2019/20 Marcel Brands

[Deulofeumygod]

Did this in three months. Three.

Imagine what he will achieve next summer.

Hats off.

 

[Toffeelover]

Cuco
Schneiderlin
Bolasie
Sandro
McCarthy
Besic
Pennington
Galloway
Browning
Vlasic

You could even add Jagielka or Keane to the list as 5th choice...

And Baines.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

He is magic, very impressed!

 

[Shibbywiggles]

GK
Jordan Pickford
Maarten Stekelenburg
João Virginia

RB
Séamus Coleman
Jonjoe Kenny

LB
Lucas Digne
Leighton Baines

CB
Yerry Mina
Kurt Zouma
Michael Keane
Phil Jagielka
Mason Holgate

DM/CM/AM
André Gomes
Morgan Schneiderlin
James McCarthy [+]
Idrissa Gueye
Gylfi Sigurðsson
Tom Davies
Beni Baningime
Kieran Dowell

Widers
Richarlison
Bernard
Yannick Bolasie
Theo Walcott
Ademola Lookman

Strikers
Cenk Tosun
Oumar Niasse
Sandro Ramírez
Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Total players: 29
Players culled so far: 17
Players purchased so far: 7

Players Out :
Robles, Garbutt(Loan), Mori, Rooney, Klaassen, Tarashaj(Loan), Onyekuru(Loan), Williams, Robinson(Loan), Mirallas(Loan), Connolly(Loan), Pennington(Loan)TBC, Vlasic(Loan)TBC, Martina(TBC), Browning(U23), Galloway(U23), Besic(TBC).

Loans needed for Dowell, Beni.
Bolaise needs punting, probably McCarthy in Jan, then we have 25 players which is the optimal number.

We werent ever going to fix the squad in 1 window, what we have done is improve it in certain areas and I personally feel given us a chance to get "closer" to the top 6. We defo lack quality in certain areas to be able to challenge at the very top, but if our best 11 can gel I personally think we will have a very good season.

I wanted to ‘like’ this post for all the good agreeable content but ‘widers’???

 

[Timak]

No signings older than 25 and added a left back, 2 (hopefully) centre backs, a midfielder who can pass, and two massively exciting Brazilian attackers. Plus Lookman staying who I am really excited about.

 

[Kenshin]

When brands came in he said more in 1 day than Walsh did in two years.

Now brands in 3 months has argubally achieved more in the market than we have done since 2013, and even then that was underwhelming. This is the reason we wanted him, yes not every player may work out here. The point is, players like the Barca trio, at some point they are good enough for the Barcelona team. Zouma is still young and highly rated, richaldson we have seen first hand what he can offer .

For once Everton fans can enter a season with real optimism. Yes I don't expect us to win the league or even get close to it, but to compete and make us proud ? That's what I'm looking forward to and brands has delivered just that. A team filling up with winners, a manager who is a winner , just a breath of fresh air.

Now we go into wolves with hope, how boss would it be to win on Saturday knowing we have all these players to come into the team? How much better we can get compared to how bad we were this time last year?

 

[Bluerobins]

Does everyone notice too how he’s kept his gob shut and not hogged the limelight? Some on here were saying that he was going to do this and take the shine off the team. I actually think he likes to work in the background

 

[allezlesbleus]

No signings come with guarantees and so many rarely all gel as quickly as we would like. But what a decisive start!! Addressed nearly all the main issues in one go and probably the outgoings over the next fortnight will take us another step forward in terms of the new management putting its own print on the club. Over to you now Marco. Get that ball down and play!!!!!

 

[Lob]

Been a while since i was this excited about Everton and that is mainly down to this man who is doing an absolutely sterling job imo. Feel confident and optimistic knowing that he is our DOF.

 

[catcherintherye]

Suspenseful waiting for 15000 word short summary from @catcherintherye in progress!

You know me well!

 

[jinkyali]

It looks like we finally have a plan.

Hallelujah.

 

[NCLBlue]

Bravo Mr Brands - very good work

 

[Lelouch]

Shifted Mirallas/Williams/Klaassen/Funes Mori
Could have shifted Bolasie if they accepted loans.
Could have got rid of Mo for 6m if he agreed personals.

Bernard on a free who in today's market is probably worth 40m.
Yerry Mina for under 30m with a 54 buyback clause.
Digne with an impressive club record for 18 mil.
Andre Gomes who has got good potential.
Richarlinson who he scouted out before apparently when he was at PSV.

All in over 2 months, The man is a G.

 

[AmericasToffee]

It looks like we finally have a plan.

Hallelujah.

That will take a team a long way.

 

[SixtyGrand]

Has done a good job - Shame Besic never went for him but hopefully Sandro and Vlasic are picked up from clubs abroad.

Needs to spend the coming months scouting the world looking for that elusive centre forward who can take us forward.