TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
Alright I gotta stop you there.
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bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Then they comes down to the manager mate, if he wants a player then he should know that he can or can't play in a system.
Poor squad
The Binman
Player Valuation: £8m
It’s gonna be great on here when we get relegated this coming season.
Colonel Getafe
Player Valuation: £25m
I'm sure legohead will turned him into a perfectly good make shift left back quicker than you can say "trust the process".
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £10m
Yes, he'll have no chance of making an impact as it currently stands, but, due to our financial state we cant dictate that we sign x,y,z in that order.
He's not priority no1, and id be disappointed if he's even priority no3, but it may be one that we can get done sharp and then push to complete the more important areas before the end of the window.
Frank will have a plan of where he wants us to be in 12/24 months if he has any long term aims of being at the club, this might be the time to get Gilmour in even if circumstances arent ideal. On loan or for sub £20m on relatively low wages imo is a great signing.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
For me it's a few things, he's obviously available, should Lampard want him he'd jump at the chance, Lampard knows him and knows what he can do, so IF he wants him getting him in fast is behind other deals as he knows it's one we can do. Getting in players needed to facilitate Gilmour is ahead in priority, been a lot of talk about bringing in goalscorers in mid and wide, but central to they is having someone you can trust to actually get them the ball.
Gilmour without those players is pointless, those players without Gilmour is too, so get the ones in that are more difficult to get in first
HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £25m
Problem is we can’t just buy a midfielder comfortable receiving the ball on the turn etc
Said midfielder would be receiving over (or sometimes under) hit passes, spinning and coming at them at waist or shoulder height from Mina, Holgate et al.
Our supposed best centre back who we apparently can’t win without can not take the ball off Pickford and beat any sort of press.
I do fear Frank will try his preferred formation and style with whatever squad he is handed at the end of August because they will have all nodded at him through summer, and by October there will be talk of being pragmatic again. So so many missing pieces all over the pitch. Whack a mole.
Our most important players carrying the biggest burden (Pickford and DCL) are as far away from each other as is possible. Terrible teams cause us so much trouble with really simple football because they have batches of their stronger players in the same area of the pitch.
Said midfielder would be receiving over (or sometimes under) hit passes, spinning and coming at them at waist or shoulder height from Mina, Holgate et al.
Our supposed best centre back who we apparently can’t win without can not take the ball off Pickford and beat any sort of press.
I do fear Frank will try his preferred formation and style with whatever squad he is handed at the end of August because they will have all nodded at him through summer, and by October there will be talk of being pragmatic again. So so many missing pieces all over the pitch. Whack a mole.
Our most important players carrying the biggest burden (Pickford and DCL) are as far away from each other as is possible. Terrible teams cause us so much trouble with really simple football because they have batches of their stronger players in the same area of the pitch.
Which is fine, but all we can discuss on here is the player in relation to the system we've seen as recently as the weekend.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
But one which the manager alluded was out of necessity not choice mate
You'd do well to read the entire post. You'd learn something.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
Teams have to be built gradually.
The combination of Keane Coleman and Docuoure trying to do any sort of ball keeping round the back is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Didn’t get much better if you swap any of the other midfielders in either.
Tarkowski can distribute a ball though, and hopefully Patterson would be better than Coleman (I mean he can’t be worse). Add Gilmore in and suddenly the route out the back into midfield isn’t looking quite as painful as it used to be.
Agree we need the other player around him also but there’s so much wrong at Everton that I think even fixing obvious things could lead to major improvements.
Mykolenko blocking far more crosses than Digne or Kenny was a huge factor in our clean sheets at the end of last season. It mean the CBs weren’t being pulled out because the LB was out of position and they could just focus on blocking shots and marking men. Coleman wasn’t shuttling over so he could put all his focus in stopping his direct opponent. One improvement that rippled throughout the entire back line in a virtuous circle.
Hopefully Tarkowski has the same effect and if we do get Gilmour then hopefully it’s another good piece adding to the solution rather than creating more problems.
Was it necessary at the weekend?
He’s clearly after a ball playing number 6 rather than a destroyer.
Our current midfielders can barely pass a ball 5 yards
Our current midfielders can barely pass a ball 5 yards
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £10m
Ok, so in comparison to Allan, Iwobi, Davies, Gomes, Delph he averages more passes per game than any of them over both of the past two seasons (near double Tom and Wobes)
Now, if we want to take into account he's technically inept and has a very average first touch which would break down a good % of possession before he can make a pass after receiving the ball, it makes him being our highest passing midfielder even more of a surprise?
But its ok, we all have different opinions, i see him as worthwhile, you dont ?
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