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aye, the Liam Gallagher of Everton
BillBrasky
Player Valuation: £8m
Miazga wasn't involved in qualifying, which is part of the problem. Once we (deservedly) fired Klinsmann, we hired a former coach from the early 2000's Bruce Arena, who doubled down on "his players", which led to us relying on aging veterans and players well past their prime.
There's a nice young crop of Americans coming through, Miazga being the brightest hope at CB, hopefully our next manager makes them the core of his plans.
Yes that’s kind of what I’m saying though? I would (reluctantly) accept finishing 8th again, but not lower because I don’t see how we could claim that was progress even if the football was easier on the eye.
If we were saying we would put our trust in Kenny, Robinson, Connolly, holgate, baningime, vlasic, dowell, lookman etc then a slight drop would be acceptable when balanced against the potential long term benefits of such a policy. There’s no sign of that happening though, and I don’t believe you can go out and spend £100m, go backwards in the league, and say it’s positive on any level.
We’ve had ‘jam tomorrow’ for years, and we need to stop the cycle in my opinion. Finish 10th this season, then the likes of Coleman, gueye and Walcott have gone that little bit past their best, Pickford wants out because we’re not going anywhere and suddenly we need another ‘transitional season’ while we sort those issues out. I’ve seen it before and people were saying the same things then about how it would all come good. I’m still waiting.
I’ve all but given up hope of us ever being REALLY good, so for me the absolute minimum I will accept is consistently being pretty good - best of the rest, getting into Europe, showing tangible signs of getting closer to the elite rather than just giving a vague impression of promise further down the line.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
I think the World Cup has had an impact but tbh, the window could be open for 6 months and most clubs would still do most of their business in the final week. All about brinkmanship.
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
There's a lot of hype around a few of them. That McKennie (I think his name was) was one of them.
Can't decide whether that Pulisic is any good though. Looked good in the friendly vs Liverpool recently like.
The left-back we're trying to sign has flown back from America to Spain on Saturday night, had a day in Barcelona while the clubs finalised terms, and headed to Liverpool today. He'll be in the Titanic tonight probably.
We should have it done by this time tomorrow I'd say, Wednesday morning at the latest.
..I would doubt it. I put him in the same bracket as Dowell. He’s been at Inter (I think), but returned to Portugal. I can only imagine Silva thinks it’s a low risk signing (if the rumour is true).
From the clips, he’s a tall lad and very left footed.
As long as the lad can get some minutes on Saturday, then there is no panic.
There is the need for major urgency on other fronts though.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Turns 25 10 days ago. He was a starter for France not so long ago too...
Yeh, ideally we shouldn't have a deal for a CB or a CM running into deadline day, although I think there's a chance both could.
CaliforniaBlue
Player Valuation: £750k
He really is as good as advertised. He was dragging the team to Russia at 18 years old and no one else was anywhere close to his level. Don't want him near Liverpool (unless he was wearing blue, of course).
McKennie is at Schalke and has a potentially bright future at CM.
BillBrasky
Player Valuation: £8m
Pulisic is boss. Best American player ever, at 19. I know that's not saying a lot, but still.
He would walk into this team tomorrow. I'd love to see us go after him, but he'd cost more than Richarlison in this market, and appears destined for a Sky Six club. Which hurts.
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