2021/22 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[ToffeeTim]

People need to want to buy them. Most of the players are up for sale at the right price.

Mina is great, but he's very injury prone and on big wages. So who wants him? And is that trade off of perhaps an £8m fee worth the damage to our defence even if he's only there 15-20 games a season. Would depend on the offer, wouldn't it.

Gomes - the club want him gone, they are looking for options. Why would teams be interested, he's on huge wages and has been crap for 2 years. So they'll wait until the end of the window to come in and try and get him for cheap or on loan.

Gbamin is up for sale.

Tim mate, you're doing it again.

The second we lost richarlison, the only position that mattered was finding a goalscorer in attack. We can sign whatever midfielders, wingers, full backs we like, but if we have no one who can put the ball in the net, then we are going to get relegated.

A normal organised club lines up their replacement before completing the £50-£60m sale. Instead we had absolutely nothing planned, then signed other players in totally different positions, then got a serious injury. Now we are in a hole.

This is not bad luck. This is woeful planning and strategy, and there has been no improvement on previous years. You keep defending the club saying they are trying, but so what? Of course they are trying, but it's not about effort or wanting to do your best, it's about getting results. That's not just for football, but all walks of life. People will judge you on output and results, not on whether you tried hard.

Whatever money we have has to go on the goalscorer right now. If we have nothing left afterwards then fine. This is the priority and the only way to stay in this division. Who cares if we are midfielder light, it's not like our midfield has ever contributed anything in the past.

 

[PhilM]

How long is he out for?

He’ll either be fit for Saturday, will only miss one game, be out until Christmas or will need his leg amputated. We can’t be more precise, sadly.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We still have Simms and Kean on the books yet could start the season without a striker in the team. Surely they know Rondon is not up to the task and DCL is sadly now an injury prone liability.

They simply must have someone lined up before deadline day, it's beyond belief if they haven't.

Are Simms and Kean really that poor that Rondon is our back up for injury prone DCL?

Simms just isn't good enough from what I've seen. Kean has the ability to be good enough but not the application. The issue is not letting them go. The issue is letting Richarlison go for a good amount of money and somehow not managing to sign a replacement. It's as shambolic as when we tried to replace Lukaku with about 4 x no.10s and a £5m Sandro Ramirez.

 

[Street end man]

Simms just isn't good enough from what I've seen. Kean has the ability to be good enough but not the application. The issue is not letting them go. The issue is letting Richarlison go for a good amount of money and somehow not managing to sign a replacement. It's as shambolic as when we tried to replace Lukaku with about 4 x no.10s and a £5m Sandro Ramirez.

I know mate, ridiculous.

 

[LEONARD]

And it just continues...…………………………..………………………………………………………………………………..

 

[Abertonian]

The second we lost richarlison, the only position that mattered was finding a goalscorer in attack. We can sign whatever midfielders, wingers, full backs we like, but if we have no one who can put the ball in the net, then we are going to get relegated.

A normal organised club lines up their replacement before completing the £50-£60m sale. Instead we had absolutely nothing planned, then signed other players in totally different positions, then got a serious injury. Now we are in a hole.

This is not bad luck. This is woeful planning and strategy, and there has been no improvement on previous years. You keep defending the club saying they are trying, but so what? Of course they are trying, but it's not about effort or wanting to do your best, it's about getting results. That's not just for football, but all walks of life. People will judge you on output and results, not on whether you tried hard.

Whatever money we have has to go on the goalscorer right now. If we have nothing left afterwards then fine. This is the priority and the only way to stay in this division. Who cares if we are midfielder light, it's not like our midfield has ever contributed anything in the past.

Its quite simple isn't it. If the executive at the top are incompetent everyone ends up fiddling while Rome burns. People can moan about Thelwell but the question is what has he stepped into. Bill still at the coalface for negotiations so what's the true role he has been handed.

