MERSON: ALLAN TO EVERTON BEST BIT OF BUSINESS
Paul Merson on Sky Sports News:
"I watched Everton at Chelsea just before lockdown and they were beaten 4-0 and I thought ‘this is one of the top managers of all time, surely this is not going to happen and he’s going to have a team that keeps getting whipped up away from home?’
"But fair play to him, he’s come back and said ‘I want this player and this player’ and he’s got Dominic Calvert-Lewin looking top draw, I thought he was a top draw player anyway. James Rodriguez has been brought in too.
"For me, I think Allan is the signing of the transfer window out of everybody. I think he’s a top player, he’s a good holding midfield player. Everton have always been paceless but they’ve brought in Abdoulaye Doucoure. When we used to play at Everton, it was a hard place to go and it’s back to being a hard place to go and that is what Evertonians want.
"You never know, they might be able to do what they did years ago and finish in the top four."