Everton Summer transfers 2021

[Goat]

Sorry about that

I do think we are lacking a proper first choice CB from that bunch. The big ball winning unit who commands the back four and midfield. The Ramos, the Thiago Silva, the Dias. The guy who you play every game of the year and who takes you to the next level. Don't think Keane or Mina are that guy unfortch.

I would have thought that one would get the CB and the GK last - they complete the puzzle, and I actually think there are more pressing areas to recruit to (ST, RB, CM)... but if a CB were to become available, would you?

Please no "you don't think GK is a priority?" responses

No mate.

We have 4 very good CBs, none of them are top, top tier, but we don't need top, top tier, Keane, Mina, Godrey and Holgate are good enough to take us where we want to go.

Looking at the table, the majority of our players are, but of course we can improve every position in the team, other than Hamez, who is without question a world-class talent, we have nobody else who is tier 1 and Hamez sadly has his injury issues.

For me we are crying out for a RB, a RW when Hamez misses out, a GK, cos Pickford, is Pickford and Olsen, whilst I've liked what I've seen, well I think we need better there, this new player we have got, Tom Davies, whilst hes vastly improved and Gomes new found form, both of which could sadly be fleeting, even Iceland, who has made an outstanding contribution lately, but given all that, I think we also need a CM.

LW is also an issue, Iwobi is a competition winner and Rico cant play every game, wee Bernie, whilst he scored a great goal last night, hes found wanting and a Striking option for DCL/Rico, time will tell if King can fill that gap.

Anyway, lots of waffle, but for me, I look at our CBs and I'm happy with them, so unless we win the Euromillions and can spend unlimited, I would be focusing on :

GK - Selling Pickford and buying a first choice
RB - Buying a first choice
CM - Selling/giving away Delph and Iceland, a replacement will depend on Gmblammo, but still feel we need a door locker in there, we have lots of fighters
Wide - Selling/giving away Iwobi and Bernie and ideally getting somebody in, LIKE, King who can play all across the front would be the ideal thing
ST - Selling Kean and replacing him

I do realise its unlikely Iceland and Iwobi will be moved on, but we shall see.

I think and yes, I say this every window, but I suspect funds will be extremely limited and Outs will, as always fuel our Ins, we will have a little bit to spend, hopefully we can get rid of some of the jokers out on loan. CL football will change the game up for us, but still doubt, even with that we spend more than we did last Summer, but 60m for Godfrey, Doucs, Allan and Hamez is just LOL, Marcel Brands mate.

But for me, if we do nothing else, we NEED a RB, that's the 1 area I would be focusing on hard.

 

[ElGato]

No mate.

We have 4 very good CBs, none of them are top, top tier, but we don't need top, top tier, Keane, Mina, Godrey and Holgate are good enough to take us where we want to go.

Looking at the table, the majority of our players are, but of course we can improve every position in the team, other than Hamez, who is without question a world-class talent, we have nobody else who is tier 1 and Hamez sadly has his injury issues.

For me we are crying out for a RB, a RW when Hamez misses out, a GK, cos Pickford, is Pickford and Olsen, whilst I've liked what I've seen, well I think we need better there, this new player we have got, Tom Davies, whilst hes vastly improved and Gomes new found form, both of which could sadly be fleeting, even Iceland, who has made an outstanding contribution lately, but given all that, I think we also need a CM.

LW is also an issue, Iwobi is a competition winner and Rico cant play every game, wee Bernie, whilst he scored a great goal last night, hes found wanting and a Striking option for DCL/Rico, time will tell if King can fill that gap.

Anyway, lots of waffle, but for me, I look at our CBs and I'm happy with them, so unless we win the Euromillions and can spend unlimited, I would be focusing on :

GK - Selling Pickford and buying a first choice
RB - Buying a first choice
CM - Selling/giving away Delph and Iceland, a replacement will depend on Gmblammo, but still feel we need a door locker in there, we have lots of fighters
Wide - Selling/giving away Iwobi and Bernie and ideally getting somebody in, LIKE, King who can play all across the front would be the ideal thing
ST - Selling Kean and replacing him

I do realise its unlikely Iceland and Iwobi will be moved on, but we shall see.

