How do Mina and Gomes get in the team?

[Boba Fret]

How many clean sheets have we kept with that gammon head

How many did we have whilst he was injured?

 

[sageyefc]

How many did we have whilst he was injured?

Was mina fit then

 

[Boba Fret]

Was mina fit then

Irrelevant as you were clearly stating it was the fault of Keane we have very few clean sheets.

 

[sageyefc]

Irrelevant as you were clearly stating it was the fault of Keane we have very few clean sheets.

Pretty much

 

[mkrudden]

I've seen Mina play twice so have no idea what his style is.
I like Keane at the moment though. Don't think he should be dismissed.

Is Mina quick?

 

[buededw1]

I've seen Mina play twice so have no idea what his style is.
I like Keane at the moment though. Don't think he should be dismissed.

Is Mina quick?

Apparently beat Usain Bolt in a 60m sprint when they lived together in Jamaica

 

[4737carlin]

I've seen Mina play twice so have no idea what his style is.
I like Keane at the moment though. Don't think he should be dismissed.

Is Mina quick?

Keane wont be taken out of the team any time soon, Silva wont repeat the mistake he made against Southampton messing with the squad.

For now tho Siggy has fully pipped down his section of the whoppers, so most of the silly negative focus is going to go towards Keane now, expect nothing less from Evertonians

 

[EDINHO1]

Should be drip fed into the team until they are ready. Like was done with Bernard.

 

[trueblue84]

Keane wont be taken out of the team any time soon, Silva wont repeat the mistake he made against Southampton messing with the squad.

For now tho Siggy has fully pipped down his section of the whoppers, so most of the silly negative focus is going to go towards Keane now, expect nothing less from Evertonians

Tom Davies, surely?

 

[4737carlin]

Tom Davies, surely?

O yeah i forgot about Tom!!!
Its a good job we went into a international week on the back of the best we have played in a long long time, otherwise we would have two weeks of OTT rubbish about all of our players

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Koff with these international games tbh. We're trying to build some momentum here ffs.

 

[AmericasToffee]

This is a pretty simple answer:

By being better than the other players at the position

 

[royalblue66]

Lovely problem.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Some terrible shouts in here.

Players need to complement eachother as well as just be good in their own right. From everything I've seen of Mina, Zouma would complement his game, as he does Keane's. I'm not convinced that Keane and Mina would be a good partnership, and i'm pretty sure that's why we brought Zouma in in the first place. There's no reason why a contracted player should be used ahead of a loan player, in fact it makes much more sense to get the use out of the loan player while you've got them than it does to pay a fee and wages for someone who then just sits on the bench.

It seems fairly obvious that Keane and Davies are the two players who would be replaced because of the team's set up, although when that will be I don't know.

With you until the bit about wasting fee on a loan player. You’re paying both sets of wages, it’s sunk costs both directions. The choice needs to be best chance to win/develop, depending on the preference of Silva and Brands.

 

[Lanolin]

With you until the bit about wasting fee on a loan player. You’re paying both sets of wages, it’s sunk costs both directions. The choice needs to be best chance to win/develop, depending on the preference of Silva and Brands.

Yeah that’s my point really, that it doesn’t matter if you’re on loan or not. I’m just saying you can hammer the point home by saying Keane will remain an ‘asset’ even if we don’t play him this season, whereas zouma is only an asset in the sense that his performances can help us. If we dont pick him he’s of no value to us, whereas Keane is.