Vlasic Sr frustrated by Nikola's demotion from Everton first team

He can only hope (just like the supporters), that Allardyce is shown the door sooner rather than later.

Sam has it so tough... NOT!

Without setting the world alight, Vlasic has shown glimpses of class in his few appearances and enough to suggest he could be a real asset with Leighton behind him.

With no real evidence to back it up, I wonder if he is a bit of a trouble maker? If I were him I'd keep working hard and ask his father and sister to stay out of it.

Ouch.

What he says is fundamentally right whether he has a vested interest or not.

As for Vlasic himself, I see a very good player, I think he's been grossly mis-managed, but then again that ain't saying much under the clowns we've had in charge this season.

Vlasic could be a Number 10, and deffo could play wide right, quick feet in tight spaces and often retains the ball better than most.

I'd be more than happy to see him play off Tosun come Saturday.

If your own old man doesn't believe you deserve to be playing then you must be proper pish (you know it's true, Paul Dalglish). Even Nobby Nash must have kicked off about his Carlos not getting a chance on occasion: "Fucking wasting your life away playing Sudoku every Saturday, son. Sort yourself out!"

I agree with John (#7) – play him off Tosun, he maybe just needs to be trusted with a run of games in a settled position. Oh, and rest Wayne and play Beni as defensive midfielder if Gana is unfit.

As his father has said, we need to concentrate more on developing our young players. It seems once they get into the first team squad, their development suffers and most of them go backwards.

Dowel, Holgate, Kenny, Calvert-Lewin, Lookman, Galloway, Browning, Pennington, Connolly and even Davis have all struggled at some point and have either been loaned out or left on the bench.

Surely we can concentrate some resources to keep them developing. Why should we pay out big money as in the last transfer window where only two players, Pickford and Sigurdsson have performed anywhere near their best.

Our U23s won the Premier League 2 last season yet what have we got to show for it? What's the use of Walsh bringing in all these young players of late if none of them are going to be given a fair chance?

Sam will not trust the youngsters, but once we are safe I hope Moshiri will remove an auld arse like Sam from the club. Hopefully a new manager will have a good look at all the young players at the club and start playing some of them, even from the bench.

He has talent, but in a poor team, with no confidence and no definite style.of play, he has struggled also.

But, all players have struggled, yet continue to play.

His being dropped appears to be only cause of his age. But players like him are what offer hope.

Him, Lookman, Davies, Baningime, Dowell, Holgate, Calvert-Lewin, maybe one or two more. These can be integral members of our squad for 5 or 6 years or longer. We should play them.

He was well regarded at Hajduk Split and has been capped as a full international so there will be local interest in where his career is going. His sister is another celebrity sportsperson so the family are pretty high profile.

Didn't his father come over to help him settle over here? You'd expect he would continue to support his son in any way he can. The tone of the interview doesn't seem particularly shrill or overly critical of the club.

He is right that we aren't capable of attracting the very best at the peak of their careers, even if we had the money required.

He's right about youth as well. We need to identify and develop a 𧴜m player. Maybe Vlasic can be such a player. We only find out if he plays regularly.

Sure, he shouldn't start every game, in fact he'd be on the bench for me, but I'd be giving him games and a chance to impress regularly. He should have played more when the games were coming thick and fast in the autumn.

The Sooner the buffoon leaves the better.

I mean, Roma, Lazio, Monaco, Atletico, Shaktar, Sevilla, Valencia, Dortmund etc, these are the type of teams that buy young players cheap and actually develop them... and where the fuck has that ever got them.

Dead right. Lets keep buying £20+ million, £150k a week, 27-year-old players who no-one playing in the Champions League wants... £8 million with potential – que absurd. Tell him to fuck right off!

If Everton fielded a team of 7 - 8 youngsters and lost heavily (as they possibly would do) what would be the reaction?

The youth set up at Everton is one if not the best in the country, and I for one am very proud of that. But it is taking romantic notions just too far thinking we can be a top six club by playing homegrown / bargain buys. We have to by big and buy well.

Top class youngsters do come through every so often. The challenge is nurturing them and then getting them to step up. The real class home grown best buy world class players we have brought through you can count on one hand: Rooney (wonderful freak of nature), Coleman (bargain of the century) Barkley (tragically mismanaged).

Outside that we have Tom Davies who at 19, might yet break though as a really top, top player if managed well, lucky with injuries and keeps his commitment and perspective.

I agree Vlasic has, like Baningime and possibly Lookman been underused and cut loose prematurely, but in these monied times, even Calvert-Lewin, Kenny, Holgate and Dowell who may become squad regulars, I sadly doubt will break through to the real big time level.

I hope I am wrong, and all the youngsters will achieve success and a good living, but to rely solely on youngsters is too much to expect these days.

This manager has said he will not play too many, however many that is, youngsters and prefers players in the 27 to 30 years of age bracket, not a word about ability. So I suppose Pickford, Davies and Calvert-Lewin is the quota.

