Everton January transfer window 2021

Bullens Rd · November 8, 2020

Continues to baffle me how nobody at Everton has thought, in the past 20 years, that having a number of quick players in the starting xi would be a really good idea.

SpongeBob brown shoes · November 8, 2020

Nymzee said:
Anyone think maybe Walcott and Kean asked to go out on loan...

If someone’s heart isn’t there we shouldn’t keep them.

That's fare enough if they wanted to go, but they are contracted to us, so we shouldn't be letting them go if we haven't got good enough cover for them

billyblue80 · November 8, 2020

Bullens Rd said:
Continues to baffle me how nobody at Everton has thought, in the past 20 years, that having a number of quick players in the starting xi would be a really good idea.

We look a slow team right now but is it as much mentality as pace? We looked very lethargic the last few weeks. I agree we need to identify pace as a factor in any player we add you need a mix. Richy is the only one with the blistering pace to get in behind which is ludicrous really you need a few of these in a squad. Currently we cannot stretch the game or get close to Dom.

brettangellnightporter · November 8, 2020

billyblue80 said:
We look a slow team right now but is it as much mentality as pace? We looked very lethargic the last few weeks. I agree we need to identify pace as a factor in any player we add you need a mix. Richy is the only one with the blistering pace to get in behind which is ludicrous really you need a few of these in a squad. Currently we cannot stretch the game or get close to Dom.

ERM, they can't think themselves quick

Bullens Rd · November 8, 2020

brettangellnightporter said:
ERM, they can't think themselves quick

But they deffo can think themselves thick.

Tel001 · November 8, 2020

Dymak said:
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing tbh. Paying Southampton 50k a week to deprive us of a decent forward that we have no replacement for, whilst Southampton get to gain said forward... WTF?

walcott is not a decent forward tho .. he’s been crap for years.

Dymak · November 8, 2020

Tel001 said:
walcott is not a decent forward tho .. he’s been crap for years.

I don’t agree mate. He had qualities, which he has shown at Arsenal, Everton and Southampton. But regardless, we thought paying 50k a week to deprive ourself of a player of significant utility made more sense than paying 100k a week to have a player of significant utility.

You can argue about Walcott’s quality all day, but we are paying 50k a week for no benefit or utility at all!

Worse, that 50k a week facilitates Southampton’s utility of Walcott, and he will continue to do well for them.

Tel001 · November 8, 2020

Dymak said:
I don’t agree mate. He had qualities, which he has shown at Arsenal, Everton and Southampton. But regardless, we thought paying 50k a week to deprive ourself of a player of significant utility made more sense than paying 100k a week to have a player of significant utility.

You can argue about Walcott’s quality all day, but we are paying 50k a week for no benefit or utility at all!

Worse, that 50k a week facilitates Southampton’s utility of Walcott, and he will continue to do well for them.

going off that logic we should have kept sandro around the last few seasons. We need to reduce the wage bill. We can only deal with clubs that want players . Walcott was wanted so he had to go .

Dymak · November 8, 2020

Tel001 said:
going off that logic we should have kept sandro around the last few seasons. We need to reduce the wage bill. We can only deal with clubs that want players . Walcott was wanted so he had to go .

It’s not the same. Sandro isn’t anything approaching Walcott’s quality. We haven’t missed Sandro, but I think we have missed Walcott and will continue to do so, and we’re paying for the ‘privilege’.

bullybeef · November 8, 2020

Another £100m needed.

Drop in the ocean to Mosh and Uncle Uzzi

jamieni · November 8, 2020

Bullens Rd said:
Continues to baffle me how nobody at Everton has thought, in the past 20 years, that having a number of quick players in the starting xi would be a really good idea.

It’s incredible really. If we are going to build a team around James, who generally doesn’t run, then having the likes of Sigurdsson in the team at the same time is just suicidal.

Either we push James central and get a decent RW or we need to buy a more mobile attacking CM to play at the top of the midfield 3.

Dymak · November 8, 2020

jamieni said:
It’s incredible really. If we are going to build a team around James, who generally doesn’t run, then having the likes of Sigurdsson in the team at the same time is just suicidal.

Either we push James central and get a decent RW or we need to buy a more mobile attacking CM to play at the top of the midfield 3.

Can anyone tell me of any other teams that have been built around players that don’t run?

Saint Domingo · November 8, 2020

Dymak said:
Can anyone tell me of any other teams that have been built around players that don’t run?

All of the top teams have pace and power now in every position. Everton continue to continuously buy players without these for some reason. Sigurdsson Keane Coleman Bernard are all too slow for the premier league and unfortunately they’ve been surrounded by players not much quicker such as Mina Allan and James. It all leads to a team that can’t get the ball back even against average opposition.

The recent signings of Docuoure Nkonkou Godfrey gives some hope that we’re going in a different direction but we’ve been doing this since the turn of the millennium, even Moyes’ best teams did not have quick players in them .