Depends on the financials, obviously, but I'd have him back too. On his current salary and with the fee Spurs would want I just can't see it happening, however.
Yeah but if he wants to move, I'd imagine, given his injuries, his salary would be negotiable.
The club would have to take a financial risk on loan wages.
I think that risk to see if he can stay fit or find fitness over the course of the season would be worth it.
2026 is a world cup year so he'll want game time over a high salary and less chance of a start.
I actually think a loan move from Spurs to Everton with a pre agreed buy out option makes a lot of sense even if he's injured half the season.
If he can play enough to get in the Brazil team for 2026 he's the kind of player that would put on a show and boost his value/evertons visibility hugely.
So the worst case scenario is
- use one loan spot
- lose one or two million on wages if he's injured for most of it.
- loan doesnt get continued and he goes back to spurs
best case scenario is
- he shakes off his consistent injuries
- he'd be awesome playing off the shoulder of someone like Beto
- he'd be playing his heart out to get in the Brazil squad
- there's a chance we could have the Brazil no.9 at the world cup.
- he loves Everton
likely scenario is
- he plays half the games
- he makes the Brazil squad but not team
- he does enough to have warranted the loan but it's up to Everton whether the deal becomes permanent.
I want to see these kind of players playing at Everton, I loved having James despite knowing he'd be out 60% of the time.
I also think the lads injuries mostly stemmed from running himself in to the ground saving our PL status
The least we could do is give him a shot at making the world cup.