I think and yes, I say this every window, but I suspect funds will be extremely limited and Outs will, as always fuel our Ins, we will have a little bit to spend, hopefully we can get rid of some of the jokers out on loan. CL football will change the game up for us, but still doubt, even with that we spend more than we did last Summer, but 60m for Godfrey, Doucs, Allan and Hamez is just LOL, Marcel Brands mate.

But for me, if we do nothing else, we NEED a RB, that's the 1 area I would be focusing on hard.

I agree that GK, RB, CM, Wide and ST are the weakest areas in the squad and have to be priorityareas for recruitment.

Likewise be surprised if Iwobi and Sigs go. I actually think they represent a decent option as squad players (especially the way Iwobi has come on this year) but I don't even want to think about the wages we are paying them to come off the bench in the big games or start in the little games.

Guess we'll have to disagree that Keane, Mina, Holdgate and Godfrey will take us where we want to go (at least in the long term). Holdgate and Godfrey will, but I think Carlo will eventually have to make a decision as to who he retains out of Keane and Mina, and with a view to replacing whoever we ship out with a genuine champions league quality CB (who I would say will eventually partner with Godfrey, who will be England ready in a few years).

Champo League is where Carlo wants to be and I would wager that our defensive tactics this year (low block, drop deep to 6 yard box) is reflective of the qualities of our current best CBs, and also reflective of where they are weakest. Not sure Yerry or Mickey K are good enough to play a higher line, which I think we do need if we are to start challenging more for the top 4.

But I don't think the defence is a priority, as I say, there are other more pressing areas that need sorting... unless Carlo's phone buzzes and it's David Alaba... or Kalidou Koulibaly.

I haven't even been drinking. Time for a brandy

 

[ElGato]

GK over striker imo

TBH I'm with you but I think it depends on what we make of Moise. If we keep him for another year then I think we can address the GK situation. If he wants to leave then I do think we will need to replace him with back up/competition for Dom.

 

[ElGato]

DCL, Richy, possibly Josh King

Pickford, Olsen.

Aye, let's sign a striker over a keeper.

Your call lad

Lot of dependencies aren't there. If Josh King fails to impress then we're left with DCL, Richy and Moise. If Moise wants to leave then we're left with DCL and Richy...

Surely would have to add another attacker in that space?

As I say, lot of dependencies..

 

[Mkjjones]

TBH I'm with you but I think it depends on what we make of Moise. If we keep him for another year then I think we can address the GK situation. If he wants to leave then I do think we will need to replace him with back up/competition for Dom.

My logic is we have a good first team striker and king as backup and Kean could be as well, but at GK we don’t really have 1st team quality, it might change though if Olsen keeps performing.

 

[ElGato]

He's also done his achilles about a month ago. Dahoud is pretty bad imo. I don't see him upgrading from Dortmund.

Reyna is pretty decent so I'd love to see us go for him but at the right price.

Reyna looks good doesn't he and is only 18.

I think Guerrerio from them lot is class too but don't need a LB do we.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Reyna looks good doesn't he and is only 18.

I think Guerrerio from them lot is class too but don't need a LB do we.

Guerreiro is also a poor defender to the point that he almost can't play in anything but a wing back role.

 

[ElGato]

My logic is we have a good first team striker and king as backup and Kean could be as well, but at GK we don’t really have 1st team quality, it might change though if Olsen keeps performing.

Honestly mate I'm a bit snookered when I look at the side think there is a lot ways to cook the proverbial champions league omelette. We have some real quality that needs supporting with good signings, but then we have some rank awful stuff in the squad that will need replacing if we ship it. The question I guess is how you rank the bad boys; who can you get away with keeping for the longest?

