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More stats stuff for nerds like me who are interested: For reference, OBV stands for on-ball value and is basically a weighted metric for how much a player moves the needle towards their team scoring and away from conceding. Basically, how actually dangerous their passes or dribbles are -...

Honestly if I was recruiting keepers for an academy I'd try and get my hands on a local clinic's 'recently diagnosed' list. Got to be one of the best possible attributes there

Pulling this out my arse a little but feels like Juventus want to wait and see if anyone blinks and offers an obligation to buy, while all three prem teams are sticking to their guns on only an option. Could go right down to it potentially

Insane dribbler, very little end product. The latter pretty much to be expected at age 19 and on by far the worst team in the league. The gamble is if you can teach him to do the useful things at the end of the dribble - if you can, world-beater. If not, he becomes Adama Traore mk 2

Im probably miles off but it feels to me like one that could suddenly be wrapped up out of absolutely nowhere if certain other things fall into place on our side with regards to other players. We've held a consistent interest from various tier 1 sources this whole summer, he's clearly waiting...

Whack Hackney in there too imo.

Genuinely. The quality of player we've been linked with has been the best window for absolutely forever. We're just not really signing them haha. We can only really judge in September if it was the right call or not to aim high, but I do like it more than not even bothering.

Nominative determinism is a hell of a thing.

Incredible dribbler. But that's all currently. A project player, could be a star in a few years. I like it if the fee stays low, sort of high potential upside player clubs in our position need to make gambles on

I will say with what's going on with the striker market, getting Barry early and for the price we did seems extremely extremely good already. We'll see in a year or two but we may well look back on that as a great bit of business for this summer

He's a deep-lying playmaker. Passing and bringing the ball out from deep

Oh yeah totally agree. I just want us to be interested because I'm insane and think I know better than our own recruitment department

Sorry FIFTEEN MILLION has been accepted for Hayden Hackney? If we miss out on that because we're pissing around waiting for Luiz I will be writing a strongly worded letter

He's a pure 10. Weird one. Not sure I see it

Yeah in fairness my whole post is predicated on him not being expensive!

Surprised Maitland Niles is causing a stink among some. Perfectly solid right back, Moyes has specifically said he wants a couple of players over 25 with prem experience and that feels like a safe way to tick that box. Not the sexiest signing but I'm happy for the sexiness to be more on the wing...

Looks like Forest have landed their winger targets in Ndoye and Traore so that's one less club around our level that we're competing with in that area

Boyland will probably know about a lot of work being done that isn't at the reporting stage yet (it'll be very clear from the club what he is and isn't allowed to mention). If he's preaching calm and that there's lots going on behind the scenes then I'll take that at face value honestly.

It is darkly quite funny that Moyes is so well suited to Everton in so many ways, but we have such a pessimistic fanbase and he is also probably the single most outwardly pessimistic top level manager around. He's always been like this and will never change but it still never fails to send us...

Glad we're pushing for a loan without obligation. Would be very happy with that. Hope we can pull it off