{"id":697,"date":"2026-05-24T18:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:54:23","slug":"nowhere-near-good-enough-duncan-ferguson-slams-thierno-barry-after-evertons-european-hopes-evaporate-at-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/nowhere-near-good-enough-duncan-ferguson-slams-thierno-barry-after-evertons-european-hopes-evaporate-at-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere Near Good Enough\u2019 \u2013 Duncan Ferguson Slams Thierno Barry After Everton&#8217;s European Hopes Evaporate at Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everton icon Duncan Ferguson pulled no punches following the Toffees&#8217; disappointing 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on the final day of the Premier League season. The narrow loss in North London officially condemned Sean Dyche\u2019s men to a 13th-place finish, completely extinguishing any lingering hopes of securing European football for next season.<br>\u200bWhile several players underperformed, &#8220;Big Dunc&#8221; reserved his harshest criticism for marquee summer signing Thierno Barry. Spearheading the attack in a match where Everton desperately needed a focal point to unlock the Spurs defense, the French striker instead cut a deeply frustrated and isolated figure before being substituted in the 84th minute.<br>\u200bSpeaking as a pundit on the final-day post-match coverage, an animated Ferguson blasted the young forward&#8217;s lack of physical impact.<br>\u200b&#8221;If you want to lead the line for Everton, you have to put yourself about, drop the shoulder, and make life miserable for center-backs,&#8221; Ferguson fumed. &#8220;Barry just didn\u2019t look up for the battle today. No hold-up play, no spatial awareness, and absolutely zero service to his teammates. In a game of this magnitude, you need a fighting spirit, and he gave Radu Dr\u0103gu\u0219in and Micky van de Ven a completely comfortable afternoon.&#8221;<br>\u200bThe statistics heavily justified the former Everton standard-bearer&#8217;s frustration. Over his 84 minutes on the pitch, Barry cut an isolated figure, registering only a single off-target effort while routinely losing his aerial and physical duels against a resolute Tottenham backline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton icon Duncan Ferguson pulled no punches following the Toffees&#8217; disappointing 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-everton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}