Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
The amounts of caveats connected to making this business sound are five too many for Everton's current competence. If for starters we didn't have a history of signing larger clubs cast offs, that for the most part haven't worked out on the pitch, cant be moved from some combo of inflated contracts aged out of recuperating larger fees or having not clicked at a bigger club to begin with we might have more ground to stand on.
Or if Alli under three managers since the one he broke out under had shown some more chances of clicking back into place, sure. Yes there is a caveat on fit in relation to those coaches schemes, the same problem exists with almost 3/4ths of the current Everton roster, whose hyper specificity or single managers belief is possibly the largest contributor to our poor form. A factor that gets more coonfusing when the likelihood of Lampard being manager in 18 months time by all precedent is unlikely. And then is Alli victim to the same lack of cohesion as he has been after Poch. We are then left with a player that is entered his prime without having improved whose fit worked under a past coach. Literally Evertons squad summarized.
Alli could work, but Everton has a habit of talking itself into the outcome that has the lowest probability of happening. Thats fine with the right caveats like age, sell on potential, price etc but on all those Alli is not really a value proposition. And when you are a club who is both reactionary, restricted in large part from past big hasty transfer decisions, the risk should come at less a risk.
I think this is a very good deal...potentially an amazing one.
