Our squad as it stands:
Pickford
Coleman
Patterson
Tarkowski
O'Brien
Branthwaite
Mykolenko
Iroegbunam
Garner
Armstrong
Alcaraz
Ndiaye
McNeil
Beto
Chermiti
Wafer thin. We need absolute bare minimum 6 new faces - imho a top winger, striker...
This sort of pragmatism is the only way we will attract the best.
Accept that good players may leave - just ride the wave of their good form like Lukaku, Stones etc. then come out if it quids in.
If we exceed expectations then they can stay.
Doubt Tommo from Bootle, or Philly from Wallasey would have spotted Salah at El Mokawloon FC in Egypt at age 15. But I bet there was an Evertonian there who knew how good he could be, long before FC Basel saw him. It costs nothing to put a...
Yes. Absolutely. Second year terms contingent on games played in year 1. And I would 100% put him on a coaching / recruitment pathway as well, if he wanted it. So many players of the future will come from francophone Africa, there is no...
I often wonder if our club should operate a 'tip line' for stuff like this... Seems like any scouting system worth a toss should have a way of capturing and screening info from the worldwide fan base.... All it would take is one email address...