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Everton January transfer window 2021

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Why Everton should try and win the race for Reims striker Boulaye Dia​

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Born in France to parents of Senegalese descent, Boulaye Dia started his career with Jura Sud in the lower divisions before being snapped up by Stade Reims in 2018. He made his Ligue 1 debut against Angers and went on to register 3 goals in 18 league appearances in his debut season at the club.

Dia established himself as a regular starter for Reims during the previous campaign, ending the 2019-20 season with 7 strikes in 24 Ligue 1 appearances. The highly-rated young striker has really come to the fore with a stunning start to 2020-21, netting 8 times from 12 league outings for his club so far.
With the new "Brexit" rules, there is no chance that he would qualify for a work permit. In fact many players we probably have been following in Europe will be on the same boat. For that reason I think he will be a very quiet window and any activity will probably be some young local talent from the lower divisions in the UK.
 
Here's my wish list for the two windows in 2021 -
RB - one of Odriozola, Celik, Dumfries
LB - would like to see Nkounkou given more time, but Carlo says no so unsure who we should get, but we need cover for Digne
CDM - Khedira short term
RW - one of Bailey, Berardi, Brooks
LW- IF IF Richarlison goes somebody like Oyarzabal, Szoboszlai or Depay
CF - one of Belotti, Malen, Daka (or persuade Kean his future is with us)

Sell or move on the scrap - Lossl, Bolasie, Walcott, Kenny, Tosun, Bernard, Delph, Besic, Baningime
 

Here's my wish list for the two windows in 2021 -
RB - one of Odriozola, Celik, Dumfries
LB - would like to see Nkounkou given more time, but Carlo says no so unsure who we should get, but we need cover for Digne
CDM - Khedira short term
RW - one of Bailey, Berardi, Brooks
LW- IF IF Richarlison goes somebody like Oyarzabal, Szoboszlai or Depay
CF - one of Belotti, Malen, Daka (or persuade Kean his future is with us)

Sell or move on the scrap - Lossl, Bolasie, Walcott, Kenny, Tosun, Bernard, Delph, Besic, Baningime
Szoboszlai has joined RB Liepzig.

Depay will run out his contract and go to one of the big European clubs. No reason for him to move in January. Think CL footy would need to be on offer to persuade him.

Khedira would struggle with the pace of the Premier League IMO.

Bailey is a greta prospect, Not sure Leverkusen will sell mid-season with Champion's League qualification up for grabs. Not sure how Bayer fund them but they may be protected from Covid financial hit a bit more - also got 70M for Harvetz in the summer.

Really like Brooks and Oyarzabal as options. Brooks seems more attainable but the rawer of the 2 players.

Like the 3 forward options you've suggested. All good, relatively young players. Belotti is the most established of the 3 and has a decent scoring record in Serie A and internationally. Doesn't feel like him or DCL would be a partnership.Therefore how do you convince a player to join as back up? Plus is spending 40-50M on a back up striker likely?

Daka and Malen would be good options and look reasonably attainable depending on who else is interested in them.

I think it's a good list of players above that would fill some of the gaps in the squad. However, in my opinion I think most of them would be unattainable in January for a variety of reasons. The right backs and some of the forwards could be ones that are most likely.
 
Szoboszlai has joined RB Liepzig.

Depay will run out his contract and go to one of the big European clubs. No reason for him to move in January. Think CL footy would need to be on offer to persuade him.

Khedira would struggle with the pace of the Premier League IMO.

Bailey is a greta prospect, Not sure Leverkusen will sell mid-season with Champion's League qualification up for grabs. Not sure how Bayer fund them but they may be protected from Covid financial hit a bit more - also got 70M for Harvetz in the summer.

Really like Brooks and Oyarzabal as options. Brooks seems more attainable but the rawer of the 2 players.

Like the 3 forward options you've suggested. All good, relatively young players. Belotti is the most established of the 3 and has a decent scoring record in Serie A and internationally. Doesn't feel like him or DCL would be a partnership.Therefore how do you convince a player to join as back up? Plus is spending 40-50M on a back up striker likely?

Daka and Malen would be good options and look reasonably attainable depending on who else is interested in them.

I think it's a good list of players above that would fill some of the gaps in the squad. However, in my opinion I think most of them would be unattainable in January for a variety of reasons. The right backs and some of the forwards could be ones that are most likely.
Yes, I did say over 2 transfer windows.
I agree getting names in in January won't be easy.
I was mainly thinking January we could get Khedira and another if we're lucky but expect most to be done next summer.
 

Here's my wish list for the two windows in 2021 -
RB - one of Odriozola, Celik, Dumfries
LB - would like to see Nkounkou given more time, but Carlo says no so unsure who we should get, but we need cover for Digne
CDM - Khedira short term
RW - one of Bailey, Berardi, Brooks
LW- IF IF Richarlison goes somebody like Oyarzabal, Szoboszlai or Depay
CF - one of Belotti, Malen, Daka (or persuade Kean his future is with us)

Sell or move on the scrap - Lossl, Bolasie, Walcott, Kenny, Tosun, Bernard, Delph, Besic, Baningime

I wouldn't have Khedira, even short term, there have to be better options out there than him. I think Walcott will stay at Southampton for the rest of the season
 
With the new "Brexit" rules, there is no chance that he would qualify for a work permit. In fact many players we probably have been following in Europe will be on the same boat. For that reason I think he will be a very quiet window and any activity will probably be some young local talent from the lower divisions in the UK.

What new Brexit rules? The last report I seen was that you’d need a job and a salary of about 25k per year, so I think he’d meet that criteria. The rules for non-EU immigrants aren’t changing much, if at all.
 
Whose good in the Championship that we could potentially be interested in? After all it a tougher league than some in Europe, so must be some interesting players in there; don't always have to look overseas.
 

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