You are totally right . Great shame that he didn't buy a striker rather than piss £40 million up the wall.
Is that what you believe about Beto and Chermiti?
I think its unfair about the Beto deal as we needed a centre forward with 0 money down. No ones selling a top CF for that deal. Udinese were 12th with him and 15th without him, 2pts ahead of relegation.
As for Chermiti, he's looked full of promise with a high level of technique in what was meant to be a season of development. Lets see how he gets on next season before judging.
Alot slated
Branthwaite when be clearly had huge potential.
We don't have a PL tested mantra though we've signed loads of players from outside the PL recently and I doubt they would class Esteve as PL tested anyway he's only been there a couple of months.
I think thats a mistaken view. Signing a 21 year old centre back from France or anywhere overseas can be a risk. Its a totally different way of playing in our league.
The fact hes had 16 games in a Kompany team that seems to have improved alot since he joined takes alot of risk away.
Id rather Odobert from Burnley but would happily take both.
Yep. Bit like the way we bought Onana, Branthwaite, Chermiti, Patterson, Mykolenko, Calvert Lewin.
Even as far back as Vlasic Lookman Sandro Onyekeru Kean who didn’t work out well for us
Of course we need to do this more, and obviously some of our recruitment has been absolutely shambolic recently, but some posters act like we never ever buy anyone apart from dead expensive premier league players who are really obvious and don’t require any scouting.
Our three main saleable outfield assets this summer who could go for big money are all first team examples of good Everton recruitment. Yes of course we need more of it and more often, but it’s not as though we never do it.
"We need to buy players before they move to England and clubs want to double their money"...
Same posters = "We wasted money on Chermiti".
from what i remember when we played them at goodison they defended well the cb apart from the clown in goal. Would like to think the lad has been scouted before he moved to burnley, i dont kno what the other teams like that ballard greeves ect would be asking for. Does fit the profile 6ft4 and 21 left footed
I posted a little earlier. Esteve has been very highly rated for 2 seasons. Heavily linked with big clubs including Milan and only left for that 'low' fee as montpelier needed the money urgently and he only had a year on his deal.