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[kerryblue boy]

Can’t believe our fans looking to remove our most creative player from last season and our second top scorer who is going to create the chances for these two strikers are we just going to go long ball to dcl crazy stuff

[GrantyBoy78]

So take out our most creative and probably biggest goal threat for someone whose good at donkey work!!?

I still think only Richy and Siggy will get into double figures this year.


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[brap2]

Digne was our most creative player last year

[Waltzer]

I still think only Richy and Siggy will get into double figures this year.


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Not if EiNC has their way, Sig would be lucky to get double figures in terms of games!!!

[TheRam]

I can’t believe people think Sigurdsson is our most creative player.

[BlueNoseMike]

I can’t believe people think Sigurdsson is our most creative player.

He isn't but he is the one with most end product. At some point we need to replace with a number 10 who gets on the ball more (significantly behind likes of Kdb silva eriksen etc etc in terms of number of touches and passes).

Or actually bin off the idea of having a number 10. Most of the top teams have moved away from that tbh

Still in the short term it would be crazy not to play him. Nobody else from midfield is troubling the scorers and our front 3 osnt as prolific as other teams front 3s that do not have goals from midfield

[kerryblue boy]

I can't believe people think Sigurdsson is our most creative player.

I understand your point of view but he was directly involved in about 23 goals last season like I said in a previous thread Bernard has no end product take Sigurdsson out of the team we play two up top who creates the chances who is the creative mid player iwobi might be the answer for now sig stays for me

[sam of the south]

Our front 3 might become more productive if our main attacking gameplan wasn’t built around getting it to Digne to cross it in for DCL and Sigurdsson

[dazfrancis]

I understand your point of view but he was directly involved in about 23 goals last season like I said in a previous thread Bernard has no end product take Sigurdsson out of the team we play two up top who creates the chances who is the creative mid player iwobi might be the answer for now sig stays for me

At some point we are going to have to take a risk against teams that park the bus because he clearly ends up being anonymous for whole games. So the question is whether removing his obvious goal threat and replacing him with more of a link up man like Davies or Iwobi or Bernard allows us to create more chances for other players and whether that results in more goals

[dazfrancis]

OR, as batshit crazy as it sounds. Silva could insist Sigurdsson plays 10 yards deeper and gets involved in the build up play a bit more.

We know he CAN do it, but for whatever reason he's played mostly like a striker since Silva has been manager

[kerryblue boy]

At some point we are going to have to take a risk against teams that park the bus because he clearly ends up being anonymous for whole games. So the question is whether removing his obvious goal threat and replacing him with more of a link up man like Davies or Iwobi or Bernard allows us to create more chances for other players and whether that results in more goals

Replacing him with Davies would be a disaster he offers nothing except running around a lot and passing the ball sideways some people just want that from Everton players I expect a bit more

[SANA_DR0]

OR, as batshit crazy as it sounds. Silva could insist Sigurdsson plays 10 yards deeper and gets involved in the build up play a bit more.

We know he CAN do it, but for whatever reason he's played mostly like a striker since Silva has been manager

don't think he has the engine or pace to catch up from a deeper role if we are on a fast break.

[GLewis]

OR, as batshit crazy as it sounds. Silva could insist Sigurdsson plays 10 yards deeper and gets involved in the build up play a bit more.

We know he CAN do it, but for whatever reason he's played mostly like a striker since Silva has been manager

He’s never been a play dictator though.

Ball hoggers naturally drift to the ball if they’re not getting enough of it.

Think he’s pushed so far up to maximise his skill set. Which, even with a poor performance on sat, would normally have still got him one or two goals.

[brap2]

We had 60 odd % possession, attempted 500 passes and our number ten made one more pass than andros townsend.

He's a ghost, a myth, a spectre. Not interested unless he is unmarked on the edge of the box. Drop him for Phil neville and the team would benefit from improved shape.

[dazfrancis]

Replacing him with Davies would be a disaster he offers nothing except running around a lot and passing the ball sideways some people just want that from Everton players I expect a bit more

So exactly what would you do to resolve our creativity problem?