EvertonFury19
Player Valuation: £1m
We need him if we want to have any sort of continuity at the back. His partnership with Keane has been fantastic and his physicality, size, and speed might make him our best center back.
We need to keep him and Gomes else we will be looking at two new players as well as a new centre forward to try and bed into the team. I would like a nice bit of evolution this summer for the first time in a good while to see what we can do when we aren't in 'transition'.
Obviously Mina can come in for Zouma but I don't think the Keane partnership will work as well. We need someone with some raw pace.
I like him Zat, but thats pushing it.
Thanks for sharing, really interesting to readWas speaking to a Aston Villa scout who like me was in Tenerife over Easter . We were on a short break and watching the City Spurs game in a hotel and got talking to him he said he was there to watch a game at CD Tenerife on Easter Sunday .Or at least he claimed to be a Villa scout.
I asked him about Tammy Abraham and then the conversation went wider and included matters Chelsea re loans and in particular Zouma.
His take on things based purely on snippets being shared in the football community were that Chelsea have plans running in tandem
The first is that half a dozen or so loan players will be recalled if the ban remains,In that number were the winger thay paid big bucks for in January , the two players I mention ,the two young full backs ,a midfielder and posssibly the central defender currently on loan at Derby. He made the point that previously Chelsea had a reputation for always trying to accommodate a player who wanted to leave but all players and their agents have been told that for the immediate future that policy is suspended unless it fits with previous assurances or it suits all parties.
He said they have a plan in place re keepers and had been planning for the possibility of a ban in that they awarded their ex 3rd choice keeper a contract and then loaned him out for the whole period of the contract thus enabling them to bring him back to the club even though he would be out of contract but the crucial point is they hold his registration.
The other plan is the ban is suspended or indeed kicked out.
If that’s the case they will bring back three or four from loan irrespective they will be selling a number of players currently out on loan to generate funds and also a couple of bit part players in their current squad.In that instance they will also loan some youngsters out who they feel are able to progress to PL level and who in the first scenario would be recalled to their club and here’s the point they would accept an offer for Zouma if it was in line with the market and he wanted to transfer out but that desire from the Zouma camp isn’t what he is hearing nor come to that is it what Abraham or his reps are suggesting.
They Villa are desperate to bring in loan players irrespective of which league they are in and have their eyes on the lad currently on loan at Derby, a central defender who he suggests is as good a defender he has seen for many a year and under Terry would develop at a pace but as I pointed out early he probably will be recalled if the ban remains.
Not really helpful I know but it’s the in line with the market comment. He suggested it’s close to £40 million ( hence why I poured scorn on a sum mentioned by another poster earlier in this thread)
Could be a load of bunken I know but was an interesting conversation
Hes the type of player you see signing for Barca
Hes the type of player you see signing for Barca
Agree with thisThe more I watch him the more I would consider him priority over Gomes, He just bosses these big bruiser strikers with ease, Turned into a right little player these past months.
Duh.Without Zooms and with the likelihood that we dont retain Jags we are looking at having Keane, an injury prone Mina and a cast of largely unproven yoots at the end of June.
We need to retain Zooms.
Personally think Chelseas appeal will determine this.