Baningime's loan to Blackpool falls through

I think wages are an issue and we would prefer a permanent solution that Blackpool are not interested in at this stage.

A shame because it appears another young player has suffered from injury in the crucial years of development from youth to senior player.

We literally can't give them away whilst other clubs fringe players go for millions.

Hopefully he can continue his career injury free and you never know he may get a chance elsewhere very soon.

Now.. Where's that world class incoming player we have been waiting to hear all about..

This club is cursed, I tell ya!

We manage to get Tosun on loan to Palace, he does reasonably well, raising our expectations that we might be able to sell him and recover a decent amount of his fee, but he gets a season-ending injury.

And Baningimie, who I thought did brilliantly when he was first introduced into the senior team, has horrible luck with injuries, and looks like his career at the top rung of football is over before it started.

Then the injuries to Gbamin, Gomes, Delph and Mina last season. Surely, we are due for a change in fortunes. Things can't get any worse, can they?

Ajay, I don't care that people laugh at this, but I honestly think the club has Hex on it, and has done for years.

Ajay and Joe,

We do seem to have a terrible injury problem over the last few decades.

In no particular order, these are some of the players that have been injured for a minimum of 6 months over the last 10ish years – this is just from memory if I haven't got the precise injury or time span (I'm sure others can think of more):

Gomes
Bolasie
Tosun
Besic
Baningime
Gbamin
Coleman
Barkley
Rodwell
Vaughan
Kone
McCarthy
Anichebe
Oviedo
Baines
Mirallas
Gibson - poor injury record before we got him.
Funes Mori?
Delph - same as Gibson
Arteta - missed FA Cup Final
Jagielka - missed FA Cup Final
Yakubu
Niasse - mysterious wrist action
Mangala - on loan from Man City
Lacina Traore???

Can probably add some others also.

I know other clubs get injuries, but I can never remember the RS for example (and others) having so many long term injuries.

Blackpool probably had second thoughts as he can't get a look in at Everton and apparently they are currently as good as Everton so they need players to improve them not rejects from rivals

KK at 5 – that's funny but true...

We're not jinxed, we're just a badly run club from top to bottom..

Fans who never give up dreaming because they can still vaguely remember the distant past of the glory years... but that generation of fans is dying the same slow death of the clubs itself.

The next generations will only have history books and videos to source from.<,/p>

They will find it incomprehensible that once upon a time, Everton was the biggest most successful team on Merseyside, envied by all, feared and respected by the top teams...

I can't help thinking, the whole young player loan/development thing is getting rather complex, distracting and energy-sapping, for little to no obvious reward.

"We do seem to have a terrible injury problem over the last few decades".

I agree here, Nick, and one has to wonder about the regime at the club (recently discussed on TW). Some years back, Arsenal were in a phase of this, almost the whole team seemed prone to constant injury, and repeat problems upon return. I don't know how it resolved, but there was obviously a systemic problem at the time.

I would say though, mostly last decade perhaps, as opposed to decades, it's been most pronounced then.

Mark, #6, you could add to that last paragraph, and then Kenwright took over.

We must have the worst injury record in the Premier League. I would be looking at the training methods, there never seems to be a month goes by before somebody else gets injured.

Nick #4 - Traore I think. On loan, cup match, scored, got injured, never played again and loan finished.

And you also missed Danny Williamson.

Tend to agree, Everton are cursed in so many ways. Nothing ever seems to work out well.

They pay over the odds for over-the-hill players and even then they get annoying injuries that seem to recur over and over. Since the wonderful Kendall side of the Eighties, they have basically struggled to keep on track with the other big clubs.

Apart from one or two nice wins against the RS and one FA Cup, win the last 30 years have been unremarkable. There are some extenuating circumstances, mainly financial, of course, but the managers in that time have been woeful in their management of the squads they had and the players they brought in.

It would appear that things are going that way again, although surely not with a manager of Ancelotti's experience, but we have grown tired of all the optimism we get before every new season begins.

Can we be pleasantly surprised for once?