diggerdestroyer
Player Valuation: £40m
Yes. Even for corners too high up. Excellent player coming onto play. He is like a wall. Doesnt have the pace to chase back.
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irishgoose
Player Valuation: £15m
Seeing the passion and effort from Allan makes Schniderfraud but a distant, even faint memory.
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
Tries hard and is combative but simply isn't quick enough for this league. He is 30 in January and is only going to get slower. Why do we keep bringing in ageing players on big wages.
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £40m
Makelele was 30 when he joined chelsea and did it for them for 5 years. Difference is he came in to a side to do the role allan has been brought in for without the quality makelele had in front of him at chelsea.
More windows needed to knit everything together hopefuly.
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
Makelele signed for Chelsea 17 years ago. The League has become far more athletic since then and then you have to look at their roles. Makelele was a specialist holding midfield player who was brilliant at reading the game. He was also an ever present in a top Madrid side.
Allan is a box to box midfield player and really struggled at Napoli when Carlo tried to use him as a holding mid. He also started picking up injuries during Carlo's last season and was then bombed out by Gattuso for lack of effort.
He is a player who was in decline at Napoli and has moved to a much quicker League. It doesn't bode well.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
He's absolutely outstanding you lunatic
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
I think he is doing fine his issue is he tries to do other people's jobs too(because they aren't doing enough) then gets caught out of position.
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
We get outgunned in central midfield week in week out.
Even when we were winning games against the likes of West Brom and Palace we still had problems in central midfield.
This sums it up.
Napoli won't miss Everton's Allan - Football Italia
It would have been strange to suggest that Napoli wouldn’t miss Allan if the Brazilian left the Partenopei at the same time as Jorginho in 2018, but
www.football-italia.net
Napoli won't miss Everton's Allan
Seeing Allan join Carlo Ancelotti at Everton was the best solution for all concerned, writes Kaustubh Pandey, as Napoli should’ve sold him sooner.
It would have been strange to suggest that Napoli wouldn’t miss Allan if the Brazilian left the Partenopei at the same time as Jorginho in 2018, but times change. One of Maurizio Sarri’s most important players at the club until that summer, the former Udinese man often embodied a warrior-like box to box role in the heart of the midfield. His job was to protect Jorginho and make up for his occasional defensive lapses. He had to recycle possession quickly and often get involved in play as well.
After Sarri departed for Stamford Bridge and Carlo Ancelotti took over at the Stadio San Paolo, things changed for Allan. Don Carlo did start with Sarri’s 4-3-3 in the beginning of the 2018-19 season, slowly transitioned to a 4-4-2 as the campaign progressed. As a result of this, Allan’s role constantly changed in the heart of the park. He often played in a double pivot beside a more attacking player in Piotr Zielinski or Fabian Ruiz in a system that hardly saw Napoli dominate as much possession as they did under Sarri.
Even at Udinese and then under Sarri, Allan was more used to venturing forwarding quite a few times in games. His chance creation was higher and he was seen as one of the best box to box midfielders in Serie A. Playing a lot deeper under Ancelotti was a different experience and while he did enjoy a good 2018-19 campaign, things changed even more last season.
Ancelotti’s 4-4-2 shape lacked a proper holding midfielder and teams could play through the Partenopei with little effort. When Allan struggled in the defensive midfield role, Ancelotti tried Zielinski and even Fabian Ruiz there and that didn’t quite work out too well either. Napoli were constantly getting over-run on the counter-attack and despite screams from fans to turn to the old 4-3-3, Ancelotti never really fancied that. The recruitment wasn’t done for a 4-4-2 and it showed, as Allan endured struggles on and off the pitch.
For the first time in many years, constant fitness issues cropped up. His game time in Serie A halved and fatigue became a main issue. There were constant knee issues that left him on the bench more than he’d have liked. In a sense, it was perhaps Allan’s worst season in a Napoli shirt - due to the fitness issues and the failure to perform that came as a result.
