Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
His misses against palace n villa have cost us points.
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Ha your like Dom, doing the same thing again and hoping for a different result. I read it on the first run. Posting it again isnt going to change my take home. Its amazing how different people can take different points out of an article. One fan can be lifted by it and add to their patience others will be disappointed in general by the point he makes.
I read that and i think, 1) He thinks hes cutting muster and his overall performance will be tolerated without a return of goals, i dont without a 1 in 2 avearage hes on borrowed time. 2) He assumes the manager wants him to score more goals, that doesnt indicate that there is a concrete discussion or clear development pathway between both to add that aspect to his game, he needs an intense programme of coaching on his finishing and psychological support around his decision making and composure in my opinion 3) He thinks its a lack of chances being created by others why he isnt hitting the onion bag, not for me. He has consistently missed some sitters. Not only that but even more difficult chances in the first phase he needs to be working the keeper more to maximize an opportunity on the second phase.
All these things lead me to think, he thinks hes doing grand at the mo and somehow it will fall for him eventually, he needs to acknowledge that what he is doing at the moment, wont be good enough for Everton in the long term and do something in his development radically different to give him a chance. He is one managerial change away from not being an Everton player or left in an abyss out of the team, he happens to have a manager at the moment who believes in him, that wont always be the case unless he improves his finishing and begins to cultivate and improve his game by doing something vastly different and improves his finishing. Deep down i think everyone knows this.
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Would take a prime chebinator over him right now, just for his turf beating abilities alone
Liam-EFC
Player Valuation: £15m
Stuart Barlow was better than Calvert-Lewin.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
How long do we have to wait to see him scoring goals and helping us win games?
Tea_drinker
Player Valuation: £15m
Had hope's for him but his opportunities have been many and his goals too few. With a few wins we can be up there before it's too late. Gotta be Richarlison and Kane now. Twin strike force. Goals are needed.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The club have thought: "Let's keep faith. It'll save some money and if he does click into gear we have a kid who's marketable and we can fetch a good price for him".
As said yesterday: if I was someone who'd been punted by Everton (a Chris Long or whatever) I'd be thinking "maybe I wasn't good enough for Everton, but FFS I'd like to have been given half the chances DCL had to prove I wasn't".
There has been a major failure to quality assess that lad all th way through his time here. He always looked the part more than was the part. And I think that commercial consideration was uppermost in handing him loads of game time.
Well no more. We need substance not a holgram; a player with heart and not a mannequin with no heart for the battle.
I think this run is his opportunity, he is the first choice striker at the moment the opportunity is there to make sure he wont be dropped, its not an audition.
To be a long term player for us, he needs a 1 in 2 average, anything else and Everton wont be in his future or will he be considered anything else here but a stop gap with injuries etc.
I think hes already under pressure, we have Kean here, younger, developing and with the potential to over take him, maybe even in the short term, he cant rely on the being young and developing tag for to much longer and that also appears to be his prevailing mentality.
There are younger players coming behind him, he will be 23 next March, yesterday Tammy Abraham scored two PL goals and he is 21. We cant be carrying a 23 year old striker who doesnt score 1 in 2, if we want to progress and compete with Arsenal and Chelsea which should be our aim this season.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
The club have thought: "Let's keep faith. It'll save some money and if he does click into gear we have a kid who's marketable and we can fetch a good price for him".
As said yesterday: if I was someone who'd been punted by Everton (a Chris Long or whatever) I'd be thinking "maybe I wasn't good enough for Everton, but FFS I'd like to have been given half the chances DCL had to prove I wasn't".
There has been a major failure to quality assess that lad all th way through his time here. He always looked the part more than was the part. And I think that commercial consideration was uppermost in handing him loads of game time.
Well no more. We need substance not a holgram; a player with heart and not a mannequin with no heart for the battle.
Yes, a goal scorer not a fashion icon.
I don’t think he will ever get enough goals at this level. He has attributes, he is a tireless willing runner, his touch is not too bad, his size and athleticism are impressive, but, I just don’t think he has what it takes to succeed at this level.
Having said all that I hope I am wrong about him, I thought he had a chance of making it, but, he has now been given a chance to establish himself and he has not taken it.
Having said all that I hope I am wrong about him, I thought he had a chance of making it, but, he has now been given a chance to establish himself and he has not taken it.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
The club have thought: "Let's keep faith. It'll save some money and if he does click into gear we have a kid who's marketable and we can fetch a good price for him".
As said yesterday: if I was someone who'd been punted by Everton (a Chris Long or whatever) I'd be thinking "maybe I wasn't good enough for Everton, but FFS I'd like to have been given half the chances DCL had to prove I wasn't".
There has been a major failure to quality assess that lad all th way through his time here. He always looked the part more than was the part. And I think that commercial consideration was uppermost in handing him loads of game time.
Well no more. We need substance not a holgram; a player with heart and not a mannequin with no heart for the battle.
Same dressing code as Davies?
I agree, we hear this story time and time again in football but it normally comes from a centre forward who has been scoring and has hit a barren period. When an established forward has been successful in the way he plays and he then runs short of goals I have no problem in him believing in himself. When the way you play hasn't been getting you goals in the Premier League then you either need to change what you are doing or change where you are playing. Blind faith is simply blind.
Time for us to look at Kean, Iwobi and Richarlson up front.
How dare you.
If young James hadn`t caused himself GBH through his own playing style , he would`ve gone onto to be an Everton Legend.
Please don`t ever put him in the same bracket as Anichibie and the waster Lewin.
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