twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Add jude Bellingham to the list too
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Thought it was £20m ? Besides the days of your £5m bargains are well gone, £20m is your new bargain. Even if it were £30m he's worth every penny in these days of paying £25m for your Dominic Solanke's. Up to now anyway.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Are you new to Everton transfer windows?
Expect a last day panic and Marcus Rojo on standby.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Watkins cost Villa £28 million which was a risk for someone who hadn't played at the top level. Dean Smith knew him from Brentford and hence he took the risk. Nobody else bid for him. He works well in a 1 up front system, but we have DCL for that so he wouldn't be of use to us. Grealish certainly would but he will be signing for a Champions League team.
Dublin blue 75
Player Valuation: £40m
£30m for Iwobi says hello.
Sheff Utd did tbf, they just couldn't afford his wages
Ball-carrying, athletic midfielder.
Right-back.
Right forward/winger.
A striker assuming Kean is sold.
That's the minimum we need.
King should have been given more of a run. It's ridiculous. Got a player there with pace and experience of scoring in the top flight and we're persisting with just chucking him on at odd moments chasing a game. Not saying he's going to be our saviour, but he's a player there already that may save us money, allow us to prioritise elsewhere, and we're not finding out.
Right-back.
Right forward/winger.
A striker assuming Kean is sold.
That's the minimum we need.
King should have been given more of a run. It's ridiculous. Got a player there with pace and experience of scoring in the top flight and we're persisting with just chucking him on at odd moments chasing a game. Not saying he's going to be our saviour, but he's a player there already that may save us money, allow us to prioritise elsewhere, and we're not finding out.
I virtually guarantee you he doesn’t.
Runub
Player Valuation: £50m
Sadly I think we missed the boat with Marcus Rojo
Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £25m
We’ve got recruitment totally wrong since Mosh and his money came in. Under Moyes every penny counted so no stone was left unturned when signing players. Ironically it was when Moyes tried signing someone maybe above his station that it didn’t normally workout. Shandy from Inter or Drenthe from Real Madrid. But it was always about building a team, not great individuals but a team. We have it the wrong way round these days. We have some great players, some promising talent but we don’t look like a team. On Saturday we looked like we’d never played together before. We have one of the best one touch finish strikers in the league, one of, if not the best headerer of the ball and we don’t play to his strengths.That’s unacceptable. Team’s have us beat just by being organised and working hard these days. Watkins was good but lets be honest, he didn’t do much more than put pressure on our CB’s and run the channels and the scary thing is that’s all he needed to do. None of those players complimented each other on Saturday and yes, James out was a massive blow and we’re missing Doucoure… he sort of binds the whole midfield together and lord knows we’ve been cursed with Injuries this season but why are we so heavily reliant on 2-3 key players making everything tick? Because recruitment has been criminal the last 5 years. How have we spend 400 million or whatever it is to have such an inflated squad but no team??
Under Mosh we have just spent the money assuming that was enough. No real though about the dynamic of the squad, a style of play although the constant changes in manger haven’t helped. We’re in that weird place where we can’t attract the top TOP talent because we aren’t good enough and for some reason we no longer look at the lower leagues talent pool because we think we’re above it maybe?? What that leaves us with is us trying to poach the best of the rest (getting in a bidding war with ourselves for Gylfi or throwing 55million at Zaha because… reasons) or we end up with players from the so called big 6 who are either not good enough and that’s why they’re available (step forward Mr Iwobi) or older players who see us as a decent payday (Step forward Mr Walcott).
Carlo changes things slightly, he can attract better players but they come with caveats too. Let’s not kid ourselves, James wouldn't be here if his legs weren’t made of Jenga!
Maybe Godfrey is a sign of change or maybe it was just blind luck but we can’t keep repeating the mistakes of the past hoping that suddenly it all works.
Transfer rumours the last week have consisted of Max Aarons and Toney – two young promising lower league talents & Aguaro, Bale and Countinho who have a combined age of over 60 and an injury recorded that would make Gbamin blush. It’s all paper talk but it shows the problems with Everton right now. No obvious plan.
That’s my morning rant out of the way.
GlosBlue
Player Valuation: £25m
That averages out at 20 each. How young do you want our signings to be?!
Tell you what, for a club that's injected with a bit of dosh, we don't half have boring transfer links these days don't we.
Where's the Niasse out of the blue?
Where's the Niasse out of the blue?
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
The issue is, and I do wholly understand where you are coming from, that if you at most top players there wil always have been a time when you could have got them, or a time they were in the championship. It's also true, that somesignings work well, while others tend to bomb.
I happen to agree with the broad picture, it is a good recruiting ground that I'd like to see more of though.
Yup. £30m gets you a solid player these days. You’re probably looking £60million plus for proven top level players.
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