Ancelotti’s exit brought Gennaro Gattuso to Naples and while expectations were low, Rino gave a structure to the Napoli midfield with the signing of Diego Demme from RB Leipzig. He went back to the 4-3-3 with the only difference being the pragmatism in his approach. Stanislav Lobotka arrived as a box to box option as well and donned the role of rotating with Zielinski. Fabian, as a result, became their regular advanced midfield option.
While Allan did start in the first five games under Rino, he was largely unimpressive in a run of one win in five. Again, the fitness issues struck. The Brazilian could start only two league games after that, as he fell down the pecking order. The way the campaign panned out hardly makes it a surprise that Napoli got rid of Allan. A case can be made of the fact that they should have moved him on in January 2019 when Paris Saint-Germain were offering upwards of €50m.
They could have got a higher fee and that might have helped them bring in a replacement much earlier. Roma’s Jordan Veretout continues to be linked with a move to the San Paolo and while it remains to be seen if the Frenchman can make another move after joining from Fiorentina, the last few months suggest Napoli will not miss Allan at all.
This is why his move to Everton makes sense largely because of Ancelotti’s presence at Goodison Park. He does add structure to the midfield, and despite struggling last season, he did win an average of over three tackles per 90 minutes. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s past his prime and if Everton had scoured through the market, they might have found cheaper alternatives.
As we’ve seen many times in the past though, Don Carlo knows how to get the most out of certain players. It will be interesting to see how this pans out with Allan, but one can't help but feel it's a situation where Napoli and the player will always think about what might've been if he'd gone to PSG.
AussieToffee11
Player Valuation: £8m
If, and it's a massive if, Gbamin turned out to be a half-decent player, then these two as our CM pairing would be brilliant. Allan wouldn't be stuck having to cover the entire field and he would have an athletic option to pass the ball to in Gbamin.
I truly believe that Doucoure is a better AM as opposed to a deeper defender which he is forced to play as at the moment.
This team has the right balance:
Pickford/Olsen
Coleman Holgate Keane Digne
Allan Gbamin
Doucoure
James DCL Richarlison
I truly believe that Doucoure is a better AM as opposed to a deeper defender which he is forced to play as at the moment.
This team has the right balance:
Pickford/Olsen
Coleman Holgate Keane Digne
Allan Gbamin
Doucoure
James DCL Richarlison
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £40m
He never played box to box against spurs on the opening day and he was the best player on the pitch. Dacoure joined in with the attack and allan sat and swept everything up. His reading of the game was highlighted by every pundit going. Ive watched napoli for about the past few years on a pretty regular basis( work in the betting industry) and he will do his job. Its wether we can get a bit of more quality around him like he had at napoli.
Again it comes back to patience of building. We couldnt buy a whole new team at once.
Cracking player but having to do to much covering for other absent players
HumbleWedbetters
Player Valuation: £5m
Agreed. I think he would happily pack Gylfi and Gomes suitcase
Gbamin..... We are dependent on you.
NathDogg
Player Valuation: £40m
Already been written off by some on here, as has doucs - bloody ridiculous.
Sick of repeating myself - the invisible shithouse called gylfi is crippling our whole team, offensively and defensively, and massively impacting Allan's game.
Allan and doucs are carrying that crab and trying to do his job for him, when he's pointing runners he should be marking onto others(utds first goal yesterday was his best and latest example!) and generally not being arsed.
Some of that's on Carlo, and all on Sig - Allan deserves better from us.
Sick of repeating myself - the invisible shithouse called gylfi is crippling our whole team, offensively and defensively, and massively impacting Allan's game.
Allan and doucs are carrying that crab and trying to do his job for him, when he's pointing runners he should be marking onto others(utds first goal yesterday was his best and latest example!) and generally not being arsed.
Some of that's on Carlo, and all on Sig - Allan deserves better from us.
Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
Wow how wrong can someone be in one post?
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