2025/26 Tim Iroegbunam

[Gwladys St. Glory]

He will bully Championship teams and be a top performer, likewise those in the Europa Conference leagues (which we sadly won't be in). Physically seems to be a monster.
Maybe he improves, but his technique and composure are nonexistent 70% of the time - loses the ball, misplaced passes, the shots we won't talk about, etc. Players get slaughtered on here by the same people that ignore him losing the ball under next to no pressure in dangerous positions, or his mistakes leading to goals, really weird to see.

The Gueye comparison falls a bit flat for right now, but that can change in the future too - Gueye is great at reading the game and is decent at passing (though not anything special and bizarrely we use him to build attacks often for some reason), his main strength was exactly that, not just raw physicality. At Villa and early for us he was very good at getting the ball, keeping it and recycling possession, very similar player to McCarthy before he turned to dust.

Not a problem by any stretch and a fantastic asset to have in your squad for sure though. Attitude and physicality are what's needed in games sometimes and he has that.

WAY FLAT...Gana didn't make it to PSG on the back of his f'in passing but his reading of the game on the defensive side and stamina. Sometimes I wonder...

 

[Furey1878]

I really like him. I think the right coach would get a ton out of him.

There is some decision making there that I'm not sure any coach can beat out of him. I hope I'm wrong, as if he could fix that side of his game, he'd be really good.

I just want to make him watch videos of midfielders receiving the ball and simply laying it off all day to drill it into his head.

 

[pejic]

I thought he was ok yesterday apart from just watching on as both their strikers slotted

 

[DualityNSNO]

I thought he was ok yesterday apart from just watching on as both their strikers slotted

Apart from not doing his job, he was okay, I agree.

 

[Blue Roo]

Loads of potential, quite a ways to go.
Wouldn't want to see him go just yet and would sell Rohl before.

 

[blue in oxford]

Still learning the job doesn’t see things as well as gana
And can try to beat too many players in a go but would be a keep for me

 

[Nymzee]

 

[Bedfordblue]

Interesting article in The Athletic on his this morning
“Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?”

Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?

With Gueye injured, Iroegbunam has a chance to prove his worth to Everton and the rest of the league in the remaining weeks of the season

www.nytimes.com

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[ToffeeScot]

Interesting article in The Athletic on his this morning
“Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?”

Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?

With Gueye injured, Iroegbunam has a chance to prove his worth to Everton and the rest of the league in the remaining weeks of the season

www.nytimes.com

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Only Tottenham Hotspur’s Joao Palhinha has made more tackles per 90 minutes in the league this season, while Iroegbunam ranks top of all central and defensive midfielders in Europe’s top five leagues for his ‘true’ tackle win rate (69.3 per cent) which assesses tackles attempted, tackles lost and fouls committed to get a measure of how successful a player is at winning back possession from challenges.

An interesting snippet. Physically he's everything you want in a player in the PL but his mental attributes and game intelligence let him down. Feel like he's not the most positionally aware player and has a tendency to dip concentration which leads to him being sloppy in possession.

 

[Bedfordblue]

An interesting snippet. Physically he's everything you want in a player in the PL but his mental attributes and game intelligence let him down. Feel like he's not the most positionally aware player and has a tendency to dip concentration which leads to him being sloppy in possession.

Yeah, even at the weekend, I’m amongst some fantastic tackles and recoveries, there were a few instances of being caught in possession.
If he can sort that out he certainly has the attributes to be a very good defensive mid.

Also he’s certainly heir apparent to IGG when it comes to shooting!

 

[Swartzy]

Yeah, even at the weekend, I’m amongst some fantastic tackles and recoveries, there were a few instances of being caught in possession.
If he can sort that out he certainly has the attributes to be a very good defensive mid.

Also he’s certainly heir apparent to IGG when it comes to shooting!

Yeah right, Gana's hit some crackers for us.
Tim can't even keep the ball in 18yrd box, he ain't ever scoring, Not on purpose anyway.

 

[MACCA75]

I like him.

 

[Llyrap]

Only 22 years of age. There'll be ups and downs. Glad we have him in the squad.

 

[Nymzee]

Whatever people think about him we definitely got the better end of the PSR shenanigans deal.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Interesting article in The Athletic on his this morning
“Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?”

Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye — and the Premier League’s next great ball-winner?

With Gueye injured, Iroegbunam has a chance to prove his worth to Everton and the rest of the league in the remaining weeks of the season

www.nytimes.com

Reader view required.

“He arrived as an unpolished diamond” and is still that because no one is trying to polish it.