Confirmed Signing Bernard

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lol this thread is reaching levels of insanity/borderline stalking i didn't think we could reach

who knew brazilians would make us this mad
 
Saint Domingo said:
Would you be happy with a window of Richarlison, Digne, Bernard, Mina, Bakayoko (loan), Zouma (loan). In.

Williams Mirallas Rooney Klaasen Funes Mori Tarshaj Pennington Connely Bolasie out?

Personally if anyone had offered that before the window I would have said it was pure fantasy.
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Genuine question though, why would you have thought that was fantasy? I'd be quite pleased with those ins, but none of them would have seemed particularly unlikely at the end of last season would they? There's nobody on that list would have fans of other teams going 'how the hell have Everton got him?'. A player on loan who was relegated with Stoke last year, another who was a terrible flop, one most of us had never heard of etc.

Similarly with the outs, it's not exactly surprising that we've managed to get somebody to loan a player who we spent £12m on 2 years ago and still captains his country, offloaded (for free) last seasons top scorer and England's all time leading scorer, loaned out some kids like we always do, and raised £22m on Dutch and Argentine internationals in their mid 20s.

That's genuinely not meant as a negative summary, I just think the business we've done/are linked with is fairly standard, not really hugely different to what most people would have envisaged (in terms of numbers/fees if not the actual players involved).
 


Saint Domingo said:
Would you be happy with a window of Richarlison, Digne, Bernard, Mina, Bakayoko (loan), Zouma (loan). In.

Williams Mirallas Rooney Klaasen Funes Mori Tarshaj Pennington Connely Bolasie out?

Personally if anyone had offered that before the window I would have said it was pure fantasy.
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I don't think we can loan two players from the same PL club, mate?

I also think Bakayoko just doesn't look cut out for the league, have never fancied him, but in terms of the profile of midfielder we now need, I'd say that's on the right lines.

Mina and Zouma - hmm, I think it would be better than what we have now, but that's not saying much. For me, neither of those players are an organiser or a natural leader.

But yes, overall, I wouldn't be complaining!
 
Lanolin said:
Genuine question though, why would you have thought that was fantasy? I'd be quite pleased with those ins, but none of them would have seemed particularly unlikely at the end of last season would they? There's nobody on that list would have fans of other teams going 'how the hell have Everton got him?'. A player on loan who was relegated with Stoke last year, another who was a terrible flop, one most of us had never heard of etc.

Similarly with the outs, it's not exactly surprising that we've managed to get somebody to loan a player who we spent £12m on 2 years ago and still captains his country, offloaded (for free) last seasons top scorer and England's all time leading scorer, loaned out some kids like we always do, and raised £22m on Dutch and Argentine internationals in their mid 20s.

That's genuinely not meant as a negative summary, I just think the business we've done/are linked with is fairly standard, not really hugely different to what most people would have envisaged (in terms of numbers/fees if not the actual players involved).
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It's the quality and imagination of the signings. Players approaching or in their prime.

The expectation for me would have been Welbeck and Rojo, possibly Sissoko from Spurs and a random loan. You know, standard Everton "signing Williams and Bolasie" type of window.

So you can see the difference in the business we have done to that expectation.
 

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