MKEvertonian
Player Valuation: £8m
Sorry but who is Thelwell? Is he good?
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Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Considering we have no head of recruitment I'm not really sure how we are looking for players tbh, Thelwell has no experience of rebuilding anything. Every season it's the same names crop up with us, the same types of player. I don't care what anyone says but you can tell a lot of it is coming down from top level.
DanEFC92
Player Valuation: £90m
Alli, VDB, Iwobi, Delph, Walcott, Schneiderlin probably more in recent years.
Mad the dickriding defending this club and the scouting.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £60m
I can ask! I know his family, we are all related in one way or another in Llandudno
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
I'm not defending signing top 6 castoffs apparoach, but I don't think we do it as a focus like you are making out. Since 2013/14, I think we have signed like 14 but with 4 of them loan deals.
Lukaku and Barry were excellent for us and they came from top 6.
I think the approach of buying lots from PL is the issue, not just top 6. As we have signed a lot from lower half, relegated teams as well, often for big money.
In this scenario it allows them to bin off Winks, whom they don't want or need, for about £15m above his actual value.
blueconverse
Player Valuation: £35m
If we pay 20 for winks when we could have got Zinchenko for a few more more i think I'm done
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Don't forget the players from relegated clubs, we sign them too.
Charles Hawtrey
Player Valuation: £40m
We should look at buying players who are from clubs below us but who's career is on an upward trajectory. Not players who's careers are almost over or ones who have plateaued - you know who I mean...
The plateaues are always a gamble because you know they are capable but are they motivated?
Buying players on the way up does not seem our way (Maybe Godfrey?) but they see us as either a destination (Coleman) or as a next step on their way to a CL club (Richy). Either way the motinvation is clear.
18Chris87
Player Valuation: £750k
I think it's a problem of the recent trend being to buy established talent, most of which are already at "elite" clubs. It's also a tad uninspiring to see a habit of returning to clubs for their players - something that alongside a huge summer spending spree, I've never seen work out. e.g.
Watford - Richarlison and then chased Doucoure for two years
Barcelona - Digne, Gomes, Mina, countless links from then on (Umtiti, Lenglet, Coutinho, youth loans etc.)
Arsenal - Walcott then Iwobi
Swansea - Williams + Siggurdson.
Being an Everton scout must be the actual best job in the world. At no point do you need to do any work, just make a list of random names off Football Manager because they won’t listen to your recommendations anyway. Probably get to fly around the world pretty much just having city breaks and holidays and calling it work, pretending you’ve attended matches.
bluesb1970
Player Valuation: £20m
I read that in a yoda voice for some reason!
DanEFC92
Player Valuation: £90m
They qualify under the prem experience clause.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
No player without PL experience has ever been a success in this league. Facht.
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