....no, but as I posted at the time we should’ve sold him when he came back from that first thigh injury as his stock was still high.
The club need to be astute in these things.
....no, but as I posted at the time we should’ve sold him when he came back from that first thigh injury as his stock was still high.
The club need to be astute in these things.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Will agree to differ. I don’t think he has ever established himself as a first choice CB - indeed many of those games under Ancelotti were at RB. And being linked with City and having City buy you are different things altogether.
Exactly, God knows what kind of state we'd be in without him.
Think the Agent started the City rumours as I can remember City saying there was no truth in it
blue in oxford
Player Valuation: £1m
prob on my own but i wish him well
few years ago our best CB but then continued to be played out of position and lost his confidence
might be one that comes back to bite us
few years ago our best CB but then continued to be played out of position and lost his confidence
might be one that comes back to bite us
The depressing thing I think he's been better than Godfrey. Still needed to go
Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
Just over a year ago:
‘Let's be honest, if a team is struggling, the chances of getting called up for England are slim anyway," says Holgate, when asked if representing his country is still on his mind.
The 25-year-old is fully aware of the situation he finds himself in less than two years after being considered by England manager Gareth Southgate in what was his best season at Everton.
But his mind is elsewhere now. "Since I've come back in the team, we are all fighting for something," he says. "Everton needs to be the focus of everybody in the squad.
"I don't think the time is right now to think about England, I think next season or maybe the season after, when the club gets going, that's when I can start thinking about those things a bit more.
"I'm confident in what we are doing as a club, and I am confident in the team that we've got, and I'm sure that time is going to come. No one is going to rule out playing for England at 25 as a centre-back.’
England/the championship, same thing really.
‘Let's be honest, if a team is struggling, the chances of getting called up for England are slim anyway," says Holgate, when asked if representing his country is still on his mind.
The 25-year-old is fully aware of the situation he finds himself in less than two years after being considered by England manager Gareth Southgate in what was his best season at Everton.
But his mind is elsewhere now. "Since I've come back in the team, we are all fighting for something," he says. "Everton needs to be the focus of everybody in the squad.
"I don't think the time is right now to think about England, I think next season or maybe the season after, when the club gets going, that's when I can start thinking about those things a bit more.
"I'm confident in what we are doing as a club, and I am confident in the team that we've got, and I'm sure that time is going to come. No one is going to rule out playing for England at 25 as a centre-back.’
England/the championship, same thing really.
kenada_blue
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Coleman still started 20+ games those 2 seasons, so majority were at CB.
But like I say there was a point when he was 23 and looking like establishing himself before suddenly falling off a cliff.
It's not defending him (clearly done here) but defending the excessive contract at the time. 23, can play RB and CB, lot of potential.
But as with most of our players...once they sign that dotted line they usually put their feet up.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
It saddens me when centrebacks leave Everton and they’re not called Michael Keane.
I honestly think it might be the happiest I’ve been about Everton since 95 the day that divvy goes.
I honestly think it might be the happiest I’ve been about Everton since 95 the day that divvy goes.
John from Bootle
Player Valuation: £8m
Not beyond the realms that they'd pay 40-50k p/w though.
Not a chance they'd pay that if they were signing him permanently like, but if they're paying him 50k a week, they're basically getting him for a full season, with no obligation to buy, for around 2.2m, all in. No agent fees, no signing on fee, no transfer fee. He's played in that league before for West Brom and if he was on lower wages, I reckon there'd be a fair few championship clubs happy to hand over £5m + for him permanently.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Jason gone yet?
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £20m
Doesn’t really matter, an option to buy as it is only an option. The obligation to buy is the one that we would have wanted included.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Finding another club to take him and contribute to his wages is a big win TBF. Been as bad as Keane the last 2 years
Couldn’t stand Holgate TBF
