverpool that is) and it's been done on the cheap, very cheap.

Jelavic (£5M), Gibson (£3M), and Pienaar (on loan... but let's call him a £5m player) have proven that, if you get the tactics right and set out in games in the right frame of mind, you can do it. So all this nonsense about needing a bottomless pit of dosh just to stop the longball game has been exposed as bullshit.

I am not saying you don't need money to win the title or qualify for the Champions League or even
win the FA Cup because you do... but what I am saying is that I and many others have been right all along when it comes to the disastrous way we have played for years. The typical defence of it was the 'no money' scenario.

So come on tell me now that unless we have a Suger Daddy the long ball is all we can expect to see.Please tell me there are no players in the world that dont cost the earth that cant improve this current squad.The money defence has fallen flat on its face and I for one am made up.

Moyes has been slaughtered by me on TW in the past but I must say he deserves all the credit in the world for the acquisitions of Jelavic & Gibson ? brilliant bits of buying. These two players and the Pienaar loan have surpassed what we all thought possible ? and they cost buttons. Go figure it out.
£12M worth of talent transforming us over night.

Now though the cat is out of the bag in terms of the style we play so can Moyes maintain and expand this new found exciting brand of football or will he revert to type next season.Did Davey really send us out to play this way or did it just happen because the players knew better?

It has been a great finish in terms of results but none of it really matters as the big important games we had this season were all chucked away. No-one but City and Utd fans will remember a 4 - 4 draw at Old Trafford, will they? Who will care that we scored 4 goals three times in a row in April?

At the end of the day, we threw away what could've been a decent season and it's this inabilty to rise to the challenge of Liverpool and the other major sides on the road that needs sorting out next season.

Go and enjoy the summer by all means but let's not kid ourselves that this has been a fantastic season as the first half of it was the worst I have ever known... It did get better and there is light at the end of the tunnel but the manager has to keep on the right tracks if he can....

Money ? who needs it?

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