I really don't want us selling Beto and DCL this summer.
Big press on us getting the replacement signing right.
Beto
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Re: Beto
Confidence game, especially for strikers. Make him number one (if Dom goes), cuddle him and tell him he’s the best thing since sliced bread. Tell him to go out there and terrorise defenders. Over the course of a season I think we’ll see closer to DCL numbers than many expect.
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Re: Beto
Getting close to DCL in terms of goals/assists isn’t very hard and I reckon even Chermiti could do it if he was the main man for a season.Toddacelli wrote:Confidence game, especially for strikers. Make him number one (if Dom goes), cuddle him and tell him he’s the best thing since sliced bread. Tell him to go out there and terrorise defenders. Over the course of a season I think we’ll see closer to DCL numbers than many expect.
Replacing DCL’s running, hold up and pressing whilst also hitting his numbers is the actual difficult task and I don’t think Beto can do it.
If he’s not going to contribute as much as DCL outside of goals then he needs to score a lot more to justify it
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Re: Beto
I think Beto is just a different player to DCL, and we just need to understand them differently as players.
I think we have these templates in our heads as to what players ''should be'' based on their appearance, and they don't always match.
Despite appearances, Beto has more in common with Michael Owen than he does DCL. He wants to play on the shoulder and run in behind to through balls. But because he's tall and broad shouldered we sort of want to see him as a Drogba-like battering ram, and he's just not that.
Also, at Everton we have this tradition of big powerful strikers, with towering headers and it very much informs our idea of what a striker ''should be'' a lot of the time.
We're going to be continually frustrated with Beto as a fanbase if we continue to use him like DCL, chasing lost causes and pounding long aerial balls into him. If the manager wants to use his abilities, he needs to find ways of playing accessing through balls for him to run in behind defences, whether through on goal, or wider into the channels. And if Dyche is not going to be able to do that, then we've bought the wrong profile of player for our setup.
I think we have these templates in our heads as to what players ''should be'' based on their appearance, and they don't always match.
Despite appearances, Beto has more in common with Michael Owen than he does DCL. He wants to play on the shoulder and run in behind to through balls. But because he's tall and broad shouldered we sort of want to see him as a Drogba-like battering ram, and he's just not that.
Also, at Everton we have this tradition of big powerful strikers, with towering headers and it very much informs our idea of what a striker ''should be'' a lot of the time.
We're going to be continually frustrated with Beto as a fanbase if we continue to use him like DCL, chasing lost causes and pounding long aerial balls into him. If the manager wants to use his abilities, he needs to find ways of playing accessing through balls for him to run in behind defences, whether through on goal, or wider into the channels. And if Dyche is not going to be able to do that, then we've bought the wrong profile of player for our setup.
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