Confirmed Signing Mark Travers

[PhilRegan]

I do remember the days of statement signings though mate...I remember them all turning out to be pure,high grade Bumgas.

Which bumgas you thinking of ?

 

[DaChunk]

Good stuff.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Which bumgas you thinking of ?

The Gomes & Sigurdsson type.

 

[PhilRegan]

The Gomes & Sigurdsson type.

Ahh right I thought you meant lukaku or richarlison for a second then wrong bumgas

 

[Vaughan]

glad he’s signed, but hope he never plays a league game for us

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Ahh right I thought you meant lukaku or richarlison for a second then wrong bumgas

Still time to sign this variety.

 

[MikeH72]

Ahh right I thought you meant lukaku or richarlison for a second then wrong bumgas

What about the Andre Gomes and Moise Kean variety?

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Interesting to see whether we keep doing the loan thing with Tyrer or try to get some money back selling him. Tyrer 23 and Travers just turned 26 so a bit of a pathway blocker.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

What about the Andre Gomes and Moise Kean variety?

God...Kean was stinky

 

[Nymzee]

Interesting to see whether we keep doing the loan thing with Tyrer or try to get some money back selling him. Tyrer 23 and Travers just turned 26 so a bit of a pathway blocker.

Travers is a decent keeper, but if Tyrer can't oust him, then he's not Everton standard, so up to him to do it.

 

[MikeH72]

God...Kean was stinky

So was Gomes if we’re brutally honest.

 

[Lanolin]

Interesting to see whether we keep doing the loan thing with Tyrer or try to get some money back selling him. Tyrer 23 and Travers just turned 26 so a bit of a pathway blocker.

I wouldn't really see it as a pathway blocker. Either Tyrer is going to be good enough to make it here or he isn't. Currently you'd have to say the chances of him being good enough to take over from Pickford as first choice at any point look pretty remote (unless we were accepting a fairly hefty downgrade) but he'll either do enough to prove that wrong or not, I'm not sure that us having Travers really affects that in any way.

 

[Kantareller]

I see him checking out the stadium, must beat Vitality

 

[Tony’s Carp]

I wouldn't really see it as a pathway blocker. Either Tyrer is going to be good enough to make it here or he isn't. Currently you'd have to say the chances of him being good enough to take over from Pickford as first choice at any point look pretty remote (unless we were accepting a fairly hefty downgrade) but he'll either do enough to prove that wrong or not, I'm not sure that us having Travers really affects that in any way.

Maybe pathway blocker is the wrong phrase. But I'm not sure we pay money and give an apparently quite meaty 4 year deal to a 26yo backup if our 23yo keeper projects to be as good or better in 1-2 years time, and if he isn't going to be (and therefore is going to be nowhere near starting quality) do you just take money and clauses now instead of extending and loaning yet again?

 

[Lanolin]

Maybe pathway blocker is the wrong phrase. But I'm not sure we pay money and give an apparently quite meaty 4 year deal to a 26yo backup if our 23yo keeper projects to be as good or better in 1-2 years time, and if he isn't going to be (and therefore is going to be nowhere near starting quality) do you just take money and clauses now instead of extending and loaning yet again?

As I've said a few times, I just don't really see the Travers deal as the massive thing that some people seem to. The fact we've paid money for a back up keeper is quite surprising, but I don't think it really means anything as such, it may well just be that they didn't really fancy any of the freebies and went for him as a decent available option who they thought would retain his value to be sold on again in a couple of years if that's the way things go.

Realistically I'd be surprised if they genuinely see Tyrer as a potential number 1 here, so the decision on whether to keep or sell is likely to be based on whether they think he's at peak market value or not.