He is using EFC to increase his bank balance; he knows, we know and the board all know he was brought in till the end of the season, but his greedy corrupt mind wanted money, money, money!!!!! This bloke has not earned even 10% of his salary – he is a joke!!!!!

Get rid of this prick, get rid of our deadwood players, and start using the talent we have at our club. We are a disgrace and a laughing stock!!!!

Come on Everton Football Club, have some balls and get the club set up now for next season!!!

Allardyce – Out
Fonseca – In
Martina – Out
Williams – Out
Schneiderlin – Out

Hope and pray for a new start and maybe a bit of success!!!

Nicola is a grown up and, as a grown up, it seems a little infantilising to have your dad fighting your battles in the press; doesn't matter if he is the Prime Minister or the host of who wants to be a millionaire, the Pele of his country or a greengrocer.

It's lovely for your dad to have your back and that he cares about his son I respect, but Nicola is a man doing a job, he needs to find his own way and perhaps will do so to greater effect without high profile daddy ‘telling it like it is' in the press.

He's a good player, but goes missing when out of possession.

That our young prospects which for me gave a glimpse of possibly a golden-era (see Premier League 2 champs – Baningime, Davies, Calvert-Lewin) would be decimated (see Lookman, Vlasic, Sandro, Holgate) and would be replaced with "seasoned" types collecting a wedge and bothering only when they are bothered (see Schneiderlin, Walcott, Wilshere? Jones??)

I also noted that we would be playing something that would resemble Rugby League more than attractive attacking football and that the odious crook would stink the place out

Lookman who was "homesick" at Goodison forced a move to a foreign country of whose language he cannot speak and the fact FS revealed on the night of Leicester game that players were banging on his door to get out

I see nothing to change my mind and won't next season either as, if Fat Sam is in charge, I will avert my gaze (for first time in 35 years) and it will be the League of Ireland for me, thanks!

Which funny enough is the only league this oaf ever had any success in.

Depressing.

He hasn't shown too much to warrant a starting place and has someone else said has a tendency to go missing in games

Yet another Koeman/Walsh 'no-hoper'!

Regarding the issue of youngsters, I agree with him. One of the (many) things that has annoyed me is the older players brought in. When we sold Lukaku, we should have had the next quality young forward lined up. On top of this, the pressure that comes with not having a decent centre-forward, has meant that we've cleared out half of the youngsters because we can't risk playing them.

Anyway, something needs to change, and we have bigger problems than the fathers of the youngsters we have brought mouthing off. I don't want Allardyce to stay, but maybe if he was on a longer term contract, and had been told to develop the youngsters, he'd be putting more effort in to doing just that.

I respect his Dad for sticking up for his son but he needs a reality check.

There are others such as Schneiderlin and Williams who should not be in the squad when there are other options available, Regardless of what their Mum and Dads think.

Pssst, seems he actually was asked for his opinion after all. Read the article first, then comment.

But, then again, I could never understand the favouritism of Calvert-Lewin over Lookman, who I think, given the same games, would have contributed more than Dominic.

With most of these situations, translation is often a bit off, but nobody can argue with what he's said here, and, if this is the extent of his quotes, he hasn't actually said anything about his son moving to a "better club".

On Vlasic not looking like a world beater in his handful of appearances, who in the Everton squad has? There certainly isn't 11 players that fit that category, and some truly ineffective players have spent a lot of time on the pitch this season.

My advice is, having made the wrong move in signing for Everton, follow the example of Lookman and look for a loan move to a better footballing club and use it as a shop window to get a contract away from Everton. Don't let them destroy your reputation like Niasse, who will be gone in the Summer having resurrected it, against the odds. Klaassen will be thinking the same.

If Big Sam is not replaced at the end of this season, make it an absolute priority. You will have other young unsettled players round you at the moment but, in your first-team appearances, you have looked a Premier League-level player.

No, we're still no great shakes at the moment, we all know, but, sorry 'Daddy', your style of 'My boy! My boy!' spouting shows a total lack of respect for our club.. no-one's a shoe-in, especially a young lad, albeit that he's a 'prospect' who's been admittedly unlucky in chances and the team he's had to play in.

Some respect is, however, still in order, please. Sometimes, things just have to be 'ridden out'. Simple answers have sadly proved beyond us this season, but there it is.. the vast majority of us should, and I'm sure DO.. know that.

So I think he would be better to ask where he needs to improve to get in the squad. Klaassen being a higher profile player than Vlasic has just said nothing and got on with things. I think Vlasic would be better following Klaassen's example.

Davies, for instance, looked an exciting player when first breaking through, but has been off the boil for some time, yet he still commands a starting place. This may cause some resentment with players unable to get a game. Perhaps rotating fringe players is the answer, until the players selected consistently put in high-level performances. Alternatively a loan spell with a decent club, and regular playing time, might be the best route for Vlasic to prove himself.

He has shown enough promise in his limited first team appearances so far to suggest that there is much more to come from this youngster.