Confirmed Signing Josh King

[Terrarian]

Terrarian being mental as usual.

cause I don't rate king, ok mate, yep off my rocker me

 

[Nymzee]

"We need depth, we need a bench"

*signs a forward for depth and the bench*

 

[TheBigIguana]

Forgot penalties only count as a quarter of a goal and a nickel.

Is he going to take our penalties? If he isn't, and I guess he isn't, than we won't be seeing any of those goals.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Matty come on, a person can be unhappy with the club's decisions yet still support them

I hate how Matty has become a happy clapper.

Lad needs to turn heel and come back to the bad guys

 

[Goodison87]

Won’t pretend to know too much about this lad but I’d take him on the bench over Tosun and his non ability to score goals as a centre forward. £5 mill, get it done. Carlo signing that.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I am happy if this happens

 

[Groucho]

Born there yes. I saw him play in Belfast for Norway a few years ago and that was the first I'd realised as well.

Think he may have grown up in Manchester, or at least for a bit.

He was on Man U’s books.

I know he’s not a world beater but he could be a decent option to have. He’s better than Tosun put it that way.

 

[Egil Olsen]

I have a question on work rate. Why are we so sure it is good? Half these posts are excusing his terrible current form because he's not arsed about playing for Bournemouth currently. Wouldn't that be a red flag?

No. He has been promised things by Bournmouth that they have not kept. It was not long since Manchester United were interested in him, but he was overpriced by Bournmouth.

 

[Soverybored1878]

This is Everton we are talking about here

No chance we are paying a squad player over £100k a week. Not after Tosun, Sandro, Bolasie. Lessons have surely been learnt?

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[Deco]

I have a question on work rate. Why are we so sure it is good? Half these posts are excusing his terrible current form because he's not arsed about playing for Bournemouth currently. Wouldn't that be a red flag?

He's on bad form for the first half of the season in a poor league, no doubt.

He also had a decent scoring rate playing for a poor side in the Premier League over a number of years.

 

[TyphooToffee]

cause I don't rate king, ok mate, yep off my rocker me

There were a lot of meh comments about Wilson too. Just staying.

 

[Papa Shango]

No not every signing can be a superstar but signing players whose ceiling is bang average is an objectively bad strategy for creating a team that is better than bang average.

And we have James flipping Rodriguez we don't need Josh King for penalties FFS.

To paraphrase you its objectively bad strategy to hope that your star players are going to be playing every minute of every game.

He has never played alongside players like Rodriguez. Maybe that lifts his ceiling, maybe a shot at a bigger club lifts that ceiling.

Just wait and see what happens. I have always found him to be a useful player if not quite a world beater. He is a similar build to DCL and indeed Zirkzee so there is obviously some kind of plan in place there.

 

[hallamblue]

Might as well have kept Walcott and played him up front where he's been doing ok for Southampton.

 

[TheBigIguana]

To paraphrase you its objectively bad strategy to hope that your star players are going to be playing every minute of every game.

He has never played alongside players like Rodriguez. Maybe that lifts his ceiling, maybe a shot at a bigger club lifts that ceiling.

Just wait and see what happens. I have always found him to be a useful player if not quite a world beater. He is a similar build to DCL and indeed Zirkzee so there is obviously some kind of plan in place there.

He will play better in a better team is also not good team building imo.

 

[Blunatic]

personally im pleased with this, he's a goal threat that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, can play right across the front line and he's ready to go straight into the side in a position where we badly need depth. win, win, win if you ask me.

Also I don't think buying him will stop us from upgrading the forward line further come the end of the season.