Lay off the data nerds ( aka xVirgins) and don’t slander them with the balance sheet warriors !
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Lay off the data nerds ( aka xVirgins) and don’t slander them with the balance sheet warriors !
Always liked him very much. He took some s**t for the Witsel comments and why not, but he says a lot of good stuff
Seriously mate, IS EVERYTHING OK AT HOME?
He writes some beautiful prose if you can strip away the content
As if he’s going to risk the value of his investments in EFC and the Royal Liver Building to repay a few loans
He had one good match against Madrid. Steven Naismith scored a hat trick against Chelsea once.
The rest of the teams he's played well against were either Czech or Russian. Hardly Europe's best.
Was he going to start over anyone in the first 11? No. He wants to start each week and he's not good enough do that here at the moment but he is good enough to do it against Russia's best. Good luck to him.
The Penny Blue
Player Valuation: £8m
Perfect. Now to come full circle and back to my original point... How does a few good games in CL and doing mediocrely well in the Dutch league qualify Neres to be a starter in our team and worth a transfer 3-4x that of what we just sold Vlasic for?
TimHowardsBeardJuice
Player Valuation: £30m
Which looks less impressive in hindsight because Madrid was bad by their standards this season. 3rd in La Liga, 19 points behind Barca. Semi-finals in Copa del Rey. Both of those are poor given the dropoff in quality in Spain once you get past Real, Barca, and Atletico. Out of CL at round of 16.
Vlasic's not the only guy who had a good game against RM this season it would seem.
TimHowardsBeardJuice
Player Valuation: £30m
By the way, in the USA Vlasic is a brand of pickle with a stork as the mascot in its ads. https://www.vlasic.com/
Ash Woods
Player Valuation: £6m
Ok Occams Razor then...
Moshiri’s hypothesis- By investing in the club, its infrastructure and bringing in renowned football mind in Marcel Brands to lead the direction of the club, Everton will prosper thus seeing a great return on his shareholdings
Your’s/The Esk’s hypothesis- We need a rich powerful successful businessman, that is not Moshiri, to deliver investment in the club, infrastructure and bring renowned football minds to lead the direction of the club faster than Moshiri has because you are bedwetters...and then presumably you don’t care if they get a return on tgeir investments because its all about you you you
Two hypothesis leading to the same outcome Occams Razor says to choose the path with the least assumptions... i will stick with Moshiri thanks... forgive me for choosing the business knowledge of an Iranian Billionaire over the knowledge of a twitter account holder that got caught up in the ITK wannabe persona that hits so many this time of year
As for another part of Occams razor-
"entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily".... we don’t need more than one fear mongerer so you and @gladysblue or whatever his name is should decide which one does one out of the transfer thread
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Does trading posters on the Everton Forum Transfer Thread count as on topic
If not
Cracking piece of business securing Andre Gomes, it’s a shame about the Rudiger injury as our hopes for securing Zouma as well have surely been slashed in the process, its all good buying a “better cb” but Zouma had a proven partnership and needed no time adapting to the prem... i still hold high hopes for Yerry Mina though certainly haven’t written him off...
Over to you Mr Brands Sir
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
So night before last Pedro had a meltdown and then last night you lot bored my tits off talking about Esk.
Where’s the consistency lads.
Where’s the consistency lads.
The Penny Blue
Player Valuation: £8m
"Three goals and nine assists in less than one-thousand Eredivisie minutes is a remarkable feat."
- Pretty sure Klassen beat that production
"Although David Neres isn’t as explosive as other top-tier wingers"
"His lack of blistering pace may hinder the youngster as he eyes an international spot for the Seleção and, perhaps, a bigger club."
"Whether his lack of pure physicality will limit his ceiling at the top level is still up in the air."
- A winger in the Prem that likes to dribble but doesn't have the pace sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
"The premise of a successful David Neres is productive one-on-one dribbling encounters. Vice-versa, Neres looks flat if he can’t manage to trick his marker into a defensive falter."
- If he can't trick his defender the attack ends or he passes the ball back. May work in a league known to have some of the worst defending in Europe but not the Prem.
"Against lesser teams, the individual brilliance of someone like Neres is vitally important. Breaking down a back five or a deep block requires a nifty touch. Beating a more daunting opponent, like Bayern Munich, requires that specific skill in addition to intelligent attacking and defending movements. Neres can do both, although isn’t fully consistent in his application."
- (Can play well against bad teams but doesn't play well against better opponents.)
"David Neres came to Amsterdam with a €12 million price tag and hopes of joining a top European club in the future. To this point, it’s fair to say the future Brazilian international has lived up to his billing both on the stats sheet and from an analytical perspective."
- For a £10m price tag hell yeah I'd say give him a punt and say he's worth it especially after selling Vlasic for £14m. But like f-ing hell is he worth £40-50m and don't even mention him with a £80-90m price tag, that's just completely absurd
"Neres isn’t completely ready for his career-defining transfer"
- Probably the best piece of advice you could take from this article and they usually do very well with their analyses.
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