Everton Transfer Thread 2016

Nymzee · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
Why not actually get your facts straight instead of peddling lies.

Honestly @Westland has had you off on here and yet you come up with tosh to defend your position.

Quite amusing.

Well no he said Koeman hasn't managed any top clubs so thought I'd correct him.

Zatara · July 18, 2016

Jozzy said:
I understand that we lack quality striker options behind big Rom but do we actually need another striker? We've got Arouna Kone, Oumar Niasse and Shani Tarashaj. We still have Leandro Rodriguez and Conor McAleny who are on the books but will hopefully be sold this summer.

I can't see the club moving on Niasse just six months after we paid 13.5m for him, we'd have to move on Kone but I understand Tarashaj will have to work his way up into the first team set up through the U/21's.

Tarashaj plays attacking midfield like barkley and the rest are rubbish so we definitelt need someone else.

Zatara · July 18, 2016

Nymzee said:
Well no he said Koeman hasn't managed any top clubs so thought I'd correct him.

When he left them they werent top clubs.

BlueToff · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
Tarashaj plays attacking midfield like barkley and the rest are rubbish so we definitelt need someone else.

He's more of second-striker by all accounts Zat, a bit like Naismith (obviously we hope he'll be a bit better). That being said, and as good as the deal we got for him was, Naismith was outstanding for us at times, when he was played in that pocket behind the front-man.

Zatara · July 18, 2016

Funny seeing people trying to defend our lack of spending.

There is no defence.

Nymzee · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
When he left them they werent top clubs.

Yeh thanks to Koeman PSV, Ajax, Benfica & Valencia aren't classed as top clubs in world football anymore. Sound o_O

Zatara · July 18, 2016

BlueToff said:
He's more of second-striker by all accounts Zat, a bit like Naismith (obviously we hope he'll be a bit better). That being said, and as good as the deal we got for him was, Naismith was outstanding for us at times, when he was played in that pocket behind the front-man.

Ive been told by a mate in switzerland whose seen him olay and knos a fair bit about their league that hes a number 10.

Jimmy Grimble · July 18, 2016

mightymoyes said:
by anyone other than himself?

By loads. Have you forgotten the optimism of his first season, when we were angrily waiting for one of the "big clubs" to poach him?

Westland · July 18, 2016

BlueToff said:
No, I'm very realistic.

Our squad last year was good enough to be challenging for top six. We didn't and it's down to bad management and poor form from the players.

We've got a new manager whose main job it is is to get the players we have back to their best, while also ensuring that we get the quality additions that have been needed for a while to make us a permanent fixture in the top six, which we haven't been since 2009.

And on your first point, of course it is different. Nobody expected Leicester to do what they did. At the start of last season, who would you have rather had on the wings? Deulofeu and Mirallas or Mahrez and Albrighton???

It really wasn't. It wasn't even close to the top 6. Even if you take Leicester out of the equation. Chelsea, City, Arsenal, Utd, Liverpool and Spurs are all far stronger than we are and have only improved more this summer. e.g. Spurs have signed a 19m backup striker - that's the strength of their bench. Liverpool under Klopp humiliated us and got to a Europa League final. The other 4 are in another league altogether as is shown by the fact our No 1 target is surplus to requirements over there.

We need a lot of money spent to get us competing with those teams.

Raino85 · July 18, 2016

Eric Djemba-Djemba said:
Looks like no one wants to sign for us.

I would

Zatara · July 18, 2016

Nymzee said:
Yeh thanks to Koeman PSV, Ajax, Benfica & Valencia aren't classed as top clubs in world football anymore. Sound

They wouldnt be if he wasnt quickly replaced. Its well known about AZ Benfica and Valencia.

You cant change history.

TheHumbleEgg · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
Funny seeing people trying to defend our lack of spending.

There is no defence.

There is...

...in a world where IBE commands 15 mil & MANE 32 then, respectfully, I beg to differ.

Raino85 · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
Funny seeing people trying to defend our lack of spending.

There is no defence.

We have got Stones still, Jagielka, Funes Mori, Baines, Oviedo, Garbutt, Coleman, Kenny, Browning, Pennington, Holgate, Galloway

Plenty of defenders there

Nymzee · July 18, 2016

Zatara said:
They wouldnt be if he wasnt quickly replaced. Its well known about AZ Benfica and Valencia.

You cant change history.

You're clutching at straws; he got offered jobs at top clubs despite what people on here say. End of discussion.

BlueStevie35 · July 18, 2016

GerryandthePaceMerchants said:
It's the only explanation I can see for our lack of activity when clubs around us are sealing deals left right and centre.

Outside of Chelsea and the Manchester clubs who have strengthened significantly? Liverpool have overspent on a Southampton player again and added a couple of unknowns, Spurs have spent big on a relatively rookie striker, Arsenal haven't done anything, West Ham can't even attract a player back they had on loan when they were rubbish and Southampton haven't really spent the Mane money yet.