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Player Valuation: £8m
I just read a comment on another thread about how none of our players would be good enough for any of the top six sides and it got me thinking.
For the purposes of this, I've simplified the formations (e.g. I'm aware that Chelsea play with a back three) and have rather picked the best players from each position:
GK: Pickford (Ederson/ De Gea/ Courtois/ Lloris/ Mignolet/ Cech)
RB: Coleman (Walker/ Valencia/ Moses/ Trippier/ Alexander-Arnold/ Bellerin)
LB: Baines (Mendy/ Young/ Alonso/ Rose/ Robertson/ Monreal)
CB: Keane (Kompany/ Smalling/ Cahill/ Alderweireld/ Lovren/ Mustafi)
CB: Holgate (Otamendi/ Jones/ Rudiger/ Vertonghen/ Van Dijk/ Koscielny)
DM: Gueye (Fernandinho/ Matic/ Kante/ Dier/ Can/ Xhaka)
CM: Davies (De Bruyne/ Pogba/ Fabregas/ Dembele/ Henderson/ Wilshere)
AM: Rooney (D.Silva/ Mata/ Willian/ Alli/ Lallana/ Ramsey)
RW: Walcott (Sterling/ Martial/ Pedro/ Eriksen/ Salah/ Mkhitaryan)
LW: Sigurdsson (Sane/ Sanchez/ Hazard/ Son/ Mane/ Ozil)
ST: Tosun (Aguero/ Lukaku/ Morata/ Kane/ Firminho/ Aubameyang)
Key:
Bold= selected
Italics= Everton player selected
It makes for some interesting reading.
Realistically, we have just ONE player who would get into most of the top six sides and that is Seamus Coleman.
We then have Pickford and Walcott who could get into a couple of the teams.
Then we are really scraping the barrel with Baines and Gueye possibly displacing a player in ONE of the teams (incidentally, these positions are widely regarded as weak links for those teams and even in Can's case, he will be replaced by Keita in the summer anyway).
Considering the money spent by the club so far, it really is a damning indictment of the recruitment policy. It also goes to show just how much money is needed to actually break into that elite group of six teams.
For the purposes of this, I've simplified the formations (e.g. I'm aware that Chelsea play with a back three) and have rather picked the best players from each position:
GK: Pickford (Ederson/ De Gea/ Courtois/ Lloris/ Mignolet/ Cech)
RB: Coleman (Walker/ Valencia/ Moses/ Trippier/ Alexander-Arnold/ Bellerin)
LB: Baines (Mendy/ Young/ Alonso/ Rose/ Robertson/ Monreal)
CB: Keane (Kompany/ Smalling/ Cahill/ Alderweireld/ Lovren/ Mustafi)
CB: Holgate (Otamendi/ Jones/ Rudiger/ Vertonghen/ Van Dijk/ Koscielny)
DM: Gueye (Fernandinho/ Matic/ Kante/ Dier/ Can/ Xhaka)
CM: Davies (De Bruyne/ Pogba/ Fabregas/ Dembele/ Henderson/ Wilshere)
AM: Rooney (D.Silva/ Mata/ Willian/ Alli/ Lallana/ Ramsey)
RW: Walcott (Sterling/ Martial/ Pedro/ Eriksen/ Salah/ Mkhitaryan)
LW: Sigurdsson (Sane/ Sanchez/ Hazard/ Son/ Mane/ Ozil)
ST: Tosun (Aguero/ Lukaku/ Morata/ Kane/ Firminho/ Aubameyang)
Key:
Bold= selected
Italics= Everton player selected
It makes for some interesting reading.
Realistically, we have just ONE player who would get into most of the top six sides and that is Seamus Coleman.
We then have Pickford and Walcott who could get into a couple of the teams.
Then we are really scraping the barrel with Baines and Gueye possibly displacing a player in ONE of the teams (incidentally, these positions are widely regarded as weak links for those teams and even in Can's case, he will be replaced by Keita in the summer anyway).
Considering the money spent by the club so far, it really is a damning indictment of the recruitment policy. It also goes to show just how much money is needed to actually break into that elite group of six teams.