The Echo's Ever-Pool Team of the Year

[FoxForceFive]

For those who don't know, the Echo always choose a combined Liverpool & Everton team of the year, & every year, they're known for somehow shoehorning in some random excuse for picking at least one of the Everton players.

Until now....

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...erpool-17488096.amp?__twitter_impression=true

 

[Atlas]

To be honest.. that's bollocks.

How's Matip there ahead of Gomez.

 

[Modo]

To be honest.. that's bollocks.

How's Matip there ahead of Gomez.

Eh because Matip played half of last season and up until November this season?
So Gomez 2 months vs Matip 8 months?
Edit, actually it's Gomez 1 month since Lovren played in November.

 

[Esoteric]

To be honest.. that's bollocks.

How's Matip there ahead of Gomez.

Gomez has been excellent for a few weeks (and was also excellent before his injury)
Matip stepped in and was also excellent until injured.

It's Gomez for me too, BUT, it's not bollocks to suggest Matip with his longer spell of excellence got the shout, it's got to have been very close.

 

[peterhague]

I think Atlas was joking.

 

[FoxForceFive]

There are actually Everton fans kicking off about this in twitter.

Not one of them has made any suggestion about what player/s they would replace though. Funny that.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Only Digne is the one that gets close to being even considered.

 

[Judge Jules]

For my money Matip's the right choice in this case. He was better than good before his injury - he was immense, our most improved player by a country mile, my MOTM in the Champions League Final against Tottenham and unrecognisable compared with the jittery giraffe he used to be. I love the fact that Gomez seems to be back in the groove and I suspect most of us think he and Virgil were always going to be our first choice CB duo again some day, but he's taken a while to get back to his best and, over the year as a whole, Matip defo deserves the nod IMHO.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

I think Atlas was joking.

CALM DOWN ASIM!

 

[binomial]

Never seen this before.

Imagine how shit both teams must have been for Kelly and Gibson to have been chosen.

Fuck me.

We should have had a blackout last year too, Pickford & Sigurdsson 😀 😀 😀 😀

 

[Modo]

Everton fans:

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/liverpool-echo-combined-team.109144/

 

[Treboeth]

Everton fans:

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/liverpool-echo-combined-team.109144/

got as far as this and gave up.
"https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/liverpool-echo-combined-team.109144/post-7536850
It’s an insult. Should of not done it like in 2014 when they nearly won it.

Still believe Pickford is better imo"

Kelleher is almost better than Pickford and he`s a youngster at the start of his career.

 

[IGotALuvlyBunchOfCoconuts]

Wow, some of their posters think Pickford is better. Bahahaha

 

[keniget]

A 12 page thread raging about a puff piece in the Echo... weirdos.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Tbf there's a fair few of them that are sane like.

 

[darkstarexodus]

Most responded reasonably. But the fact that anyone could think Pickford is better than a wet paper bag, let alone than Allison deserves examining.

 

[rurikbird]

How many Ballon d'Or votes did Pickford get?

 

[dee]

Is he the first choice England keeper now?

Not that it’s a high bar or anything. Personally think Foster is doing better but think he’s “retired”

 

[dee]

Having read the Everton forum comments they are mostly agreeing that it’s right but they do make good points about it being unnecessarily pushed on to the Everton feed and, more importantly, it does give fuel to the pre match team talk from Ancellotti

 

[Insignificance]

They could argue they should have the manager of the year as Carlo has a win and a draw against Jürgen 😗

 

[darkstarexodus]

They should consider themselves lucky to get the "Ever" part of "Everton" into the "Ever-pool" name at this point, that's how dire they are.