I hope even we haven’t been stupid enough to give him 90k p/w
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Neither Dobbin or Simms are currently any worse than Rondon.
Terrarian
Player Valuation: £50m
Honestly we'll never improve until we improve competition for places, we should be looking for people to challenge, DCL and Richie for a starting berth, not signing people who are happy to sit on the bench collecting tens of thousands. It's a really bad strategy. Not Rondons fault in the slightest like.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Thats my point - Rondon after a few weeks of footie under his belt can improve to a PL level CF the other two likely not.
…wow, ‘Simms is our brightest young talent’. I presume you watch plenty of our youth games, i imagine there’s quite a few who you will know from the touchline who disagree with you.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Simms is miles ahead of any flavour of the month who you'll never see do much here.
Our current crop are just not good enough for a top half PL club.
It will take Rondon until November at the earliest to be acceptably fit, he may never be fit enough, who knows? It is 2 years since he played at top class level, he is over weight and, surprisingly, his touch doesn’t seem to be there, normally that is the last thing a player loses.
I hope you are right and he is up to speed in a few weeks, but, I am not holding my breath.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
The thing with Rondon is he has scored goals everywhere he has played.
People seem to have him down as a player who pops up with a goal every blue moon and just holds up the ball etc. Its only really been at West Brom where he did that (understandable with how they set up too.)
The big problem is he is in his 30's and has been playing at a lower standard the past couple of seasons so nobody really knows if he is past it or not yet as he had not played since March otherwise.
One thing that has been noticeable so far is that he is getting nowhere near crosses. Seen it a couple of times now, the wide players have put in some great balls and he has been on the edge of the box instead of where he needs to be in the middle.
It's far too early to judge his worth though.
Also I wish I was as "overweight" as Rondon.
People seem to have him down as a player who pops up with a goal every blue moon and just holds up the ball etc. Its only really been at West Brom where he did that (understandable with how they set up too.)
The big problem is he is in his 30's and has been playing at a lower standard the past couple of seasons so nobody really knows if he is past it or not yet as he had not played since March otherwise.
One thing that has been noticeable so far is that he is getting nowhere near crosses. Seen it a couple of times now, the wide players have put in some great balls and he has been on the edge of the box instead of where he needs to be in the middle.
It's far too early to judge his worth though.
Also I wish I was as "overweight" as Rondon.
He doesn’t watch much football, even if he did, he can’t recognise what is good and what is horrible. As long as the player is Rafael’s fav, our club must accommodate at at the expense of everyone else.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
You mean the other two are not?
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Perhaps he is afraid of increaing the brain damage?
Bluetintedspecs
Player Valuation: £6m
He's been beyond woeful in the 3 games he's played.
I know he's unfit, but he can't run, can't jump, can't control the ball and mis-controls every pass. Every single touch of the ball has been a poor one. That's technique, not fitness.
We've also had several promising attacks killed stone dead as soon as the ball goes to him. It's like playing with 10 men.
I know he's unfit, but he can't run, can't jump, can't control the ball and mis-controls every pass. Every single touch of the ball has been a poor one. That's technique, not fitness.
We've also had several promising attacks killed stone dead as soon as the ball goes to him. It's like playing with 10 men.
woodsyni
Player Valuation: £20m
Valid points about Rondon maybe coming good but how are we ever going to know about the youngsters if they don't get on? Yesterday was an ideal, no lose scenario to give one of them a go for a clearly underperforming player, especially after we were two up. They may not turn out to be top players but I, for one, would love to see them try.
No mea culpa Kev, although I am old enough to remember the Latin mass. I have said from the beginning that I want us to win, I have also made it quite clear that I don’t like Benitez, but, I don’t want him to lose, he is the custodian of my team I never want Everton to lose.
The thing is, I will give credit to Benitez when he performs well, but, I will be a harsh critic when I think he has got it wrong. Unlike the Benitez is god crowd, I have a balanced view of the situation. He is a competent manager who will keep us safe while we balance the books, no more, no less. He was also a very divisive appointment who will always be 3 bad results from crowd unrest.
I look forward to the day when our finances are more stable, we are in the new stadium and Benitez has gone. Until then, I will just have to live with him.
I don’t think there will be a mea culpa regarding Rondon. He is just not worth the outlay, I can see us paying a 33 year old Rondon to replace Tosun as our missing in action striker next season. The more things change the more they stay the same.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Behave lad you think Rondon is being accommodated ahead of whom?
A half fit Simms who was playing in League One last season?
He's our 3rd choice CF
our first & second choices are injured
Therefore he plays - nothing controversial about that imo
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