Arouna Kone

[SteRobbo84]

Less than useless

 

[oldblue]

Completely misquote!?!?!?

decent/big is the only difference, please feel free to clarify what ive actually "misquoted"

Good stuff

 

[BlueLlama]

Tosh but an honest trier. Doesn't deserve a place in the team but doesn't deserve getting booed either

 

[Bob Elstone]

He's a decent sub to have for the last 15mins. No way he should be starting. Stinks of Wigan.

 

[D410]

Arouna Kone - No 9 (Striker)
Total Apps - 24 (2013-2016)
Total Goals - 16 (2013-2016)

Oh my.

 

[COYBL25]

Arouna Kone - No 9 (Striker)
Total Apps - 24 (2013-2016)
Total Goals - 16 (2013-2016)

Oh my.

Oh my at the fact he averages 8 games a season or he has a two in three goal to games ratio !

 

[D410]

Oh my at the fact he averages 8 games a season or he has a two in three goal to games ratio !

The former..he is the shell of a player he was at Wigan.
Wage drain on the club for 3 years.

 

[COYBL25]

The former..he is the shell of a player he was at Wigan.
Wage drain on the club for 3 years.

Couldn't agree more mate, it's like bringing on a ghost. Most of the time you don't know he's there and every now and then you see something out of the corner of your eye, shake your heart and it's gone !

 

[Little Ralphy]

Arouna Kone - No 9 (Striker)
Total Apps - 24 (2013-2016)
Total Goals - 16 (2013-2016)

Oh my.

Where are those stats from? For Everton he's scored 8 goals in 51 games.

For Wigan 13 in 38.

According to Tfr market.com when playing as a centre forward for Everton he has 3 goals in 28 games.

 

[D410]

Where are those stats from? For Everton he's scored 8 goals in 51 games.

For Wigan 13 in 38.

According to Tfr market.com when playing as a centre forward for Everton he has 3 goals in 28 games.

http://www.evertonfc.com/players/a/ak/arouna-kone

 

[MikeH72]

Naismith is younger and a more proven prem goalscorer. Norwich will see a return on their investment.

More to the point, we got Naismith on a free and have, over the long term, replaced him with someone older and less talented AND paid a £6m fee to do so.

Steven Naismith is not a "more proven Prem scorer". His goals-to game ratio with us was more or less the same as Kone's but spread over more games. Norwich haven't won a game since he went there and are level on points with Newcastle in the relegation zone. He's crap, so is Kone, why does it have to be one or the other? Can't we just punt both? One down, one more to go

 

[Little Ralphy]

http://www.evertonfc.com/players/a/ak/arouna-kone

Ah I see, it's 8 in 27 starts and 24 sub appearances (51) the OS is saying. Not sure where you 16 goals is from.

 

[Tree13]

Not convinced by that logic - Naismith was never prolific and we signed Kone when 29 too. Plus, if Naismith gets injured Norwich would be in a similar boat. Which is speculation of course. No, my argument is that seems to be the going rate for average forwards.

Mate, Kone was born in 1983. He is older than Naismith, who was born in 1986. What about that is unconvincing?

And I never said Naismith was prolific - in isolation that would be a meaningless statement. I said that he was more proven as a prem goalscorer than Kone, which is a simple comparison of their respective scoring records. Naismith has scored more goals, and made more assists, for us and Norwich than Kone has for Wigan and us.

If Naismith is average (which I wouldn't necessarily disagree) then, by comparison, Kone is below average at best. It's also a fair assumption that Naismith, as the younger man, will add more goals and assists to his tally form this point than Kone will.

 

[D410]

Ah I see, it's 8 in 27 starts and 24 sub appearances (51) the OS is saying. Not sure where you 16 goals is from.

Good spot....it,s just the 8 goals in 3 years. Tremendous achievement, eh.

 

[Tree13]

Steven Naismith is not a "more proven Prem scorer". His goals-to game ratio with us was more or less the same as Kone's but spread over more games. Norwich haven't won a game since he went there and are level on points with Newcastle in the relegation zone. He's crap, so is Kone, why does it have to be one or the other? Can't we just punt both? One down, one more to go

When two players have the same goals-to-game ratio, the way to identify the better goalscorer is to look at total goals scored.

The point being made was that one of them cost nothing when we picked him up in his mid-twenties. The other cost £6m when we bought him at 29 years old. If they both ended up performing poorly, as per your suggestion, one of them is still by far the worse acquisition.