2025/26 Thierno Barry

Huyton Layne said:
Can they heal fully? The few people I've come across that had shoulders that pop out just had to have someone pop them back in and carry on as best they could.
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I dislocated my shoulder when I was thirteen. My shoulder blade has never sat in a fixed position since. I'm in my forties now. No pain but it probably ruined my worlds strongest man career!
 
DualityNSNO said:
Yes, had we scouted someone. Like I get what you're saying, but Thierno Barry was the only striker in Europe willing to join us?

No mate, no one in the world would be swayed by money and the PL, and we aren't allowed to use our scouts too, you're right.
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We scouted a £30m striker and he turned out to be not as good as we hoped. It happens. Scouting doesn’t magically invent players who are available for transfer and will improve us. Newcastle spent £75m on the German lad who was highly thought of and he has flopped too. You could say the same thing about absolutely every bad transfer. Why did we sign this flop when there must have be someone better we could have signed instead? It’s a really dumb question because the answer is so obvious. Scouting isn’t perfect and until you get someone playing in the premier league you don’t really know if they’ll be a success. Some very very high pedigree players have also flopped.
 
Jeff Jones said:
Er, Michael Owen and Rob Fowler spring to mind. And actually scoring lots of goals as well.
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Exceptional talents, as was Rooney ofc.

Someone put up Barry and Beto's numbers the other day and they are both 1-in-3 strikers minutes-wise, which is obviously not setting the world on fire - and hopefully we will sign someone more clinical in the summer - but couldn't it be a lot worse? It could.
 
Kevsleftpeg said:
How much do they cost though and who was available? In nearly 35 years of actively following Everton I think we have only signed 5 decent strikers, Ferguson, Campbell, Yak, Saha and Lukaku. And Ferguson, Campbell and Saha were either old, injury prone or both.
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In the Prem era we've never been in the financial situation to buy at the higher end of the transfer market and the players have in general reflected that. But any striker with anything close to a 1:3 average is decent and we've had a few.
 
Blast_of_Cannock said:
I think there's an operation to pin the shoulder. That's the only thing I've heard of regarding dislocations.
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It's going to be difficult for him in the Prem given the physicality expected of a CF. In all honesty if it starts to give him problems after surgery I could see him having to be moved on fairly quickly.
 
Hinchcliffe's Corner said:
With our track record of strikers, and having been in a relegation battle for years, you think we're getting anyone good join us? This summer might be different.
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I broke my collar boneand dislocated my shoulder in a motorbike crash and the shoulder took over 12 months to heal, it'd keep wanting to pop back out at the slightest opportunity.
 

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