James McCarthy

[Toffeemeister]

Player will probably cost around £35 million for 1 good season.

Another poor buy from us in the long term.

 

[Zatara]

Im scrathing my head on this one and go back and forth.

In theory he should be a player that Silva likes, his engine and tenacity leads itself to Silvas pressing style, so on one hand i can understand why Silva may admire him

Then i think playing with a no 8 like Gomes and that level of creativity, Silva seems to like as well.

Then you have Morgan and Davies who have been picked at times ahead of him in the above absences, that has me questioning he may have physically recovered but might not be match fit and its hard to reintroduce a player during a bad spell in January and toward the end of the season who needs mins. he was sent home from the ROI squad because he wasn't match fit.

He may have been told to invest in Davies as a young player, or we have invested big in Morgan as an asset from a club perspective.

Maybe he just doesnt rate him, but his actions around keeping him in Jan suggest something different.

Its all speculative really, just my musings.

Sadly for Jamesy and for us in many ways in a business sense, with his contract situation i think he may have drawn the short straw, unless he can turn something around between now and the end of the season.

...the last injury was a dreadful one but before that he was playing with the handbrake on, protecting his hamstrings. When he let the handbrake off for two games, the hamstring popped in the Derby. That scar tissue will be permanently there, I can only think he hasn’t convinced Silva in training sessions.

Its a hard one to know, without knowing the intimate details, on reflection i suspect at one stage he was so vital to us that we didnt manage his injuries very well, Ireland didnt help either - which is more to the point really awful for Jamesy. I rate him highly as a player, but whether he can truly ever recover from his injuries is something unknown and i suppose a broad concern. Im hoping for the lad and for us as a club he can. But his contract situation is on a knife edge.

From a purely Everton point of view, we have zero liability on him only wages, so even offering him a new contract, with terms and conditions hold little cost really. However if not it will tell us a lot about what the club feel his long term prospects are recovering from his injuries. If he is let loose in the summer or on a free next season we are looking at best a nominal fee for a player who was worth 16 odd million at the time of signing, which is bad news generally for the club, i know it clears a wage and regulates the squad, but at 28 he should be worth double what we paid, which would be all profit at this stage. So in essence everyone's a looser here really.

Mc Carthy has become a conundrum for Everton. There is no doubt he can play football and do so in a good pressing team. However the trouble he had with his hamstrings before his last injury put a question mark on his ability to compete. He has been back for quite a while and we haven't seen him. If he is still behind Gana, Snids and Davies then it is hard to see why he is needed. However, not having played, his value in any transfer would be limited. I think I would be looking to play him to see where he is at. If Silva is convinced he has no future at the club then it would be best to release him, he could get games and it would free up his wage.

I still think his injuries have knocked him as a player and were not playing him because;

A-- We dont want prospective buyers to know hes finished at the top level

B-- We dont want to risk him getting injured again


I think he will go on a loan and then his contract is up...saving us £50k a week

 

[hktoffee]

I still think his injuries have knocked him as a player and were not playing him because;

A-- We dont want prospective buyers to know hes finished at the top level

B-- We dont want to risk him getting injured again


I think he will go on a loan and then his contract is up...saving us £50k a week

And £13m (2013) down the toilet.

 

[Toast]

We've been crap since he came on.

 

[diggerdestroyer]

Jamesy mac is back

 

[Neiler]

Great to see Jamesy back.

Clearly our best player today.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Delighted to see him get a run out

Nice to have him as an option

 

[Axlswhk]

Great to see Jamesy back.

Clearly our best player today.

While we welcome him back and Glad to see him play football again after a horrible injury, pointing him out as our best player today is just silly.

Sometimes your opinion is beyond weird and not surprise many can’t take you seriously at times.

 

[Neiler]

While we welcome him back and Glad to see him play football again after a horrible injury, pointing him out as our best player today is just silly.

Sometimes your opinion is beyond weird and not surprise many can’t take you seriously at times.

I’d agree with the many in fairness!

 

[DaChunk]

Would rather have seen Lookman come on

 

[MikeH72]

Proper salt in the wound stuff for United seeing this myth being allowed back on the pitch.

 

[summerisle]

 

[bol-uk]

Chuffed for him. Shame many of our "fans" cannot be.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Should anything happen to Gana - injury, loss of form, transfer its always good to have a willing back up there.

 

[Goat]

Serious question, did he even touch the ball when he came on?