4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
I can understand why anyone thinks a player can move to the PL and hit the ground running in an Everton side.
See the best of Onana next season
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Ron manager
Player Valuation: £500k
Very limited technically but as exampled in this world cup that's how football is these days.
In a strong team he could be an asset as those long legs make him a bugger to get past the problem is we are not a strong team. Unfortunately I can see him joining the Gomes, Snides, Klassen, De Beek hall of fame.
In a strong team he could be an asset as those long legs make him a bugger to get past the problem is we are not a strong team. Unfortunately I can see him joining the Gomes, Snides, Klassen, De Beek hall of fame.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
He might go on to be decent and I do quite like him, but I just cannot fathom why we, with limited recourses and desperate for attacking players, spent 30m on him. Mad.
You don't half chat some crap
Probs because Frank wants a 3 man midfield and the other options after Iwobi & Gana are Garner (also untested), Davies and Doucoure?
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Didn't think it was wise to commit 30m on an untested midfielder from abroad when we needed attacking players. Look what we ended up with, kin Maupay. Surely there would have been a 15/20m midfield player around that would have been a step up from Davies and co (hardly much of an ask) - then we wouldn't have been shopping in Aldi for a striker if that was our budget, we'd have had 25/30m to get someone decent in. Is what it is though.
This would make more sense if we didn't have money spare in the window to try sign another attacker like we tried.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Think I'm just still really angry that they had months to get a decent striker in then ended up with Maupay. I need to apologise to Amadou tbh.
Dixie1sixty
Player Valuation: £10m
I don't think he did badly at all today for Belgium and I do really think a deeper tole suits him better.
TimHowardsBeardJuice
Player Valuation: £30m
We have to make some compromise with any player we buy. Since "more attractive" clubs are ahead of us in the food chain, we have to buy players who are very young and unproven, older and past their prime, washouts at other clubs, injury histories, etc., ande/or overpay significantly. Players with enough of a track record to be attractive to other clubs, but not prohibitively expensive, and in their prime are simply not coming in enough numbers to be counted upon. Richarlison being the closest to that profile over the past few seasons. There aren't likely to be more than one of those every few years.
I agree that Onana is very raw. The potential is there. He is by all accounts a hard-working and humble guy, which counts a lot. He may pan out. He may not. 30M for a player of his profile was good business IMO. So, as it turns out, were Myko and Patterson, on the evidence we have so far. Lots of room to develop and the flaws of Myko in particular have been pointed out here, but I'd rather have the two of them than Digne for this season and the next two or three. That was a good sale.
We've been screaming for years not to buy castoffs from Sky Six clubs. This is the alternative. It has to be the way.
I agree that Onana is very raw. The potential is there. He is by all accounts a hard-working and humble guy, which counts a lot. He may pan out. He may not. 30M for a player of his profile was good business IMO. So, as it turns out, were Myko and Patterson, on the evidence we have so far. Lots of room to develop and the flaws of Myko in particular have been pointed out here, but I'd rather have the two of them than Digne for this season and the next two or three. That was a good sale.
We've been screaming for years not to buy castoffs from Sky Six clubs. This is the alternative. It has to be the way.
Superbly put, sir. Couldn't agree more
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
I’ve more issue with spending 20m on McNeill when his stats for Burnley were so bad.
We "tried" did we?
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Yep, well there we have it tbh, 65m on Maupay, McNeil and Onana. We deserve to get relegated.
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
I see a player in Onana. He’s raw but has talent. I honestly don’t see what Maupay or McNeill had to offer us, prior to us buying them.
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