Confirmed Signing Demarai Gray

[Kantareller]

Signing crap players cheap is certainly better than signing crap players for big money but it doesn’t really get to the root of the problem does it..

I thought Gray looked a real prospect once so let's see but it could still be 1.5m down the crapper...

 

[orly]

Helps fill homegrown quota right?

We cover that easily

 

[RomanReigns]

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[BainesontoastNEW]

Correct me if I'm mistaken @Yid4life , but didn't Townsend play as a 10 for awhile at Spurs? I vaguely remember him getting off lots of long ranged shots which he wasn't particularly good at doing.

 

[Frenk]

We cover that easily

I think Gray isn’t all that bad. Townsend, meh, but he’s free and Gives us some much needed pace. We need a clear out, but it’s going to be hard to get rid.

 

[nsno-chris]

I think Gray isn’t all that bad. Townsend, meh, but he’s free and Gives us some much needed pace. We need a clear out, but it’s going to be hard to get rid.

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[Dykovski200]

This time 12 months ago I was excited at what Everton may achieve, then after the first couple of games I thought we may be in to something here with the great attacking football we played. Then thought what players could we be linked with this time next year. Never did I think that all my hopes and dreams would be shattered once more and now we’re linked with a player that Palace didn’t want and Gray who Leicester didn’t really want. Wtf Everton

 

[TheBigIguana]

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Genuinely would rather Townsend than Zaha when you factor in the money. At least one is an inexpensive mistake.

 

[HTCHERO]

Only Everton can replace crap squad players with crap squad players!

 

[MikeH72]

Helps fill homegrown quota right?

We comfortably meet it anyway and aren’t in Europe so it doesn’t even matter.

 

[Bob Latchford]

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first over to hug albrighton as well….
Some player

 

[Blue in Oklahoma]

I feel like the one thing we are always shouting for out of Everton is more pace. Last season was a sludge. Was I the only one watching last season when it seemed like every time we gained possession of the ball the other team easily got back for cover and our 4th pass in the movement is inevitably backwards?? I feel like these 2 signings certainly add to getting us pace into the final third. We all also want European competition and last season proved how embarrassingly thin our squad was outside of the top 12-13 players. Depth and pace for a manageable price. I know I would pick these 2 over Iwobi,Bernard and Delph.

 

[catcherintherye]

In full agreement mate, especially with paragraphs 2 & 3, that’s where the problem lies with you.

You may have had success with signing players for shrewd prices, selling them on for bigger fees; however from a opposition standpoint you probably don’t do it often enough and most importantly, who you replace them with are not adequate signings.

Our strategy is a never ending cycle. We lose Kante, replace him with a gem in Ndidi. We lose Maguire, we had Soyuncu already signed waiting in the wings. We lose Chilwell, we get in Castagne.

With Everton you may lose a key player, but then incomes Allan for £20 million, Doucoure for £20 million, Andre Gomes for £20 million, when it’s highly unlikely you’ll get double the value for them in a few years time.

I look at the Gray & Townsend potential signings for example, as we’ve said already, they might be shrewd and from a wage and price stand point, pretty sensible; however from a quality stand point they probably won’t be.

You want shut of Bernard & Iwobi, then you should be looking to replace them with someone like Olise who has just gone to Palace for £8 million. Young, talented, room to grow, then you’d probably end up getting double or triple in a few years, instead you’re getting Gray & Townsend.

When we got in the likes of Soyuncu, Maddison & Tielemans, we had finished 9th in the league, not challenging for Europe but the aspiration to do so was there, pretty much like yourselves at that period, our strategy since then has what I’ve mentioned above. During that period when we signed those, you were throwing money at the likes of Walcott, Andre Gomes, Iwobi, pretty much cast offs for a high price needing of a pick me up.

As for McNeil, we were linked with him last summer, some fans wanted him, some fans weren’t keen. Personally I think he’s much more of a skilled player than people give him credit for, probably because he plays for Burnley you automatically think tinpot. He’d probably be a better fit for you, as you have Calvert-Lewin up front.

Yes agree with most of that mate.

Leicester's recruitment, particularly when losing players has been very good. I do also think we have a bit of an existential dread at losing players. I don't mean this disrespectfully, but Leicester have come from nowhere, following a process to get to the top of the English game. You embrace the need to sell players. At Everton for many years it's indicative of how we have fallen, and at times we have had to sell many young players before we were really ready to "not on our terms" so the process of selling becomes quite a painful one, and a reminder that we are not a big club in a modern sense anymore. We should sell more, and we should view our sales differently. I think Maguire looks the business now, but the money Leicester got for him allowed them to move forward. So a lot of it is about changing mindset.

Of the above it's difficult. Gomes had a good 1st season and got an awful injury. Iwobi and Walcott we just overpaid for. Walcott in particular had some decent games. You look at you guys with Evans, it's a similar deal. He's done an important job for you.

 

[Frenk]

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What do you mean? I think he’s pretty quick.