As much as I think we will struggle to achieve anything with Pickford in net, is he the worst bad player in the side?!

 

[Nymzee]

Your call lad

Lot of dependencies aren't there. If Josh King fails to impress then we're left with DCL, Richy and Moise. If Moise wants to leave then we're left with DCL and Richy...

Surely would have to add another attacker in that space?

As I say, lot of dependencies..

Well you're saying we're left with DCL and Richy, two class players.

In nets we're left with Pickford and Olsen two average players.

Why would you add to a strong position when there's a glaringly weak one there too?

 

[ElGato]

Guerreiro is also a poor defender to the point that he almost can't play in anything but a wing back role.

Not played well for the last year, Guerreiro, but since the first lockdown the entire Dortmund side have been pony. Watching Jadon Sancho for them lot recently and I wonder if he's overrated. Got to remember the context, Dortmund have suffered a lot of changes

He's international quality and I've seen him have very accomplished games against very accomplished opposition in the past. Granted he's better going forward than he is going back, but then you could argue the same about Digne.

Anyway, we're not even signing him, you just fancied getting one up

As you were

 

[carolinablue232]

Sorry about that

I do think we are lacking a proper first choice CB from that bunch. The big ball winning unit who commands the back four and midfield. The Ramos, the Thiago Silva, the Dias. The guy who you play every game of the year and who takes you to the next level. Don't think Keane or Mina are that guy unfortch.

I would have thought that one would get the CB and the GK last - they complete the puzzle, and I actually think there are more pressing areas to recruit to (ST, RB, CM)... but if a CB were to become available, would you?

Please no "you don't think GK is a priority?" responses

I think Keane and Mina are both very good, and the hope is that Godfrey can become that rock at the back you’re looking for. For me, cb is last on our list of priority along with left back.

 

[carolinablue232]

He's also done his achilles about a month ago. Dahoud is pretty bad imo. I don't see him upgrading from Dortmund.

Reyna is pretty decent so I'd love to see us go for him but at the right price.

They’ll be looking for at least 50mil IMO. Would love to see it but don’t see us having a chance.

 

[ElGato]

Well you're saying we're left with DCL and Richy, two class players.

In nets we're left with Pickford and Olsen two average players.

Why would you add to a strong position when there's a glaringly weak one there too?

All sorts of variables. Strikers get injured more than goalkeepers so strength in depth required. If we stop scoring, we don't win games. If we concede goals, but keep scoring, we still win games.

It's not that I don't think we need a new GK. I think you'd have to be blind to think that Olsen and Picko are good enough to play for Everton (although I like the cut of Olsens jibb at the moment), especially the little terror, he's had a guff season.

It's just a question of whether you think we are more likely to be competitive in the league with a good GK, but only two recognised strikers in the squad. Or with a dodgy GK... but strength in depth in attack.

Totally a judgement call and everyone will have their own way of looking at it. I'm just a stupid number 9 who couldn't care less about what was happening back there

 

[ElGato]

I think Keane and Mina are both very good, and the hope is that Godfrey can become that rock at the back you’re looking for. For me, cb is last on our list of priority along with left back.

Agree with you there. Sign a champions league quality centre half in a year's time, to complete the project (just not start it)

 

[Tin-Tin]

Think we can all agree RB is a must, with Kenny offloaded.

After that there is a few positions that need big improvements but everyone will have an idea of priority. I feel a CM and RW is essential.

RW is because Richarlison can cover the left and Iwobi played most of his Arsenal career on the left. Plus we can move Digne up at a stretch and Bernard, if he stays seems to favour this side. On the right Iwobi is inconsistent, James leaves the RB exposed and likes to come inside. Nobody else can really play there.

CM is because after Allan, Doucoure and James, the drop in quality is quite big and this is one of the most important areas of the pitch.