mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
thats why walsh will have a big input into who will be koemans replacement if/when he only does the 3 years.
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thats why walsh will have a big input into who will be koemans replacement if/when he only does the 3 years.
evilwebby
Player Valuation: £50m
Great article. There's so much more to being a successful club than just getting your gameplan right every weekend.
It feels like the club is moving forward the right way - ie from the top down.
I agree that Walsh could prove to be one of the most important figures in our history since at least the start of the PL.
It feels like the club is moving forward the right way - ie from the top down.
I agree that Walsh could prove to be one of the most important figures in our history since at least the start of the PL.
...that's a very interesting point.
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Until Sep 1st I will still offer the point that we could be spending 70 million pounds but probably getting 80 back soon enough so spending the lukaku money well enough for my liking but still no real statement of intent in terms of trying to spend more than just a sell to buy policy
I think you posted in the wrong thread, this one is about Steve Walsh
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Hahaha
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Apologies. It was in response to mentioning how much we could have spent soon.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
@catcherintherye
I think were looking at something resembling an initial 2 year plan.
In 2 years time;
Gana/Schneiderlin/Coleman/Bolasie will be around 30/31
Klaassen/Keane/Pickford will be around 25/26
Sandro/Holgate/DCL/Lookman/Kenny will be around 22/23
That's a good mix and I imagine we will be adding to the age group of Klaassen/Keane as well as the younger group over the next two years.
Over the course of the next 2 seasons the players will all be growing together and with games given to the younger age group we should be appealing to the next u23 batch. Davies would then be still 20/21 and I think if we do sign Bowler/Brooks/Hirst they would be the next batch along with any of our own young lads like Baningime coming through alongside Davies.
The key for me are Keane and Pickford improving and cementing themselves in England squads and the English players in the age group below pushing themselves to either be selected or pushing for inclusion for the national team.
That way we show we give young players a chance who can play for England if they do well for us.
In year 3 we 'hopefully' have 4+ players in the England squad and 4 players in the u21 squad. Then we take the next step up to consistent champions league challengers and keep adding to the conveyor belt with Walsh bringing in the best young English talent into Unsworths u23s while making one or two marquee signings a season.
I think the English focus is important as it builds a culture at the club of local talent and also other players will see Everton as being a big part of the international scene and as we have seen the recent u20 world cup did us no harm at all.
I think were looking at something resembling an initial 2 year plan.
In 2 years time;
Gana/Schneiderlin/Coleman/Bolasie will be around 30/31
Klaassen/Keane/Pickford will be around 25/26
Sandro/Holgate/DCL/Lookman/Kenny will be around 22/23
That's a good mix and I imagine we will be adding to the age group of Klaassen/Keane as well as the younger group over the next two years.
Over the course of the next 2 seasons the players will all be growing together and with games given to the younger age group we should be appealing to the next u23 batch. Davies would then be still 20/21 and I think if we do sign Bowler/Brooks/Hirst they would be the next batch along with any of our own young lads like Baningime coming through alongside Davies.
The key for me are Keane and Pickford improving and cementing themselves in England squads and the English players in the age group below pushing themselves to either be selected or pushing for inclusion for the national team.
That way we show we give young players a chance who can play for England if they do well for us.
In year 3 we 'hopefully' have 4+ players in the England squad and 4 players in the u21 squad. Then we take the next step up to consistent champions league challengers and keep adding to the conveyor belt with Walsh bringing in the best young English talent into Unsworths u23s while making one or two marquee signings a season.
I think the English focus is important as it builds a culture at the club of local talent and also other players will see Everton as being a big part of the international scene and as we have seen the recent u20 world cup did us no harm at all.
The fascinating bit for me has been the relatively low spend on 4 young attacking players, DCL, Lookman , Okenyuru, and Sandro if/when it happens. Though DCL was Unsy's doing the total spend on all four is reputed to be about £25 mill, success of just one of these would recoup more than that , and sets out our stall for attracting talented youngsters from all over Europe. Walsh must have been told and attracted by the promise of being able to go after big money signings and while these are also coming in the mix of big signings and young low cost signings for the future could be a potent one. What is obvious though from the pics of Walsh in Milan and the amount of early activity he's achieved is that he's been working all summer and by the looks of it , it has enabled him to get ahead of other interested competitors to achieve the signings he wanted. Well done to him.
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £35m
Interestingly I was talking to a United fan in work and he seems to think that at United he was excellent with the ball at his feet. Said he was more of a ball playing centre half for them. Maybe Dyche just wanted him to play a more no nonsense style and he just happens to be good at both. To much to ask?
I wouldnt consider him a hoofer to be honest, hes fairly decent with the ball at his feet from my brief watching.
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £35m
I can't say iv watched a lot of him to be honest other then against us at Goodison
Bullet
Player Valuation: £10m
I'm happy to say it looks firmly like SW has won the battle when it comes to the kind of transfers we pursue and the long term direction of the club. RK said last April, "We need more players aged 26, 27, 28."
Klassen is clearly RK's call but the rest are SW's. If we had placated RK and gone for players in their prime we'd have had another frustrating summer. I doubt we could financially sustain too many more transfers like Bolasie where their massive value plummets within a couple of years. The young team we're assembling will take time to gel and I don't see us genuinely pushing for the top 4 this season but perhaps next season or the one after that, if there's more significant investment and we get some luck with form and injuries, we'll be credible contenders.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Am I missing something here?
Beating off top clubs for Bolasie, Lookman, Pickford, Schneiderlin, Gueye....? No top clubs were remotely or seriously interested in these players and they were acquired 'efficiently' because Koeman was prepared to throw a kings ransom at the selling club to do the deals quickly.
How in the name of all that's holy is this a new, exciting and better way of doing things?
I suppose a drunken sailor throwing their money around is a source of fascination, but it's not a source of wonder.
The methodology is insane as far as I can see.
Beating off top clubs for Bolasie, Lookman, Pickford, Schneiderlin, Gueye....? No top clubs were remotely or seriously interested in these players and they were acquired 'efficiently' because Koeman was prepared to throw a kings ransom at the selling club to do the deals quickly.
How in the name of all that's holy is this a new, exciting and better way of doing things?
I suppose a drunken sailor throwing their money around is a source of fascination, but it's not a source of wonder.
The methodology is insane as far as I can see.
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