If you want my official prediction, Ronald Koeman will be sacked by the end of next Thursday. We’ll lose to Arsenal and then to Chelsea. I don’t think the board will be able to stand by much longer, as Goodison, when we inevitably go one-nil down, will be as toxic as anything during the Martínez premiership.
Ronald Koeman is adamant he’s the man for the job, and the players seem to be backing him – that is at least if you can read anything into the pre-and-post-match platitudes. But while they say they’re backing him, they certainly aren’t playing for him. As much as I have moaned at Ronald Koeman this season, and I’m certainly not in the minority, the players have to share the blame 50-50. They’re just playing horrendously.
No matter how bad a system may be, that doesn’t stifle individual ability so much so that Idrissa Gana Gueye turns into a League One-level player, or that Gylfi Sigurdsson becomes non-existent.
While we all are purely exasperated with Ronald Koeman now, and yes, he does still need to be sacked, we need to look at the big name players brought in, where only one player, arguably two in Jordan Pickford and Nikola Vlašić, have contributed anything significantly.
I know I haven’t talked much about Arsenal, but you know what they’re like by now. They play some nice football and have really nice hair, and they’ll beat us.