Our transfer business seems to be a combination of asking Frank and Kevin if they know anybody decent and / or raking through Marcels old notebooks. Selling Richarlison made a premier league survival shaped hole in the starting 11. DCL being injured shouldn't have needed to be the catalyst to get someone in.

On every footballing level this club is an utter shambles. The big fear is that we start bad and bin off a manager who seems to have largely united the fanbase and replace him with a mercenary who wants yet another set of players.

 

[spudmuncher]

What's the latest.... can't be arsed scrolling back 50 pages

 

[ToffeeTim]

Its quite simple isn't it. If the executive at the top are incompetent everyone ends up fiddling while Rome burns. People can moan about Thelwell but the question is what has he stepped into. Bill still at the coalface for negotiations so what's the true role he has been handed.

Our transfer business seems to be a combination of asking Frank and Kevin if they know anybody decent and / or raking through Marcels old notebooks. Selling Richarlison made a premier league survival shaped hole in the starting 11. DCL being injured shouldn't have needed to be the catalyst to get someone in.

On every footballing level this club is an utter shambles. The big fear is that we start bad and bin off a manager who seems to have largely united the fanbase and replace him with a mercenary who wants yet another set of players.

If fans turn on the manager who has to work with this woeful squad, then our fanbase won't have done their job properly. Lampard has no chance of doing well in this scenario. The club are letting him down every day and they should be embarassed.

 

[JLW]

I see a panic buy on the cards because of this latest news.

Welcome Benteke

 

[JLW]

What's the latest.... can't be arsed scrolling back 50 pages

DCL in the same form as last season on the treatment table

 

[Marius57]

What's the latest.... can't be arsed scrolling back 50 pages

DCL choosing to make himself unavailable because he hates the fans and the club

 

[kenada_blue]

Do think if a bid comes in we should sell while his stocks high.

He's looking a bit like the new Andy Carroll at the moment.

 

[mahermi1]

The second we lost richarlison, the only position that mattered was finding a goalscorer in attack. We can sign whatever midfielders, wingers, full backs we like, but if we have no one who can put the ball in the net, then we are going to get relegated.

A normal organised club lines up their replacement before completing the £50-£60m sale. Instead we had absolutely nothing planned, then signed other players in totally different positions, then got a serious injury. Now we are in a hole.

This is not bad luck. This is woeful planning and strategy, and there has been no improvement on previous years. You keep defending the club saying they are trying, but so what? Of course they are trying, but it's not about effort or wanting to do your best, it's about getting results. That's not just for football, but all walks of life. People will judge you on output and results, not on whether you tried hard.

Whatever money we have has to go on the goalscorer right now. If we have nothing left afterwards then fine. This is the priority and the only way to stay in this division. Who cares if we are midfielder light, it's not like our midfield has ever contributed anything in the past.

And yet according to our Chairman other clubs look up to our board of directors and ask, "what would Everton do" ?
As you say a competent club would have had a replacement lined up for Richarlison, not us though, they must have known all Summer that Richarlison was going had to go, so now we scramble around for a striker, the big kick-off 2 days away and every club now knows we are desperate for a striker and will now rightly rinse us . But what would Everton do...absolutely laughable and nothing will change until they are all gone.

 

[davek]

Do think if a bid comes in we should sell while his stocks high.

He's looking a bit like the new Andy Carroll at the moment.

The truth of the matter is that if he was fit he wouldn't fetch much.

Unlike Everton, other clubs just look at the hard cold facts, and they see a one season wonder with zero staying power and focus and someone who has to be served up 6 or 7 gilt-edged chances per game to get a goal.

He'd fetch about £35M top whack.

 

[kenada_blue]

The truth of the matter is that if he was fit he wouldn't fetch much.

Unlike Everton, other clubs just look at the hard cold facts, and they see a one season wonder with zero staying power and focus and someone who has to be served up 6 or 7 gilt-edged chances per game to get a goal.

He'd fetch about £35M top whack.

I dunno. I'd still say £40-50mill due to age.

I mean... Chelsea have just paid £20mill for some young lad at Villa who had abar 3 games last season.