No Zat, you’d see 16 in 90+ like everyone else and say there’s a 1 in 2 striker that we should be aiming for elsewhere. It’s not that hard to figure out.
Your searching for ways to defend him, like others. Fair play and he’s looked decent recently. But stop pretending like you’re evaluating him as if he didn’t play for Everton. You’ve got your blue tinted specs on here.
16 in 94 is what the basic figures are fair enough, but in reality is has played about 5000 minutes which is only 56 or so games assuming he plays 90 minutes each game. The number of sub appearances he has had skews that pretty significantly. 1 in 3-4 isn't great but is at least understandable for a player his age while 1 in 6 is unforgivable. So it makes a difference when you don't dig into that at all.
Now 1 in 3-4 is still not good enough but within that you can see clear year to year improvement. Two years ago a goal every 450 minutes, last year it was down to one every 300 minutes and thus far this year it is one every 200. Other stats show a similar trend. The kid is still getting better.
All that said I still don't really know if he is going to be good enough ultimately. Especially when presumably we are going to actually try to pass the ball around at some point and he is way better suited to the direct game. But to give up on a 23 year old striker who is scoring close to 1 in 2 by minutes for the season and showing a pretty clear upward trend would be straight up insanity.
