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Everton January 2022 Transfer Thread

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ToffeeTim said:
Good teams don't play with a no 10. That position doesn't have a place in the Premier league these days. You need fast forwards who can carry the ball at their feet and interchange across the front line.
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That surely applies to having a target man upfront though? nobody plays like that anymore and people want us to build a team around DCL banging crosses up to a big man. Playing with a no 10 would work fine if it's the right player and the team is drilled into a system I just don't trust Benitez to do that tbh.
 
Simon Buttle said:
That surely applies to having a target man upfront though? nobody plays like that anymore and people want us to build a team around DCL banging crosses up to a big man. Playing with a no 10 would work fine if it's the right player and the team is drilled into a system I just don't trust Benitez to do that tbh.
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Generally I would agree but he is extremely good at what he does. I'm fine with having a no.9 who is good in the air and more of a box striker. But there is no system that can work with a target man and a traditional no.10. There is no one there to carry the ball and stretch the pitch in that system.

Target man is a bit harsh on DCL as well. He's a lot better than that.
 

Tree13 said:
If we sell DCL or Richarlison, it needs to take place on our terms. It's the only way to get decent fees for them. We need time to create the financial health in the club to sell them on our terms. We shouldn't be selling either DCL or Richarlison for at least another 18 months (given their ages) and we need to ensure they each have at least 2 years on their contracts when the bids come in.

For that to set of circumstances to come about we need to trim the wage bill, generate some transfer fees by selling non-key players with value and replace SOME outgoing players with younger newcomers on lower wages. In other words, improve the financial health of the club.

As an example, I'd sell Digne now if someone came in with a bid of £25m plus. This brings in the money to fund Mykolenko and the rumoured fee for the Rangers RB, making a net spend of around zero whilst providing cover in two positions where we're short of personnel AND buying time in the form of younger players (desirable at the moment, given our parsimonious circumstances). The wage bill might be lowered slightly (two players on maybe £50k each p/w instead of one on £115k p/w. In accountancy terms this reduces our ongoing outgoings, AND adds cash to the balance sheet.

I suspect the sale of Digne is further advanced than we are being told.

In the summer we'll see further substantial reductions to the payroll: Delph, Sigurdsson and Tosun all out if contract (JJK as well, I think?) so that also reduces our ongoing outgoings in the form of a reduced payroll. If a couple of sales can be made too (Mina, Gomes and Gbamin would be my preferred departures, due to ages, wages and injury records) then suddenly there's further improvement to the payroll, the balance sheet and we should be breaking even - maybe even running at a small profit.

Yes we'll need new incomings. But how many new players need to come in to match the current on-field contributions of Delph, Gbamin, Gomes, Mina, Sigurdsson and Tosun? I'd say two CMs, a CB and a attacker, if they all played 30 games per season, would exceed the combined efforts of the six highly-paid names I've listed. The new CMs are the key: they need to be young enough to be on manageable wages but good enough to surpass Allan in a year, and Doucouré in two years. Why? So they can take the starting spots at the right time so that Allan and Doucouré can be sold whilst still of some value.

If that all gets done then there is STILL the possibility of selling Keane, Davies and Holgate. Keane's at his peak now, and will be for maybe another 12 to 18 months. After that he loses value rapidly. Davies and Holgate are underwhelming contributors.
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Richarlison’s contract runs to 2024. We dont want to wait until 2023 when he can run his contract out.

Best value for him will be selling 2022.
 
ToffeeTim said:
Generally I would agree but he is extremely good at what he does. I'm fine with having a no.9 who is good in the air and more of a box striker. But there is no system that can work with a target man and a traditional no.10. There is no one there to carry the ball and stretch the pitch in that system.

Target man is a bit harsh on DCL as well. He's a lot better than that.
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I'm not sure it is though, he does'nt have much of a ground game and tbh I can see him here for the duration as I don't see a CL team coming in for him anytime soon as none of those types of teams play in a way where he would fit in. I like Dom but if he isn't in the right setup he is quite limited imo.
 
Syphon said:
And they will. If we bid or £8-9m straight up they’ll drive Patterson down here.

My gut is it’ll be around £5m straight up with several add ons that will takes year to reach if they ever get reached.

It’s weird that’s he’s rated even higher on here than any Rangers or Scotland forum. It’s almost like the thought of him is better than the reality.
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I can’t work it out either. I swear the general consensus was last time that if he wasn’t good enough to start for Rangers then he wasnt good enough for us and was crap and what Rangers wanted for him was ridiculous because of those facts. Stroll on to next transfer window and he’s now the second coming
 

Simon Buttle said:
I'm not sure it is though, he does'nt have much of a ground game and tbh I can see him here for the duration as I don't see a CL team coming in for him anytime soon as none of those types of teams play in a way where he would fit in. I like Dom but if he isn't in the right setup he is quite limited imo.
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If you create chances he will score a lot of goals. Good teams can carry a striker like DCL but not if you have a traditional playmaker no 10 as well.

You need pacey ball carriers in your team. Most teams play 4 attackers and you really need 3 of them to have pace and dribbling ability and be flexible. If you put 3 players like that around DCL it can definitely work well.
 

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