Right player, wrong position

[Milkman]

Big Barry’s interview in the Guardian mentions he’s never been a striker until recently, and it got me thinking - which Everton players past and present would’ve been better by playing in another position?

An easy one to start; Michael Keane as a centre forward.

 

[Blue Smoke]

Big Barry’s interview in the Guardian mentions he’s never been a striker until recently, and it got me thinking - which Everton players past and present would’ve been better by playing in another position?

An easy one to start; Michael Keane as a centre forward.

Theres more to a striker than just hitting the odd screamer or snap shot..has keane got any pace, hold up play, and dribbling ability?

 

[Simon Buttle]

Phil Neville was always a coach/manager and not a player for me, they always said he was better at cricket maybe he should have stuck to that. All that pointing everywhere.

 

[Blue Smoke]

To be honest, if this was titled 'wrong player, right position' the list would be huge

 

[Nymzee]

Theres more to a striker than just hitting the odd screamer or snap shot..has keane got any pace, hold up play, and dribbling ability?

His hold up play would be better than Beto’s and Barry’s I’m almost certain

 

[Milkman]

Theres more to a striker than just hitting the odd screamer or snap shot..has keane got any pace, hold up play, and dribbling ability?

That criteria doesn’t apply to Everton strikers mate

 

[Blue Smoke]

That criteria doesn’t apply to Everton strikers mate

So that doesn't make it the right player in the wrong position then

 

[Swartzy]

Big Barry’s interview in the Guardian mentions he’s never been a striker until recently, and it got me thinking - which Everton players past and present would’ve been better by playing in another position?

An easy one to start; Michael Keane as a centre forward.

What was he before than ? cos I really cant see him anywhere else on the pitch, not as a professional anyway..

 

[MikeH72]

No manager in his entire career including Carlo Ancelotti has ever seen fit to play Michael Keane up front, do people still not think there might be a reason for that?

 

[Nymzee]

No manager in his entire career including Carlo Ancelotti has ever seen fit to play Michael Keane up front, do people still not think there might be a reason for that?

They haven’t but in a fairly recent interview Keane said that under Dyche they’d been trailing it in training.

 

[MikeH72]

They haven’t but in a fairly recent interview Keane said that under Dyche they’d been trailing it in training.

And that went so well that it never went any further than the training ground. Again, for a reason.

 

[PhilM]

And that went so well that it never went any further than the training ground. Again, for a reason.

There is a lot more to it, which is why people do not do it. However, he has been, and still is, consistently regarded as the best striker of the ball in the team.

And this is by his peers. I do genuinely however think in some games, I'd risk throwing him up front late on as I think he has more to him than Beto.

 

[Nymzee]

And that went so well that it never went any further than the training ground. Again, for a reason.

I think it’s just more the point that professional football manager(s) have actually even considered it more than just us memeing about it on here.

 

[Moonlight dribble]

The day Michael Keane plays up front for a full match for Everton is the day I quit from watching Everton. Just an awful idea.

 

[MikeH72]

There is a lot more to it, which is why people do not do it. However, he has been, and still is, consistently regarded as the best striker of the ball in the team.

And this is by his peers. I do genuinely however think in some games, I'd risk throwing him up front late on as I think he has more to him than Beto.

Andrea Pirlo was often the best striker of a ball in every team he played for but nobody ever suggested he should’ve played up front. I think the reason people do it with Keane is simply because he’s been so bad in his actual position.