Coleman to consider another year at Everton

He's still capable of playing in the Premier League, but only one game a week at most.

Pre-season trip to Donegal.

Every time I waited for photos and signatures, Seamus would be there for an hour and a half or more, signing, posing and chatting to us waiting fans. I hope he signs and plays as much as he can.

If Dyche does not fancy Patterson, sell him or loan him out to a Championship team were he will get plenty of action.

We need a new young fitter right back (we actually need two). I get the sentiment but we need to move on. We have been here so many times, time for change IMO.

We all respect Seamus but this club is known for giving charity contracts. Everyone is clamouring for ruthless, hard-headed business decisions regarding recruitment, so we can't be living in the past and offering a contract to a player who will probably be unfit for half the season.

Seamus will sign another yearly contract. Already in the bag.

Probably the only sticking point is the terms involved. I don't know about you but I reckon we should weigh him in around the £60k per week mark!

Basically during the 2021-22 season, an effort was made to cut back the squad to come within PSR with no other cost control measures. In the 2022-23 season, with still no other cost control measures, doubled the losses, probably causing a breach of PSR once again, with the bonus of 97% wages. We are heading into 2023-24 with no change in cost control measures and trending even bigger losses. Next season, we are looking at a 9-point deduction for Administration and a further PSR point deduction.

Seamus who will never retire, and Evertonians being asked to believe the above sop tells you everything about this club of ours.

So on that basis, give him a 2-year contract and sell him on at Christmas.

Even a Saudi Prince with learning difficulties would know that you don't buy a 53-year-old player unless they've won the Ballon d'Or.

Brian Cleveland, that's a great shout.

There's a few to choose from, Yorke, Cole, Roy Keane but I'd go for Pep Guardiola and, depending how Sean Dyche gets on, he could be player/manager.

Keep him for a season and a day so he can lead us out on our home debut at BMD. Sub him after 5 minutes so he can get a well deserved farewell ovation.

Which would be fine, since the torch should have been well and truly passed to Patterson by now, but of course we bungled that (by far the biggest bone I have to pick with Dyche this campaign).

The man can still do a good job, he'll be relatively cheap, and he's a worthwhile voice in the dressing room. Get it in your heads… We have no money!!!

Keeping him for another season, even if it doesn't appeal, is good business.

We're back to penury, and we have no choice but to cut our cloth accordingly. That means we're going to have to make decisions like this. Thelwell and Dyche know this. They also know that framing this a "Everton offer club legend another one-year deal" is better than "Everton offer contract to low-cost 35-year-old right back".

Everton have existed on sentiment for a long time. This isn't it. This is low-budget squad building.

But then name me a player in the modern game who does? I don't think there are many. The closest we've had in this past season are probably Pickford and Tarkowski.

Anyway, going off on a different slant, it's coming up to end of season awards. Maybe I'll get to attend.

Player of the season for me is Tarkowski.

Young Player of the season undoubtedly Branthwaite, although he could pick up both.

And he could even make it a triple with Player's Player.

This is probably worth a different thread to get everyone's opinion.

Maybe with a vote / poll to see what the supporters think.

Seamus is now too slow, and he tires toward the last quarter, and it is no coincidence that he has been injured for much of the season.

He should go into coaching like Baines. Baines, Jags, and now Coleman. Age catches up with everyone.

I think he's still got the ability to play in the PL, but not for every game, and he's too much of a club legend to have the keyboard warriors jump on his back after a bad game.

The sentimental stars generally align on things like this, last game at Goodison, last game for a club legend etc. Let's just hope it's relaxed like this season's last game.

Ian #22, wasn't Yakubu 53 when he played for us?

We desperately need to start bringing younger players into our squad and get the emphasis on youth as we can't afford to buy experienced ones unless they are 30 plus or bang average or both.

We love you, Seamus. And we know what you still can bring in to the team, albeit maybe not as the first on the teamsheet every match.

If you're serious then we need to start using our U21s and get rid of our high earners. If 97% is spent on wages then this has to be addressed ASAP by selling all of our high earners pronto.

Also we been a bit short of leaders until Dyche turned up.

ps: If we sell Jarred I will be turning up in Monaco with pitchfork and flaming torches

If it's not Branthwaite for Player and Young Player, then we should all go and jump in the Mersey. His contribution has been immense and I truly believe that without him we would be heading to the Championship.

He is the player we need to hold onto more than any other at least for one season to get us into the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in the Premier League. Tarkowski can have Players' Player.

But how is sentiment not a huge part of following this team? Fighting to avoid relegation for the last 3 years, it has to be more than just wins. The Goodison crowd, the songs played before the match that I watch on TV each week, and players like Seamus are the reason I immersed myself in this club and will continue to do so.

Of course, adding much-needed quality to the lineup would be amazing. But, I'm not sure I would feel the same if suddenly we had 11 mercenaries added to the squad with brand new Saudi money. Yes, it's the shirt that I cheer for, but it's also the players who play in a way that represents what that jersey means.

If Coleman has no place on this team, in our current predicament, in favor of bringing in a younger right back with the money we don't have, then I know even less than I thought I learned about being a Toffee.

Coleman for another year is a no-brainer for me. Whatever he can give this team, he will.

I often stand in the stadium and emotional wreck having to calm myself down before watching the team off the pitch.

Be sure to watch on Sunday and listen to the travelling blues as well as clapping them on from wherever you are watching.

Watch Tunnel Access on the official website. Great to see the players with their families walking around the pitch at the end taking it in.

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With the season coming to an end it would be interesting to have a fans vote or opinion on their Everton player of the season and also young player of the season.

Ive decided to put two different catergories so that I can include two players.

For the young player of the season I am going with Branthswaite, although very very close for the player of the season, I wanted to ensure the other player got a mention.

Branthswaite is a player that you hope and pray stays with us at the very least another season, his link up with Tarkowski has for me been the best centre half pairings within the entire Premier league.

Now the player of the season is much tougher, there has been a few contenders, but for me, my vote goes to Mykolenko, He has had a great season and improved beyond belief, not much got passed him on the left, on a whole stood up and made the opposing player play the ball elsewhere, not many players got the better of him by skinning him down the wing, again others will look to Pickford, Tarks, Calvert Lewins re-emergance, but I am sticking with my two of Mykolenko and Branthswaite.

What are other Evertonians nominations,be nice to see similar and differing views.

Based on traditional awards, Tarkowski for Manager's Player, Branthwaite for Young Player and possibly Player's Player.

Supporter's player if it exists: Probably Branthwaite again.

Pickford could come close, but I can't see beyond those 3.

Brian Wilkison has just submitted a short piece on this Player of the Season thing that I haven't published yet; I was going to wait and see if Lyndon wanted to do it as a poll.

Brilliant... warms my soul, this ToffeeWeb.

Yep, no secret it's Everton v Ireland he wants!

That number rockets above 50 if you include over 30s.
We have never been a youthful team per se. Nor invested wisely, intelligently or shrewdly in youth set up to advance the first team.

Any exceptional youngsters were always sold, never seen as the future. The club were always held back because of an egomaniacal narcissist. Our situation is that we are in dire need of Premier League quality players. We with a threadbare squad, with a weak academy.

Seamus is still a very good player who can hold his own at Premier League level and is a definite asset. It is not sentiment whatsoever considering our pre-disposition for signing aged professionals at the end of their careers.