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Transfer Rumour Che Adams

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Good chance that Adams would have scored one of the 19 shots we had against Fulham and we would probably now be on more than 0 points. He is not the striker we all want but is probably the striker we need and can afford in our current all round predicament. Main priority this season is to not be in another relegation battle and we stand a better chance of achieving that with Adams, Dom and Youssef on top of someone like Gnonto or similar.
 
Lob said:
Good chance that Adams would have scored one of the 19 shots we had against Fulham and we would probably now be on more than 0 points. He is not the striker we all want but is probably the striker we need and can afford in our current all round predicament. Main priority this season is to not be in another relegation battle and we stand a better chance of achieving that with Adams, Dom and Youssef on top of someone like Gnonto or similar.
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Is there? Based on what exactly?
 

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caliblue said:
Yes, we had. Against what was most likely the worst opposition that will visit Goodison in the league this season.

Most teams are at 70-80% at the start of the season. We met a Fulham without their two best midfielders, a CD that has been injured all summer, a striker that is worse than Maupay and they are yet to replace the two wingers with pace they had last season.

It was one of these rare occasions where Everton were decent favorites to win.

Fulham were great last season, but they were never a possession team. They averaged just under 50% possession over the season.

Dyche set up Everton to defend in a low block and in long periods not press at all. At home. As favorites. Having 28% possession the first 20-25 minutes was according to the game plan. Ultra defensive. Sit back and counter. No ambition. No plan.

For comparison, Luton visited Brighton and started out with more possession on Amex than Everton had (as favorites) at Goodison.
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No offence, pal, but look what happened to them. They got rodgered.
 

Very disappointed in this, all summer to come up with someone and this is the best we can do. 12m is too much, zero resale by the end of contract.

Seems like a Dyce signing to me
 
GrandOldTeam said:
Mate come off it.

We were half an hour/a wonder strike from relegation last season - A direct consequence of a team who couldn't score goals - our lowest ever goalscoring Prem season.

There's no way on gods earth we should be relying on a 19 year old kid, 4th choice from Sporting. I've heard from people (Podcasts) who watch Sporting commenting on the transfer and they're all bemused - the best they could do was compare him to a raw Calvert-Lewin but all said he's never ready to carry us right now. Within 3 games when people twig his first touch and control, the knives would be out.

Che Adams isn't ideal either, I get it - but he's better than having Gordon, Gray, or Maupay upfront as we did last season.

It's not good enough, but you said for £12/15m we should have someone better than Che Adams and I certainly can't think of anyone who ticks as many boxes as him for us.

I've given examples from Jan - Onuachu (£18.6m to Southampton) Ouattara (£20m to Bournemouth), Rutter (36m to Leeds) - in 41 league games there's 1 goal between them and that was Outtara who is a winger tbf. All were linked to us as possible option for upfront - it's not easy and if we signed anyone of them 3 right now as the alternative to Calvert-Lewin then we're goosed.

We need a guaranteed baseline IMO because it's another relegation scrap.

It's crap, but that's Everton right now.
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I hope you're right, but that 'guarantee' was touted for Maupay last summer too
All I see is more proof we are getting worse as a club in how we operate, scrambling in the transfer market, scrambling against relegation
Adams wasn't the answer for Saints and as I said we already have a non-prolific championship level striker stealing a wage

Relying on Dom again
 

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