Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Will have to agree to disagree. There’s more players in the world than Adam Webster who could have replaced Michael Keane as a better squad option at Everton without jumping all the way to ‘keeping Keane or signing Saliba’.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £40m
On the bright side, he'll probably never leave at this rate.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
If he’d have done him with some outrageous piece of skill you’d have a point but suddenly slowing your run into the box to buy a yard from the defender is pretty basic centre forward play. Also I’m not the one arguing he’s been terrible this season, you’re arguing he’s been great, so when I put forward an example of him not being great you then can’t scorn an argument for the extreme binary position that I’m actually not making.
He’s been ok in my opinion, decent in some games, poor in others. Wouldn’t say he’s been terrible, wouldn’t say he’s been great either.
But you’re still missing the point. That is who they were going to sign according to their own client journalists. Whether you think you could have found somebody better is completely irrelevant, the club had narrowed it down to those two options and like I said initially (and at the time) it was very obvious that would be the case, and the reaction to Keane re-signing was based on that (correct) assumption.
And a perfectly good enough PL backup CB that's doing his duties well whilst Branthwaite is out. We've missed him, but not as much as I thought we were going to.
preposterousvelios
Player Valuation: £15m
It's not an agenda. We had one of the best defences in the league last season, largely due to the partnership of Branthwaite and Tarkowski. Start of last season was the same with Tarkwoski struggling having to play next to Keane, seen the same happen to Mina while he was here as well.
As you say stats can be hard to read at face value, but I know what I see when he plays. He unsettles the rest of the defensive line. He's never been able to form a partnership with another cb at Everton because he looks an absolute nightmare to play with. He's alright facing the opponents goal winning headers and making clearances, but he often leaves big gaps behind him and when he has to turn and move he completely loses his bearings.
Watch an actually good cb like Branthwaite who always looks assured, makes it look easy, knows where to be. Then watch Keane and you notice, he's always slightly out of position, wrong body shape most of time getting caught flat footed or with his back to the ball.
As I said, he's improved a bit this season but we desperately need him out of the 11 imo.
14_dollars
Player Valuation: £30m
We are in deep trouble if this is true.
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
Everytime someone puts JOB. I think for a splitt sec who the heck is that like he's a new player
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Tarkowski still a lot better than Keane at defending.
ToffeeScot
Player Valuation: £25m
His injury issues make it feel more and more like we should have sold him rather than give him a bumper new contract despite how good he is and has been for us. He changes the game for us in terms of how he can put us on the front foot from the back and his defending in general but should we have took the money and invested in two CBs instead?
Both slow as the game goes on - v a very good side - plus our full backs our naff.... excuse the one out of position ...
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Left field shout - and I mentioned this yesterday - I see a CB in Iroegbunam.
We might have to start thinking that way too if we get an injury to Keane.
We might have to start thinking that way too if we get an injury to Keane.
