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It's a tough one. If Chermiti is going out on loan I think we could do with another option personally. You're only one bad injury away from having no competition or options which isn't ideal. Whether it's an out and out striker or someone who can...

I appreciate wanting to find optimism, but I'm not sure we're on the front foot. We needed players more than any other club in the league - Only Crystal Palace, Fulham and Newcastle have signed less. Moyes will have wanted a few more in by now...

I've heard it all now. We should ignore goals that are bangers because the player wasn't expected to score them.😂

No, but your poster boy for this argument is, formerly of this parish, Sandro Ramirez. The season before he signed for us, he scored an unusual number of absolute bangers - over-performing his xG significantly, He, basically, had the season of...

Spot on. Also interesting he mentioned the fans . No doubt some up and coming players have seen the team coach arrivals over the past few years with the atmosphere inside the ground. Coupled with a fantastic new iconic stadium , forward...

Apparently other clubs did come in for him in the last two weeks, but the lad stuck to his word even if Villarreal were trying to stir it all up. Bodes well in terms of character and integrity. ;)

We didn't pay his release clause, that's why it's irrelevant. There are also plenty of reports that say other teams were interested, but apart from that you're doing great.

It's interesting to me because you see how some Evertonians view their own club...like we're some small time, after thought. Everton are massive club even if our recent history doesn't suggest as much.

It depends whether there's enough minutes to go round. You don't really want to be signing a young striker like Ivanovic but then never playing him because it'll stunt his development. It also doesn't really make sense to do that if the idea of...

No, not really. That "expected assists" figure includes every chance he created whether it was finished or not It's all about whether you buy into the data stuff (but most clubs do now use this - Everton have literally just bought an entire data...

I haven't seen the figures myself so I can't comment on them specifically but 'expected assists' should include all of that. It is the number of assists you would be expected to have got from all the chances you created. If you created a huge...

Yep, still a lot of holes to fill. We need a minimum of two goalkeepers and five outfield players, imo. Preferably more. There's four loan slots, I suppose.

Yeah if they come to the PL and do well even at a relatively minor team then it opens the door for a big move. Looking at Barry’s career path to date it wouldn’t surprise me if he comes here for a season or two with the aim being to develop and...

It's nothing to do with other clubs, his club was in the CL but he chose to leave to come to the PL because that's what players do. His release clause is also nothing to do with it, people have got hung up on releases clauses because they...

Yeah the Barry one should open people's eyes a bit to the realities of these things. Generally speaking (there are obviously exceptions because everybody is different) playing in the PL is a much bigger draw than playing in the Europa League, and...