kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
Nobody dares mention anything about our keeper's effort for their goal then?
Not sure about "dares mention" - it is a preseason youth game that we won by two clear goals so probably most people aren't too fussed he was poor on it especially as he made up for it with a good save later.
Jayhow15
Player Valuation: £35m
Posted here as all Francisco Junior threads are locked but randomly got a suggestion to follow him on Instagram. Some long winded post but reading between the lines appears he may have been a bad boy? If this is old news then so be it. Might be why he's not progressed but has been constantly retained.
Kiwi
Say NO to Ginger Managers
He hasn't been let go cos Moyes signed him on some massively long contract and he has about 2 years left to run on it + we can't shift him.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
City didnt want him and so moyes decided to stick him on a 6 year deal when no one wanted him.
Bizarre.
Bizarre.
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
You are one generous young lady indeed
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
he actually missed a similar chance a few minutes earlier when the keeper saved it, good that he learnt from that or maybe the miss dented his confidence.
He looked quick too.
When he plays the (very good) pass in to Dyson for the second goal he is practically level with him by the time Dyson scores.
Yorkie
Player Valuation: £35m
Like a new signing!
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
He's an interesting one Courtney Duffus, has all the physical attributes, very strong good in the air, fast, and is a good finisher.
Just always thought he needed to be a bit smarter and learn how to use his body more.
Will be interested to see how he develops, might be able to save us a bit of dough.
Just always thought he needed to be a bit smarter and learn how to use his body more.
Will be interested to see how he develops, might be able to save us a bit of dough.
granter79
Player Valuation: £35m
Re Junior
Junior on the road to redemption
Francisco Junior has opened up on social media about how he almost let drink and partying wreck his career and his belief that he is now focused again on trying to make it at the top level.
Signed from Manchester City's reserve set-up as a promising midfield prospect, the former Benfica academy graduate has been with Everton since 2012 but remains a largely forgotten figure, as far away from first-team contention as ever.
In that time he has just one senior appearance to his name, a 45-minute showing at Leeds United as one of half a dozen young players thrown into an ill-fated League Cup tie in David Moyes's final season with the club.
He has been farmed out on loan to Port Vale, Vitesse Arnhem and Stromsgodset while opportunities to push for a place in the first team under Roberto Martinez, like the dead rubber against Krasnodar last December and this summer's pre-season trip to Singapore, have passed him by.
As David Prentice uncovers in the Liverpool Echo, the 23-year-old has admitted to plenty of reasons for why on his Instagram account, not least the loss in 2012 of his last guiding force in the form of his mother and the distracting influence of people he mistakenly believed were his friends.
“Sometimes is always better later than never," the Guinea-Bissau-born player wrote in occasionally broken English. "After I lost my mum three years ago I lost my world. I been nearly nine years now living alone with no family and zero support off no-one.
“I stop be profisonal (sic), (party, sleep later, alcohol) because I always think talent is enough. But I was wrong. And that people I call friends now they talk [Poor language removed] about me in my back because am not that person any more and sold history about me.
Junior has a season remaining on his current contract and has the coming year to get himself back in shape and focused enough to persuade Martinez that he has a future with Everton.
If not, the former Portuguese U21 international is hopeful of doing enough to persuade another club to give a chance to finally make it.
“But just to let you guys know," he concluded, "am gona (sic) make it for sure. Can be here [at Everton] or somewhere else. thank god for always be there for me and my family and Nojan."
Junior on the road to redemption
Francisco Junior has opened up on social media about how he almost let drink and partying wreck his career and his belief that he is now focused again on trying to make it at the top level.
Signed from Manchester City's reserve set-up as a promising midfield prospect, the former Benfica academy graduate has been with Everton since 2012 but remains a largely forgotten figure, as far away from first-team contention as ever.
In that time he has just one senior appearance to his name, a 45-minute showing at Leeds United as one of half a dozen young players thrown into an ill-fated League Cup tie in David Moyes's final season with the club.
He has been farmed out on loan to Port Vale, Vitesse Arnhem and Stromsgodset while opportunities to push for a place in the first team under Roberto Martinez, like the dead rubber against Krasnodar last December and this summer's pre-season trip to Singapore, have passed him by.
As David Prentice uncovers in the Liverpool Echo, the 23-year-old has admitted to plenty of reasons for why on his Instagram account, not least the loss in 2012 of his last guiding force in the form of his mother and the distracting influence of people he mistakenly believed were his friends.
“Sometimes is always better later than never," the Guinea-Bissau-born player wrote in occasionally broken English. "After I lost my mum three years ago I lost my world. I been nearly nine years now living alone with no family and zero support off no-one.
“I stop be profisonal (sic), (party, sleep later, alcohol) because I always think talent is enough. But I was wrong. And that people I call friends now they talk [Poor language removed] about me in my back because am not that person any more and sold history about me.
Junior has a season remaining on his current contract and has the coming year to get himself back in shape and focused enough to persuade Martinez that he has a future with Everton.
If not, the former Portuguese U21 international is hopeful of doing enough to persuade another club to give a chance to finally make it.
“But just to let you guys know," he concluded, "am gona (sic) make it for sure. Can be here [at Everton] or somewhere else. thank god for always be there for me and my family and Nojan."
Seems we have a lot of young forwards in an around the squad, with Duffus joining McAleny, Henen, Byrne and maybe Long. Would be great if one or two of those made it into the first team squad.
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
Francisco Junior and Jonjoe Kenny have joined Wigan Athletic on a one-month loan deal and a two-months loan deal respectively.
Both are available to play tonight in Wigan’s pre-season game at Partick Thistle.
Both are available to play tonight in Wigan’s pre-season game at Partick Thistle.
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